Voyle A Glover

Down From the Mountains - The High Plains Gunman (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

By the age of 18, Kyle Elliot was fighting the Plains Indians, especially the more fierce warriors who'd ever ridden across the broad plains of Texas, the legendary and ruthless Comanche. He'd ridden with Captain John Coffee Hays in the Texas Rangers and learned to fight in ways most men never understood. "Captain Jack" had taught him and the men who'd ridden with him, skills with weapons, tactics, fighting effectively from a horse at full gallop, tracking and surviving in the desert and mountains. The Captain had been an endless well of knowledge and experience. They'd tracked the Comanche to their homes, raided them, fought them on their own terrain, and won. They'd done the same with the Lipon Apache. These men did what the Army couldn't do. They did what no other fighting force would manage to do for decades.

Now Elliot is headed to a sleepy little town to take up the job as marshal, hoping he can avoid the problems in his last job, which involved having to kill several men and getting into the middle of a range war. He'd accepted the marshal's job with little hesitation after getting assurances that it was quiet and peaceful. But, Kyle Elliot would quickly learn that he'd need all the skills and toughness he'd acquired as a Texas Ranger in order to survive.

He wanted to leave on day one. He stuck around because of a smile from a beautiful woman.

******* Voyle Glover, a retired attorney who grew up in Arizona, has roamed the state, ridden many old outlaw trails, camped in the desert and mountains there, and often details scenes where he's camped or ridden. Of his westerns, Glover says, "My favorite author was Louis L'Amour, the Dean of Western Fiction. If you liked his stories, you'll like mine. Loved his style. Adopted his style in some respects. He'd always said to 'just tell a good story.' That's what I've done here. It's a good western fiction story."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brevia Publishing Co
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215907078
• Artikelnr.: 67264048

Autorenporträt

About the Author

Voyle Glover has spent most of his years practicing law. His early years were spent in Arizona where he learned to love all things Western. His love of the Old West and the many stories about the outlaws, settlers, Indians and pioneers captured his imagination.

In the '70's, Glover wrote his first western story and it was published in Far West, a western fiction publication that was located in California. He went on to have several more of his short stories, and two novellas published by Far West.

Law School interrupted his writing career and it has only been in the last few of years that he's been "back in the saddle" writing westerns. His favorite western fiction author was Louis L'Amour, whom he calls "The Dean of Western Fiction."

Glover admits that L'Amour has influenced his writing more than any other writer. He insists on writing his stories and adhering to the traditions of L'Amour, to wit, a strong, rugged and self-reliant hero, with historically accurate settings, and characters that jump right off the pages of the history of the Old West and into his stories.

Glover says of L'Amour: "There is no writer of western fiction to match Louis L'Amour. He's the only western fiction writer whose books I'll read more than once."

He tells of the time soon after he'd written his first western, when he wrote a letter to L'Amour asking his advice about agents. L'Amour actually replied to him in a typed letter, replete with a few typos. He congratulated Glover on getting his first story published in the premier issue of Far West, a California publication, then noted that they'd be sharing that issue. L'Amour was featured on the cover page and Glover also found himself listed on the cover page, right beneath his all-time favourite western author.

He says of that moment: "I was shocked that he actually took the time to reply, but wow, what an honor to be on the cover page with the Dean of Western Fiction, Louis L'Amour."