Trail to Vicksburg: A Western Duo
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TWO BY A MASTER Lewis B. Patten is truly a master of Western fiction. He received three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and was awarded the Golden Saddleman Award for lifetime... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0843947004
ISBN13:9780843947007
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:Leisure Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
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Pulp fiction---pure entertainment.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book contains two novellas. The first one is a reprint from a 1953 Western pulp magazine. They used to cost a quarter, so for thirty cents you could read a novella and several short stories about the old West and still have enough money left over for a large root beer. It made for a great summer day. The first story, "The Golden Magnet," is wall-to-wall action. The ending is quite rushed, as though Patten had to reach a certain word count and not exceed it. Regardless, it's fun. The second story is much better. It's a Civil War tale that was originally rejected because of the Civil War theme, then found years later among Patten's papers. Today, of course, Westerns are a quiet corner of the market and Civil War fiction is on fire. In the 1950s, though, a drug store book rack was usually about 30% Westerns with flashy cover pictures of trail drives and gun battles in the streets. It was great! Reading Patten is like reading L'Amour. Smooth, with lots of action and entertainment and memories of another era. I read many of his novels in the 1970s and it's great to see him back in print.
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