The Chisholms: A Novel of the Journey West

by Evan Hunter

The Chisholm family pursues their dreams of building a new life for themselves, braving the perils and hardships of the frontier as they venture westward across the American wilderness. Reprint.

Genres: Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Better known by his pseudonym Ed McBain.

Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

Reviews

[Oliver Clarke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely readable, but not his best

[Susan Liston · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oh dear, I didn't realize that Evan Hunter had written a western, but the title was familiar, a movie? No, a TV series from 1979 but I obviously never watched it. Anyway this had all the cliche hardships that always happen to the poor folk on the prairie, the long suffering wife who doesn't want to go west, the nubile daughter and the horse-thief seducer and an Injun attack or two complete with scalping and a couple of sad deaths and a white woman kidnapped by French trappers and sold to Indians and childbirth and snakes and whatever else I'm forgetting and ALL of it in less than 200 pages! I saw an original trailer for the TV show on YouTube and I don't think I'm going to track it down, I think I've had quite enough of the Chisholms, thank you kindly, ma'am.

[Eduardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mais uma excelente história do Evan Hunter, relato dos pioneiros americanos que foram para o Oeste no século XIX.

[Rose Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recommended to me by one of my favorite library patrons, lovely Mr S.