Tex

Hopalong Cassidy #10

by Clarence Edward Mulford

Book by Mulford, Clarence E.

Genres: Westerns

279 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1922

About the author

Clarence Edward Mulford was the author of Hopalong Cassidy, written in 1904. He wrote it in Fryeburg, Maine, United States, and the many stories and 28 novels were followed by radio, feature film, television, and comic book versions. Clarence was born in Streator, Illinois. He died of complications from surgery in Portland, Maine. He set aside much of his money from his book for local charities.

Reviews

[Jeff Tankersley]

In this old pocket western Tex Ewalt is "Tex" (1949), an honorable drifting card shark now going by the moniker Tex Jones when he arrives in Windsor and surveys the layout. The chummy fellow quickly takes a dislike to the big rancher in town named Williams and his nephew. There's a local mining outfit with some down-on-their luck miners not striking it very rich, and a sickly local train agent with a sister whom the weasely Williams nephew has an eye for. As the story moves along Williams and the nephew are quite oblivious to Tex's clever social needling into their affairs.

Verdict: A fun, slightly-dated western solo adventure with a prototypical knightly loner in the west trying to do the right thing.

Jeff's Rating: 3 / 5 (Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG

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