Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories

by Loren D. Estleman, Tom Clavin (Foreword)

"For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres.



Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19th century American frontier. These epic narratives are organized by timeframe to offer readers a panoramic view of pioneers who faced life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to introspective historical dramas set in the American West, readers will discover previously untold stories about the tenacious individuals who shaped the iconic American West.



In this anthology, you'll enjoy stories by New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors such as Loren D. Estleman, Johnny D. Boggs, Rod Miller, Patrick Dearen, John D. Nesbitt, W. Michael Farmer, Richard Prosch, Harper Courtland, James D. Crownover, Vonn McKee, Paul Colt, L. J. Martin, Greg Hunt, Wallace J. Swenson, John Neely Davis, Lonnie Whitaker, Steven Howell Wilson.



Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories is a great addition to your Western fiction library."

389 pages, Hardcover

Published December 18, 2019

About the author

Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter.

Estleman is most famous for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker. Other series characters include Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. He has also written a series of novels about the history of crime in Detroit (also the setting of his Walker books.) His non-series works include Bloody Season, a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Series:
* Amos Walker Mystery
* Valentino Mystery
* Detroit Crime Mystery
* Peter Macklin Mystery
* Page Murdock Mystery

Reviews

[Patricia Stinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories and recommend it to anyone who enjoys western fiction short stories. It is an anthology of 17 stories set in the time frame between 1800 and 1900. Some of the stories are humorous and some are tragic. Some narratives are in the first person and others are in the third person. The reader gets a fictionalized view of the West through the eyes of people and a couple times through the eyes of animals, namely a rat at the Alamo and a Puma in a mountain area of the West.
Most of the stories were what I would say are Family Friendly, with the exception of a couple rated R for language.

[Michael Morrison · Rating 2 out of 5]

This collection has a lot of entries that seem to be excerpts from novels, or at least longer stories. It makes for disappointment.
But a few are actually full and complete and worth reading. Alas, you won't know that till you're through them.
As long as you don't expect too much, this is OK reading, and some even very good reading, but perhaps only for either the non-demanding or the specialist reader.

[Christopher Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good collection of short stories about the western frontier, following a roughly chronological sequence. Some great stories, some okay ones (including Loren Estleman, my favorite living author in a rare meh story).

[Gerald Hickman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good selection of current short stories.