Kid Calvert
Originally from Western Aces 1934-5
Altus Press 2015
Been on a bit of a western kick lately. I've read and enjoyed some western pulp, and got this volume on the strength of it being a "pulp hero" type volume (implied more in the Amazon blurb than the text itself). There are western pulp heroes (Zorro, Lone Ranger, Masked Rider, etc), but this appears to be a regular western pulp, without the outre elements of a Secret Agent X or the Doc Savage.
I say appears because I couldn't get that far. It might just be me, but the bizarre sentence structure and obscure slang made it come across like Yoda doing a Yosemite Sam impression. I shouldn't have to read a sentence three times to figure out "The cowboys rode their horses up a hill". I may be dumb and lazy, but this is an oater, not James Joyce.
The more literate among you are welcome to try yourselves.
Click here to read a sample.
Available for Kindle from Amazon.
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