The Devil's Trail: A Texas Outlaw Novel

Texas Outlaw #3

by Robert J. Conley

He lit out of Texas with ten dollars and a swayback horse, a wanted man at age 13. Kid Parmlee's crime--he shot the man who shot his dog, Farty. Now, in the town of Fosterville, the Kid has found a hideaway--until his legend finds him. The West's scrawniest gunslinger has just been recruited onto a bounty hunt for a gang of criminals. For the Kid, it's the beginning of an explosive adventure of both sides of the law, in the company of bank robbers, back-shooters, friends, traitors, and one very beautiful woman named Doc--with a pot of gold waiting at the end of the trail.Spur Award-winning author Robert Conley continues the tall tale of little Kid Parmlee, a young man without a home, without fear, and with just enough sense to become a true legend of the frontier.

Genres: Westerns

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 2002

About the author

Robert J. Conley was a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Reviews

[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very enjoyable if a stereotypical of the treatment of women in a Western (they are mostly prostitutes and the one who isn't falls right into Kid's bed). The entire story is written in dialect and it oddly works. I enjoyed that more than I expected and it became easy to read after a chapter, though it was slower reading because I kept sounding the words out in my head to "hear" them. Not a bad little story.

[Donna Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Westerns are not my cup of tea yet I choose this book because the diction and verbiage of the characters. Page seven our character says, "Mount up and foller me." The entire reason I picked this up made the book difficult to read. So funny.

Well done plot.
Interesting characters that are true to life.
Conflicts are believable.

Nicely done Robert J. Conley.

[D. Norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Went in directions I would have never guessed. Enjoyable.