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Publisher's summary
In the Texas backlands in 1885, 12-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm.
After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin - Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but - some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. In his day, Bass Reeves was the most successful federal marshal in the United States. True to the mythical code of the West, he never drew his gun first. He rounded up hundreds of outlaws and was shot at countless times but was never hit. Bass Reeves was born into slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real hero of the Wild West
- By Michael Wood on 02-11-15
By: Gary Paulsen
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The Goodnight Trail
- The Trail Drive, Book 1
- By: Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
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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1 out of 5 stars
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lose of key parts of the story
- By caveman on 06-04-12
By: Ralph Compton
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Ride the Hard Trail
- By: Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Kevin Orton
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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The literary legacy of USA Today best-selling author and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award nominee Ralph Compton lives on in Ride the Hard Trail. Hiding from the law, brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce hire on as cowpunchers at a widow’s ranch. But soon they’re embroiled in a range war with a nefarious cattle baron who has a small army of hired guns protecting his interests.
By: Ralph Compton
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West of the Pecos
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book!
- By j. hughes on 04-13-21
By: Zane Grey
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Flintlock
- By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
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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5 out of 5 stars
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interesting storyline
- By RFD Northwood on 03-12-24
By: William W. Johnstone, and others
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The Misadventures of Maude March
- By: Audrey Couloumbis
- Narrated by: Lee Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time, however, the wanted woman isn't a villain out of a dime novel: it's Sallie's very own sister!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun book to listen to.
- By Jean on 09-04-13
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Raiders of Spanish Peaks
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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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5 out of 5 stars
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More Complex Than Most
- By Fred Ziffle on 05-14-20
By: Zane Grey
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This Calder Range
- Calder Saga, Book 1
- By: Janet Dailey
- Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land, where the whisper of riches swept across a sea of buffalo grass. With Lorna at his side, a woman who took the tough ways of the land as her destiny, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of Indian country, and a bustling Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana. With Calder strength, they would harvest their fortune from the rich earth, on the sprawling plains of This Calder Range.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- By Lisa M on 11-17-17
By: Janet Dailey
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Destry Rides Again
- By: Max Brand
- Narrated by: J. P. O'Shaughnessy
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
Harry Destry was a rough-and-tumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And that's exactly what Destry wants them to think....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged doesn't mean unedited
- By Chris Haynes on 08-15-13
By: Max Brand
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The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson
- A Novel
- By: Nancy Peacock
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon "Persy" Wilson wants nothing more than to leave some record of the truth - his truth. He may be guilty but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his former master's wife. In 1860 Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape their owner, Master Wilson, who claimed Chloe as his concubine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just so-so overall
- By Henwhisperer on 04-22-18
By: Nancy Peacock
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High Country Bride
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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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4 out of 5 stars
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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 First Mountain Man 1-3 Bundle (Dramatized Adaptation)
- By: William W. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Christopher Graybill, Dan Sondak, David Coyne, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 185
On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and begins a journey from Ohio westward. Along the way, he runs up against badlands and bad men, loses his freedom, gains his freedom and learns the first rule of the frontier: Do whatever it takes to survive. With ruthless enemies after him - both White men and Indians - he’ll head for a place as brutal as it is beautiful - the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed this particular weastern.. ☺
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The Buckskin Line tells of Texas' chaotic early years, when a ragtag group of irregular volunteers fought to defend the far edges of settlement from incursion by Indians and frontier outlaws. In time, they would become known as the Texas Rangers.
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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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Great cowboy fun
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In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas. The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave them shelter and clothing, food, and weapons. The battles at and near the ruins of a trading fort, Adobe Walls, became symbolic of the struggles between hunters and the Comanche.
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Kelton and western novels
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Nearly 70, Wes Hendricks has led a tough and colorful life as a cowboy and broncobuster, and all he asks now is that he be left alone on his poor, hardscrabble ranch in the West Texas hill country. Not a chance - the powers that be in the little town of Big River (including Wes' old cowboy pal, druggist/Mayor Orville Levitt) have decreed that an artificial lake will be created to generate tourism, and Wes' ranch stands squarely in their way.
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Close to home
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In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard - but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own, and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love?
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Many a River
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When Comanches slaughter his parents in 1855 West Texas, eight-year-old Jeff buries their scalped bodies—and the charred remains of his younger brother. Taken in by a homesteading family, Jeff ekes out an existence. But as he dons Confederate gray, he never dreams his brother is alive—or that he’s wearing Union blue.
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A story of the old west
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The Day the Cowboys Quit
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Louis Lamour look out!
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One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest Western writers of all time by the Western Writers of America. Dark Thicket is one of his many classic tales of the history of his home state of Texas. Young Owen Danforth rides home to Texas as a wounded Confederate soldier, at a time when his home state is as savagely divided as his nation. As a grievously wounded America staggers toward the inevitable end of the Civil War, secessionist "home guards" and staunch Union loyalists fight their own bloody battles on a more local scale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captured the feeling of Texas during and after the Civil War.
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By: Elmer Kelton
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Donovan
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Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now Uncle Joe has been shot - in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- By Texas on 04-14-24
By: Elmer Kelton
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Long Way to Texas
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- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Long Way to Texas brings together three rare Kelton novels, all with Texas roots: Joe Pepper, Long Way to Texas, and Eyes of the Hawk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By Mary on 12-25-18
By: Dale L. Walker, and others
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Llano River
- By: Elmer Kelton
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired, and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus. Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All around great story
- By Michael F on 03-15-24
By: Elmer Kelton
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Honor at Daybreak
- By: Elmer Kelton
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty warns any who'd stand in his way: Get out or die. One man will do neither. Sheriff Dave Buckalew is a man too proud to give up and too stubborn to give in. He liked his town the way it was - before the bootleggers, brothels, and fortune-seeking roustabouts - and so did a lot of other hardworking, decent folk. Together they'll fight to win back their town - and their future. This is the story of their heroic stand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the same
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- Cowboy
- 02-09-24
The Adventures of Another Super Western
It Never gets old to listen to George tell the story. I am willing to lose sleep to stay with it.
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- 03-23-23
One of my favorite Kelton books
I really enjoy Kelton read by Guidell. This is one of the best. On to find another....
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- 20eagle16
- 07-24-20
Kelton and Guidall - Perfect
I have NEVER been disappointed with an Elmer Kelton book, and I have NEVER been disappointed with a narration by George Guidall. From cats to cowboys, if Guidall narrates a book, it has always been worth my time. I believe it will be the same for you.
If you like western novels with a strong moral message and world-class dialogue, you can always count on Elmer Kelton to deliver.
I strongly endorse this audiobook.
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- Gene
- 09-09-18
Another great Elmer Kelton & George Guidall Combo
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire story. As usual, Elmer Kelton renders an authentic Western adventure that delivers excitement flavored with humor and clever dialog.
As usual, George Guidall brings the tale to life with his narration.
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- Robert B.
- 04-19-22
don't miss
this is one of the best Kelton books that I've read. loved it all the way through
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- Richard Kearse
- 04-25-24
The twist and turns that the boy and his cousin took and how it ended up at the end of the book.
The book was a very simple book but you could not figure out exactly how the book was going to end as you can and so many other books. This was a book of love intrigue family tragedy death and growth of the human body and soul.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-26-19
Cloudy in the West
I really appreciate a good western like this one,keeps me locked in I recommend this one
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