Critique: Two great western stories by masters of the genre under one cover, "
Six-Gun Law: A Western Duo" (the seventh volume in the'Wind River Series' from Five Star Publishing) is a terrifically entertaining read from cover to cover.
Though most film aficionados associate John Wayne with the Colt Single Action Army revolver, in fact his first cinema
six-gun was a Remington New Model revolver.
As Woody Guthrie sang: "Some will rob you with a
six-gun, some with a fountain pen."
Lydia Lavill is outstanding as Calamity, a
six-gun toting gal with a reputation of being careless with the truth, and she cleverly exchanges her rough buckskin gear for a posh frock to win her man near the finale.
A
six-gun salute signalled the moment King Hussein's body, wrapped in a simple white shroud, was lowered into the ground before his eldest son and heir, King Abdullah II.
The dressing room is the panic room at Goodison now after the season started on Saturday with a
six-Gun salute.
Six-Gun Two-Step is a dark, brutal novel of suspense following the decidedly anti-heroic Timmy Thomas, a mid-20's man who supplements the meager income from his dead-end job by dealing cocaine, when he's not using the drug on himself.
Within less than two minutes the system can locate and pinpoint more than 40
six-gun artillery batteries and report their locations to higher commands.
"It is something seeing him not only on the cow, but he is in a white shirt and tie and wearing a
six-gun, probably common for the day, I guess," Savage says.
Such a simplistic worldview conveniently forgets that 1939 also brought such films as Death Rides the Range,
Six-Gun Rhythm, and The Man They Could Not Hang, advertised with the tagline, "Boris Karloff dares you to see this holocaust of horror!" To be sure, modern films can be decidedly more graphic and overt in their depictions of violence, and Schechter doesn't dispute that.
Traditionalists may prefer a good ol'
six-gun for their hunting partner.
And it'll keep the reader turning pages as fast as Hawthorne draws his
six-gun.