Tex

Hopalong Cassidy #10

by Clarence Edward Mulford

Tex Ewalt was educated before he came west and can quote Shakespeare, philosophy, and the Bible, which spices up his conversation some. He's gotten restless again and hopes to hook up with Hopalong Cassidy and Red Connors. He takes the train south to the mining town of Windsor, Kansas, and decides to stay a while and make some money playing poker. Windsor, though, is run by Gus Williams, an old enemy. The chaos that ensues leads to a fight between the miners and the railroad-and more than one gunfight.

Genres: Westerns

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1922

About the author

Clarence Edward Mulford was the author of Hopalong Cassidy, written in 1904. He wrote it in Fryeburg, Maine, United States, and the many stories and 28 novels were followed by radio, feature film, television, and comic book versions. Clarence was born in Streator, Illinois. He died of complications from surgery in Portland, Maine. He set aside much of his money from his book for local charities.

Reviews

[Jeff Tankersley · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this old pocket western Tex Ewalt is "Tex" (1949), an honorable drifting card shark now going by the moniker Tex Jones when he arrives in Windsor and surveys the layout. The chummy fellow quickly takes a dislike to the big rancher in town named Williams and his nephew. There's a local mining outfit with some down-on-their luck miners not striking it very rich, and a sickly local train agent with a sister whom the weasely Williams nephew has an eye for. As the story moves along Williams and the nephew are quite oblivious to Tex's clever social needling into their affairs.

Verdict: A fun, slightly-dated western solo adventure with a prototypical knightly loner in the west trying to do the right thing.

Jeff's Rating: 3 / 5 (Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG

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