The Dead Ride Alone - Softcover

Work, James C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477837396 ISBN 13: 9781477837399

Publisher: AmazonEncore, 2013

Synopsis

A COWBOY'S QUEST

When Link Lochlin was thrown from a wild bronc that busted his arm, broke his leg and sorely bruised his ego, he likely would have died without the help of a giant of a blacksmith named Evan Thompson. Link owed Thompson his life, but all the smith asks is that Link deliver three chisels once his wound shave healed. Never one to sit still for long, Link is back in the saddle and heading off on his quest before his casts are off. Little does he suspect this simple delivery will lead him straight into a gang of horse thieves and an adventure that will forever change his life.

About this title

About the Author

Hometown: Estes Park, Colorado
Present home: Fort Collins, Colorado
Education: BA, MA English literature; PhD, Victorian Poetry.
Career: Professor Emeritus CSU (Western literature, nature writing, creative non-fiction)
Offices: President, Western Literature Association; Exec. Director, Colorado Seminars in Literature; Director, Rocky Mountain MLA. 
Awards: CSL Book of the Year (PROSE AND POETRY OF THE AMERICAN WEST); Frank Waters Society Literary Achievement Award ("The Lion at the Well"). Western Literature Association Wylder Award for Distinguished Service.
Activities: canoeing, hiking, camping, fly fishing
Interests: Western American history; archetypal mythology; etymology and rhetoric.

Most satisfactory accomplishments to date: 
(1)Discovering how to apply archetypal Arthurian legends to new fiction set in the American West, i.e. bringing Gawain and Lancelot to Wyoming;
(2)Selling a collection of amusing memoirs to an academic press--the Utah memoir "Don't Shoot the Gentile" is scheduled for September 2011 publication.
(3)Being modern-minded enough to have published on Kindle as well as writing articles for an on-line magazine, NewWest.Org

Edition details

• Publisher: AmazonEncore
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477837396
• ISBN 13: 9781477837399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288