Five Star First Edition Westerns - Night Hawk: A Western Story

Stephen Overholser

ISBN 10: 1594143382 / ISBN 13: 9781594143380

Published by Five Star, 2006

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Five Star First Edition Westerns - Night Hawk: A Western Story
• Publisher: Five Star
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594143382
• ISBN 13: 9781594143380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

A Spur Award-winning author

All manner of folks journeyed West - swift and slow, young and old, town and country, straight and crooked. In those days the greenest greenhorn on a cattle ranch was usually a fresh-faced kid who had drifted West, a "maverick" cut loose from kin for one reason or another. On the Circle L Ranch that autumn the ramrod hired such a kid to work as wrangler by day and night hawk after sundown. That scrawny kid booted off the train in Coalton was not so much lean and mean as he was just plain skin and bones. The kid was wound as tightly as a watch spring, and anyone who rode with him in those days will not soon forget him. The kid may have had a given name - some suspect him of being a criminal - but at the Circle L Ranch he is given the name "night hawk" and it sticks. Night Hawk is certain to join that select company as one of his best, a story filled with drama, tension, and excitement.

Stephen Overholser was born in Bend, Oregon, the son of Western author, Wayne D. Overholser. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado where he lives with his family.

Reviews

The kid was booted off a freight train in Coalton, Colorado, where he was forced to beg for food. Then the sheriff convinces the ramrod at the Circle L Ranch to take the kid on as a chore boy. Soon the kid is doing all the jobs on the Circle L no one else wants, from cleaning out the barn to saddling the cowboys' horses in the predawn hours. He never provides his name so the rest of the hands refer to him as Night Hawk. It isn't a term of affection because the kid is as ornery as a wounded possum. He picks fights he can't win and has the appetite of a post-hibernation bear, with table manners to match. But the ramrod senses something in him and decides to see if the kid has what it takes to become a man. Overholser never ceases to amaze with his memorable characterizations and his unerring depiction of the hardships and rewards of western ranch life. An excellent novel that one hopes would snag a readership beyond genre fans. Wes Lukowsky
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