Return to Red River
Autor*in: Boggs, Johnny D.
Jahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 352 S.
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- Inhalt:
- A sequel to the classic western, by a Spur Awardâ€"winning author who “is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West" (The Shootist). Winner of the 2017 Spur Award for Best Paperback Western Red River is one of the greatest westerns ever told, a classic movie starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Now, one of today’s great talents in frontier historical fiction brings the story to a new generation.  Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later, Garth has two strapping sons of his ownâ€"and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns.  While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the driveâ€"and from within his own familyâ€"leaves Garth fighting for his life, close to where his father was buried by the Red River. When he gets back up, he must finish the driveâ€"and fight his worst enemies, and even his blood kin, in this action-packed novel by Johnny D. Boggs, “among the best Western writers at work today" (Booklist).
- Booklist has called Johnny D. Boggs "among the best western writers at work today." He won the prestigious Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2006 for his novel Camp Ford, and in 2002 for his short story "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing." In 2012, West Texas Kill was awarded the Spur Award for Best Original Paperback. His novels Ten and Me and The Hart Brand were Spur finalists in 2000 and 2007, and he won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award in 2004 for his novel Spark on the Prairie. He was also awarded True West Magazine's Best of the West Award "Best Living Fiction Writer," 2008. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Lisa Smith; son, Jack Smith Boggs; and basset hound, June.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Return to Red River
Autor*in: Boggs, Johnny D.
Verlag: Random House Digital Dist
ISBN: 9780786037353
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen, Western
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage