THE PISTOLEER [Paperback]

James Carlos Blake (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: NY Berkeley Books; 1st ed edition (1985)
• ASIN: B001M22RV0
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tin Horn Mike, March 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Pistoleer (Mass Market Paperback)

This was some book ! Absolutely outstanding in every respect - as a story, in its style, very exciting, excellent dialect, really funny in spots, ..... Chapter by chapter I went from hating the arrogant ... (John Wesley Hardin), to wanting to be a Hardin. If he really was as portrayed in this book (which I doubt), he was mostly the kind of person I respect - leave him alone and he'll buy you drinks all night long and otherwise give you the shirt off his back. Meddle in his business, get in his face, or harm his family and he'll whip you or kill you. Now don't get me wrong. Any reader would try to see where they fit in, in that day and time and I am pretty much left with the sad conclusion that I would have probably been a sorry, boot-licking peddler of some kind . . . . not a Hardin.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What Makes the American West Like Nothing Else, April 17, 2001

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M. Meszaros "acadia2431" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pistoleer (Hardcover)

There was nothing like the American West in the history of the world and figures like Hardin exemplify it; deadly, brave, sad and foolish all at once. His death seemed a relief because by 1895 there was no place left for the bravado of a gunslinger who would draw over an insult.

I found the writing format, the telling through other's eyes, less engaging and certainly less tasty than Blake's current style.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best western book ever!, June 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Pistoleer (Hardcover)

Was easy reading, fast paced, started on a high and finished on a high. This was as true a story on the life and times of one of the deadliest men ever to live as you can find. I have read the few books there are on Hardin and this is in line with all of them, except for one fact. This book is much better reading!