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Well... I decided to attempt reading a "western" or "Frontier Story" (as Louis L'Amour apparently called his novels). It's... interesting. The book is really short and the story seems simple. It's kind of like watching a short movie. I'm only on chapter 6 and I think I'll finish it with a good view of the book. It doesn't seem spectacular, but if I ever need entertainment that involves cowboys...

Edit: Okie dokie. I finished it. It was really short. I guess it was sort of entertaining. I enjoyed the gunfight in the end, but the whole thing just seemed to be glaze. I would read another book by Louis L'Amour if there wasn't anything else to read or if I was bored, but this wasn't one of my favorites...

komet2020's review against another edition

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3.0

Here's a tight, well-written story of a man (Major James Brionne, formerly of the U.S. Army) whose home in Virginia was torched and his wife killed by a gang set on destroying him because of his previous work which led to the arrest, trial, conviction, and hanging of the murderer Dave Allard.

The time is the early 1870s. Brionne with his son Mat (who had barely managed to escape the clutches of the Allard Gang in Virginia) make their way out west to Utah Territory to eke out a new life there in the desert landscape. There they are tracked down by the Allards and the outcome is not without its thrills and chills.

raehink's review

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3.0

Major James Brionne's wife is killed and his house burned down in an Old West home invasion. His boy Mat, who has seen the perpetrators, survives. Four years later, Brionne and the boy have gone west for a new start. But the Allards, who burned him out, would still like to finish him off...and they are on his trail. The bulk of this book takes place in the Uintah mountains.

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