Charlie and the Sir

by Frank Roderus

After helping an English gentleman, known as the Sir, get out of potentially dangerous situation, Charlie must lead the Sir to the Crown B Ranch, owned by the Sir's sister, Elizabeth, who is being tormented by her dead husband's former partner, Justin Harper, who is determined to take over the ranch, but Harper and his gang are not prepared for the wrath of Charlie and the Sir. Original.

Genres: Westerns

180 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 1988

About the author

Frank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.

Reviews

[John Shearer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Char lie and the Sir

This is a pretty good read and is at all times interesting. The story has enough action to keep you interested and yet isn't full of blood and gore.

[Lisa C. · Rating 3 out of 5]

With so many glowing reviews I was expecting this to be way more than it was. The story was okay. The problem was the many errors in grammar. Too many times I couldn't determine out what was trying to be said so it became very distracting. I'm not talking about Charlie's western speech, either. Just plain old fashioned mistakes. One example I could think of right off was the cook was called Coosie half the time and Cookie the rest. I was really disappointed in this book.

[neal mirin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was all other in the story

the brand, ranch, and the lady of the ranch. the brother from England. and the hired ranch hand
you gust did not wrong lay the book down.it was clean ow thank you. informative it was. a joy it was.

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[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slightly atypical Western, but a very good one. I really liked the characters and the story was fun.