Tag Archives: Western Book Review

Book Review: The Raiders: Sons of Texas

This is the middle volume of trilogy about two brothers that went to Texas and survived during a time of conflict and strife in the Texas owned and controlled by Mexico. The
Main characters are brothers. They are like two peas out of the same pod with very minor differences except for the major [...]

Book Review: Trail Hand

This western is a story about a traveling cowhand, Owen that is instantly enamored by a ranch owner’s daughter, Rosa, as he is attempting to be hired. The ranch is where every thing begins and it is south of the Mexican border. He is hired on as a scout to lead the trail [...]

Book Review: The Smoky Hill

 
This is book two written by Don Coldsmith in a series of three books written by different authors. The book is about the western end of Kansas River called the Smoky Hill River. The book is divided into three parts. Part one is about the initial exploration and mapping of the river [...]

Book Review: The Finding of Jeremey

The book is a short western story written by Frederick Faust under the name of Max Brand. This story is about an eastern young man who is challenged by a woman to grow some backbone. She told him he could get this backbone by going west and being more like the men in [...]

Book Review: Werewolf

Yes this is a western story written by Max Brand from the trio collection book Men Beyond the Law. The main character of this story Christopher Royal is not beyond the law but the youngest brother of four. He is afraid that he is a coward because he does not want to fight [...]

Book Review: The Fence

This is a western story written about that big ranching family that has had the power and respect it always wanted but a chink in the armor results in a disappearance of these things and the death of the patriarch and his son.  Everything is thrown up in the air. The sheriff has [...]

Book Review: Rainbow Rider

This is a short story written by Wayne D. Overholser about a small town marshal who had tamed his town but wouldn’t leave because he had fallen in love with the banker’s daughter. He wanted to marry her and prove that he wasn’t a Rainbow Rider.  The pressure her aunt was placing on her [...]