Apache Rising

by Marvin H. Albert (Introduction by Eric Compton & Tom Simon), Eric Compton (Introduction), Tom Simon (Introduction)

Someone had scalped and slaughtered his young wife. Someone would go through hell for it.

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1957

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 4 out of 5]

✒️ Good western story with action and drama.

📕Published — 1957.
🎥 1966 movie version with James Garner, Dennis Weaver, et al.
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[Alton Motobu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jess Remburgh seeks revenge on the man who raped and killed his wife; he becomes mixed up in battle between Apache renegades and cavalry. Meets the wife of the man he is looking for. Combines brutality of Gordon Shirreffs with romance of Clay Fisher. Very interesting story. Basis for the movie, Duel at Diablo.

[Edwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A taut and violent short western that finds young Jess Remsberg, consumed with avenging the rape and murder of his wife, scouting for an Army wagon train that finds itself outnumbered in a brutal case-and-mouse battle with a band of merciless Apaches. The tension remains high as the brilliant Apache warlord Chata matches wits step for step with young and ambitious Army Lieutenant McAllister who is close friends with Jess. I really liked how their friendship was portrayed. The love interest is a married woman victimized by Chata’s men, and mother to a half-breed, and her abusive husband scorns her. A superior and very brutal military strategy tale, encapsulated within a revenge story, with a little romance thrown in. Recommended.

[Benjamin Chandler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This started as a very personal story about a man seeking vengeance for his slain wife, but then it became one of those US army vs the Indians stories which I am less interested in. Whenever the focus was on Jess, our bitter widower, the story was compelling. Albert is a good writer. His descriptions of enduring the elements and surviving in the badlands can be thrilling. But when the story came to a point where Jess was trapped with a military regiment in a canyon surrounded by Apaches, the novel just ground to a stop. I felt like I was trapped, too, and couldn't wait to get out of the book. Such a bummer, too, because the first 30 pages were pretty good and I was thinking I found a new writer to investigate.