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Journal of the Gun Years

By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Summary

From New York Times best-selling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master’s hand in this genre as well.

Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the “Hero of the Plains” for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling.

A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw—and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end.
©1991 RXR, Inc. (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“The best novel I read last year.” (Stephen King)
“The author gives his story a credibility and honesty unusual in the genre.” ( Publishers Weekly)
“Breathtaking…first-rate…impossible to put down. Mr. Matheson has done something remarkable: with a single novel he has placed himself in the front rank of Western novelists.” (Richard S. Wheeler, author of Vengeance Valley)

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A excellent book. Very well told.

Although Richard Matheson is more well known for his fantastical tales, such as The Shrinking Man or I am legend, this is realistic and down-to-earth an story of the old West. I very much enjoyed this book I would recommend it to anyone was interested in such stories.

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Phenomenal

Phenomenal book and performance. A great and thrilling western. i will surely miss Clay Halser. Such a great, realistic, human charactar.

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