Riding With Hannah and the Horseman [Hardcover]

Johnny D. Boggs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998

This is the third installment in the Hannah and the Horseman Western Series. Hannah and the Horseman and The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman are also available from AVALON.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Stock western bravado and blood mark the third installment of Boggs's fanciful Hannah and the Horseman series (after The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman). Long on horseflesh and action, short on depth and credibility, Boggs's series may look to old dime novels for its supporting characters, but its eponymous leads are less traditional: Hannah Scott, a pretty ranch owner who also runs a small orphanage for cherubic frontier waifs, and her fianc?, Pete Belissari, a college-educated, Greek cowboy who drinks ouzo around the campfire, dislikes anybody who wears Levi jeans and gets seasick riding on a stagecoach. In their third outing, these two team up with Buddy Pecos, a crusty, one-eyed sharpshooter, in a partnership to operate a stagecoach line in west Texas in the 1880s. Pete, Hannah and Pecos are nice, honest folks who seem savvy enough but are no match for gamblers, swindlers and other trail thugs who cheat them all too easily. Their plan is shot full of holes, literally and figuratively, when a rival stagecoach outfit, led by a sultry lady gambler known as the Black Widow, sets up in competition. A 20-hour cross-country stagecoach race will decide who stays in business, but the desert route is filled with two-legged varmints. Barroom brawls, ambushes, horse-stealing, arson, flinty-eyed stares and tough talk from the bad guys are standard western fare, but the spectacular stagecoach race notches up the blood pressure and saves this otherwise predictable hayburner.
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Review

"Boggs knows the Old West, and it horses and guns, and his characters are invested with considerable originality....I think Johnny D. Boggs is well on his way to being a major western writer." -- George Glenn, The Shootist

"Boggs turns in a rib-tickling story filled with traditional western action." -- Roundup

"Hannah and the Horseman is easy to get into and hard to put down" -- Frank Wooten, The Post and Courier

"Johnny D. Boggs is a student of the West, so you can bet he gets his details right, whether it's guns, horsehide, or the lay of the land....In pacing, Boggs is a master. Every page brings surprises, every chapter crackles with action. Whether it's This Man Colter or the Hannah and the Horseman series, Boggs throws a screenplay at us, knowing we'll make the movie in our heads." -- Bruce H. Thorstad, author of Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West and Sharpshooters

"This story is action from the first page to the last. The challenge comes when the reader has to decide which is the best-the action, the characters, or the setting. This combination is so winning that to make a choice is impossible. Just enjoy it all." -- Rendezvous

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 183 pages
• Publisher: Avalon (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803493002
• ISBN-13: 978-0803493001
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,793,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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