Les Savage (1922–1958)
Auteur de Wolves of the Sundown Trail (Leisure Western)
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Les Savage
Six-Gun Bride of the Teton Bunch and Seven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West (Barricade Classic Western) (1995) 12 exemplaires
Trail of the Silver Saddle: A Western Trio:whip Master / Secret of the Santiago / Trail of the Silver Saddle (2005) 6 exemplaires
The Hide Rustlers (Vintage Pocket Book #803) 2 exemplaires
The Secret of the Santiago 2 exemplaires
The Brand of Senorita Scorpion 2 exemplaires
Gun shy, (Gold Medal book) 2 exemplaires
Nebelreiter vom Yellowstone 1 exemplaire
Öga för öga 1 exemplaire
THE PHANTOM STALLION 1 exemplaire
The Phantom Stallion 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Contributeur — 104 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Stewart, Logan
Sutter, Larrabie - Date de naissance
- 1922
- Date de décès
- 1958
- Lieu de sépulture
- Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
Membres
Critiques
Good action short stories in a variety of western periods and settings.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 55
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 246
- Popularité
- #92,613
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 227
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
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I didn't bother rating the stories individually. They were all quite good & have a strong love/romantic streak with very tough men & women, often in extremely harsh conditions. The hero is a good guy, but has some rounded edges & the bad guys aren't always completely bad, although some are worse than others. The fight scenes are pretty good - none of this slapping leather at high noon, real fighting with single action revolvers, rifles & knives. Much more believable than the normal fare & they roam all around in time, area (One is in Canada with the RCMP.) & occupations. Certainly a great break from the normal westerns & the writing is very spare.
King of the Buckskin Breed is set in 1840 & deals with a mountain man, a fur trading company & Blackfeet Indians. A strong love interest & a tarnished reputation set the stage for an exciting journey.
Silver & Shells for General Kearny is about 1847, set in & around Santa Fe, NM. There is fighting, corruption, & sinister, mysterious plotting over whether the territory stays in Mexican hands or goes over to the US.
Dangerous Orders is set in 1861 near Tuscon, AZ. Very well done, although the motives weren't clear until the end & that left me hanging some. I liked it a lot, though.
Six-Gun Bride of the Teton Bunch was quite a wild ride full of twists & turns.
Lunatic Patrol was a horror story featuring a Mountie. The lunacy was very acute - too much so for me. Still, it was short & memorable.
Chuck-Wagon Warrior was fun & had the most likable character yet in it. A tough camp cook isn't the normal hero & the story was better for it.
The Devil's Keyhole featured an engineer building a flume across a canyon during the gold rush.
Saddlemates had a mare named Tar Baby, the name of my mother's first horse. Could it get any better? More of a typical western, but quite good & twisty. Great characters.
Ends with an impressive bibliography of western books by Les Savage Jr. My thanks to Werner for turning me on to this author.… (plus d'informations)