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THE COASTAL PRESS Like many women I can't say I've read too many westerns., so I faced this volume with a little trepidation. I recall doing Shane at school and that's about it. Fourteen new tales of the Old West. Doubtless full of gunfights, incomprehensible jargon, men doing what they gotta do, and hardly a woman in sight unless she's there to cook and wash dishes. I was wrong. Times have changed, it seems. In fact two of the stories are by women ... Read the rest of this review at The Coastal Press
PULP FICTION REVIEWS What with having recently read and reviewed the collected short western stories of Elmore Leonard, it seems I’ve suddenly found myself caught up in this uniquely American pulp sub-genre. Happily so, I might add. This particular volume is made up of writers, most of them British, who write western novels for the Robert Hale publishing outfit across the pond Oh, there are a few American scribes among this talented bunch, but oddly enough only one of them actually lives out west, while two of the four reside in the woods of Maine. Go figure. It seems you really don’t have to live out west to write about it. WHERE LEGENDS RIDE contains some truly memorable and well told stories that I enjoyed a great deal ... Read the rest
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