The Last Ride - Hardcover

Wolfe, Ethan J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1432829327 ISBN 13: 9781432829322

Publisher: Five Star, 2014

Synopsis

In 1885, Walter Burke and his two partners make their living as bounty hunters as a means to secure

enough money to buy the cattle ranch they always dreamed of owning. When Walter's sister passes away,

Walter takes a trip east to assume responsibility of her only son. As an heir, the boy stands to inherit his

mother's estate, despite protests from the boy's stepfather. Walter takes the boy west on a journey into

a world he has only read about in schoolbooks and dime store novels. Midway through their travels, the

boy's stepfather kidnaps the boy for his inheritance. Walter and his partners form a cross country, Pony

Express type ride in a desperate attempt to foil the stepfather and save the boy's life.

About this title

About the Author

Although born in New York City, Ethan J. Wolfe began a fascination with the Od West as a child and studied the western culture, myths

and history all his life. He has traveled the west and visited many of the sights and locations made famous in western folklore. The Last

Ride is his first western novel, the first of many more to follow.

Reviews

Just before the Civil War, impoverished Walter Burke fulfills a deathbed promise and sends his little sister east to New York. He joins the Pony Express in order to fund her education and continues sending money from his earnings as a bounty hunter. Then, in 1885, he’s summoned to New York for the reading of his sister’s will. Walter is entrusted with accompanying his sickly, though very rich, nephew to San Francisco, delaying his own plans, with two buddies from the Pony Express, to set up his Wyoming ranch. More delays come when Walter decides to take the boy into the wilderness and make a man of him, though these are by far the novel’s most winning scenes, as Walter’s rough ways are leavened with patience and tenderness. When the boy is kidnapped by his sleazy stepfather, Walter and his pals undertake a last Pony Express ride to rescue him, as unlikely a set of events as anything in a Max Brand novel, but good-hearted and entertaining. --John Mort

Edition details

• Publisher: Five Star
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1432829327
• ISBN 13: 9781432829322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250