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This week's reviews are large-print Western and non-fiction books.
Walt Hodge had delivered 80 horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home in Showdown in Gun Town (LP W PAI L) by Lauran Paine. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse.
He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble.”
After he had a drink, surrounded by silent cowmen, he discovered why the town of Sunflower was so unusually quiet and empty. He had walked into the middle of an emerging range war over water rights in the middle of a blistering summer. Being mistaken as one of Jim Bricker's B-back-to-back men annoyed Walt, but being knocked out by a Bricker rider, who said Walt was a Mike Weedon man, was just more than he could take.
Then he met Bricker's daughter. It doesn't take long for Hodge to find himself in the middle of things once he is blamed for the killing of a Bricker man. By the time the war is over, three men are dead, the town of Sunflower finds its self-respect, and a jailhouse is full of demoralized cowmen.
The town marshal of Beaumont in Black Bonanza (LP W SCO L) by Leslie Scott, was in the habit of advising its citizens: "After dark, walk in the middle of the street and tote guns. And tote 'em in your hands, not on your hips, so everybody can see you're loaded." It was advice worth heeding, for Beaumont was a wild and woolly town.
Spindletop was in; and roughs, toughs, petty thieves, gamblers, soldiers of fortune and professional gunslingers rubbed elbows and took advantage of the oil strike.
When he signed up to be sheriff of this dirty little boomtown, Aaron Mackey knew he was asking for trouble in Get out of Town (LP W MCC T) by Terrance Mccauley. Once, when Mackey was the U.S. marshal for the whole Montana Territory, he swore no job could get any harder. But that was before he took down a few of the bank-robbing Hancock and incurred the wrath of the gang's maniacal matriarch, Mad Nellie Hancock.
And that was before every avenging outlaw and hired henchmen came crawling out of the woodwork to kill him in the meanest, bloodiest showdown the town had ever seen. Aaron Mackey knows you can't fight city hall, but you can flush out every kill-crazy outlaw, greedy grifter, and boomtown rat.
Jesus and History: How We Know His Life and Claims (232.9 WAT S) by Steven Waterhouse examines the historical background of the four Gospels. Can we identify their authors and dates, or were they later forgeries? Are the people and places in the Gospels historical or mythological? Did Jesus do the miracles and make the claims attributed to him, or did early Christians exaggerate his life? Who is he?
Also, included in the appendix is rare historical research on abortion in the ancient world and the response by the first Christians: Outside the Heavenly City; Abortion in Rome and the Early Church's Response.
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."— Pearl S. Buck