Buckskin Brigades

Surprisingly, this was a banger. Great plot twists and anti colonial messaging for a 1930s novel!👏Missed opportunity to name his pistol the Cult 45 😹......more

This was the abridged audio CD and though the story is great, it felt a bit too short. This was a story where people gave up trying to talk to me as I was in a different space and time. I will definitely read this book again. And now, April 2021, I listened to it again and it seems to get better every......more

Not bad. It's a Western turned on its head. Instead of an Indian cast as the evil figure, Hubbard puts Lewis & Clark in the antagonist's shoes. The flip of history makes the book interesting, and while the plot keeps attention, it's a lot of traveling.......more

Buckskin Brigades Pulp Western where the white fur traders are the bad guys. The book starts out with a random diary entry from the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which expedition was sent by the President to explore the newly purchased Louisiana territories. The author’s implied question of course is how......more

I enjoyed this book a lot. Ever since I read The Way West by Guthrie by taste was whetted for fur trading days stories. This story is of a white man who was raised with the Blackfeet so it very much puts one in the position of their culture and as stated in L Ron Hubbard: A Profile: Writer: Council Me......more