The Ysabel Kid (2013)
“That was the order President U.S. Grant gave so lightly, back in Washington. It was however an order that would not be so easy to carry out, and that General Philo Handiman knew in every campaign-toughened inch of his body.
The Civil War was over and had been for a year or more now. With peace the Government in Washington was turning its attention to the problem of Mexico where the French usurper, Maximilian, ruled the country with the bayonets and sabres of his troops and Benito Juarez fou...ght back with the savagery of one possessed.
The United States gave long consideration to the matter for they did not want a European controlled country on each flank of their young and fast growing nation. The decision to lend help to Juarez came after long argument. Canada was firm under the distant Grandmother so the United States looked south. There was a large, well armed, equipped and battlewise Army ready to move.
Then someone remembered old Bushrod Sheldon.MoreLess
The Civil War was over and had been for a year or more now. With peace the Government in Washington was turning its attention to the problem of Mexico where the French usurper, Maximilian, ruled the country with the bayonets and sabres of his troops and Benito Juarez fou...ght back with the savagery of one possessed.
The United States gave long consideration to the matter for they did not want a European controlled country on each flank of their young and fast growing nation. The decision to lend help to Juarez came after long argument. Canada was firm under the distant Grandmother so the United States looked south. There was a large, well armed, equipped and battlewise Army ready to move.
Then someone remembered old Bushrod Sheldon.MoreLess
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Guest 2 years ago
An elementary piece of fact. Edson writes that Dusty is going to the stream to "wash out the coffee pot, and allow it to cool", because they're moving camp. Washing out the coffee pot cools the damned thing right away.Edson makes so many simple errors like this that I do not know how he came to be a best selling author at all. He is NO class compared to , say, Max Brand. Or even the boring and repetitious Louis L'Amour.
Guest 2 years ago
So stupidly contrived. It would take a large cannon ball to destroy the pillow beyond repair. A bullet would just go through it and the bedding, finally plough into the floor., It would leave a small hole that a finger might get into. Such patent inaccuracy just to add unbeccessary nonsense like his groaning because he had to sleep another night out...Pure padding to extend an already mediocre story. And poorly written , full of errors of fact like the pillow.How did Edson become regarded as a top western novelist.??
Guest 2 years ago
I don't understand the using of percussion caps and powder, very prevalent in Edson's stories no matter what the date is supposed to be. Colt and other had issued several models which just loaded shells into the cylinders with nom messing around.Do all of Edson's characters have to show certain eccentricities. Another thing. If Dusty Fog (why not 2 "gs" ) was promoted to be a captain at age 17 why did he never get further promotion. With all his achievements he should have been a general by War's end.
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