Review: Adverntures of the True Wild West
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2012
When I was growing up in the 1950's and watching television, I watched the original Cisco Kid, Sky King and Roy Rogers.  Did the man really stuff his horse Trigger?  Anyway, we watched the continuation of television's cowboys with Bonanza, The Rifleman, Have Gun, will Travel, and Wagon Train.  Then came the Spaghetti Westerns and we were finally entertaining the idea of people in the Old West who might have been less honorable and more iffy when it came to their personal morals.  This is introducing two people in the Wild West who would have existed: Cash Laramie, who is claiming his own way in the White Mans' world via his Arapaho background, and Gideon Miles, a black man claiming the freedom of the frontier.  The stories in this volume speak of wrongs done and justice righted in the less than legalistic path.  They speak of vindication done in the rights of others who would be ignored.  They speak of the inclusion of those who would be maligned even in the openness of the new territories.  Edward A. Grainger in Vol. 1 in his tales of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles is presenting such anti-heroes who will uphold the law, go beyond it, and even make mistakes in the light of the occassion.  The price is right.  Volume 2 of the stories is available as well.  The Old West is still thriving in the works of Edward Grainger and other writers who are looking for the hankering of the sound of the Six Gun providing its own kind of justice.  Download this book and relive the Icon of the Wild Frontier.