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Elliott "Bear Scat" Sutta, Mountain Man
Terry Grosz returns to the unexplored American West in his ninth Mountain Man novel, “Elliott “Bear Scat” Sutta, Mountain Man.” Sixteen-year-old Elliott Sutta is sent out by his father to kill a deer for future family meals. Killing the biggest deer in his life, Elliott’s joy is short-lived when he is swooped down upon by a tornado, which ‘whirls away’ his deer and leaves him battered and bruised without family or farm, all destroyed by the airborne killer! Elliott finds himself alone and soon hunted by old friends who realize that he has discovered a hoard of Spanish silver dollars hidden in his father’s “Posthole Bank”! Thus begins Elliott’s adventures as a man and fur trapper in the wilderness, attempting to find his fur trapper brother Jacob. As a ‘greenhorn’, he finds himself betrayed by trappers posing as friends who soon abandon him on the prairie! There he faces starvation and then a chance meeting with a mentor occurs. In the years that followed, “Bear Scat” faces capture by the deadly Sioux, becomes a Mountain Man in the territory of the deadly Blackfeet, faces grizzly bear attacks, ‘moose madness’, deadly Indian battles, experiences heartaches in opportunities lost trying to find his elusive brother, is engaged in a deadly fight with white trappers resulting in a sad loss, all ending in an unexpected surprise! Elliott “Bear Scat” Sutta, Mountain Man is an epic story of the life and times of a Mountain Man who rises from the ashes and tries to find his brother in an unexplored West that was young, dangerous and yet beautiful beyond compare, told only as a man can tell it who “was there”…
509 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 21, 2017
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November 18, 2017
I received an advance copy from Wolfpack publishing for my honest review.
This is my first read from the author Terry Grosz, it'll be my last also, not a bad story, but a shame that he doesn't write it word wise for the 19th century, just overloaded with fluff and it basically's slowly killing 'Elliot "Bear Scat" Sutta.
Got to be the worst opening of a Western I ever read, regarding the 10 point buck that Elliott stocks to kill and the evolution of them for 10,000 years. Then you have the tornado happening, have no clue why the author just doesn't have Elliott take refugee in a real cave.
Readers need to be paid for the effort to read his writing, since you can very easily cut this one down from 7587 locations to 3,000 to 4,000, and not hurt the story at all. Plus he throws, bold words into, then adds notes into the story, he slows your reading enjoyment by adding needless repetition and just a total waste of my reading time.
Bottom line, Grosz has the skills to write a decent story, but he hides it with all the needless writing he does, the repetition and all the long winded foot notes he adds and many of them a Western genre reader will already know and sure some will like this one.
Others who just want the meaty parts, that tells the story without the fluff or repetition and you'll end up hating this one.
This is my first read from the author Terry Grosz, it'll be my last also, not a bad story, but a shame that he doesn't write it word wise for the 19th century, just overloaded with fluff and it basically's slowly killing 'Elliot "Bear Scat" Sutta.
Got to be the worst opening of a Western I ever read, regarding the 10 point buck that Elliott stocks to kill and the evolution of them for 10,000 years. Then you have the tornado happening, have no clue why the author just doesn't have Elliott take refugee in a real cave.
Readers need to be paid for the effort to read his writing, since you can very easily cut this one down from 7587 locations to 3,000 to 4,000, and not hurt the story at all. Plus he throws, bold words into, then adds notes into the story, he slows your reading enjoyment by adding needless repetition and just a total waste of my reading time.
Bottom line, Grosz has the skills to write a decent story, but he hides it with all the needless writing he does, the repetition and all the long winded foot notes he adds and many of them a Western genre reader will already know and sure some will like this one.
Others who just want the meaty parts, that tells the story without the fluff or repetition and you'll end up hating this one.
November 29, 2017
Neither this not that
I manages 53 percent before I could go no farther. The author seems to believe it necessary to repeat himself multiple times. Is he trying to write an adventure novel or a poorly researched narrative textbook? Whichever the case he fails. Redundant, repetitive, and with an attitude that seems to assume the reader incapable of determining the story without unnecessary capitaliZation, in short BORING!
I manages 53 percent before I could go no farther. The author seems to believe it necessary to repeat himself multiple times. Is he trying to write an adventure novel or a poorly researched narrative textbook? Whichever the case he fails. Redundant, repetitive, and with an attitude that seems to assume the reader incapable of determining the story without unnecessary capitaliZation, in short BORING!
February 2, 2018
Mountain Man survival
This is my second book read by Gross I enjoyed the Aurtur’s notes, the book was a little wordy for my taste. The hatchet novel was more by how the mountain man would sound in his books
This is my second book read by Gross I enjoyed the Aurtur’s notes, the book was a little wordy for my taste. The hatchet novel was more by how the mountain man would sound in his books
January 23, 2018
This book is much too long! The author repeats, repeats, repeats. Good story but it could be written better if it were shortened.
May 25, 2018
Wonderful Story
Another great story about the life of a Mountain Man. Grosz tells the story in a way that makes you feel as if you're living it.
Another great story about the life of a Mountain Man. Grosz tells the story in a way that makes you feel as if you're living it.
October 16, 2018
Outstanding
Outstanding in all aspects of historical knowledge concerning the era written about and I can recommend this book to all!
Outstanding in all aspects of historical knowledge concerning the era written about and I can recommend this book to all!
March 16, 2019
Good Stuff
Well written story with well developed characters woven into an exciting action=filled plot. A very good read for anyone interested in the frontier of the early 2800 's.
Well written story with well developed characters woven into an exciting action=filled plot. A very good read for anyone interested in the frontier of the early 2800 's.
February 7, 2020
Ok story
The author could have told this story in, at least, 100 pages less if he had not been so repetitious. I became frustrated, to the point of skipping over parts. How many times did we need to hear about the same supper being prepared?
The author could have told this story in, at least, 100 pages less if he had not been so repetitious. I became frustrated, to the point of skipping over parts. How many times did we need to hear about the same supper being prepared?
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