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Pete Bradbury
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Elmer Kelton
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Recipient of Golden Saddleman, Lone Star Lifetime Achievement, and Western Heritage awards, Elmer Kelton is WWA's "Greatest Western Writer of All Time".
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- By J. C. Edmond on 06-11-10
By: James D. Best
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The Law at Randado
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscle bargained for. They can beat the boy and humiliate him, but they can't make him forget the oath he has sworn to uphold.
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A Really Good Early Western Novel of Elmore Leonard
- By Frank Donnelly on 10-13-19
By: Elmore Leonard
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Raiders of Spanish Peaks
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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The Lindsay family has come west hoping to help the father, John, recover from an illness. When they arrive, they are induced to purchase Spanish Peaks Ranch, an abandoned United States military post surrounded by mountains. It seems like a perfect place to settle into their new life as ranchers. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment.
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More Complex Than Most
- By Fred Ziffle on 05-14-20
By: Zane Grey
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High Country Bride
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One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.
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good book but not what was in the summary:
- By Zandra Zavalza on 01-30-16
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The Goodnight Trail
- The Trail Drive, Book 1
- By: Ralph Compton
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Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they’ll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory - or die hard.
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lose of key parts of the story
- By caveman on 06-04-12
By: Ralph Compton
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Flintlock
- By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
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Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side.
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interesting storyline
- By RFD Northwood on 03-12-24
By: William W. Johnstone, and others
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Gunman's Rhapsody
- By: Robert B. Parker
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It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge city has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison and Bat Masterson as well as finding the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus.
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Once of the best Wyatt Earp stories I have read
- By D. Abbott on 06-02-12
By: Robert B. Parker
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West of the Pecos
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- By: Zane Grey
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From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son - an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.
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Excellent Book!
- By j. hughes on 04-13-21
By: Zane Grey
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One of best audio books I've ever read
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Another great Elmer Kelton & George Guidall Combo
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Great story, superb reading.
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Easy listening
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Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.
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Realistic West! A new favorite author!
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- Bonner Sawyer
- 12-13-21
This is one of the best thinking persons Western's
TLDR: great book, real issues, based on true events.
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This story is based on a real event, something I had heard about but never gave much credit, a Cowboy Strike in the 1880s, who would believe that? Well I was wrong, I went looking and sure enough, it happened! Elmer Kelton, took that small event as an anchor to tie real history about the political and social changes facing Cowboy's, big Ranchers and small town business people in north Texas after the civil war. No doubt a study of these issues in that time would drive most of us outside to do the worst chores on the list! What Elmer did was weave a story that is gripping and real with so much feeling that it could make you want to load your guns and head out to support one side or the other! He did this by telling the story from the view point of a man caught in the middle, a thinking man who can see both sides of the problem... A place that is not ever comfortable if you can be ruthlessly honest with your self and have a strong sense of honor.
Elmer has told some stores that have a similar feel (The man who rode Midnight) but never one that made me feel so strongly that we are still fighting the same fight in a lot of the USA today, for a lot of the same reasons... Humans are tribal and we stand up for our tribes without trying hard enough to see the other tribes views and we fight, then we all lose in the long run. It's a good book and a great listen, you can listen to it for fun but don't think about it much or you may get sucked into really looking at the problems and the injustice on both sides. They are both right and both wrong!
Pete Bradbury is almost as good as The King of narrators, George Guidall and standing beside The Crown Prince Dick Hill. YMMV.
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- Shawn Bell
- 10-11-24
The Day The Cowboy Enjoyed A Good Read.
The struggle of personal decisions and choices a man has to make and the consequences that they serve.
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- Eric Hoglund
- 01-28-24
Relatable Western
We can always learn from the past…we should not be so surprised when we find we are reliving mistakes made by our ancestors, because we were too busy telling ourselves how much better we are than them.
Kelton is one of my favorite authors. This book and “The Time It Never Rained” are American Classics that everyone should read.
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- William
- 09-19-18
Exceeded my Expectations...
Powerful Story...Mr. Kelton does an amazing job of character building. One of those stories that you hate to see come to an end.
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- Jessica
- 08-29-21
Great story and narrator
This story really pulled me in. Buy it, you won’t regret it. I’ll be looking for more books by the author.
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- alyxsheerheart
- 03-29-17
Elmer Kelton, enough said.
Elmer Kelton. Enough said? Although I do miss the George Guidall narration. It still was a lovely performance.
Another great one from Kelton. In my humble opinion, I feel like most of his reads make you think. Weigh your options of what you would have done in this situation, what side you would have been on, which character you would have been most like and so on. I found myself feeling uncomfortable throughout the novel, not because of the writing, but because the story and characters were painted so vividly, I felt as if I were in the scene having to choose.
I will always recommend Kelton books. They are enjoyable, intelligent and thorough.
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- M.B.
- 09-15-18
Good book!
Enjoyed this book! Good story line characters were made real in my mind. Love a good western.
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- Steve
- 07-20-17
Louis Lamour look out!
I grew up reading everything Louis Lamour wrote. Elmer Kelton writes as good a story made more real by localizing the people. Not just a stranger in a new place, but people trying to live together and build a community. I wish I could write well enough to make myself clear...
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- Dan David
- 02-09-23
The Union of Cowboys
It's good story of old cowboys trying out the "union concept" on the open range.
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- bookjunkiequeen
- 10-05-11
Very enjoyable listen
This was a very personable book where I could relate to many of the different characters. I know it is a good book when I get emotionally involved in the characters. I could feel the conflict of the main characters, who were not super-human but rather average people. Really enjoyed this listen.
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