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Journal of the Gun Years (Mass Market Paperback)

by Richard Matheson (Author)
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Praise for Journal of the Gun Years, Winner of the Spur Award:

"The best novel I read last year."
--Stephen King

“The best western of the season!”
–Booklist

“The author gives his story a credibility and honesty unusual in the genre.”
--Publishers Weekly

“Breathtaking . . . first-rate . . . impossible to put down.  Mr. Matheson has done something remarkable: with a single novel he has placed himself in the front rank of Western novelists.”
--Richard S. Wheeler, author of Virgin River

“A novel filled with remarkable surprises . . . a fine and unique book.”
--Ed Gorman, author of Sleeping Dogs

“A remarkable western novel.  It strips the romanticism from the old West, but retains the blood-and-guts violence, as well as the high excitement of the frontier.  Clay Halser’s journals are the stuff of myth.”
--Norman Zollinger, author of The Road to Santa Fe

Journal of the Gun Years is a three carat diamond.  Read and enjoy it without delay.”
--Max Evans, author of For the Love of Horses

“Some of the best damn writing Matheson’s done in his spectacular career.”
--Loren D. Estleman, author of Gas City  



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Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the “Hero of the Plains” for his daring exploits in the Wild West.  But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling. A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with.  As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career.  But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw–and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end . . . .

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5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth genre hopping, April 20 2004
Richard Mattheson is arguably best known for his novel(la) I AM LEGEND, a classic horror novel which much has been written about by fans, critics, and peers. I bring this up because some authors write in a genre very well and experiment or cross over to another genre and even if the story is as strong are not as successful in their second writing category. Even master Stephen King's Dark Tower series where he moves easily from his renown horror tales to dark fantasy isn't as critically or popularly acclaimed as his other books. Mattheson moved his horrific prose into an old west setting gracefully and smoothly. He uses the same economy of words to tell the story of Marshall Halser, who not much of a plot spoiler to add gets shot in opening chapters.

The narrotor is Halser not from beyond the grave per se but in the form of his journals in the hands of a friend and journalist who wishes to publicize them to seperate myth from man. As I said Mattheson is spare in his writing not using five pages of details where one will do, instead he writes a tight plot making this a quick fun read.

Incidentally it won the 1991 Spur award so my praise of his genre transition is a little redundant hehehe.

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