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When the fossilized skeleton of a small, three-toed horse found inside a local bar turns out to be a hot commodity among the scientific elite from back East, Yellowstone Kelly is commissioned as a scout to lead one of several competing research parties into the wilds of Wyoming. In this dangerous and unpredictable territory, where angry Sioux and Cheyenne lurk behind every corner and a maniacal killer named Blue Fox is stalking the parties, each new discovery could mean scientific fame, and every move could mean instant and violent death.Full of ingenious twists and turns, and the wily wit that fans of Peter Bowen's novels have come to love, Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse is a rip-roaring tale of adventure, told with an amoral panache that's at once fun and refreshing.This novel and its predecessors are based on the real-life exploits of Luther Yellowstone Kelly, a hunter, scout, rancher, and ambassador between the white and native people of the 19th-century West.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312241062
ISBN13:9780312241063
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Length:326 Pages
Weight:1.09 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Outrageous humor, a marvelous narrative voice: only the linguistically challenged or excessively straitlaced would hesitate about this book. Yes, the graphic and gruesome tortures and casual deaths are disturbing, but their outrageousness is in keeping with the fantastic tone of the book, which signals that nothing is to be taken too seriously or realistically. That said, however, the casual murders by frontiersmen supposingly upholding a code,the horrifying deaths perpetrated by Indians and the less sensational but equally horrifying treatment of the native Americans by the settlers and the government serve a real function in the novel, reminding us that much about the frontier West was brutal and not funny at all. By creating this balance between the humorous and the horrific Peter Bowen both entertains us hugely and offers an instructive underlying moral commentary. This is my first exposure to his writing, and I'm mightily impressed.
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