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5.0 out of 5 stars
I HAVE YET TO FIND ANY OF POTTER'S BOOKS BORING, December 9, 2006
This review is from: The Scotsman Wore Spurs (Paperback)
MAYBE A LITTLE SLOW but then I am impatient.
Woman disguiesed as a boy on a cattle drive? A little bit of a reminder of a wonderful Zane Grey story.
#3 of a great trilogy. Andrew Cameron, Earl of Kinlock, if not by blood, come to America along with his half-sister Lisbeth Masters and her husband, the ex-Marshal from the previous story.
Drew wanted adventure and experience, so he left Colorado and went to Texas where he accidentally heard a plot being devised to ambush a man named Kirby Kingsley. He was kicking himself for getting involved but trouble always seems to introduced itself to him.
He apparently took a bullet and spent the next two months recuperating on Kingsley's ranch. These two men who were so similar in temperment, not being able to express emotions, got on well with each other and Drew decided to ride on the cattle drive.
So 23 year old Gabe Lewis rides up to Kingsley on a disreputable horse named Billy to apply for a job. He is determined to bring justice for his father who had just been murdered. Gabe is sure that Kingsley is the man who had Jim murdered.
Gabe fast talks them into giving he a job as a louse. Pepper is quarallous and hard to please but finally teaches Gabe a bit about cooking, making coffee and Gabe learns about collecting cow pies and driving the hoodlum wagon carrying all the men's earthly goods.
Trouble starts hormonely when she gets swept off in a river crossing, not knowing how to swim, and lying about it [excellent explaination] and Drew finds out Gabe is female. Oh, he hates lies, but it doesn't stop him from putting the moves on her. And she, like an idiot falls for her hormones urgings.
Gabe does make a believer out of Pepper. Then she goes riding after acquiring a stray dog from the murdered supply station and the dog, Honor ends up leading her to a dead Indian woman with a couple of months old baby, who is in need of rescue. Ha'penny becomes Gabes next orphan along with the calf, Sammy and Honor and Billy.
A second attempt is made on Kingsley's life - his nephew Damian is upset and jellous of Kirby's friendship with Drew. Drew finally wonders if Kirby's brother, Jon is in danger after Gabe finally tells them that she has seen the man who killed her father.
The blow-out ending brings together Drew's brother-in-law, Ben Masters and Kane with Gabe leaving Ha'penny and Honor with Lisbeth at their Colorado home.
An Excellent story plot - great characters - a bit of a mystery - but it seems that the authors are a bit loose in their interpretation of the womens morals of that day and age. Another strange piece is Drew starting out as 35 then being made 33.
DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED --M - a trio keeper -
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4.0 out of 5 stars
okay, July 24, 1999
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This review is from: The Scotsman Wore Spurs (Paperback)
Drew was a good stoic, I suppose and Gabrielle was charming. The plot was a little shoddy, as no woman in her right mind would even think of disguising herself and going for months with a bunch of men. She seems more like the "bad" kind of woman whom "good" ladies try to make their men forget. She perpetually lies, and I still don't see how his family could welcome her, even though, I guess, they didn't know of her many lies. But Pepper, the cook, was interesting. All right. i don't mean to burst anyone's bubbles- this was a good story of a desperate woman and a man who tried so hard not to care about others- and fails miserably every time.
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