The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun (eBook, ePUB)
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The cowboy is the American knight: so it would seem to follow that tales of knighthood could provide the inspiration for stories about cowboys. The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun--yes, Tiffany's once made fancy six-shooters--was inspired by Galahad's search for the Holy Grail. In some versions of the tale, Galahad becomes Percival; Arthur becomes the Fisher King. But the king is always failing, the kingdom itself is sick, and only an innocent can save him and his realm. The 18-year-old hero of this book has two names: his overprotective mother calls him Percy, but he prefers his nickname, Pyg, sh...
The cowboy is the American knight: so it would seem to follow that tales of knighthood could provide the inspiration for stories about cowboys. The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun--yes, Tiffany's once made fancy six-shooters--was inspired by Galahad's search for the Holy Grail. In some versions of the tale, Galahad becomes Percival; Arthur becomes the Fisher King. But the king is always failing, the kingdom itself is sick, and only an innocent can save him and his realm. The 18-year-old hero of this book has two names: his overprotective mother calls him Percy, but he prefers his nickname, Pyg, short for Percy York Goodnight. In a sense, the book is about how he moves from being his mother's boy (Percy) to being his own man (Pyg). The story begins in 1893, in Boston, where Revelie (Percy's mother) gets word that Loving (the Fisher King figure) has been shot and is near death. Since she once loved him - since he may well be the father of her son--she rushes to Texas. She brings along her son, and en route, they acquire, Jesse, a waitress from a Harvey House. When they arrive, Loving is gravely ill--and an ax has been stolen. It is no ordinary ax. It is the ax that Percy's supposed father Jimmy Goodnight once pulled out of an anvil. The ax was taken from the ranch cemetery where it had been embedded in Goodnight's tombstone. The stone was stolen, too. Pyg and a band of cowboys set off to find the ax. (In the Percival story, it is a spear.) During his travels, one of his own men--he isn't sure which one--keeps trying to kill him. He also endures what the Harvey Girl calls the ""plagues of Egypt"": flood, fire, gunfights, pestilence--everything but frogs--all historically accurate. The pestilence is Texas tick fever. Revelie ends up caring not only for a sick cowboy but also for sick cows: the one sickness reflecting the other. While her son is off on his quest, she is left alone to run the ranch. With something to take the place of her son in her life, she becomes less protective. In the end, Pyg finds the ax and attempts to pull it out of the stone.
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