Last Stand at Saber River

“And she thought if you don't have the desire to fight or wait for something there's no reason for being on earth.” First edition paperback original copy of the book. The Confederacy claims the lower half of New Mexico and Arizona as one of their states. The upper halves are still considered Uni......more

An Early Elmore Leonard Western Elmore Leonard (1925 -- 2013) had a prolific career as a writer and is best-known for his crime novels. Leonard began as a writer of westerns. The Library of America has recently published a volume of Leonard's western novels and stories. The collections begins with th......more

This short novel is the best western I've read so far among those in this most recent genre list (though not nearly as good at classic Van Tillberg's classic The Oxbow Incident). There's reason, I suppose, Leonard was the writer dujure for many movies in the 1990s. This work includes full characters......more

Reading an Elmore Leonard book can be unsettling. His writing seems to speak privately to the reader’s mind where nothing is sacred and anything can happen. He plays with perceptions. He takes advantage of the human tendency to believe in one’s own righteousness while simultaneously suppressing trut......more

Leonard isn't the author to go to if you want a deep immersing sense of the Old West, and his dialogue could belong to modern characters. But he's definitely one to go to for a story driven by tension and characters who step off the page with larger-than-life personalities, which is at least one par......more