Coyote Trail (Leisure Historical Fiction) [Mass Market Paperback]

John D. Nesbitt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000 | Series: Leisure Historical Fiction

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Travis Quinn didn't have much luck picking his friends. He was fired from the last ranch he worked on when a friend of his got blacklisted for going behind the owner's back. Guilt by association sent Quinn looking for another job, too.

He made his way down the Powder River country until he ran into Miles Newman, who put in a good word for him and got him a job at the Lockhart Ranch. But Quinn didn't know too much about Newman, and the more he learned, the less he liked. Pretty soon it started to look like Quinn had picked the wrong friend again. And if the rumors about Newman were true, this friend just might get him killed.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843946717
• ISBN-13: 978-0843946710
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,133,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John D. Nesbitt lives in the plains country of Wyoming, where he teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College. He has had six short story collections, three contemporary western novels, and twenty traditional western novels published in various hardbound, large print, audio, and mass-market paperback editions. He has also written textbooks and course manuals for his courses as well as a Boise State Western Writers Series booklet on Robert Roripaugh. Nesbitt has won many prizes and awards for his work, including two awards from the Wyoming State Historical Society (for fiction), two awards from Wyoming Writers for encouragement of other writers and service to the organization, two Wyoming Arts Council literary fellowships (one for fiction, one for non- fiction), a Western Writers of America Spur finalist award for mass-market paperback original novel for Raven Springs) and a Spur award for Trouble at the Redstone.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I haven't enjoyed a Western novel this much since..., July 3, 2000

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This review is from: Coyote Trail (Leisure Historical Fiction) (Mass Market Paperback)

...I finally read all of Louis L'Amour's books and short stories. The other writers I've tried have left me cold, but Nesbitt has the touch.

There is one flaw in the verisimilitude in "Coyote Trail," I think, and that is having Quinn feel bad about Newman not thanking him outright. That's a modern touchy-feely sensibility that the real cowboys of the period weren't necessarily burdened with.