To Tame A Texan (Zebra Historical Romance) [Paperback]

Georgina Gentry (Author)

Book Description

Series: Zebra Historical Romance | Publication Date: May 1, 2003

Suffragette schoolteacher Lynne McBride is thrown together with wild Texas cowboy Ace Durango on a trail drive to Dodge City. Soon, tempers flare--and passion ignites. Original.

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Lynnie McBride, schoolteacher and suffragette, is desperate to get to Dodge City, Kansas, for a big women's rights meeting. Her travel options limited, she dresses as a teenage boy so she can go on a trail drive lead by Texas bad boy, Ace Durango. Ever since Ace's family forced him to take Lynnie to the Governor's Ball, which she turned into a free-for-all demonstration for women's suffrage, he's avoided her like the plague. Lynnie doesn't care too much for Ace, either, but as they work their way through the many dangers of the Chisholm Trail, they develop a grudging respect for each other, which turns into something deeper. Ace's excruciating conversion from a card-carrying chauvinist to a man reluctantly acknowledging female equality is priceless, and a fine cast of secondary characters fills the pages, including Ace's matchmaking family; the men on the cattle drive who accept the courageous, hard-working Lynnie long before Ace does; and a cross-eyed, beribboned calf named Daisy Buttercup. Gentry's classic tale of the unending battle of the sexes is a hoot. Shelley Mosley
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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Zebra; PF edition (May 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821774026
• ISBN-13: 978-0821774021
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #977,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting western romance, May 17, 2003

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This review is from: To Tame A Texan (Zebra Historical Romance) (Paperback)

In 1885 Texas, ranch heir Ace Durango owes his mom for bailing him out of jail. However, he is mortified when his mother makes him pay his debt by insisting he escort prim schoolteacher Lynne McBride to the Governor's Ball. At the gala, he becomes even more embarrassed when Lynne wears a suffrage banner saying "Votes for Texas Women". A fight breaks out and Lynne and Ace end up in jail.

His father blames Ace for leading Lynne to jail and decides his son needs to learn responsibility as only a cattle drive can give him. He demands Ace take cattle on a trail drive to Dodge City, something rarely done anymore. Lynne needs to go to Dodge City to attend a suffrage conference. So she dresses up as a teenage boy and joins the drive. Eventually, Ace and the crew realize that Lynne is not a boy. However, since she has done all they asked of her and more, the crew wants her to finish the drive with them, all that is except Ace. Not long afterward even Ace's secret admiration for Lynne turns into love.

TO TAME A TEXAN is an interesting western romance that uses the women's suffragette movement to propel the plot forward as actions and reactions to the late nineteenth century women's movement seem so vibrant. Fans will also enjoy Lynne's efforts to further the cause, but feel frustrated that an intrepid individual like the heroine fails to accept responsibility for her actions. Though Ace's obstinacy can become irritating, readers will want to come along on one of the better trail runs since Westward Ho the Women.

Harriet Klausner

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I hoped..., April 12, 2004

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Sue (Caldwell, Tx United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Tame A Texan (Zebra Historical Romance) (Paperback)

Being from Texas and raised around cows, horses and, best of all, cowboys, I wanted to like this book. The premise was good, and the book had it's amusing moments, but the two major characters were very unlikable through most of the book and many parts were unbelievable. The book did have it's humorous moments, but the author seemed to strain to create those segments.

The male lead, Ace, was raised by seemingly intelligent parents, yet he seems rather illiterate. Every time Lynnie (the female lead) uses a word that's over a few letters long, Ace is overwhelmed. He's spoiled and rude, he drinks, he visits [prostitutes], it's alluded to by mention of a marked deck that he cheats at cards. My hero? Lynnie was working for women's rights, and most of the time wanted no help from Ace. However, she had these unexplained moments where, when she was disguised as a male, she wondered why no one was offering to help her. She chased him out of his bedroll on a rainy night (what happened to equal rights?) and got snippy with him the next morning when he was cranky from sleeping on the ground.

There were numerous inconsistencies. One page, during a river rescue the reader reads that Ace is swimming with his horse, not on his horse. At least that's how I read it. The next page he confesses to Lynnie that he can't swim. He WAS swimming. Taking calves safely from their Longhorn mamas? I don't think so. When Lynnie was still disguised as a male, she was sleeping close to the men. You can't sleep wearing a cowboy hat. What did she do with all of her bright, red hair? And, on a final picky note, I don't think that they would have castrated the young bulls and then headed right out on a long, difficult cattle drive. I could be wrong on that, but after having seen bulls being castrated all I can say (after I say "Ouch!") is that they are pretty traumatized critters.

I believe this was a Romantic Times Book Club Reviewer's Choice, so I may be alone in my opinion. In one final (and irrelevant) note. I SWEAR the male cover model has a manicure. :-)