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Title: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: dogngun on May 18, 2012, 10:01:02 AM
I read a lot, sometimes 4-5 books a week, for the last 40 years or so. I have also published a few articles and other things over the years, although by no means am I known and certainly not rich from it.

The authors I highly recommend for this are only these 3:

Dee Brown-He wrote  very accurate and interesting histories as well as fiction. He was one of the great historians of the period.Died in 2002.

Larry McMurtry-Hat Creek Cattle Co...great overall writer, but he loves the old west and does it very well.

Forrest Carter- Navajo. Wrote the 2 books that became Josey Wales. Also wrote a wonderful book on Geronomo and a book on his life  as a young boy in the west. Died very young.

I know of no one better.

Just my opinion, of course.

mark
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on May 18, 2012, 07:39:38 PM
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Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Will Ketchum on May 20, 2012, 04:41:49 PM
I read a lot, sometimes 4-5 books a week, for the last 40 years or so. I have also published a few articles and other things over the years, although by no means am I known and certainly not rich from it.

The authors I highly recommend for this are only these 3:

Dee Brown-He wrote  very accurate and interesting histories as well as fiction. He was one of the great historians of the period.Died in 2002.

Larry McMurtry-Hat Creek Cattle Co...great overall writer, but he loves the old west and does it very well.

Forrest Carter- Navajo. Wrote the 2 books that became Josey Wales. Also wrote a wonderful book on Geronomo and a book on his life  as a young boy in the west. Died very young.

I know of no one better.

Just my opinion, of course.

mark

I sure have to disagree with you pard.  The first two you mention both play fast and loose with history.  Especially McMurtry. In one of his books he has the renegade kid hang judge Roy Bean from his own porch!  That never happened and so much else that I have a hard time reading his stuff. ???

Will Ketchum
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Coal Creek Griff on May 20, 2012, 06:25:16 PM
Is that why he said "fiction"?

I agree, though, if the fiction is so far off base historically, it is hard to take it seriously.  That's kind of like movies where historical figures fail to die on time or die in the wrong way.  If a movie about Wyatt Earp pictures Doc Holliday as a surgeon or MD, I pretty much have to turn it off.

CC Griff
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Delmonico on May 23, 2012, 12:02:43 AM
Based on the first two i won't even bother to check out the last one.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Drayton Calhoun on June 13, 2012, 12:39:45 AM
I've come to regard McMurtry as a Western Surrealist. His books are entertaining, but, as far as historical...welllllll....
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on February 05, 2013, 02:12:11 PM
Ralph Compton.  Great writer, and VERY accurate to history.  The only historical mistake I've found is a .45 Colt Cartridge Conversion in winter of 1865 in "Dawn of Fury."  Another is J.T.Edson.  Great at writing, historically accurate and very entertaining. 
Ralph Cotton is okay, if you don't mind a little gore.  Jack Ketchum is a little odd, but he wrote the first western I ever read.  I'll have to finish the book I'm writing and see what y'all think of it.


--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Ranger Joe on February 05, 2013, 02:21:40 PM
Ralph Compton.  Great writer, and VERY accurate to history.  The only historical mistake I've found is a .45 Colt Cartridge Conversion in winter of 1865 in "Dawn of Fury."  Another is J.T.Edson.  Great at writing, historically accurate and very entertaining. 
Ralph Cotton is okay, if you don't mind a little gore.  Jack Ketchum is a little odd, but he wrote the first western I ever read.  I'll have to finish the book I'm writing and see what y'all think of it.


--TK

JT Edson? I'm surprised to see his books recommended. I read many of his books as a teenager, and finally gave up after reading the same detailed descriptions of Dusty's (IIRC) firearms and ju-jitsu skills for about the 20th time. If you'd read one of his books you could skip whole pages of any of his other books that you read.

Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on February 05, 2013, 02:47:14 PM
It's more interesting than sitting around being bored. ::)
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Ranger Joe on February 05, 2013, 03:00:09 PM
It's more interesting than sitting around being bored. ::)

True indeed. Books really are a matter of personal taste. Actually,I remember reading an article about JT Edson some years ago. It seems he had a wall of guns (mostly replicas I believe) that he used for research and inspiration in his writing.

EDIT: I just found a link to the article! http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948&dat=19790811&id=4_IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pswFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,4116263

My favourite western author is definitely Loius L'Amour, but I've read books by many others from Zane Grey to George Gilman (no historical accuracy there at all!).
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on February 05, 2013, 04:37:40 PM
Louis L'Amour is great.  If you haven't read Compton, you should, they are very similar.

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on February 05, 2013, 07:46:11 PM
I'm very proud that both of my novels have accurate historical references.  Sure wish more folks would read them.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Ranger Joe on February 05, 2013, 11:32:50 PM
Louis L'Amour is great.  If you haven't read Compton, you should, they are very similar.

--TK

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll take a look for his books.

Joe
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on February 06, 2013, 11:23:43 AM
Forty Rod, what're the titles?  Give me the titles, and I'll read 'em. ;D

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on February 06, 2013, 05:35:53 PM
Available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.  They won't have them in stock but can get them.

Legends

Cavanaugh: The Last Bounty

Both by Tom "FortyRod" Taylor.

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of them.

Thanks for asking.

Tom
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Elderly Kid on March 18, 2013, 03:55:01 PM
Frank O'Rourke - "A Mule for the Marquesa," origin for the film "The Professionals." Getting very hard to find.

Cormac McCarthy - "Blood Meridian." A modern classic and the hardest-a$$ed western ever written. Takes a strong stomach and no illusions about how nice our ancestors were.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Grapevine Jimmy on April 17, 2013, 02:09:48 PM
Forty Rod, I just put both books on my kindle, looking forward to reading them.

Grapevine Jimmy
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Johnny McCrae on April 22, 2013, 10:51:55 AM
Forty Rod, just downloaded "Cavanaugh:The Last Bounty" on my IPad. It's a great western novel. As good as they come! I'm about 1/3 Of the way through it. We are in Colorado skiing and will be snowed in tomorrow so I'll be able to finish it. "Legend" is not available on my IPad so I'll order it from Barnes.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on April 22, 2013, 03:41:19 PM
Thanks, Gents. I'm right proud of Legends and Bounty is pretty good, too.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Grapevine Jimmy on April 23, 2013, 09:50:38 AM
I just finished "Cavanaugh:The Last Bounty" and enjoyed it very much. I kept waiting for him to get thoes new Smith's into action. Any chance the first three are going to be published?

GJ
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on April 23, 2013, 03:50:24 PM
Jimmy, that's gonna depend on me gettin' off my lazy butt (Helluva a great name for a ranch.  Wonder what the brand would look like.) an' actually working on them again.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Johnny McCrae on April 23, 2013, 07:35:22 PM
I also just finished reading "Cavanaugh: The Last Bounty" and thoroughly enjoyed it. Forty Rod, you certainly can be proud  of "Cavanaugh: The Last Bounty". As I said, this book is as good as they come. I'm looking forward to reading "Legend"
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Grapevine Jimmy on April 29, 2013, 08:47:29 AM
FR, I think I enjoyed "Legends" as much as any novel I've recently read. I really enjoyed to details of NYC schooling for a young lady of the period. Thanks for your time and effort putting all of this together.

GJ
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on April 29, 2013, 08:51:28 AM
FR, I think I enjoyed "Legends" as much as any novel I've recently read. I really enjoyed to details of NYC schooling for a young lady of the period. Thanks for your time and effort putting all of this together.

GJ

You just made my week, Jimmy.  Thanks.  ;D
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: J.B. Justice on May 23, 2013, 09:43:44 AM
Forty Rod I just found your books on Amazon and plan on getting them for my Kindle  :)

I enjoy the western novels by Robert B. Parker. I find following the adventures of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch to be a great escape.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Flea Skinner on September 05, 2013, 03:25:23 PM
Hey Forty Rod!  Just finished reading "Cavanaugh" on my Kindle.  Thoroughly enjoyed it!! Thanks for taking the time to put pen to paper!
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on November 17, 2013, 06:32:24 PM
Hey Forty Rod.  I finished both of your books in three days.   ;D ;D  I loved 'em both.  Even started reading Legends a second time over breakfast. ;D  I think I have a new favorite. ::) 
Some people write, and reading it seems like, well......just reading.  Others, their stories actually seem real to the reader.  These are the latter. 
You gave me some encouragement to get back working on my book.

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: PABLO DEL NORTE on December 18, 2013, 07:51:52 AM
 ??? NO WILLIAM JOHNSTONE??  HE HAS TWO GOOD SERIES GOING ON- "THE BROTHERS O'BRIEN" & "SIXKILLER"- NOT TO MENTION THE SMOKE JENSEN BOOKS. ANY LOUIS L'AMOUR IS GOOD.

MR. FORTY ROD, I WILL LOOK UP YOUR BOOKS & READ THEM. :)
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Octagonal Barrel on December 18, 2013, 10:27:30 PM
Forty Rod, I'd love to read your work, and will when I find it in a format suitable to my e-reader.

As to old west authors/books, I'll offer 3:

Charles Portis, "True Grit."  Supposedly, Portis was an absolute master of the language and culture of the times.  Fiction, but with a very historical underlay.  The best book I've read for a long time.  They call it an epic for a reason.  (I think the Cohen brothers movie captured it well.  If you liked the movie, the book is the same on steriods.)

Owen Wister, "The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains."  Only recently turned on to this by a comment in a video on this forum from Bottom Dealin' Mike.  There are moments it's merely a good novel.  There are moments I think the language waxes to greatness.  In my opinion, it never sinks to simply average.  I trust its spirit is accurate to the old west.

Zane Grey, "The Last of the Plainsmen."  In the first few pages, I thought the writing a little hokey, and maybe bad.  After studying anthropology in school, I thought the initial Native American dialogue at the beginning of the book an atrocious characature.  ("How," "Ugh," bad broken English, how terrible!)  But after getting into the book further, and asking myself was there a real "Buffalo Jones" and doing some research, I was surprised to find "Last of the Plainsmen" is cataloged as non-fiction.  In 1907, Grey contracted with the real Buffalo Jones to go cougar hunting with a rope, not a gun.  Grey actually took careful notes on the conversations and antics of the plainsmen who were with him.  The tarantula story and the bit about the snake practical joke are probably real.  So is the story of Jones' travels in the north.  The book is a history of Grey's real expedition as well as a historical novel.  I'm a back-country guy myself, and the realization of its historicity transformed my respect for the account.  Now I love the book.  (But I'd NEVER choose to go rope a cougar...)

You probably knew about these ones already.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on December 19, 2013, 10:07:00 AM
You can order then from Barnes and Noble or Amazon.  They should both be available on Kindle by the first of January at the latest.  If necessary, contact AuthorHouse Publications or I still have a few copies here.

Let me know.

When can I expect to see your book, TK?  I'll be wanting to buy an autographed copy when it's available.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on December 19, 2013, 04:06:22 PM
Forty Rod:  I hope to get it out sometime next year........just not sure when.... ::)

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Forty Rod on December 19, 2013, 06:23:10 PM
My next one has been due to be released for over five years now.   ::)

I'm working on it, I'm working on it!!!
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on December 19, 2013, 07:51:54 PM
I started mine three years ago, in September.  You know how it goes, though.  Write, write, write.....oops, found an inconsistency, rewrite....repeat, and repeat again.    I'm about half way done, I think, and hope to get it to a publisher sometime around July-August. :-\

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Coal Creek Griff on December 19, 2013, 10:08:56 PM
Octagonal Barrel:

I absolutely agree with your love for "True Grit" and "The Virginian"!  Those are two of my all time favorite books.  With "True Grit", I have been known to read the last page, then turn back to the first page and start over again.  I've done that more than once.  I also bought the audio version read by Donna Tartt.  Her personal essay at the end makes you love the book that much better.  Her Mississippi accent just adds to the story.

"The Virginian" is another one I've read over and over.  I love to read it out loud and I bought an audio version of that too.  It made me start to read a number of Owen Wister's books, some of which are short stories "starring" some of the characters from "The Virginian".

I keep reading Zane Grey books, thinking that I should like them, but so far I have not really enjoyed any of them.  I wish I did.  I love reading good western books and he wrote a lot.  Oh well, maybe I'll just read "True Grit" again.  I don't have an e-reader, so that kind of limits things.

CC Griff
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Fredcdobbs on December 20, 2013, 12:23:00 AM
The last Robt. B Parker book about the railroad robbery was not written by him but someone copying his style. His unfortunate death has left a big loss. The attempt to copy his dialog style was without Parker's sly wit and humor. The book fell flat for me.
I got a book of Elmore Leonard's early western short stories that he wrote out of college for True West magazine. They were great. So fresh and original, amazed me. An early indication of his talent.
Loren Estleman is another good western writer. He's always interesting. I've read his westerns and detective stories. One of the few authors who can make me laugh out loud at some witticism.
j
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: jimbobborg on March 02, 2014, 06:15:06 PM
None of you have mentioned Clarence E. Mulford?  Aside from the fact that most, if not all, of his books are out of print, he is the original creator of one "Hopalong" Cassidy.  I managed to snag five of his books in hard back from Borders many years ago.  They are available now in e-book format.  The character in the movies and TV series is nothing like the original.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Trinity Kid on March 02, 2014, 09:02:39 PM
Movie Hopalong is nothing like old book Hoppy.  L'Amour Hoppy was originally more like old Hoppy, but editors made him more like movie Hoppy.

Confusing...  :o ;)

--TK
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Octagonal Barrel on March 03, 2014, 03:09:06 AM
Cormac McCarthy - "Blood Meridian." A modern classic and the hardest-a$$ed western ever written. Takes a strong stomach and no illusions about how nice our ancestors were.
I recently started to read "Blood Meridian."  I liked "The Road," and figured I'd like a western by the same guy real well.  But I'm stumbling over some of it.

"The Road" is terse in it's style, and "Blood Meridian" is anything but.  I'm personally having trouble with McCarthy's verbose description, which feels like it waffles back and forth between Victorian American English and modern American English.  (I like his dialogue and story advancement in Blood Meridian just fine.)  Some places, it feels to me like he's got word usage wrong in ways that distract me.  I'm also struggling with the way he creates mental images with his words.  The images feel surreal enough that for me, they just don't ring true and distract me from the advancement of characterization and story line.

I'd certainly agree it's a hard-edged story, and you can entertain no illusions of western civility in reading it.  But am I missing something?  I take it for a surreal western novel, maybe McCarthy's take on a "spaghetti western novel," and maybe that's why I'm choking over it.  I have a hard time with some movies that get too surreal, too.  Other opinions or observations on "Blood Meridian?"  In art it's certainly true that one man's pleasure is another man's poison, and I hope not to bash the opinions of others if I share my own struggling with the book.  If you've read it and liked it, what did you like?
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Shawnee McGrutt on March 03, 2014, 07:07:35 AM
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had trouble reading "Blood Meridian", Octagonal Barrel, you hit the nail on the head(at least for me).  The dialogue  and progression of the story are good.  It was the bouncing back and forth, in the style of  writing , I  felt like a Ping pong ball being slapped around.  A spaghetti western novel, is a good description .  I didn't make it through even a quarter of the book.  I'll have to try it again.
Keep your powder dry.
Shawnee
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: The Elderly Kid on March 03, 2014, 11:43:37 AM
In "Blood Meridian" McCarthy wrote deliberately in a Melvillian style. It's a western version of Moby Dick, in which a group of men set out on a crazy quest that ends up destroying them all. The language and imagery are taken from Melville, as are the shifting points of view and frequent digressions. It's there right from the first line. Moby Dick opens with the most famous first line in American literature: "Call me Ishmael."  The first line of "Blood Meridian" is: "See the child." Both are three-word imperative sentences. It goes on from there. The monstrous character of the Judge is Ahab and Moby Dick combined. Not to everyone's taste, to be sure, but an amazing achievement. McCarthy's descriptions of landscapes are classic as well.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: jimbobborg on March 03, 2014, 01:28:31 PM
Movie Hopalong is nothing like old book Hoppy.  L'Amour Hoppy was originally more like old Hoppy, but editors made him more like movie Hoppy.

Confusing...  :o ;)

--TK


And to his death bed, L'Amour denied writing the four books that he did write. 
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Octagonal Barrel on May 01, 2014, 10:59:34 PM
In "Blood Meridian" McCarthy wrote deliberately in a Melvillian style. It's a western version of Moby Dick, in which a group of men set out on a crazy quest that ends up destroying them all. The language and imagery are taken from Melville, as are the shifting points of view and frequent digressions. It's there right from the first line. Moby Dick opens with the most famous first line in American literature: "Call me Ishmael."  The first line of "Blood Meridian" is: "See the child." Both are three-word imperative sentences. It goes on from there. The monstrous character of the Judge is Ahab and Moby Dick combined. Not to everyone's taste, to be sure, but an amazing achievement. McCarthy's descriptions of landscapes are classic as well.
Thanks for the explanation.  I'll have to work through Moby Dick again (it's been years), and then re-attempt Blood Meridian.  I thought the Judge a strange literary spectacle, and had trouble taking my (figurative) "eyes" off him.  His oddness was entrancing.  One of the things that kept me at the book.  The thought he is two titanic characters in one begins to explain it.  Thanks again for the input.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: jimbobborg on May 28, 2014, 09:53:38 AM
Anyone ever look at the Gutenberg Project?  Lots of old books, free, including these http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mulford
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Darto on March 16, 2018, 07:03:08 PM
I bumped the old thread to comment on what was last before mine: the free stuff at Gutenberg project.

Yes, a very good source for free stuff but another is LibriVox. LibriVox are audio .mp3 files. The readers are all volunteers (so we may hear some of you Pards reading there)! (Not me, so far).

Here is for instance Zane Grey:

https://librivox.org/author/965?primary_key=965&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

These of course have to be old books, and out of copyright law. So no William Jonstone etc.

EDIT: Octagonal Barrel mentioned Grey's The Plainsman, it's there on LibriVox
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Skeeter Lewis on August 16, 2018, 01:48:35 PM
I'm going to follow Forty Rod's example by shamelessly hijacking this thread to plug my own western novel, 'Sand River'.

https://www.amazon.com/Sand-River-James-Vaughan-ebook/dp/B01N5RNDTZ/ref=la_B075VGSFPH_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524554523&sr=1-1
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: nagantino on September 07, 2018, 05:16:02 AM
I feel I have to defend "Blood Meridian". It is a terrific novel. We have talked a lot about historical accuracy but once you commit to this course of accuracy a writer will have donned a straight jacket of his own making. To continue the analogy, accuracy must be a light summer jacket , hardly noticed by the reader but just enough to prevent the " hey that's not right" moment.  Trying to please and not offend a tiny group of people who are sitting on your shoulder looking for historical mistakes can't be a creative place. In True Grit we are introduced to the Colt Dragoon but it's more than a revolver. It represents the nerve of a young girl taking on the huge task of avenging her fathers murder. Le Boeufs Sharps carbine can be seen as a representation of the Texas Rangers overblown sense of himself. It's a device pointing to some thing else. Dwelling too much on historical accuracy can be as bad lack of knowledge.......it jars the flow of the story and inhibits reader.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Jack Straw on October 24, 2018, 02:14:49 PM
Might I suggest a series of Western novels by a real top gun, Bruce Thorstadt, whose alias is Paydirt.   He won End Of Trail way back in the eighties.   I met him when I shot SASS matches in the 90's in California.  He's a very nice fellow.

Bruce has quite a few novels.  I've read and enjoyed a bunch of them. 

Check Amazon;  https://www.amazon.com/Gents-Bruce-H-Thorstad/dp/0759236844?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0759236844
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: greyhawk on October 24, 2018, 05:35:15 PM
Might I suggest a series of Western novels by a real top gun, Bruce Thorstadt, whose alias is Paydirt.   He won End Of Trail way back in the eighties.   I met him when I shot SASS matches in the 90's in California.  He's a very nice fellow.

Bruce has quite a few novels.  I've read and enjoyed a bunch of them. 

Check Amazon;  https://www.amazon.com/Gents-Bruce-H-Thorstad/dp/0759236844?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0759236844

can I add one ?   "Road To Socorro also published as The Hell Bent Kid" Charles O Locke (I think)

Also someone reads this might help me find one
Read this as a youngster in the '60's - its a story about a long chase - the central character has a good mare he called Molly Malone and the bad dudes run him down by riding relays - someone out there will have read this - I would appreciate a lead on it.   
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Post by: Coal Creek Griff on October 24, 2018, 06:20:29 PM
 "Road To Socorro also published as The Hell Bent Kid" Charles O Locke

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV8A3QY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV8A3QY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)

CC Griff
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Post by: greyhawk on October 24, 2018, 09:50:16 PM
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV8A3QY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XV8A3QY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)

CC Griff

Griff
Thanks for the lead -- I was not clear when I wrote my post - The Hell Bent Kid I have a copy - would not part with it no how .

I was after a lead on a second book referencing that horseback chase - the "Molly Malone" tag I am clear about - the rest of it ? Could that be Locke's other book "Taste of Infamy" ? --- its over fifty years ago I read the story - so am a bit sketchy on it.
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: Coal Creek Griff on October 24, 2018, 10:43:12 PM
Ah, I understand now.  Rats--I thought that I'd found it for you.

CC Griff
Title: Re: Some authors I recommend for Old West fiction...
Post by: greyhawk on October 25, 2018, 07:10:57 AM
Ah, I understand now.  Rats--I thought that I'd found it for you.

CC Griff

You might have yet - gave me some tracks to foller anyhow - If I find it I will pass the info back - at the time I thought is was as good a story as Hell Bent Kid - but I was /am a bit of a horse crank.

Some others may be of interest here - there is a series by John Byrne Cook - starts with one called "Snowblind Moon" - but they are three day books,  "Pipe Carriers " is part of it too.  More on the Indian side of things from memory .

Thanks for the lead.