Texas Rifles

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Summary: texas rifles review by zac
Review: i htought this book was pretty good. Though, i thought it could have been alot better. The thing i didnt like about it was that is was to long of a book about nouthing.

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Summary: Only Kelton gets five stars!
Review: I very seldom give out five star ratings, but Elmer Kelton gets them. I love his book, Buffalo Wagons, but if there's one that's nearly as good it's Texas Rifles. He created a superbly heroic character in Sam Cloud, and if anyone thinks the western died with L'Amour, you are WRONG. Between Elmer Kelton and Kirby Jonas, the western is very much alive. I hope everyone gets a chance to read these two authors. If you like Texas Rifles, read Kirby Jonas's The Dansing Star or Death of an Eagle for a super treat. These two are the best!

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Summary: Another Take on "The Searchers"
Review: In the classic film "The Searchers," John Wayne spends years looking for his niece, who was kidnapped by Indians. In Kelton's Texas Rifles, we are presented with two variations on this. The first is a military man who's young daughter was taken by the Comanches and who exacts his revenge as he tries to find her. The second is a woman who was taken as a child and raised by the Comanches and is now being reintroduced to "civilized society." Sam Houston Cloud, the man at the center of the novel, serves under the former and falls in love with the latter. This makes for plenty of dramatic conflict and character development, putting this a notch above the typical action-potboiler. But don't worry, there's plenty of action, too, and the book moves along at a good clip. Things get resolved a little too neatly, but the book was published in 1960, before westerns got literary. All in all, a good read for a summer afternoon.