* Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
* Publisher: Pocket (October 1, 1997)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0671891685
* ISBN-13: 978-0671891688


This is another book I just finished – for the second time <g> It’s pretty good reading – just don’t take it as totally factual!

Basically I read the back cover of this book and since it mentions some of my long ago relatives (the Sixkillers) I just had to read it. Most people are well aware that Larry McMurtry is a good author of western type books so I won’t go into much about that. I thoroughly enjoyed this book – it’s written in typical McMurtry style (altho Diana Ossana is listed as co-author) Low key but filled with details that would seem to be typical of life back then in Oklahoma territory, it tells the story of Zeke Proctor and his friend, Ned Christie. Both men existed in real life – there is a lot of info on the web especially about Ned Christie, a kind of folk hero at the time. The two men were good friends and the book tells the story of their lives during a rather lawless time of history not long after the civil war. Loosely based on facts, this novel still gives one a good feel for the times and the place where it all happens. Neither man is portrayed as a typical hero which gives the novel the feel of an autobiographical book. Lots of gun play and action along with down home humor and talk – great book about the Cherokee people at that