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To: ifinnegan
Depends on if you like Westerns or Adventure.

And if you like short novels or long ones.

Bendigo Shafter is a personal favorite of mine because the idea of "How does a Town start" is an interesting one for me.

"Comstock Lode" is about a mining town, "Hondo" is your basic Western. "The Ferguson Rifle" is pre civil war.

"Fair Blows the Wind" is set in the 1600s and has much to do with Ireland It starts the saga of the Chantry Family.

"The Walking Drum" is set in the 12 century and is about merchant caravans.

"Reilly's Luck" is a Western but they travel to other parts of the world as well.

"The Iron Marshal" is a fish out of water when a New York city gang member end up in Kansas.

"Sackett's Land" is set in the Elizabethan era and is the start of the saga of his most famous family The Sacketts.

Finally you have "The Last of the Breed" which is set in the 1980s. An American Pilot captured by the Soviets escapes and decides that if his ancestors could cross the Bering straits to reach America he could do the same to get back home.

So, depending on your tastes, you have a great deal to choose from.

28 posted on 11/02/2021 4:33:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The Western genre is a “can’t miss” with me.
I immigrated to the USA in 1970, lived in NM and Texas, and have lived vicariously through the novels of Max Brand, Louis L’Amor, Zane Grey and others. Along with the old movies with the Duke, Jimmy Stewart, Glen Ford, Richard Widmark, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and so many more, it gave me a great appreciation for how this Nation was built on strong leadership and iron fortitude.
Now I am in my 70’s, and I weep for my country, and how it has been debased , especially in the last two decades by spineless cretins.


29 posted on 11/02/2021 4:52:05 PM PDT by madrastex
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