8 Western Stories you will love!“One Way or Another” By Frank KelsoA bitter water dispute twists two Texas cattle ranches one way or another after the son of one rancher takes a shine to the other rancher’s daughter, new from the east.“The Schoolmarm’s Hero” By Lyn HornerThe Sheriff leads a posse after two drunken cowboys who kidnapped the spinster schoolmarm. The chase forces him to realize how … chase forces him to realize how much he loves her.
“Bad Day at Round Rock” By cj petterson
The pursuit of stolen gold culminates in a “Bad Day at Round Rock”–a story of greed, death, and love torn from pages of West Texas history.
“The Reckoning” by Charlene Raddon
A half-breed boy seeks his place in the world—with the Shoshone who raised him, or his white aunt and uncle where he has been sent for an education.
“Headed for Texas” By Chimp Robertson
Rowdy Hawkins’s been shot, stabbed, and caught in Custer’s attack on Black Kettle, but it’s the first time he’s ever been in love—with Black Kettle’s granddaughter.
Bonus Story
“The Savage Posse” By JS Stroud
A death-bringer, neither whites nor Apaches wanted her until they needed one full of venom to lead their Savage Posse in rescuing stolen children.
“Set a Thief” By Chuck Tyrell
The man who stole Kimberly’s prize pinto returns the mare. “Let the man have his say,” her Pa says. “Don’t expect to come courting,” she warns.
“Tibby’s Hideout” By Frank Kelso
After the Civil War, Bess Newcomb, a single mother, wants to remarry, but Tibby, her eight-year old son, isn’t sure he wants a new dad—he decides to hideout.
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This book is a great collection of stories by 8 writers who have enjoyed writing these books historical western fiction. I loved reading these stories. It makes me feel sad when realization dawns that our young children these days do Not even know how to play cowboys and Indians. I am glad to have been able to get this book and read it. I will definitely be getting more of their books.
I received a free electronic copy of this collection of historical western romance stories through bookfunnel from the authors and publisher, Intellect Publishing. I have read this collection of my own volition, and this review reflects my personal opinion of this work. These stories all take place in the years just after the Civil War in various western states or territories. Some stories have a negative slant on Native Americans, but an equal number a biased with the Indian as the good guy so I hope in your view as well that these stories balance out as just fine tales. All these authors have an interesting and extensive history of stories, and very intriguing personal histories, as well. I am very pleased to recommend this short story collection as well as other works by these fine western historical authors to friends, and family.
Frank Kelso is an author I follow, one whose work rings true to history and that mystical western tradition. ‘One Day or Another’ holds up these torches very well. A water dispute turns neighboring ranchers into adversaries, but the visiting daughter of Brad Buxton, the aggressor in the water fight, catches young Willie Little in the heart.
Lyn Horner brings us ‘The Schoolmarm’s Hero’. Marshal Trace Balfour falls for the local bespeckled, bluestocking schoolteacher Matilda Schoenbrun. Before he can make his move, she is kidnapped and held hostage by a couple of drunken cowboys. The chase to save her points the marshal on the path to marriage.
CJ Peterson penned ‘Bad Day at Roundrock’. I love camping in the areas around Roundrock, TX so this was a special read for me. Gold is the central character in this battle between right and wrong. Wonderful word pictures accompany a tale of greed and misdeeds centered around the rumor of gold pieces buried by outlaw Sam Bass. Has someone already found Bass’ gold stash? No one is willing to stop looking in every canyon and cavern in the wild hill country near Roundrock.
Charlene Raddon wrote ‘The Reckoning’, a tale of the two hearts of a half-Shoshone, half-white boy. Gavin McAllistair is almost 13 and currently being raised by his white Aunt and Uncle in Roundrock at the behest of his white father, who wishes that he receive a proper education. The butt of jokes and meanness from his schoolmates, Gavin /Buffalo Brother longs to re-join his Shoshone family where he will be considered a man on his 13th birthday and can fight his own battles. Anything he does to stand up for himself in Roundrock will bring grief to his Aunt Melissa, would most likely break her heart. And then he is trapped by five school bullies while trying to save fellow classmate Eloise Benson from a planned rape. In the rumors traveling through the grapevine in Roundrock, Gavin is the bad guy, and the boys carry out a vendetta that includes Aunt Melissa and Uncle James. Gavin must decide the life he will live. Will he follow his father’s boots or his mother’s mocassins?
‘Headed for Texas Without Lookin’ Back’ is offered by Chimp Robertson. A couple of seasons back Rowdy Hawkins ran across a Cheyenne girl, granddaughter of the Southern Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle. Pretty Girl Sleeps is the girl he can’t forget, and he plans to detour through Oklahoma on his way home and seek her out, see if she would be his bride. Rowdy is a young but very experienced trail hand, heading back to Texas from a cattle drive to Montana when his horse comes up lame near Silverplume, a Colorado mining town. In an act of self-defense, Rowdy shoots the local mean drunk, which leads to a shootout with several others including the sheriff despite the fact that Rowdy was shot before he ever drew his weapon. Now on the run, wounded and riding a stolen horse Rowdy has to evade two groups of Silverplume citizens looking for justice or maybe just revenge. Now afoot and shot several times, fevered with infection, he wanders into the camp of Old Amos Thomas, returning to an Oklahoma cattle drive with supplies. Amos drops him off At Abbyville, Kansas where he is doctored by the boarding house mistress Milly Curry. No one is counting on the young cowboy living through this ordeal. Will he even live to make it to Oklahoma? Will he ever make it home to Texas?
JS Stroud wrote ‘The Savage Posse’ with wonderful word pictures and a tense tale. The storm this story opens with is something every adult westerner has had to deal with and is pictured well enough to stir up your anxiety for a minute or two. Our protagonist Venom has an Apache mother raised by the Crow tribe and an Irish trapper father, a mixed breed woman who was never accepted by anyone and brimming with hate that will not quit. I love her conversations with her horse Nightshade as you get to see a little of the compassion she so denies. You will not see her peaceful side, however, when she catches up with the scalp hunters who killed the Miller family…
Chuck Tyrell (Charles T. Whipple) brings us ‘To Set a Thief’, a conflict between law enforcement and outlaw Mort Eggerton, a man trailing a herd of stolen stock across the western plains of Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Eggerton is definitely keeping to the winning side – until he runs into Miss Kimberly ‘Kid’ McCullough. He plans to go back and find her – if he lives through the battle between the cattle thieves and several U.S. Marshalls in Bisbee, Arizona.
Then we are back to Frank Kelso – a little treasure called ‘Tibby’s Hideout’. Thibodoux Thaddeus Newcomb – Tibby – is 8 years old, is not willing to travel from the only home he knows, the German community in Texas hill country that folded the Newcomb family into their world after the death of their father; uncle, and several Germans in a Kiowa attack in west Texas. Neither Tibby or his younger brother Isaiah, age 7, can remember their father, but Tibby knows he doesn’t like Joe Robidoux, the man who is planning to marry their mother and haul them all across the great plains desert to his family’s land in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It is only when they side-track to the Newcomb ranch in the Texas panhandle so Bess and the boys can say goodbye to that life before they began their new one in New Mexico that Tibby firms up his decision to run away, now that his ma doesn’t need him any longer. But running away was definitely not the way to go…
And then we have a couple of teasers from E.E.Burke, snippets from her latest series, ‘Steam-Romance-Rails’ and ‘The Bride Train’. Both introductions point to a good, interesting read. I have added her also to my authors to follow.