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This week’s reviews include large print western.
Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers in “No Name, The Story of a Ghost Town” (LP W WHE R) By Richard S. Wheeler. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil, murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?
West of New Mexico's Pecos, men called him the Cholla Kid, a dashing cowboy with a devil-may-care air and a merry twinkle in his gray eyes that could grow steely in “The Cholla Kid” (LP W COL J) By Jackson Cole. His skylarking, however, brought trouble in his wake and he decided it best to drift from his home range for a while. Then trouble began in earnest in the Comal Valley he rode into, where he got more than he had ever imagined could come to one wandering cowboy in search of adventure. He found Hondo, the desert cowtown of far-flung ill repute, where he was framed for bushwhacking and robbery and for the killing of the father of the only girl he had ever met whose voice could tug his heart strings. For Sanna’s sake, for her revenge on evil doers, he fought single handed battles, swift enough in fiery action. Men died swiftly and without warning in the bullet-torn Comal Valley. Yet for the sake of one wistful-eyed, sorrowing girl, the Cholla Kid was willing to champion the short-odds end of an ugly range war.
Jim Silcott was filling in as editor of the Powder Horn Sentinel after the former editor and owner, Carl Rogers, had been shot down from ambush because he dared to buck the mighty Hat T gang in “Trail's End” (LP W RAI W) by William MacLeod Raine. Jim was carrying on Rogers's fight against dictatorial Russell Mosely in the feud over the conflicting land grants to former Spanish landholders which affected the lives of nearly all the settlers on Tincup Creek. He had carried it to the point where his own life was worth not much more than a dime. Pretty Anne Eliot, slender and spirited and a complete lady, as well as Carl Rogers’s niece, arrived in Blanco just in time to see Jim Silcott engage in an unequal gunfight with three Hat T roughnecks. After she learns some of the recent history, Anne decides to take over the Sentinel and run it herself. For a time, she is undecided whether Jim Silcott, who is reckless and daring and charming, or Russell Mosely, who looks like a Greek god and speaks with a silver tongue, is in the right. Anne soon comes to the conclusion that Mosely is a Greek bearing gifts, and from there the explosive action moves through gunplay, dynamiting, drygulching, and on the historic Santa Fe for the crashing climax.
The Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, find themselves on the wrong side of the law in “Rope Burn: Those Jensen Boys!” (LP W JOH W) By William W Johnstone. They find themselves at the raw end of justice inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory. When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jail mates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time on a brutal prison chain gang. Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades. And the whole operation is run by a maniacal army major who's working the deserters to death for his own profit. Ace and Chance have no choice but to bust out of this miserable hellhole or die trying.
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -Toni Morrison
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