Buckskin and Satin

By Romain Wilhelmsen

Book Overview

On July 14, 1882, the notorious Texas gunman, John Peters Ringo, was found beneath a blackjack oak tree some distance from Tombstone, Arizona, with a bullet in his head. Colonel Henry Hooker, Billy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865343071
• ISBN13: 9780865343078
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

This book was a good read. Fun, exciting and sexy. I love it when Authors bring in true life events, places and people and put their own slant on things. But it is still fiction. And who can really say what is true and what is not? If someone has a problem with Historical Romance Novels, they should curl up with a history book. Me, I like the historical slants surrounded by sizzling romance, excitment and humor, like my newest favorite "Anything, My Love" by cynthia Simmons. A sizzler with a hero to die for.

Buckskin and Satin

This is a book "old west" historians will especially enjoy. The author clearly has either lived on the trail or interviewed those that have, as you feel yourself in the landscape and inside the experiences the characters are living. The attention to detail is almost too good but typical of mainstream historical novels. The quality is mainstream too, and I would not be suprised if we see several more novels by this author. I've always loved reading about the "O. K. Corral and Wilhelmsen really made me rethink some of my assumptions about the events. As I love reading "historical anything" I found the characterizations of the minor characters to be the most interesting part of the book. Wilhelmsen has a knack for blending character, fact, and writer's license together in a thoroughly enjoyable novel. I'm looking forward to his next book as he has a fresh and exciting (and different) perspective on historical events that have been rehashed so many times I didn't think there could be new retelling. I'd recommend this book to Western or Historical fiction buffs.

The Real Story?

What really happened at the O.K. Corral? Who really killed Johnny Ringo? Based on (apparently) meticulous research, Wilhelmsen offers his own answers to these questions, and introduces some less well-known, but memorable characters drawn from this research, most notably the African-American Louis Hancock. Not all will agree with Wilhelmsen's conclusions, and some may be suprised at his interpretation of John Peters Ringo, but anyone interested in the "Old Southwest" should at least give this book a try.