Brules: A Novel

by Harry Combs

Book Overview

There once was a time when longhorns bawled and cowboys hollered on the dusty Chisholm trail . . . When wild young men toting six-shooters danced with saloon girls and dreamed of the mother lode . . .... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440217288
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Island Books
• Length: 695 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.6" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

My Favorite Novel of the Frontier West

This novel absorbed and transported me as few others of the genre have. Cat Brules is a simple, utterly uneducated, natively ingenious man who suffers extreme hardship and personal loss but continues to wage his wars, trying to overcome both the Comanches and his own devastation, and succeeding in ways he never expected. A professional critic I am certainly not, but an avid reader of many genres - this is in my top five favorite novels of any kind - ever. Read it (but read the unabridged version) and love it.

BRULE'S

THIS BOOK BY HARRY COMBS IS FABULOUS. THE DETAILS OF THE AREA ARE SUPERB. AS WE LIVE VERY CLOSE BY AND HAVE BEEN TO THIS SPOT MANY TIMES, WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS PRECISE DETAIL. THE STORY IS SO EASY TO FOLLOW AND CAPTIVATING, WE COULD NOT WAIT TO OBTAIN THE NEXT 2 BOOKS. MANY OF OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN NORWOOD HAVE ORDERED THIS ON OUR RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU HARRY COMBS.

Wonderfu

Exciting, heroic adventure written with a knowledge of the geography and history of the Southwest.

Heart stopping adventure-the best of the very best

This is one of the best stories I've ever heard, although I haven't heard many it will be very tough to beat. I've listened to the tape probably 20 times and the 20th was every bit as exciteing,scary,sad and exhillerating as the first. A definate good "listen"! I give it a gazillion stars.

Brules is the best of the best, and he proves it.

This is one of the best books that I have read about the old west. The detail that Mr. Combs puts into this book is just awsome. After you read this book you will want to go and saddle a horse, strap on you .38 Smith & Wesson, put your model 66 Winchester in its sheath and have your own adventures. If you like Louis L'amour's books then you will love Brules. He is the man that we all wish we could have been, in the time of history when survival of the fittest was the way of the land. This was a hard time that demanded hard men to tame the "wild west". What they got in Brules was one of the harderst and most dangerous men(when rialed) they could have imagined. Brules is one of the men that legends are made of. This IS the best western book that I have read and I highly recommend this book to any person who is fascinated about the time and people.