The Dawn of Fury (Trail of the Gunfighter, No. 1)

Well folks, if you're looking for a fast paced book, relatively seamless transitions and plenty of action without lots of smoochification... I recommend this book. It's a good story, technically correct and historically accurate (mostly). On the downside, it's a little formulaic and predictable, except where the women are concerned. Nathan Stone is a likable character, and I look forward to reading more in this series. Give this book a try.

This book reads like it was written by a high school dropout who posesses a very limited vocabulary. There is no character development at all. The story only moves along by the most convenient of happenings (finding two of the killers names in the newspaper, when neither of the characters were interested in the newspaper for the entire first quarter of the book! Suddenly, luckily there just happens to be the info they need on the day they are looking for it! Horrible.) I would like to buy this author a thesaurus so he wouldn't have to use the same words/phrases over and over again until I got bored and stopped reading for the day.

If you want bland "Saturday Afternoon Action Movie" story, dialog, and characters then this is your author, otherwords stick to the nonfiction of the real west, it is much more worthwhile and daring this trite piece of waste.

Incredulous, contrived, melodramatic, simple-minded...I can't think of enough derogatory comments to explain how awful this book is. No doubt, it's fast paced - the protaganist spends three months in one location all in the space of two sentences, time after time; his dog is beat, shot, stabbed, etc. and is fine three words later; and there's no end to his 'texas to kansas and back again' trips - but there is so little character development that one gets bored easily despite the ceaseless robbery, fighting, murder, on and on.

It could be that the acting in the audio version is the problem but i doubt it. This is worse than any russian novel (translated into english, of course) I've ever had the misfortune to read.

I had high hopes for this book. I was hoping for a good 'ol Western. Boy, was I disappointed. The story should have been a good one - a man on a vengeance trail, roaming the West to kill 7 men who murdered his parents and sister. The author took this promising story line and completely butchered it. The book was total trash. I cannot believe the number of times the hero got shot or stabbed. Every time you turned around he was getting shot up. Not close to being realistic.

The author has a most limited vocabulary. There are countless references to varmints, bushwhackers, owlhoots. You get so tired of his repetitions.

I would not recommend this book to anyone. It reads like a serial professional wrestling story.

There are six books in this series and I loved them all. The protangist, Nathan Stone, became very real to me. I shed buckets of tears reading this series. Truly classic.

Basically he's the wild wests Punisher. While I wished there was more on his gun slinger parts. It tells the whole story and adds some perspective to parts of life in the west you may not typically think about. While still keeping it firmly planted in the story of a man on the revenge trail.

Not what I expected, very disappointed. It just rambles on...

Excellent book! Reads well.

Ralph Compton's Trail Drive Series are the best western books I have read. The gunfighter series are entertaining but not like the trail drives. I love the description of frontier life and historical references to the time period.

This was the last book in a series called, "Death Rides a Chestnut Horse", And they all were very good if you like Westerns.