Appaloosa69 reviews Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 2005 The Western Returns! + Fine Western + Eye Candy + Appaloosa + Great Western, Excellent Movie             Deadwood26 reviews Pete Dexter Vintage, 2005 Recommend Reading + character and language + Enjoyed it... + A Pleasant Surprise + Deadwood             Bucking the Tiger: A Novel13 reviews Bruce Olds Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001 Excellent + Bucking the Prosody + A bedazzling fever dream of a novel This is, to put it bluntly, one of the best novels I've ever read. Olds' prose is hypnotic and lyrical, and he somehow manages to give us a compellingly real Doc Holliday who is also strikingly mythical. The book's account of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral is stunning, like nothing you've read (or ...             Ralph Compton For The Brand (Ralph Compton Western Series)1 review Ralph Compton, David Robbins Signet, 2005 A book of hope Willis Lander secluded himself by minding a line shack owned by the Bar T. But now the ranch is being sold and Lander wonders about his future. Will the new owner want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll? Laurella Hendershot is a Texas rancher grateful for the opportunity to leave the Lone ...             Badger Boy (Texas Rangers)4 reviews Elmer Kelton Forge Books, 2001 Rusty Shannon: Meet "Badger Boy"! + HARD TO PUT IT DOWN!!!!!!! + Ferociously Good Sequel! Elmer Kelton develops further the character of Rusty Shannon, first introduced to us in "The Buckskin Line." As the Civil War ends, Rusty finally takes leave of the Rangers (the "Buckskin Line") to return to his home and to his sweetheart. There he finds his first surprise. Conflict between old ...             Holmes on the Range (Holmes on the Range Mysteries)34 reviews Steve Hockensmith St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006 Determination trumps destiny + A Wild West Sherlock Holmes works for me! + Holmes on the Range + Loved It! + Sherlock Holmes, American Wild West style...             Rangers of the Lone Star2 reviews Zane Grey Leisure Books, 1999 Classic Western Action Delivered By A Genre Master + Writing with a Moral Zane Grey delivers a fantastic read full of archatypical Texas characters. The prose is a little dated, but hey, it is a period tale by a vintage western master. If you like stories about the Texas Rangers you'll really enjoy this book. The plot has Rangers, rustlers and two beautiful women new to ...             Liar's Moon: A Long Story (Marian Wood Book)11 reviews Phillip Kimball Henry Holt and Co., 1999 Liar's Moon is a literary treasure! + great book + great book + Lier's Moon -- Overwhelming Ballad of the Wild West             The Way of the Coyote (Texas Rangers)1 review Elmer Kelton Forge Books, 2001 wstrnnut This is the fourth Elmer Kelton book I have read this year and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you are looking for an authentic western with believable plot and story line ... you can't go wrong with Elmer Kelton. Staged in the reconstruction years of early Texas, it weaves a wonderful story of ...             Shower of Gold: A Western Story (Five Star Western Series) (Five Star Western Series)1 review Zane Grey Five Star (ME), 2007 Shower of Gold: A Western Story (Five Star Western This is the original unedited version that came out fairly recently. Until I read this book I had been reading the heavily edited version that was originally published way back when. I think it may have been called "Desert Gold" and it was never one of my favorites. After reading "Shower of Gold" I ...             From the Listening Hills2 reviews Louis L'Amour Bantam, 2004 A Worthy Addition to Louis L'Amour's Legacy + A good Louis L'Amour What hasn't been said about Louis L'Amour by now? The name L'Amour is synonymous with adventure fiction and, if the genre that he is primarily known for, the Western, has fallen on fallow times, his work is nonetheless still known and appreciated, even enjoying cyclical revivals. And so it should ...             The Master Executioner14 reviews Loren D. Estleman Forge Books, 2001 A Master Writer + Disturbing But Well-Composed Novel About A Hangman, His Work, His Life, His Times, His Fondness For Knots + A Great Read + Hell's Bells!             A Distant Land (The Brannocks) Matt Braun St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005 They were family, Clint Brannock, manhunter and man killer. Elizabeth Brannock, passionate idealist and courageous freedom fighter. Lon Brannock, icy gambler and lightning gunman, proud of the Indian strain in his blood. Jennifer Brannock, determined to win respect as a doctor, yet wondering if she could find happiness as a woman. Hank Brannock, a teenager at the crossroads between the law ...             Comanche Moon140 reviews Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 1997 real characters, in three dimension + Excellent product and service + Good prequel + Gus & Call             Downriver: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West) Richard S. Wheeler Forge Books, 2001 Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria's ...             Wild Girl, The: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 193234 reviews Jim Fergus Hyperion, 2005 Not completely original, but an awesome remix + I was sucked in + A helluva good yarn, but a "journal'? + Native American life             Moon Medicine4 reviews Mike Blakely Forge Books, 2003 Memorable characters, good story, interesting ending + fine storytelling + Best of the Westerns! + EXCELLENT - HIGHLY RECOMMEND             The Buckskin Line7 reviews Elmer Kelton Forge Books, 1999 A great book from a great author + History and heroism . . . + The Buckskin Line + Good and thoughtful Western             The Wandering Hill : A Novel33 reviews Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 2003 Interesting read + A Wild Saga - part 2 I've read The Sin Killer and The Wandering Hill and I have enjoyed both. I can't wait to read the next two books in the series. there are a lot of characters and you would think it would be overwhelming when you first start reading, whoever, the cast rotates and gets killed offso rapidly, that you ...             Port Hazard (Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshall, Book 7)3 reviews Loren D. Estleman Forge Books, 2004 Another winner in a great series! + A bit long, but entertaining + A window into the dangers of old San Francisco After reading this book and loving it, as I do all the Estleman westerns, I decided to write a review and was surprised to see that mine would be the first review. If this indicates a lack of readership, that is a true shame because Loren D. Estleman is one of the finest writers working in fiction ...