Staghorn (Gunsmoke Westerns) [Hardcover]

Tim Champlin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Gunsmoke Westerns | Publication Date: June 1998

Matt Tierney finds plenty of adventure when he rides the riverboats from New Orleans to the Dakotas. And he finds plenty of danger between the high-and-mighty princ e, the gambler with a gleam in his eye, and the beautiful la dy of the waterways. '

Product Details

• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: Gunsmoke Westerns; Unabridged edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754080196
• ISBN-13: 978-0754080190
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,772,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Workmanlike Western, November 1, 2009

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This review is from: Staghorn (Sagebrush Large Print Western Series) (Hardcover)

Staghorn is one of a six book series Champlin wrote about former Chicago journalist Matt Tierney ,who having gotten his big break on assignment to Gemeral Custer waas forced by circumstance into a life outside the margins of society .The books are best read sequentially but this is not absilutely essential.

Staghorn opens as Tierney and his friend Wiley Jenkins set out on a steamboat trip from New Orleans to the Dakota Territory.It is by no means a routine trip .For one thing there is an outbreak of cholera on board ,resulting in and the vessel being quarantined and for another there is an eminent personage among their fellow passengers -Crown Prince Zarahoff.On the first night out there is an altercation between the Prince and a nototious professional gambler ,Devore .The Prince is saved from a beating by the intervention of Staghorn ,a deepwater sailor looking to return home .From then on ,he and ,Tierney and Jenkins form an alliance which revolves around the Prince who is the victim of several assassination attempts .The main suspects are Devore and his associates,and the Prince's own bodyguards whose loyalty is suspect .Attempted drownings and ambushes follow before a climax which involves an unlikely saviour from the natural world .

The book is briskly paced ,incident full and will give genre lovers a pleasant few hours of enjoyment .but non genre lovers are unlikely to be converted .Enjoyable but not top drawer