The Snowy Range Gang [Mass Market Paperback]

Mike Blakely (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 1996

Claude Duval thought he was through with rustlers and killers when he left Texas for Wyoming. But the retired livestock detective soon finds ranch hands turning up dead and cattle missing. It looks like the work of Lone Wolf Wolverton, who murdered Duval's partner years ago.

But Lone Wolf, who's done his time and gone straight, rides to Duval's ranch looking for a chance to prove he's being framed. Out of leads, the lawman reluctantly accepts help from the man he's sworn to kill, and the unlikely pair teams up to track down the real rustlers and killers, the Snowy Range Gang.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

At the beginning of this slow-moving western, Texas range-regulator Claude Duval is planning to retire from tracking rustlers and settle in Wyoming. Then former client Bob Steck asks for help recovering 100 headstet sing/eed of Brahma bulls just stolen; Bob believes the bulls are being moved toward Wyoming by Lone Wolf Wolverton, an old foe of Claude's. Claude and Bob are joined by rancher Ike Lafferty, who is furious when his few, recently acquired Brahmas are stolen, too. Beautiful Correen Galloway, newly widowed by the rustlers, next joins the motley posse and is soon followed by Wolverton himself, innocent and eager to clear his born-again name. But the bad guys, the Snowy Range Gang, get the drop on the white hats, leaving Claude and his cohorts marooned horseless in the mountains. Blakely ( The Baron of the Sacramentos ) gets them out of their mess with little aplomb to conclude this dull tale, marked by sentimentality, cliche and made-for-TV plot devices.
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Review

"Blakely writes with a beauty that rivals the Big Bend country."--Terry C. Johnston

"A fine spinner of tales, Mike Blakely is poet and musician at heart."--Elmer Kelton

"A gifted storyteller...a remarkable eye and feel for physical action."--Texas Books in Review

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books (May 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812563573
• ISBN-13: 978-0812563573
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #982,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Snowy Range Gang, June 11, 2007

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Ruth L. Knapp (Azle, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Snowy Range Gang (Mass Market Paperback)

Saw this author at a music event. His music is wonderful. His writing is even better than wonderful. He has exceptional insight. This was the first of his work I had the pleasure of reading. Since finishing it I have bought Moon Medicine and Come Sundown. Keep writing MB!

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and True Western, May 4, 2011

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Hurt (Chattanooga, TN.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Snowy Range Gang (Mass Market Paperback)

This is Mike Blakely simple and true. Not a hard to follow piece of work but satisfying nonetheless in its straightforward reading. It is a story that tells about the price of redemption and how a man set on avenging a murder realizes that killing the man who murdered his friend may not bring the justice he had been persuing. It all comes together in the end and I think you'll be glad you read this great story. After all, aren't we looking to be entertained by great stories? Give it a whirland look no further.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great example of life on the western range., October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Snowy Range Gang (Mass Market Paperback)

The reason I liked this book is because I'm very interested in western folklore. The book has great examples of western life. For example, it showed how the cowboys found cattle rustlers and put them in jail for theft.I think that this would be great for kids who enjoy western folklore.