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Bullets for a Ranger: A Walt Slade Western
Ghosts range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores -- are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they're not ghosts -- just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate.... So the Ranger ace went "ghost"-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury!
But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost....
But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost....
128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 7, 2018
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March 2, 2024
Walt Slade is a US Marshall or Texas Ranger, who works undercover. He is known among Mexican sheepherders as El Halcon.
He is sent to New Matagora where complaints of rustling have been made. One evening just before reaching the town, he is in a gunfight with two men, dressed in what seems to be old Spanish armor. While hidden, he sees eight more ride up, and gather up the bodies of their friends. He begins to wonder if they’re all part of a smuggling operation. He also sees the mast of a ship nearby.
Eldon Paar runs a meatpacking plant focused on mutton. Ranchers send their meat to him. He is interested in starting his own ranching operation. That puts him in conflict with the local established sheep ranchers, and a cattle rancher named Waring.
Slade travels out with several ranchers and their herds to catch the thieves. He sees that when the thieves are run off they always head east. He meets Waring’s sister, Marie.
Slade and Marie investigate the area and discovers caves in the cliffs along the shoreline near the bay. Are the rustlers also smugglers?
I will not be reading any more of these books. Slade is always talking to his horse. Scott’s dialog is terrible. His attempts at contemporary speech is abrasive and lame. The story drags on and I lost interest.
He is sent to New Matagora where complaints of rustling have been made. One evening just before reaching the town, he is in a gunfight with two men, dressed in what seems to be old Spanish armor. While hidden, he sees eight more ride up, and gather up the bodies of their friends. He begins to wonder if they’re all part of a smuggling operation. He also sees the mast of a ship nearby.
Eldon Paar runs a meatpacking plant focused on mutton. Ranchers send their meat to him. He is interested in starting his own ranching operation. That puts him in conflict with the local established sheep ranchers, and a cattle rancher named Waring.
Slade travels out with several ranchers and their herds to catch the thieves. He sees that when the thieves are run off they always head east. He meets Waring’s sister, Marie.
Slade and Marie investigate the area and discovers caves in the cliffs along the shoreline near the bay. Are the rustlers also smugglers?
I will not be reading any more of these books. Slade is always talking to his horse. Scott’s dialog is terrible. His attempts at contemporary speech is abrasive and lame. The story drags on and I lost interest.
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