Comanche Prairie

by Giff Cheshire

Book Overview

In the title story 'Comanche Prairie', Torp Toynbee finally achieves his ambition as trail boss only to be falsely accused of murder. He escapes from jail but how can he prove his innocence while a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843955732
• ISBN13: 9780843955736
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A Battle for Life

Giff Chesire is known to us who love old fashioned, classic, traditional westerns and indeed I was glad to see Leisure begin to publish his work in paperback after so many years of not being able to find his work. Too bad they made the decision to quit printing mass market books. But about this book, all three stories are worth the price and capture the intensity and drama of what it was like to live in the West, particularly the great northwest of Oregon, where Giff Chesire lived. These are good stories, written by a man who loved his craft and it shows. An excellent read.

Western Action by Giff Cheshire!

Once again Lesiure Books offers modern-day readers the opportunity to sample the writings of a western writer who practiced his art in the '50s. In this case, Leisure presents two short novels and a short story by award-winning author Giff Cheshire. Cheshire grew up in a turn-of-the-century Oregon homestead, an upbringing that resonates in his western and north-western fiction. Cheshire's Oregon background is brought out by 'River of Gold,' the best piece in this volume. This story is a marvel, tracing, as it does, the development of Oregon and the importance of wheat farming to the region. Unlike the other two stories in this collection, 'River of Gold' takes its time to tell its tale of the common farm folk who settled Oregon and battled isolation, bad weather and the California gold rush which drained Oregon settlements dry of men as they headed south with gold fever. There's nary a gunfight in this tale but what a great piece of writing! To my mind, the two other pieces in this collection suffer from the same problem. The main characters in 'No Man's Range' and 'Comanche Prairie' find themselves in bad situations and react with a decisiveness and knowledge of their enemy that stretches credulity. Be that as it may, buy this book! 'River of Gold' alone is worth the price - it may not be your typical western but it's a wonderful, very human story that illuminates the role of the sod buster in settling the West.