The Last Ride [Unabridged] [Hardcover]

Glen 'Pee Wee' Mercer (Author), Patrick D. Smith (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sea Bird Publishing; 1 edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886916071
• ISBN-13: 978-1886916074
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,162,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #49 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Rodeos

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an amazing book, May 8, 2001

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Leslie (Mims, FL USa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Ride (Hardcover)

I loved this book. It was one of the only books I have read with such a real life country setting. Not only was this guy a wonderful bullrider but was and is a good person at heart. Being raised around cattle and horses made for a great start for a bullrider. I think this book is very enlightening to the life of a bullrider and how hard they work to become what they are. It takes a very special person to climb on the back of a bull, and try to hang on for 8 seconds. They are faced with life and death everytime they nodd there head and come out of those chutes.

I couldn't put this book down. I would recommend this to anyone. Please take the time to read this book and you will soon appreciate the courage these guys have in taking on a bull.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Ride, December 31, 2000

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Rowland Cortese (Dunnellon, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Ride (Hardcover)

I met Pee Wee Mercer when I was a senior in high school and we became very good friends and we traveled the high school rodeo circuit in 1985.Only living 10 miles from each other,we did alot of things that year.I went on and served my country, while my partner cont. with the rodeo circuit.This book was such an excellent story of a great bullrider and a wonderful person.Rodeo is a tough life and there's many bruises and broken bones along the way and when you start reading it, you discover what it takes to be a professional bullrider.I went to the hospital just after the accident and as I looked at my little buddy, I just couldn't imagen what the future held for him,but I can say that he's taken something awfully and has done what few people could even dream about . Pee Thanks for all the memories and the stories, will be looking forward to another book soon. Your friend Rowland Cortese

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I wore my pants out, December 28, 2000

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Bud Tyler (Springfield, Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Ride (Hardcover)

PeeWee Mercer took me on a wild ride in his "Last Ride." He had me on so many bulls he wore my pants out. If you ever dreamed about what it is like to be a professional bullrider, Pee Wee tells it like it is, with all the glamour and romance washed out. You will ride around the circuit racing from city to city for the opportunity to get up on that next bull. The pay stinks, and there is a lot of pain, but for Pee Wee it is the life to which he was born. Pee Wee's last ride is the hook that pulls you into his story. Can you imagine the world in which he found himself after breaking is spinal cord that fateful evening in 1995 when he rode his last bull? His life today is the "hardest" bull he has ever had to ride, yet he continues on with guts and a faith that is an inspiration to all.