Goodbye to the Purple Sage: The Last Great Ride of the Sheriff of Medicine Creek.

by Rex Benedict

Goodbye to the Purple The Last Great Ride of the Sheriff of Medicine Creek. [library] Benedict, Rex [Jan 01, 1973]

120 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Noah Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a child I woulod read this book over and over by the light of a streetlamp outside my window while I was supposed to be asleep. It was a formative read for me that inspired my love of spaghetti western films. There's a romantacism to it that makes it and it's sequel 'the ballad of Cactus Jack' an absolute pleasure to read. It makes me sad that these aren't better known.

[Liberty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful!

[Greg Conant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this back when I was in middle school. One of the very few books that I remember after all these years. I really enjoyed it. Good comedy and a decent storyline.

[Sheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining, but not as good as Benedict's Good Luck Arizona Man. Both books are funny and sometimes silly, but in Arizona Man the silliness doesn't overwhelm the plot, and in this one it sometimes does, I think. Both books are coming of age stories, but Goodbye to the Purple Sage is kind of a love note to westerns as well, which makes it more diffuse and more prone to going off the rails a bit.

Both are worth reading, but Arizona Man is brilliant, while this book is merely fun.

[Joe Baptist · Rating 5 out of 5]

Carrying on from "Good Luck Arizona Man", Benedict takes us on another ramble through a West that's filled with crazy characters, humor, action, and poetry (but not in a girly way). This is another one to share with your children and friends, truly delightful. The real West may never have been like this, but this is the way I wish it (still) was.