Brules

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Summary: One of the two greatest pioneering sagas so far!!!!
Review: This is a wonderful treat by a wonderful person! When you read it, you just became that young kid to listen to Brules narrative. It's a wonderful, wonderful long journey with the author. This is the first book which should become an immediate modern classic as the LONESOME DOVE. But the sequal of BRULES is kind of a disappointment since it's too military intead of romantic in depth, just like the two books, STREET OF LAREDO and DEAD MEN'S WALK, after LONESOME DOVE, neither were good enough to compete with the first one, and if you read the sequal, it definitely would kill your good memories of the originals, therefore you better not try them if you love these two books. Forget about other no-big-deal western writers, gentle readers, reading these two great ones is more than enough

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Summary: Brules is the best of the best, and he proves it.
Review: This is one of the best books that I have read about the old west. The detail that Mr. Combs puts into this book is just awsome. After you read this book you will want to go and saddle a horse, strap on you .38 Smith & Wesson, put your model 66 Winchester in its sheath and have your own adventures. If you like Louis L'amour's books then you will love Brules. He is the man that we all wish we could have been, in the time of history when survival of the fittest was the way of the land. This was a hard time that demanded hard men to tame the "wild west". What they got in Brules was one of the harderst and most dangerous men(when rialed) they could have imagined. Brules is one of the men that legends are made of. This IS the best western book that I have read and I highly recommend this book to any person who is fascinated about the time and people.

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Summary: Heart stopping adventure-the best of the very best
Review: This is one of the best stories I've ever heard, although I haven't heard many it will be very tough to beat. I've listened to the tape probably 20 times and the 20th was every bit as exciteing,scary,sad and exhillerating as the first. A definate good "listen"! I give it a gazillion stars.

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Summary: My Favorite Novel of the Frontier West
Review: This novel absorbed and transported me as few others of the genre have. Cat Brules is a simple, utterly uneducated, natively ingenious man who suffers extreme hardship and personal loss but continues to wage his wars, trying to overcome both the Comanches and his own devastation, and succeeding in ways he never expected. A professional critic I am certainly not, but an avid reader of many genres - this is in my top five favorite novels of any kind - ever. Read it (but read the unabridged version) and love it.