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The Feudist - A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War (Paperback)
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The Feudist - A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War (Paperback)
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List price R627
Loot Price R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
You Save R104 (17%)
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The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War is both a
traditional Western - tense, authentic, fast-paced - and an
anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest
range war in US history, Arizona's 1880s Pleasant Valley War. The
narrator - a small-time rancher named Ben Holcomb who reflects back
on his adolescent experiences - begins the story as a stockboy in
Globe City, Arizona. Bored with his job, he agrees to become an
apprentice cowboy. His journey to his employer's ranch leads him
into a smoldering range war. Over the next year, he rides with a
charismatic trickster; a Texas 'colonel' and his idealist daughter;
a polygamous Mormon elder with a teenaged wife; and a winsome,
mixed-race cowboy who is deeply embroiled in the feud. Though Ben
tries to stay out of the quarreling, he finds himself embroiled as
he stumbles through passionate love, devastating loss, and moral
uncertainty. Herman's attention to historical forces, his spare
style, his self-deprecating narrator, and his authentic characters
give the novel a verisimilitude that transcends the genre Western
and far surpasses Zane Grey's 1922 romance about the Pleasant
Valley War, To the Last Man.
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