http://bookhugger.co.uk/2009/06/wilderness-rules/ Mon, 14 May 2012 13:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://bookhugger.co.uk/2009/06/wilderness-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Lizzie Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:50 +0000 http://bookhugger.co.uk/?p=611#comment-27 Cool site! Found you through a link elsewhere. the cover for "Far North" reminded me of a book I read as a teen-ager, long ago: "Ice Station Zebra," by someone ... MacLean. Good grief, I read and loved all of them, but can't recall the name! Silly me. Nature, to me, is always front and center in Westerns, just because of the landscape and the need to confront nature frequently. Check out the <a href="http://www.stevedancy.com/stevedancy_002.htm" rel="nofollow"> Wild West</a> (Nevada) as portrayed in "The Shopkeeper" by James Best. It's an excellent page-turned, with a new twist in every chapter. The rough and ready spirit of the West is there, mixed with the ins and outs, and twists and turns, of the politics of the place. And the details of life in a mining town, on a ranch and on the trail make the book come alive. Cool site! Found you through a link elsewhere. the cover for “Far North” reminded me of a book I read as a teen-ager, long ago: “Ice Station Zebra,” by someone … MacLean. Good grief, I read and loved all of them, but can’t recall the name! Silly me. Nature, to me, is always front and center in Westerns, just because of the landscape and the need to confront nature frequently. Check out the Wild West
(Nevada) as portrayed in “The Shopkeeper” by James Best. It’s an excellent page-turned, with a new twist in every chapter. The rough and ready spirit of the West is there, mixed with the ins and outs, and twists and turns, of the politics of the place. And the details of life in a mining town, on a ranch and on the trail make the book come alive.

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