Excerpt from Jerry Peyton's Notched A Western Story
Jerry Peyton was as full of affection as any youth in the town of Sloan, but the régime of his father had so far schooled him in restraining his emotions that now he lighted a match and a ciga rette and inhaled the first puff before he answered What's wrong?
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I do not read a lot of Westerns, but I love Western movies. The library had a Western display and I pulled this title off the shelf. It read like a typical Western: gunslinger on a mission, betrayal, death of a loved on, a girl to woo, etc. I think the reason that I do not read a lot of Western's is because they are so formulaic. It feels like the same thing every time I read one. I did enjoy "Peyton" (the modern title) as a something different from what I typically read. I hope this book will leave enough of an impact on me to read a Western every once and awhile.