Rifleman a Novel

Rating:
Summary: What a great book!
Review: Aside from a few historical flaws, mostly dealing with the costume of the time, this is a truly great book. Anybody who is an American and proud of the men who fought to gain our freedom needs to at least read this book. Anybody who is the least bit interested in American history should keep it on their shelves. It truly is a masterpiece!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: My father gave me a copy of this book in the early 1960s. I believe it is a first edition, copyrighted by John Brick and published by Doubleday in 1953. After almost forty years, I just reread it. Wonderful! Rich in historical detail occurring during and before the American Revolution, it centers on the character and exploits of Tim Murphy, who is a woodsman, trapper, soldier, and sharpshooter. The author presents in fictional form the life of the protagonist, who lived and was something of a legend in his day. The author states that the book is based upon as many notes, letters, and factual accounts of Tim Murphy as he could collect. The plot is well-developed, the characters vividly real. "The Rifleman" will be particularly interesting to anyone who enjoys American history, as well as those who appreciate the workmanship and artistry attendant to the making and shooting of the "long rifles" of the period. The book is as really good, perhaps better (!) than when I read it at about age 16. Snap up a copy! You won't be able to put it down!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: My father gave me a copy of this book in the early 1960s. I believe it is a first edition, copyrighted by John Brick and published by Doubleday in 1953. After almost forty years, I just reread it. Wonderful! Rich in historical detail occurring during and before the American Revolution, it centers on the character and exploits of Tim Murphy, who is a woodsman, trapper, soldier, and sharpshooter. The author presents in fictional form the life of the protagonist, who lived and was something of a legend in his day. The author states that the book is based upon as many notes, letters, and factual accounts of Tim Murphy as he could collect. The plot is well-developed, the characters vividly real. "The Rifleman" will be particularly interesting to anyone who enjoys American history, as well as those who appreciate the workmanship and artistry attendant to the making and shooting of the "long rifles" of the period. The book is as really good, perhaps better (!) than when I read it at about age 16. Snap up a copy! You won't be able to put it down!

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Summary: A great novel of the war of independence
Review: This great novel follows sharpshooter Tim Murphy and his friend Dave Ellerson through the days of the war against the British. Being free men of the wilderness before the war, they have to fight to free themselves from British rule and after that they have to fight to remain free. Their adventures make great reading, but John Brick also takes an intense look at the characters of his protagonists. This makes The Rifleman a book which belongs in everybody's library.