Burnt Creek, Ernest Haycox
Burnt Creek, Ernest Haycox
List: $7.00 | Sale: $4.90
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Burnt Creek
Westerns

Author: Ernest Haycox

Narrator: Michael Scott

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Holdings

Published: 01/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

The double-crosser clipped me and transferred guns! A murdering thief slips into Budd's store looking for food and cash. He doesn't have long; the sheriff's only minutes behind. He's Budd's son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 08, 2024

"Burnt Creek" is a collection of seven western short stories written 1924-1925 featured in Western Story Magazine, and it also includes a longer novella called "Red Knives" written in 1925. The seven shorts all have connected storylines orbiting around an old trading post owner named Dave Budd and an......more

Goodreads review by Josh Hitch on July 21, 2020

Closer to a 3.5 but rounded up, the first part is a collection of shorts all about a small settlement in the vast wilderness in Oregon. Mainly starring the local shop owner who tends to watch over the homesteaders by several different ways but always in kindness. These stories are all interesting an......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on March 04, 2021

Loved the tales of Burnt Creek! Dave Budd is such a likeable character. If more folks were like him these days, the world would be a much better place! Here's what you need to know, though - only the first half of the book is really "Burnt Creek". the 2nd half is "RED KNIVES- A Frontier Story". Here......more