Action-packed and well-written Western..
581224
Those who love to read Westerns will simply love this book. It has all the elements of a well-written Western novel: , racy style, lots of action, ideal heroes and heroines that tamed the frontier, despicable villians, and a romance set in the mid 19th Century.

This is the first book of Clay Brentwood I read, and I will definitely read more by this author.
4468991
I enjoyed remanding this well written story and will look forward to the rest of this series.i like reading westerns and this is one of the best
2681472
I liked this book... Good discriptions and fun action... These guys shoot it up, not just talk about it... If you like westerns, You'll enjoy the book.
2664730
I found this novel to be well written, full of the "Wild West", plenty of guns, fights and action aplenty. Even though it was set many years ago it was entertaining and kept up a good pace. The fact that I learnt about the different tribes of native people along the way was an added bonus for which I was grateful.  I am sure that any other offering from this author would get my attention.
1177436
Do you like westerns? You'll enjoy this book. It's full of everything you want: Rustlers, saloon fights, lots of shooting, a pretty girl, no kissin', Apaches, gun fights, horses, the marshall, six-guns and Winchesters. The plot isn't heavy, but that's not what westerns are. They're ideal for escaping from the day, taking on vacation and imagining life in a simpler world where there were good guys and bad guys.

The story is about two cowboy drifters who help a small western town clean out the bad guys and restore order to the local society. This story has a number of side plots and personalities to keep the story moving at a good pace. I found the book a pleasant escape, although I have trouble with words such as 'hombre' and phrases such as 'plumb loco', but those are part of westerns. It was a fun read.
1089159
May be an equal to Jess Williams, maybe.  Any Bounty Hunter that brings them in over the saddle has to be a Good Guy.  Traditional Westerns are enjoyable reading, and this short story with plenty of action is a good read, and didn't put it down until the end.
1178203
I found this story to be exciting and fast moving.  It was well written and brought out a wide range of excitement for each of the characters involved.  I would highly recommend this book to others enjoying a good western story.
4513721
This is a good western with a great cast and a lot of action!

This is a good western. It features a good cast of characters and it is a great storyline. A group of men transfer a wanted and dangerous criminal to a town to catch the train to Yuma. Meanwhile his gang has gathered to find out where their leader is and help him to escape.

The cinematography is spectacular.  The storyline is well written and the cast does a good job of bringing the story to life. I purchased the BluRay version of the film as it was on sale for a very good price. I then added a HDX digital copy to stream to my tablets and also to my digital high resolution projector.

This is a good movie and if you like westerns then you will like this one.

We enjoyed this film and it is a western that I was glad to be added to our film collection.
2775779
The Western is a genre you have to handle with care. It's easy to fall into historical masturbation and put your readers to sleep with stories that sound "real" more than they sound "good". Fortunately, Edward A. Grainger does the job properly with the stories of his two men of justice, Laramie and Miles. Well engineered in its presentation also, Grainger's eBook offer seven short, action packed stories of a wild time in American history. The seven stories offer a portrait intimate enough to drag you in, yet Grainger knows when to pull out and end his tales before it drags on. You can count The Adventures Of Cash Laramie And Gideon Miles as one of the highway robberies you can get at the Kindle Store, for ninety-nine cents.

The story who seemed to captivate every reader (and sure as hell captivated me) is Kid Eddie, where Cash Laramie has to escort a young, charming and extremely dangerous prisoner to justice. Eddie's a fine talker and he finds a way to make sense out of the worse atrocities he committed. You want to believe Eddie. Cash Laramie himself can't help but smile and his hackneyed, yet plausible explanations. It COULD always make sense. There are universal undertones to this story. Eddie's a violent criminal and yet he's just another soul aiming to create a legacy for himself in the land of a million opportunities. But unlike Laramie, his sense of right and wrong doesn't go farther than what's right and wrong for him. Kid Eddie is a son of his time as Cash Laramie seems to have lived many lives prior to the one of a marshal.

There isn't a single story I disliked in The Adventures Of Cash Laramie And Gideon Miles. Some were stronger than the others though. Miles To Go and Melanie are both memorable stories. Melanie in particular will stay in the back of your mind, since it's addressing issues of childhood, faith and innocence. It's difficult to make good crime/noir/western stories involving children without making them an obvious plot device and yet Grainger makes it work beautifully. Other stories like The Wind Scorpion  and The Bone Orchard Mystery had amazing plots, but in these case they would have benefited longer stories. The sense of time passing is a little crunched. There is a lot happening in a little time and stretching it over more pages and not delivering everything right away would have transformed them in stories probably better than Kid Eddie even. They are both good premises for novella or even novels.

The success of Edward A. Grainger's short story collection relies on the fact it walks a fine line in between many genres and manages to keep its balance. It's a Western, yet it has noir/hardboiled elements and it treats of some issues the way literary novels do. The Adventures Of Cash Laramie And Gideon Miles is the fruit of the imagination of a man who loves the far-west and gives it every bit of seriousness and attention it deserves. Grainger dissects this cornerstone era of American history with passion and a strong personal style. I would have paid fifteen dollars for a paperback and would have been very happy with my purchase, so at ninety-nine cents, this is a surefire bet. Hopefully there will be sequels to the adventures of Laramie and Miles, in paperback, eBook, short stories or in a novel. I don't care the format, but I want to read some more.

(Taken from my personal blog: [...])
79578
After finishing "Return turn of the Laramie Kid" all can say is where is the sequel?  This is one of the best written western I've read in years.  The story has it all authentic gun fights, romantics that try to pull the tears, action that keeps you reading more and a story line that is always a step ahead of the reader. Once you think you have figured the story out the author throws in a "wow I didn't see that coming".  Once you get this book be ready to read it in its entirety once you start! You won't be able to put it down.
2832872
You ever watch an action adventure movie where things just keep coming at you -- car chases, explosions, daring escapes, near misses -- and you spend the whole moving on the edge of your seat, afraid to go to the restroom even though you badly need to pee (partly because the movie has your adrenaline pumping, partly because of that zillion-ounce soda you guzzled) because you don't want to miss anything? This book was like that, except I could put it down for potty breaks.

Set in and around Kansas in 1870, the story focuses on Cat O'Banyon, a legendary female bounty hunter who travels the west bringing outlaws to justice and seeking the villain who killed her husband. Cat learned most of what she knows about disguise from Alexi Romanov, an itinerant confidence man and playboy who was her lover in the dark days after her husband's murder. Alexi saved her sanity, but when she was strong enough, she left him because 1) he's a manwhore, and 2) she's a woman on a mission.

Cat's and Alexi's paths cross again when someone puts a bounty on Cat's head, and suddenly instead of hunting outlaws, Cat's on the run because every outlaw on the frontier is suddenly hunting her. This book is jam-packed with action--shoot-outs, narrow escapes, near-death experiences--and interspersed with flashbacks to the formative events that shaped both Cat's and Alexi's characters. (For Cat, this is her husband's murder, for Alexi, it is his time as a sniper in the Union Army and subsequent torment as a prisoner of war held in the Confederacy's most notorious prison.)

The romance element in this story is honestly a bit thin (I had a hard time believing Alexi reformed his manwhoring ways, or that Cat really cares that much if he does), but the plot is so exciting, who cares?
414447
Bradshaw never misses on any story he tells...he scores with this one, too.  If you like a good western...this one is for you.  It well written,  well paced and with developed characters...most of his books are about continuing adventures of a family of established characters from other novels. It is not a quick  draw...gunslinger quick slick narrative. It is about using your brains more than brawn. The excerpt blurb in the description of this book is what it is about...a good read and well worth your time. Please remember, Shad is an old mountain man and his language and descriptions are in that mode. Enjoy.
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Joseph A. West has written a great western: spartan, violent, unrelenting, The Convict Trail rises above expectations and underscores why tales of the Old West still stand the test of time.  Yes, all the elements are there--and for good reason.  Many men of the west had lived through things most could never imagine today; many, like Logan Kane, were haunted by tragedies and failures.  Some, like Kane, possessed the iron to live by a strict code of savagery and honor, a strange dichotomy known among men who have been through the fires of combat.  Kane feels honest and real--not as much a hero of legend than a skilled, stubborn gunman with no bend in him--a man who knows who he is and is trying to change.  He's a compelling figure written by a man who knows his subject.  The focused, concise prose and lean plotting, the rich secondary characters and the black humor throughout the book make this a thrilling read that deserves a broader audience.  Unlike so many westerns, Kane is challenged and tested to the bone.  He earns our respect.

So does author, Joseph A. West.

I will be buying more of his novels.
2224056
Definitely an old fashioned Western, but with an other worldly feel to it.  Set in a dying town in far southwest New Mexico, before it became a ghost town,  a couple of tough good guys tangle with a bunch of evil tough guys.  Very well planned and written.  The story, action and word flow keep you turning the pages. I really enjoyed reading this story.
2252955
Heads up on this western story.  Yup, it's got train robbers, ruffians, bad beer, and a wise-arse horse.  It also deals with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.  This novel is a definite comedy and a really fun read.  As I got into this story, I started visualizing it as an entertaining movie.  At first I felt this may be similar to the Indiana Jones stories.  But here, the hero-to-be is Ace Lone Wolf, a half-Apache gunslinger who is always surrounded with trouble.  When he's just about to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, a beautiful English noblewoman, Victoria, comes to his rescue.  Her massive manservant breaks Ace out of jail ... literally!  Ace owes her, so he leads them on a search for Victoria's father who disappeared on his archaeology search for the lost Temple of Totec.  Definitely, this is a very entertaining story, which won't end here.  Want a laugh?  Read it.
2696135
Having read and enjoyed the first three books in the HENRY FAMILY CHRONICLES, I eagerly anticipated reading the fourth book. I just finished reading GIDEON'S REDEMPTION and I definitely was not disappointed!! It was difficult to put the book down. I would finish one chapter and tell myself just one more chapter, and then another and another...  It is full of adventure, action, suspense, twists, and turns. It is a great western book. I hope there will be a book five. I am looking forward to more books by Mark Herbkersman.
505944
Great western, full of suspense, action, and good love story. .