Archive for the ‘Forgotten Books’ Category
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Gunslinger by Ed Gorman
If you haven’t yet discovered or taken part in Patti Abbot’s series of Friday’s Forgotten Books, it’s a regular roundup of some of the best reader-bloggers (blogger-readers?) and their selections of literary and genre gems that have slipped through the cracks of time. This week, Patti suggested forgotten anthologies, and my offering is a collection [...]
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Forgotten Book: A Rider of the High Mesa by Ernest Haycox
Lin Ballou rides the mesa above the Snake River Range alone and frequently visits the drought afflicted community of Powder. When cattle start to disappear from the range, town folk start pointing their fingers at Ballou. For no discernable reason other than a sidewalk snub from W. W. Offut (Heart and Soul of the Cattleman’s [...]
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Forgotten Book: Blizzard 1949 by Roy V. Alleman
Caught in central Nebraska during the winter of 1948 and ’49, Roy V. Alleman jotted notes and collected stories from family and neighbors fighting against the unceasing wind, snow and cold. Even today, the numbers Alleman wrote down are staggering: 76 people dead from storm related accidents and freezing. More than 119,000 cattle and 134,000 [...]