Catch Gunsight Pass (How Oil Came To The Cattle Country And Brought A New West) Conceived By William MacLeod Raine Expressed As E-Text

and predictable oater. This is an entertaining western, but its title oversells it the full title is "Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West", There is nothing in it that is particularly enlightening about the development of the west, nor anything illuminating about the western experience, In addition, only one brief episode early in the novel takes place at Gunsight Pass, Instead, we are given a string of moments in the career of one cowboy who has turned almost incidentally to oilman, It is a story that is loaded withs era BGrade Western tropes which never reaches beyond those tropesand why should it It was published inwhen those tropes were being developed, and the main thing abouts BGrade Westerns is that those were the movies that were played on television in thes when I was a child on any one of our only three television channel options.
I will not go into listing those tropes and how they fit in the story, but it was very much like a return to that sensibility of what made good television when I was a kid.
What a fun book. I like Raine's style. Quick storytelling with strong, bold strokes, His characters are a bit flat, but they are adequate to the story, This is like watching an old Western, one made in thes, which is when this was written, Dave Sanders was the type of man Joyce Crawford would wait forkind, strong, smart, But his goodness had brought him enemies, Now he was a man caged by his past, crushed to learn that he stood accused of murder, Time in prison scarred him, and even the proof that he had been unjustly accused did not free him, He was marked for lifeor so he thought, His friends thought differently. They knew he was a good man, and they worked to clear his reputation and give him a new start, It was Joyce who freed his spirit and made the sun shine again, But their lives were still in jeopardy as long as his enemies tried to destroy them, Through fire and gunshot the question of the West is answered: What kind of mangood or evilwill prevail William MacLeod Raine June,July,, was a British born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West.
William MacLeod Raine was born in London, the son of William and Jessie Raine, After his mother died, his family migrated from England to Arkansas when Macleod was ten years old, eventually settling on a cattle ranch near the Texas Arkansas border,

In, after graduating from Oberlin College, Macleod left Arkansas and headed for the western U, S. He became the principal of a school in Seattle while contributing columns to a local newspaper, After leaving Seattle, he moved to Denver, where he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for local periodicals, including the Republican, th William MacLeod Raine June,July,, was a British born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West.
William MacLeod Raine was born in London, the son of William and Jessie Raine, After his mother died, his family migrated from England to Arkansas when Macleod was ten years old, eventually settling on a cattle ranch near the Texas Arkansas border, In, after graduating from Oberlin College, Macleod left Arkansas and headed for the western U, S. He became the principal of a school in Seattle while contributing columns to a local newspaper, After leaving Seattle, he moved to Denver, where he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for local periodicals, including the Republican, the Post, and the Rocky Mountain News, At this time he began to publish short stories, eventually becoming a full time free lance fiction writer, and finally finding his literary home in the novel, His earliest novels were romantic histories taking place in the English countryside, However, after spending some time with the Arizona Rangers, Macleod shifted his literary focus and began to utilize the American West as a setting, The publication of Wyoming inmarks the beginning of his prolific career, during which time he averaged nearly two western novels a year until his death in, Inhe was awarded an M, L. degree from the University of Colorado where he had established that school's first journalism course, During the First World War,copies of one of his books were sent to British soldiers in the trenches, Twenty of his novels have been filmed, Despite his prolificness, he was a slow, careful, conscientious worker, intent on accurate detail, and considered himself a craftsman rather than an artist, InMr. Raine married Jennie P. Langley, who died in. Inhe married Florence A Hollingsworth: they had a daughter, Though he traveled a good deal, Denver was considered his home, William MacLeod Raine died on July,and is buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, sitelink.