

All the Cowboys Ain't Gone
Author: John J. Jacobson
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/13/2009
Author: John J. Jacobson
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/13/2009
Though John J. Jacobson didn’t join the French Foreign Legion after being jilted by a girlfriend, or over his displeasure of missing the last great cattle drive, he has, borrowing Churchill’s phrase, lived a rather variegated life. He was born in Nevada, grew up in the West, surfed big waves in Hawaii, circled the world thrice, survived the sixties and seventies, corporate America, and grad school. Among other degrees he has an MA in Renaissance literature from Claremont Graduate University.
I was attracted to this book because i loved the idea of the Main Character’s joining the foreign legion. Meh. A predictable adventure without character development. It felt like a middle grades book and would probably be enjoyed by that age group.......more
"The direction of the arrow cannot be changed. It may be slowed, but not changed." All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone by John J. Jacobson is an exuberant good time set at the tail end of the Old West era. Living in Texas during the turn of the twentieth century, young Lincoln Smith longs for those long-gone......more
Want to be taken on a wild adventure? Imagine a cross between James Bond and Macgyver, throw in the Wild West and North Africa, and the result will be this book. "I like gettin' out and see what's stirring with the new day, while it's still fresh and wild, before others get a chance to mar it's newne......more
I didn’t expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Our hero wants to be a cowboy and live in a time when a man’s honor was everything. So what is a romantic young man to do when his heart is broken? Join the French Foreign Legion, of course. Along the way he meets a cavalcade of interesting chara......more