This western story starts with a murder. The problem was that the body was dismembered. Being known as the town drunk no one should have been surprised. Sam Keaton, the town Marshal, was surprised, but not because he was dead but how this body had been chopped up. Putting the body in the ground hurriedly [...]
Tag Archives: Jay Peck
Book Review: Konniger’s Woman
February 29, 2012 – 1:12 am
This western story is about a young man who has only known the wild and wooly frontier. His introduction to children and women was a choice he made on his own, a good deed. He couldn’t let Indians recapture an, eight year old, girl because he knew that the visions would come back to his [...]
Book Review: Drifter
February 22, 2012 – 1:12 am
As an avid reader of western stories I continue to ask myself why do some stories just fly by my eyes and soak into my brain? All of the stories that I have experienced this phenomenon with make me desirous of that story that will pull me along word for word, page per page and [...]
Book Review: The Long Hunt
February 15, 2012 – 1:11 am
This is a story written by Cameron Judd, during the period of time, when the western slope of the Smokey Mountains were being explored and settled. The story tries to tell a tale about a search for a white woman who was lost as a child. Now her father wants to reconnect with her as [...]
Book Review: Listening Woman
February 8, 2012 – 1:11 am
This engaging story is one I have read in the past, several years ago. Re reading the story written by Tony Hillerman only heightens my feeling of lose for this storyteller of the southwest. The tale is of relatively modern origin as the story is about a robbery of a bank and the disappearances of [...]
Book Review: Jackpot Ridge
February 1, 2012 – 12:12 am
This is a western tale about the evil of one man and how it can penetrate the air surrounding a good man. The good guy was only trying to protect himself and then had to risk his life because it was the right thing to do. A good turn is done but goes unrecognized and [...]
Book Review: The Old Spanish Trail
January 25, 2012 – 12:12 pm
This book clearly describes a story of a trail west covering many dangerous miles through mountains, desert and Indian held lands. Being a little used passage East or West it had being plotted by the Spanish military going to Los Angeles. The information about the trail was gotten from the local paper in Santa Fe, [...]
Book Review: The Killing Shot
January 18, 2012 – 12:12 am
Attempted murder is the beginning chapter of this western tale spun by Johnny D. Boggs. Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is transporting outlaws to the Yuma prison. The prison wagon is attacked on the way by outlaws. Wanting to free a specific prisoner, three guards die in a hail of bullets poured in an ambush. [...]
Book Review: Valdez is Coming
January 11, 2012 – 12:12 am
Western justice is not always as swift as we now think it was but it had its way of reaching the right conclusion in some cases. This story by Elmore Leonard starts out with swift justice gone badly and uses the correction of that misused justice as a western story of rectification of a wrong [...]
Book Review: Territorial Rough Rider
January 4, 2012 – 1:12 am
This western story involves the survival of, Peter Ormond who has been consistently down trodden and mentally abused by his father during the first part of his life. He takes the opportunity to steal a collection of unique gold coins from his father and then runs away. The ensuing events that make up the story [...]
