The Baron Range (Barons) [Paperback]

Jory Sherman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2007 | Series: Barons

Martin Baron came to Texas with the dream of building a cattle empire. But such a task is never easy. Vicious floods and Apache attacks constantly threaten the life and livelihood of his family and ranch hands. Determined to make a place for himself and see his dream through, Martin Baron must defend his land at all costs, and will soon realize that any great dream comes with great sacrifice.  

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A complex tale of murder, revenge and retribution set in the Rio Grande Valley, this third novel in Spur winner Sherman's Grass Kingdom trilogy (after The Barons of Texas) continues to chronicle the Baron family's settlement of the Texas frontier in the early 1800s. Tough pioneer Martin Baron owns the Box B Ranch, one million acres of cattle country beset by internal and external threats. Baron's son, Anson, not yet a man but feeling like one, resents his father's brusque treatment, and the father-son rivalry is hot and tense. Meanwhile, Caroline, Martin's long-suffering wife, hides a terrible secret that will eventually shatter her family and drive her husband away, causing him to make a terrible mistake?mistreating his most loyal friend. With Martin gone, Anson must take over the ranch, fighting horse thieves, bandits, Apaches and the other trail dangers of his first cattle drive. Anson's most deadly challenge, however, comes from a crazed Mexican whose warped sense of revenge drives him to scheme with an Apache war chief to overrun the Box B Ranch, kill all the gringos and add the Baron range to his own blood-stained property. With the right amounts of color, action and suspense, Sherman certainly knows how to make a western gallop, but his real skill is in his gifted creation of gritty characters who must pay the price of greed and ambition. Editor, Bob Gleason; agent, Nat Sobel.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

The third volume in Spur Award winner Sherman's Grass Kingdom trilogy opens with a violent storm the reader can almost see and hear and a cattle stampede that seems to shake the ground beneath his or her chair. The multiple stories within stories develop a wealth of themes and emotions: there is the burning ambition of those working to become cattle barons, including the men of the Baron family, Martin the father and Anson the son; there is the interfamily warfare among the Aguilars; there is the parallel adventure of Apache chief Cuchillo and his raiders; there is Mickey Bone's search for his roots. There is betrayal, real and imagined, between both men and women. There is revenge. And there is reconciliation . . . of sorts. It all happens during Anson Baron's and Roy Killiant's separate journeys into manhood. Outstanding western fiction from an ex-cowboy author who knows the territory. Budd Arthur --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (October 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076535943X
• ISBN-13: 978-0765359438
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,213,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

You can find my biography on www.jorysherman.com.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars BIG NOVEL IN A SERIES OF BIG NOVELS, June 14, 2008

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Kay's Husband (Virginia, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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I've collected books by Jory Sherman for years but did not pay much attention to the series of books on the Barons until recently. What a pleasant surprise in reading. As far as I can tell there are at least six books in this series: Grass Kingdom, Baron War, Baron Honor, Baron's of Texas, The Baron Brand, and this one, The Baron Range. Quite a collection of books as well as characters, too.

The Baron Range is a sprawling book of events and peoples with Martin Baron, wife Caroline, son Anson, and Juanito Salazar as the center of all activity. As Mickey Bone relates to the Lipan Apaches: ... I am not a Mexican, I am not a white man,..." and in this same vein the book deals with all peoples: Mexican, Texican, white, Apache, and in Salazar's case a man from Argentina. All these people are caught up in both Texan and frontier love, lore, and war. I use the word 'sprawling' because this book seems somehow a book in a series of books that could have been written and projected as a mini series for TV. The Baron family is embroiled in much internal strife with wife and husband arguing, son Anson in contention with his father. The family eventually ruptures with great price to be paid in both love and friendship.

As most readers will find, this book holds the reader attention well causing one to want to continue turning pages. The writing is very smooth with generally small chapters. Both the events and the characters cause the reader to want to know more about them and their eventual outcomes. Not so much a 'western' as a novel of a large ranch and the various peoples drawn onto the million acre Baron range.

Semper Fi.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Baron Range, May 11, 2008

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Toni N. Traylor "book nut" (Mississippi) - See all my reviews
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I liked it. The story shows you what the early settlers in Texas had to face every day.