Clayt

By James Schnabel

From the back cover: "Clayt Shackelford may not have been cast in the same mold as his contemporaries, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. Nevertheless, this pocket-sized lawman keeps his lovely little... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945265042
• ISBN13: 9780945265047
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Romar Books, Ltd.
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unbridled Entertainment

I found "Clayt" to be unbridled entertainment. A captivating, humorous, semi-fictional story of courageous pioneers in Nez Perce country at the turn of the last century. If Clayt were made into a movie, it could be the wildest, funniest, Western spoof all time..It's back cover really tells it all:"Clayt Shackelford may not have been cast in the same mold as his contemporaries, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. Nevertheless, this pocket-sized lawman keeps his lovely little corner of the Wild West every bit as tidy as Dodge City or Abilene. Sometimes testy and prideful, occasionally confused, but ever resourceful, swift, fearless, and lucky, Clayt is more than a match for the villainies and villains that keep turning up in his bailiwick -Oregon's Wallowa Valley.When a whimsical Providence drops theN ez Perce Indian preacher Great Bear Who Runs Fast on the same square with Clayt, the game grows chancy and dangerous. After the U.S. Army's bloody defeat of Chief Joseph in the war of 1877, vengeful generals had railroaded through a law that forbade the Nez Perce from ever returning to their beloved ancestral lands around Wallowa Lake. Clayt doesn't think much of this law, but as a deputy sheriff is sworn to enforce it. Great Bear Who Runs Fast doesn't think much of the law either and declares to Clayt his intention to ignore it. The ensuing confrontation provides a unique and entertaining tale of an Oregon that really was."