Eugene Manlove Rhodes's masterpiece, "Pas? Por Aqu?", opens this collection of his short novels and stories, set in New Mexico, where he lived during the 1880s and 1890s. J. Frank Dobie praised Rhodes's artistry, and Bernard DeVoto thought he wrote "much the best dialogue . . . Of western characters since Mark Twain." Included are the novelettes "Good Men and True," "Bransford of Rainbow Range," and "The Trusty Knaves."
The stories are about "cowboys" but not of the shoot 'em up breed. Rhodes' dialog is very entertaining but it assumes you are literate and can relate to events and terms out of the late 19th and early 20th century. The characters are likable and the stories move along. Really fun reading and it is nice to have so many stories and short novels in one volume. Good value.
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