Summer of the Star, Johnny D. Boggs
Summer of the Star, Johnny D. Boggs
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Summer of the Star
A Western Story

Author: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2016

Synopsis

Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, sixty-two-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: her name was Estrella O’Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned sixteen back in 1873.The summer of 1873 marked Madison’s last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he pinned on a badge. It was the summer of longhorns, miserable heat, friendship and betrayal, and murder. In the end it was the summer the whole world came crumbling down on the United States, and Madison’s world crashed too.The summer of 1873 was the year Madison watched a bunch of men die. One of them was a man he killed, an encounter one never forgets.

About Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives—all in the name of finding a good story. He has won nine Spur Awards, making him the all-time leader in Western Writers of America’s history.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

I must like Johnny D. Boggs, as this is the third of his books that I've read this year. In this one, published in 2013, the story begins with an old man recalling the most important summer of his life--the summer of 1873. It was the summer when a Texas boy, Madison "Mad" Carter MacRae, turned sixte......more

Goodreads review by Joe

The summer of 1873. A cattle drive. A coming of age story during a summer of love, death, murder, and revenge. With this western/historical fiction, Boggs brings the period to life. This reader found it slow to get hooked, but once hooked the story kept steaming along. With vivid details of driving......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

I didn't start this book with the intention of disliking it. In fact, I started this book rather ambivalent towards it and enjoying the rather atmospheric beginning of the story: (view spoiler)[a lonely old man, haunted the mistakes of his youth, who has decided to recount the story that led to his whole life chan (hide spoiler)]......more

Quotes

“Boggs, among the best of the current Western writers, finds timeless themes in the dusty frontier, where lesser authors find only gunplay.” Booklist

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