Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse

by Peter Bowen

Book Overview

When the fossilized skeleton of a small, three-toed horse found inside a local bar turns out to be a hot commodity among the scientific elite from back East, Yellowstone Kelly is commissioned as a scout to lead one of several competing research parties into the wilds of Wyoming. In this dangerous and unpredictable territory, where angry Sioux and Cheyenne lurk behind every corner and a maniacal killer named Blue Fox is stalking the parties, each new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312241062
• ISBN13: 9780312241063
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

what's not to like?

Outrageous humor, a marvelous narrative voice: only the linguistically challenged or excessively straitlaced would hesitate about this book. Yes, the graphic and gruesome tortures and casual deaths are disturbing, but their outrageousness is in keeping with the fantastic tone of the book, which signals that nothing is to be taken too seriously or realistically. That said, however, the casual murders by frontiersmen supposingly upholding a code,the horrifying deaths perpetrated by Indians and the less sensational but equally horrifying treatment of the native Americans by the settlers and the government serve a real function in the novel, reminding us that much about the frontier West was brutal and not funny at all. By creating this balance between the humorous and the horrific Peter Bowen both entertains us hugely and offers an instructive underlying moral commentary. This is my first exposure to his writing, and I'm mightily impressed.