The Big Trouble (Fiction)
Steve Frazee
Categories: Book Reviews
By: William Garwood 04/01/2008
Five Star, $25.95, HARDCOVER.
These three Steve Frazee short stories rounded up from the Golden Fifties pulps will introduce armchair adventurers to three, tough-fibered men with grit to spare. Jim Comstock in “The Man Who Rode Alone” came to the wild expanses of Wyoming to find ranchland but instead discovers he has signed on with a gunslick rustling outfit with no foreseeable way out. In “Payroll of the Dead,”?Sioux parties harass scout Jim Bennington, who doesn’t realize Custer’s command has been wiped out and its payroll seized as a war trophy. In “The Big Trouble,” a five-year-old Ute, He Cries, sees his first white men, who murder his entire family while he escapes. As an adult, he takes on the warpath in honor of his family. These three stories easily show why Frazee’s evocative Western novels have long had their devoted fans, not the least being moviegoers, since many of his stories have been adapted into major motion pictures.
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