![]() ![]() A true fish out of water, Cash has never held a gun or ridden a horse, but he does have that sense of stick-to-itiveness that is characteristic of the people of the West. When he arrives in Glorious, he meets an oddball bunch of characters, and it is clear he doesn’t belong there. We’re not sure what he is running from in the opening pages, but we do get a nice flashback sequence later on that thoroughly grounds him in our hearts and minds. Louis to Glorious, AZ Territory in 1872, chasing after a girl, a lost love. ![]() The plot features Cash McLendon, a man on the run who makes the journey from St. They haven’t struck silver yet, but the handful of town founders have put everything in their hopes and dreams. ![]() While the town of Glorious, Arizona is fictional it bears all the markings of a wannabe silver mining bonanza town. It certainly shows up in his fiction as well. Jeff Guinn is a knowledgeable guy, a researcher extraordinaire with the nonfiction credits to prove it. If this first one is a true indicator of the rest of the series, I can emphatically say, I will be reading every book in the series, and any other fiction he decides to produce in the future. When I saw he had written a couple of western fiction tales I wanted to try them so now I have. I’ve been a fan of Jeff Guinn’s non-fiction work ever since I read Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, his informative and exceedingly readable account of the Barrow Gang. ![]()
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