Hawaiian Paniolo: A Cowboy in the Islands [Paperback]

Joe Race (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 22, 2008

A LONG AND WINDING TRAIL TO PARADISE:

After too many bloody battles, Civil War veteran Roy Stearns rode west searching for a new life in ranching or farming, or trying to seek his fortune in the goldfields. Enroute, he takes a temporary job with the Roswell marshal in capturing and killing murderous, raping desperadoes on the border of Old Mexico.

He finds several romances along the western trail, and especially in Los Angeles, California where he frees up Chinese sex slave, Han Bo. Roy is as tough as nails, and has to fight off determined members of the Chinese Tong, who are trying to return her to the slave dungeon. After eliminating the killers, Roy finds her a safe home with big-hearted Madam Jillian. On an evening sojourn, he is shanghaied in San Francisco and hauled off on a torturous voyage to China with a crazed, cruel captain. On the return voyage, he and several friends jump ship and end up working on the Parker Ranch on the big island of Hawaii as novice paniolos, Hawaiian cowboys.

When things heat up along the trails, fearless Roy is the man that puts out the fire. The adventure is as big as the Pacific Ocean with tons of exciting characters, beautiful maidens, island music and flowers, and bucking broncos.

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About the Author

Joe Race is a retired police officer/deputy sheriff with 45 years of law enforcement service. He now writes fulltime and teaches law enforcement classes at the nearby Saipan community college. His heroes have always been cowboys: some real like Bat Masterson, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, and Wyatt Earp; some Hollywood versions of brave, stalwart men like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Lash LaRue, John Wayne, and Eddy Dean. He loved Dale Evans and the other cowgirls, and all the four-legged friends like Bullet, Champion and Trigger. After twelve years in Micronesia, Joe is almost an islander and an official beachologist. During his trip to the big island of Hawaii, Joe was fascinated by the early days of the Parker Ranch and learning about the island cowboys, the paniolos. They were real and still are. This book is about them. Aloha and mahalo! This is his fourth novel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (May 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1425156061
• ISBN-13: 978-1425156060
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,581,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Home Run, September 3, 2008

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J. Bowe (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawaiian Paniolo: A Cowboy in the Islands (Paperback)

Joe Race has done it again! Each book gets better and better. If you love Joe's previous works, you'll love this fantastic tall tale even more. Choc-a-bloc with swagger, fun, and old-school he-man antics, Hawaiian Paniolo is a great way to escape a rainy or snowy winter day if you can't afford the plane ticket to Hawaii.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS, August 22, 2009

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salvacion mendiola ""Island Girl"" (Tinian, CNMI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hawaiian Paniolo: A Cowboy in the Islands (Paperback)

Our hero Roy Stearns rides west after the Civil War and has run-ins with outlaws, and cases of low-life pimps who are holding Chinese slave girls, used as prostitutes in Los Angeles. The adventure and excitement never ends - Roy get hauled off to Shanghai but escapes and establishes a good cowboy life at the famed Parker Ranch on the Big Island of Hawaii. Of course, along the way, there's plenty of romance and white hats vs. black hat bad guys. The author did a lot of historical research on this book and his writing is superb. I enjoyed his characterizations and how he solves evil problems in a cut-and-dry manner - simplistic but effective. I will look for more plots and excitement in his other books... and more hot romances. Bravo!

4.0 out of 5 stars Joe Race does it Again!, November 22, 2009

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John L. Eisler "Mystery Writer" (Kingston, Idaho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawaiian Paniolo: A Cowboy in the Islands (Paperback)

Joe has taken the reader from the American Civil War to a modern cattle ranch in Hawaii. The struggle and hardships are felt by the reader as the lead character moves west through war-torn states and territories. His abduction onto what amounts to a slave ship and his final arrival in Hawaii exploits well-founder knowledge of the era as Joe writes. There is no doubt that joe Race has felt the dust of cattle and the sweet aroma of the islands as you read this book. i am anxius to read his Shrimp cookbook. Id joe cooks as well as he writes, my salivary glands are dancing. John Eisler, Author, THE TANNING BED MURDERS.