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Title: Train to Durango by Ralph Compton ISBN: 0-451-19237-0 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Narrow Gauge
Comment: I gave this book a fairly low rating, but you will learn some history as you plod thru the story. there are a few of these small rails still being used today. however, instead of hauling precious metal they carry tourists. the story will be entertaining and misterious.
Rating: 3
Summary: This train doesn't know where it is!
Comment: After having read all the previous Nathan Stone/Wes Stone books, this one fell flat in the end. Perhaps Compton died while writing this one, as it whimpered to an end. For one thing, even though the Durango-Silverton Railroad figures into the story, the writer didn't know his geography or railroad well enough to get the route correct. In reality, the railroad dead ends at Silverton, so it was not possible to get from Silverton directly to Denver or vice-versa. Also, the book's back cover would have you believe that there was some mysterious armored train under the control of the bad guys. Never appeared, never happened. It does not match the story line at all. Perhaps it got mixed up with a different story? Another point is that the geography and travel times mentioned do not make any sense. Yuma, Arizona is only a few minutes horseback ride from the Gulf of California? Some of the story elements got a little unbelievable. A mine chamber with a secret swinging stone door created by only two men? How is it that the three heroes are able to return to Dodge all the way from Yuma, Arizona practically overnight? It was an interesting story until near the end but sadly fell apart on the inconsistencies and story errors related to the railroad and geography. All too often, I recognized sentences and statements lifted from earlier books in the series as if the writer couldn't think of a new way to say it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Border Empire Saga
Comment: For those who are die hard westerns fan's this book is sure to keep you turning the page's yet for the newcomer it has all the action you would expect from a Ralph Compton novel, sure to make a western fan for life. The books use of real event's and legend's of the old west is great tool in educating new reader's to " The old west". I am sure that after reading this novel you will add many more of Ralph Compton's masterpieces to your personal library.
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Title: Sixguns and Double Eagles by Ralph Compton ISBN: 0451193318 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Border Empire by Ralph Compton ISBN: 0451192095 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Shadow of a Noose by Ralph Compton, Ralph W. Cotton ISBN: 0451193334 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Autumn of the Gun by Ralph Compton ISBN: 0451190459 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Dawn of Fury by Ralph Compton ISBN: 0451186311 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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