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The Ferguson Rifle: A Novel

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The Ferguson Rifle is a really good book..It tells of the life and hardships the frontiersmen faced out on the lawless great plains.The main character,whose family was killed in a fire and is now leaving home, and a few trappers head west for the beaver rich mountains.They wind up on a wild goose chase when a woman they are protecting is being followed by a crazed man.

The Ferguson Rifle is about a young man who found himself in the wild west with nothing else to depend on but his gun. He had been given the rifle by it's maker and the interesting thing is that the rifle was ahead of it's time. Because of this, it got him out of many close calls. Since the main character was called "scholar" by his friends, it is easy to see that he was out of place in the wild west. But, with the help of his weapon, he managed to survive the onslaught of many outlaws, save the girl, and find the gold. The gold was not his, but he ended the story happy because of chivalry.

The Ferguson Rifle is a decent book, as most of L'Amour's were. He kept them clean, with no sex, little swearing, and no graphic violence. He was also a pretty good writer. His only problem was that he had a deadline for three books a year, and this is another example of what happens when you write so fast. There is no emotional involvement with the character. Like the first reviewer said, there's no time to get to know anyone. But with L'AMour I guess that didn't matter, since most of his major characters were pretty much the same person with a different name. I've heard arguments to the contrary, but those readers obviously didn't pay much attention to what they read. 6 foot 4, black hair, broad shoulders, lean hips, fast on the draw, toughest fistfighter in the territory: sound familiar? It should. That was 85 percent of L'Amour's books. Now, if you want the good parts of L'AMour with a lot more emotion and character development, there's an author by the name of Kirby Jonas that critics are calling the New Louis L'Amour. When you read his books, you will quickly see why. Try him out. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. Keep Louis, too. He's good, just not great.

This was an enternaining story but it will never be a classic. The character's are strong, but like most L'amour books, theres not enough time to really get a feel for them. It moves along to fast.