Long Ride

by Peter Dawson

Book by Dawson, Peter

296 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Peter is the pen name of author Jonathan Hurff Glidden. He was born in Kewanee, Illinois, in 1907, and studied English literature at the University of Illinois. In his career as a Western author, Glidden published sixteen Western novels and over one hundred and twenty short novels and short stories for the magazine market. His first novel, The Crimson Horseshow, won the Dodd, Mead Prize as the 1941 Best Western of the Year. He died in 1957.

Note: "Peter Dawson" was also a pen name used by Frederick Faust (better known another of his pen names, Max Brand). Care should be taken when attributing books.

Reviews

[Josh Hitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dawson is one of my favorites. Though this one may be closer to a 3.5. It starts like most of his works in that stuff is going on, and you have no ideal who or why, and you just catch up later. To me, that is a good way to keep a readers interest. However, this one has more moving parts than most of his works and gets a little out there. But the character work is solid like usual, and you still want to see how the main characters get along. Streak Mathiot is hired on to be a deputy marshal and to go undercover to see what happened to a deputy who was a friend of his. This friend was sent in to settle a feud between cattlemen and sheep men and hasn't been heard from since. Streak knows that he will have to play it by ear til he gets the lay of the land, but events happen quickly, which puts him in a bad way early.

Recommended, even mid level Dawson is worth a look. Though again, I do feel this one is slightly overwritten