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Title: Monte Walsh by Jack Warner Schaefer ISBN: 0-8032-9121-3 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Monte Walsh, an American Icon, a hero for us all.
Comment: "Monte Walsh" was given to me by my father. An old faded yellow, dog eared, and missing the last three pages copy he had long since memorized verbatim. He said that I must read this book if I love horses and westerns movies. I was not disappointed.
I couldn't put this page turner down. The detailed descriptions of Monte's journey from young cow"boy" to worn and weathered cattle"man" are fantastic. As a lover of the mythic cowboy and avid horseback rider, it was like I was riding along side Monte every hoofprint and bucking ride of the way. He has become my new hero, a real man's man, yet gentle, sensitive, and immensely caring, a man who's main concerns are simple: knowing what you're good at and pursuing it to an expertise level, the value of good friends, and always being honest and living with integrity.
As a big fan of the Western movie genre, my favorite films are True Grit, The Shootist, The Searchers, Hondo, Red River, The Cowboys, Shane, and Will Penny. Now I'll have to add Monte Walsh to this list. All these movies had heros where that were part of the mythic west and in one way or another ride off into the sunset leaving modernity to fend for itself. And I must add, at a loss for they're not being here.
I will also add to my list of memorable cowboy expressions: "It's a horse, ain't it?" No matter what the problem is , it's still a horse, and one that can be ridden. Not conquered, but mastered. And I loved the relationship that Monte had with his horses, more mutual respect than anything else.
And his inseparable relationship with his best friend Chet, there gentle jibes and finishing of each other's sentences and thoughts. We should all have friends like Chet and Monte.
Incidentally, my father read me the last 3 pages over the phone from another copy he recently found at the library. And that was the best part of them all. What a great story! Truly the best man with a horse ever.
So swing into the saddle and rope a copy of this book. I promise that you won't be bucked off.
Be well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cowboy to the bone
Comment: I have lived the life of a cowboy. I know what goes on with horses and cattle. This book is a good depiction of a real cowboys lifestyle. Some people think that the American cowboy has gone the way of the Indian; but I assure you there are still people out there like Monte Walsh, riding bad horses and people like Chet Rollins, roping ornery critters. This is an excellent book for anybody who has ever dreamed of being a cowboy and even for the folks in the city who feel like they might have a little cowboy in them somewhere. Read it...live it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best
Comment: Monte Walsh is the classic western tale. Over the years I have read the book on average once every couple of years. It is the best western. Slash Y, Monte Walsh, and Chet Rollins almost seem real to me. It is too bad the movie versions badly distorted the story and butchered the characters.......someday, someone may make a good movie of the book. Tom Sellack's portrayal of Monte was not true to the charactor nor was Lee Marvin's early attempt
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Title: Shane by JACK SCHAEFER ISBN: 0553271105 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Open Range by Lauran Paine ISBN: 084395261X Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, A.B. Guthrie ISBN: 0618154639 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title:Monte Walsh ASIN: B00009N1WI Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title: Josey Wales: Two Westerns: Gone to Texas/the Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales by Forrest Carter, Lawrence Clayton ISBN: 0826311687 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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