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The Fugitive Trail
In order to save his cowardly gambler brother, Bruce Lockheart hits the fugitive trail, accused of a crime he did not commit and pursued by a relentless ranger and the woman who loves him. He is doomed to lie, kill and forever ride the Fugitive Trail.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1957
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Zane Grey
2,029 books579 followersPearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and a series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater based loosely on his novels and short stories.
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June 6, 2019
Assim como qualquer leitor, tenho as minhas preferências literárias, os meus autores preferidos e nunca nas minhas hipóteses de leitura, tinha sequer equacionado dar oportunidade a um estilo que me era de todo desconhecido:🔫"Western"🔫.
Não estou arrependido, antes pelo contrário, estou chateado comigo mesmo por nunca ter pensado neste estilo como algo elegível.
Tive o cuidado nesta primeira abordagem de escolher um autor reconhecido pelo seu trabalho em "livros de cowboys ". Fiquei surpreendido pois logo nas primeiras páginas o autor "empurrou - me" para o "Velho Oeste Americano" onde por lá fiquei durante 3 fantásticos dias (o tempo que levei a ler o livro 😁).
Zane Grey consegue transportar-nos até aqueles tempos imortais dos duelos entre "cowboys" dos "saloons" das perseguições a cavalo... com descrições muito suaves e nada "pesadas".
A escrita do autor é bastante fluída e lê - se sem pestanejar.
A história desenrola-se na zona do Texas e tem como centro uma decisão altruísta do personagem principal que assume a culpa de um assalto a um banco (não efetuado por ele) de forma a proteger várias pessoas que ama. Ele decide fugir e é perseguido pela polícia da fronteira . É então neste enredo que entra o poder da amizade, do amor, da camaradagem que raramente vemos nos livros de hoje.
Aconselho vivamente a qualquer tipo de leitor este livro sem dúvida alguma!!!
Se vou continuar a ler "cowboiada"? Of course!!!!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🐎🐎🐎
Não estou arrependido, antes pelo contrário, estou chateado comigo mesmo por nunca ter pensado neste estilo como algo elegível.
Tive o cuidado nesta primeira abordagem de escolher um autor reconhecido pelo seu trabalho em "livros de cowboys ". Fiquei surpreendido pois logo nas primeiras páginas o autor "empurrou - me" para o "Velho Oeste Americano" onde por lá fiquei durante 3 fantásticos dias (o tempo que levei a ler o livro 😁).
Zane Grey consegue transportar-nos até aqueles tempos imortais dos duelos entre "cowboys" dos "saloons" das perseguições a cavalo... com descrições muito suaves e nada "pesadas".
A escrita do autor é bastante fluída e lê - se sem pestanejar.
A história desenrola-se na zona do Texas e tem como centro uma decisão altruísta do personagem principal que assume a culpa de um assalto a um banco (não efetuado por ele) de forma a proteger várias pessoas que ama. Ele decide fugir e é perseguido pela polícia da fronteira . É então neste enredo que entra o poder da amizade, do amor, da camaradagem que raramente vemos nos livros de hoje.
Aconselho vivamente a qualquer tipo de leitor este livro sem dúvida alguma!!!
Se vou continuar a ler "cowboiada"? Of course!!!!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🐎🐎🐎
February 28, 2023
La traducción pésima.
La narración deslavazada y fragmentada
Los personajes patéticos y completamente inmaduros; Bruce y Trinity tienen rasgos de adolescentes en plena pubertad; intentando parecer épicos o trágicos llegan al más absoluto ridículo.
Autenticos diálogos para besugos.
Un libro para olvidar.
La narración deslavazada y fragmentada
Los personajes patéticos y completamente inmaduros; Bruce y Trinity tienen rasgos de adolescentes en plena pubertad; intentando parecer épicos o trágicos llegan al más absoluto ridículo.
Autenticos diálogos para besugos.
Un libro para olvidar.
March 2, 2023
Ladies and gentlemen I have to start writing new reviews, because I have run out of all the ones I had (I have a little bit of space before the Madrid Football Derby (If anyone is interested in the result of that match it was a draw to one).
This novel, which he went on to comment on is a western, and it is the second book I read to the writer Zane Grey. The first of the books, which I read to this author was "The Way of the Rainbow", https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (this novel was advised to me by my father, and it was very much to his liking, and my grandfather. Although my grandfather preferred Oliver Curwood https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (who thought he was Canadian, but he wasn't). My paternal grandfather. Many say, I am his living portrait. He was always a pessimist as a servant, and he feared the start of a Third World War, or an Atomic War, and thought that the best way to avoid it was to emigrate to Canada, or like Butch Cassidy, and Sundance Kid in Two Men, and a Destiny/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... to Bolivia. To this day I would not go to any of those countries) which was a criticism of the Seventh-day Adventists, as would Sir Doyle in the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes "Study in Scarlet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (the first case of Sherlock Holmes, and that the writers of the series turned into Studio in Pink https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... fascinating the face-to-face scene between Benedict Cumberbatch, and Philip Jones the taxi driver).
He is a writer Zaney Grey in the vein of Karl May https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... for example. This writer also liked the English Catholic writer Graham Greene https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (if you have read my review of "The Fullness of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..., you probably know, when Graham Greene https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and Evelyn Waugh https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... recommend to anyone is that these writers are certainly very worthwhile. It should be remembered that Greene was very demanding both in his literary tastes, as cinephiles), who paid tribute to him in his wonderful novel (and best film) "The Third Man" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4.... One of the scenes that I liked the most, and that reminds me of another of the "Istanbul Train" (with the writer Savory attacking the Bloomsbury group https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) is Greene/Rollo Martins' criticism of contemporary writers in a literary gathering made by the kind host Mr. Krabin https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (I already recommend this review, which has not been very successful, and I considered it not bad) by Graham Greene, and a satire of both those writers James Joyce https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Stein https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Layman, John Galsworthy https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Priestley https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Daphne Du Maurier https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (note to me I love the novels of Daphne Du Maurier, and if the intention of Graham Greene was to criticize it there I can not agree with him), but if in the spirit of his satire mocking a snobbish, and elitist, public that can identify with literary critics, which looks too much like the current praising a pretentious, and pedantic literature, above all ideologized, and secular, available to a very select public. Literature not as entertainment, or leisure, but as a vehicle of indoctrination, or social engineering. While supporting unpretentious writers like Zane Grey. After all, it is not illogical that Greene spoke well of Zane Grey, since the protagonist of the "Third Man" Rollo/Holy Martins (Holy in Carol Reed's iconic film) was a writer of western novels, who in the novel is mistaken for a follower of Henry James https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., it is unknown if he could be Hugh Walpole https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Regarding Hugh Walpole he was disappointed, and disappointed, when at the death of G.K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... his friend, and brother of arms the writer Hilaire Belloc told https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., that once G.K. Chesterton died the best English writer had died, and that now it was P.G. Wodehouse https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Hugh Walpole was furious, because he thought Hilaire Belloc would mention him.
In my opinion Grey is not as great a writer as Greene says, but he entertains, usually his novels have this starting point. Someone goes west after suffering a serious personal spiritual crisis, love, health, and that person goes west, and discovers faith (that happened to the protagonist of "By the Way of the Rainbow"), recovers health, and finds love. I think Grey never went west, but he gets his novels to convey the excitement of being there. In the end, and after all, if there is a key genre for cinema, that is the western, the least important thing is to tell us about the struggles between cowboys, and pre-Columbians, and if instead tell us moral dilemmas of the human being on that the greatness of this genre is based. I have always said that I expected fantasy novels, or role-playing novels to occupy the place of westerns both in the literary field and in the cinematographic field. In video games they have already found their niche. That's what makes the Western great, and why it's relevant. This story is no exception in this case it has a powerful Dostoyevskian imprint https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., it also has something of Victor Hugo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... especially concerning the part of Trinity, and Maggard the ranger which reminds me of Javert chasing a false culprit throughout the novel, or the Sam Gerrard/Phil Gerard (in the series) of The Fugitive, chasing Doctor Richard Kimball in a novel of miscarriage of justice of great French influence.
But in a more modest way. This story takes place in Texas, and tells the story of the Lockheart brothers (rather, only one of them) that of Barse Lockheart that is in the hands of bad companies like Quade Belton, and when his brother wants to get away from them he charges two in a shootout in a saloon (of course in self-defense) to two of the minions of Quade Belton. When he discovers that his brother Barse has participated in the bank robbery, as they are both in love with the same girl (Trinity, who sees everything, changes his love preferences to the other brother), Barse is the favorite of the family (like the Tristan of Legends of Passion / Legends of the Fall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... or James Dean's brother in John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...) convinces him to bear responsibility for the crime. So James Lockheart becomes an outlaw. There is a time when Trinity gets this name because he was born in the river of the same name, and was taken in by the Spencers (who do not like either of the two Lockheart brothers, and prefer that their ward, or foundling, marry their son Hal Spencer). Hal Spencer is not a bad man, and he knows that Bruce is a real man, unable to rob the bank. However Trinity after rejecting the repulsive Barse (who does not learn) escapes, and goes in search of his beloved Bruce Lockheart. That he will take varied trades to survive. Trinity will meet Maggard, who apart from chasing Lockheart will tell him of his resemblance to the missing daughter of a rich rancher named Melrose. A wealthy rancher threatened by a speculator, and cattle thief named Barnfield, but more dangerous than Barnfield is his henchman Stewart (who pretends to be Lockheart, ignoring that the real one is very much alive), who works for people like Chisum (who was played in the cinema among others by John Wayne). Lockheart is compared to William Boney aka Billy the Kid, which I think needs little introduction for American Goodreads users. Apart from that, the description of Texas is very good, and the prominent Hispanic presence there, which is seen by the place names (although Grey does not talk about Spain in this case, if he does in "The Way of the Rainbow" to praise it through the Navajo Nasta Bega in a line similar to that made by Charles Fletcher Lummis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , fleeing from the black legend of William H. Prescott https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , which some writer like Lew Wallace collects in "Blond God" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... ). Lockheart, who was about to kill Belton (who one expected more from him, and is far from being a villain to match. It reminded me of Jeremy Irons' character in Appaloosa), who reappears under another name. Anyway, they all converge on Melrose's ranch, I can almost imagine him embodied by some actor, such as Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Ward Bond, or Donald Crisp. One of Lockheart's friends (who adopts a pseudonym) is a Hispanic named Juan Vazquez, there are the Serks, they all help Melrose, the son of his second marriage, who is called Jack Spencer is almost a member of Bruce Lockheart's group, and he will also have his own warrior ritual, or his own baptism of weapons, Having a lot of future ahead of him, which is a colleague, and the foreman. Against Barnfield, and his second Stewart (more fearsome, than Barnfield himself). In this case providence influences a lot, because fortune always favors Lockheart, and will not do anything reprehensible (during this story. Everything will work out for him, and he will still hesitate), even if he feels like doing it, like getting rid of Barnfield, or Maggard (who more than Javert looks like the Porfiri of "Crime and Punishment" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7.... In the novel you can appreciate the very strong existential charge especially in James Lockheart seeing his temptations, passions, desires. (Maggard will always be reluctant to believe that Lockheart is the man he is looking for, since he is too honest, and does not fit the mold, that has been made of Lockheart, despite the little caution of Lockheart who only lacked to put a sign with electric lights saying Look I'm Bruce Lockheart, I am your Maggard man, and that Trinity will recommend prudence, and caution). When Lockheart kills it will do so according to the law, and following the concepts of the Just War https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... The ending is tender, and emotional in fact is what I liked most about the novel. Too bad the technical and literary limitations, otherwise I would have put more note on it. All in all it is a very entertaining novel. My grade is (3/5).
This novel, which he went on to comment on is a western, and it is the second book I read to the writer Zane Grey. The first of the books, which I read to this author was "The Way of the Rainbow", https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (this novel was advised to me by my father, and it was very much to his liking, and my grandfather. Although my grandfather preferred Oliver Curwood https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (who thought he was Canadian, but he wasn't). My paternal grandfather. Many say, I am his living portrait. He was always a pessimist as a servant, and he feared the start of a Third World War, or an Atomic War, and thought that the best way to avoid it was to emigrate to Canada, or like Butch Cassidy, and Sundance Kid in Two Men, and a Destiny/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... to Bolivia. To this day I would not go to any of those countries) which was a criticism of the Seventh-day Adventists, as would Sir Doyle in the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes "Study in Scarlet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (the first case of Sherlock Holmes, and that the writers of the series turned into Studio in Pink https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... fascinating the face-to-face scene between Benedict Cumberbatch, and Philip Jones the taxi driver).
He is a writer Zaney Grey in the vein of Karl May https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... for example. This writer also liked the English Catholic writer Graham Greene https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (if you have read my review of "The Fullness of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..., you probably know, when Graham Greene https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , and Evelyn Waugh https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... recommend to anyone is that these writers are certainly very worthwhile. It should be remembered that Greene was very demanding both in his literary tastes, as cinephiles), who paid tribute to him in his wonderful novel (and best film) "The Third Man" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4.... One of the scenes that I liked the most, and that reminds me of another of the "Istanbul Train" (with the writer Savory attacking the Bloomsbury group https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) is Greene/Rollo Martins' criticism of contemporary writers in a literary gathering made by the kind host Mr. Krabin https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (I already recommend this review, which has not been very successful, and I considered it not bad) by Graham Greene, and a satire of both those writers James Joyce https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Stein https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., Layman, John Galsworthy https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Priestley https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , Daphne Du Maurier https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (note to me I love the novels of Daphne Du Maurier, and if the intention of Graham Greene was to criticize it there I can not agree with him), but if in the spirit of his satire mocking a snobbish, and elitist, public that can identify with literary critics, which looks too much like the current praising a pretentious, and pedantic literature, above all ideologized, and secular, available to a very select public. Literature not as entertainment, or leisure, but as a vehicle of indoctrination, or social engineering. While supporting unpretentious writers like Zane Grey. After all, it is not illogical that Greene spoke well of Zane Grey, since the protagonist of the "Third Man" Rollo/Holy Martins (Holy in Carol Reed's iconic film) was a writer of western novels, who in the novel is mistaken for a follower of Henry James https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., it is unknown if he could be Hugh Walpole https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Regarding Hugh Walpole he was disappointed, and disappointed, when at the death of G.K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... his friend, and brother of arms the writer Hilaire Belloc told https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., that once G.K. Chesterton died the best English writer had died, and that now it was P.G. Wodehouse https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . Hugh Walpole was furious, because he thought Hilaire Belloc would mention him.
In my opinion Grey is not as great a writer as Greene says, but he entertains, usually his novels have this starting point. Someone goes west after suffering a serious personal spiritual crisis, love, health, and that person goes west, and discovers faith (that happened to the protagonist of "By the Way of the Rainbow"), recovers health, and finds love. I think Grey never went west, but he gets his novels to convey the excitement of being there. In the end, and after all, if there is a key genre for cinema, that is the western, the least important thing is to tell us about the struggles between cowboys, and pre-Columbians, and if instead tell us moral dilemmas of the human being on that the greatness of this genre is based. I have always said that I expected fantasy novels, or role-playing novels to occupy the place of westerns both in the literary field and in the cinematographic field. In video games they have already found their niche. That's what makes the Western great, and why it's relevant. This story is no exception in this case it has a powerful Dostoyevskian imprint https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., it also has something of Victor Hugo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... especially concerning the part of Trinity, and Maggard the ranger which reminds me of Javert chasing a false culprit throughout the novel, or the Sam Gerrard/Phil Gerard (in the series) of The Fugitive, chasing Doctor Richard Kimball in a novel of miscarriage of justice of great French influence.
But in a more modest way. This story takes place in Texas, and tells the story of the Lockheart brothers (rather, only one of them) that of Barse Lockheart that is in the hands of bad companies like Quade Belton, and when his brother wants to get away from them he charges two in a shootout in a saloon (of course in self-defense) to two of the minions of Quade Belton. When he discovers that his brother Barse has participated in the bank robbery, as they are both in love with the same girl (Trinity, who sees everything, changes his love preferences to the other brother), Barse is the favorite of the family (like the Tristan of Legends of Passion / Legends of the Fall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... or James Dean's brother in John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...) convinces him to bear responsibility for the crime. So James Lockheart becomes an outlaw. There is a time when Trinity gets this name because he was born in the river of the same name, and was taken in by the Spencers (who do not like either of the two Lockheart brothers, and prefer that their ward, or foundling, marry their son Hal Spencer). Hal Spencer is not a bad man, and he knows that Bruce is a real man, unable to rob the bank. However Trinity after rejecting the repulsive Barse (who does not learn) escapes, and goes in search of his beloved Bruce Lockheart. That he will take varied trades to survive. Trinity will meet Maggard, who apart from chasing Lockheart will tell him of his resemblance to the missing daughter of a rich rancher named Melrose. A wealthy rancher threatened by a speculator, and cattle thief named Barnfield, but more dangerous than Barnfield is his henchman Stewart (who pretends to be Lockheart, ignoring that the real one is very much alive), who works for people like Chisum (who was played in the cinema among others by John Wayne). Lockheart is compared to William Boney aka Billy the Kid, which I think needs little introduction for American Goodreads users. Apart from that, the description of Texas is very good, and the prominent Hispanic presence there, which is seen by the place names (although Grey does not talk about Spain in this case, if he does in "The Way of the Rainbow" to praise it through the Navajo Nasta Bega in a line similar to that made by Charles Fletcher Lummis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , fleeing from the black legend of William H. Prescott https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , which some writer like Lew Wallace collects in "Blond God" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... ). Lockheart, who was about to kill Belton (who one expected more from him, and is far from being a villain to match. It reminded me of Jeremy Irons' character in Appaloosa), who reappears under another name. Anyway, they all converge on Melrose's ranch, I can almost imagine him embodied by some actor, such as Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Ward Bond, or Donald Crisp. One of Lockheart's friends (who adopts a pseudonym) is a Hispanic named Juan Vazquez, there are the Serks, they all help Melrose, the son of his second marriage, who is called Jack Spencer is almost a member of Bruce Lockheart's group, and he will also have his own warrior ritual, or his own baptism of weapons, Having a lot of future ahead of him, which is a colleague, and the foreman. Against Barnfield, and his second Stewart (more fearsome, than Barnfield himself). In this case providence influences a lot, because fortune always favors Lockheart, and will not do anything reprehensible (during this story. Everything will work out for him, and he will still hesitate), even if he feels like doing it, like getting rid of Barnfield, or Maggard (who more than Javert looks like the Porfiri of "Crime and Punishment" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7.... In the novel you can appreciate the very strong existential charge especially in James Lockheart seeing his temptations, passions, desires. (Maggard will always be reluctant to believe that Lockheart is the man he is looking for, since he is too honest, and does not fit the mold, that has been made of Lockheart, despite the little caution of Lockheart who only lacked to put a sign with electric lights saying Look I'm Bruce Lockheart, I am your Maggard man, and that Trinity will recommend prudence, and caution). When Lockheart kills it will do so according to the law, and following the concepts of the Just War https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... The ending is tender, and emotional in fact is what I liked most about the novel. Too bad the technical and literary limitations, otherwise I would have put more note on it. All in all it is a very entertaining novel. My grade is (3/5).
November 20, 2022
3/5
Bruce Lockheart se declara culpable de un robo cometido por su hermano y emprende una huida. En ella se encontrará con su antiguo amor, que ha ido en busca de sus padres biológicos, y tendrá que hacer frente a numerosos enemigos. Pero no estará solo, en el camino hará nuevas amistades que le acompañarán y defenderán ante estas adversidades. Es una historia bastante simple, que entretiene, pero que no fue muy bien traducida. Esto último saca de la trama en más de una ocasión. Pero bueno, dado que no es muy extensa, se puede afrontar su lectura sin demasiadas complicaciones. Una aventura entretenida, pero poco más.
Bruce Lockheart se declara culpable de un robo cometido por su hermano y emprende una huida. En ella se encontrará con su antiguo amor, que ha ido en busca de sus padres biológicos, y tendrá que hacer frente a numerosos enemigos. Pero no estará solo, en el camino hará nuevas amistades que le acompañarán y defenderán ante estas adversidades. Es una historia bastante simple, que entretiene, pero que no fue muy bien traducida. Esto último saca de la trama en más de una ocasión. Pero bueno, dado que no es muy extensa, se puede afrontar su lectura sin demasiadas complicaciones. Una aventura entretenida, pero poco más.
December 2, 2018
After killing the man who shot his dog, Melvin Palmer leaves Texas on the run with nothing but a rundown horse. Along the trail to the mountains her accumulates many enemies in his wake.
January 30, 2023
Assim como qualquer leitor, tenho as minhas preferências literárias, os meus autores preferidos e nunca nas minhas hipóteses de leitura, tinha sequer equacionado dar oportunidade a um estilo que me era de todo desconhecido:🔫"Western"🔫.
Não estou arrependido, antes pelo contrário, estou chateado comigo mesmo por nunca ter pensado neste estilo como algo elegível.
Tive o cuidado nesta primeira abordagem de escolher um autor reconhecido pelo seu trabalho em "livros de cowboys ". Fiquei surpreendido pois logo nas primeiras páginas o autor "empurrou - me" para o "Velho Oeste Americano" onde por lá fiquei durante 3 fantásticos dias.
Zane Grey consegue transportar-nos até aqueles tempos imortais dos duelos entre "cowboys" dos "saloons" das perseguições a cavalo... com descrições muito suaves e nada "pesadas".
A escrita do autor é bastante fluída e lê - se sem pestanejar.
A história desenrola-se na zona do Texas e tem como centro uma decisão altruísta do personagem principal que assume a culpa de um assalto a um banco (não efetuado por ele) de forma a proteger várias pessoas que ama. Ele decide fugir e é perseguido pela polícia da fronteira . É então neste enredo que entra o poder da amizade, do amor, da camaradagem que raramente vemos nos livros de hoje.
Aconselho vivamente a qualquer tipo de leitor este livro sem dúvida alguma!!!
Se vou continuar a ler "cowboiada"? Oh yeee!!!!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🐎🐎🐎
Não estou arrependido, antes pelo contrário, estou chateado comigo mesmo por nunca ter pensado neste estilo como algo elegível.
Tive o cuidado nesta primeira abordagem de escolher um autor reconhecido pelo seu trabalho em "livros de cowboys ". Fiquei surpreendido pois logo nas primeiras páginas o autor "empurrou - me" para o "Velho Oeste Americano" onde por lá fiquei durante 3 fantásticos dias.
Zane Grey consegue transportar-nos até aqueles tempos imortais dos duelos entre "cowboys" dos "saloons" das perseguições a cavalo... com descrições muito suaves e nada "pesadas".
A escrita do autor é bastante fluída e lê - se sem pestanejar.
A história desenrola-se na zona do Texas e tem como centro uma decisão altruísta do personagem principal que assume a culpa de um assalto a um banco (não efetuado por ele) de forma a proteger várias pessoas que ama. Ele decide fugir e é perseguido pela polícia da fronteira . É então neste enredo que entra o poder da amizade, do amor, da camaradagem que raramente vemos nos livros de hoje.
Aconselho vivamente a qualquer tipo de leitor este livro sem dúvida alguma!!!
Se vou continuar a ler "cowboiada"? Oh yeee!!!!! 🔫🔫🔫🔫🐎🐎🐎
April 30, 2017
I like everything by Zane Grey. I just could not believe that one brother would take the rap for another, tho, and that kind of colored my opinion of the rest of the story. It's also very fortunate that a three-year old girl who is found and brought into a family, later finds her real father. With these leaps of imagination it is a good story.
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December 29, 2021Note to self:
First time reading a straight Western novel. Seems like it's just a romance story with gunfire laid on top of themes of American exceptionalism. Might stick to horror and weird western if the next few books don't turn out anything interesting.
First time reading a straight Western novel. Seems like it's just a romance story with gunfire laid on top of themes of American exceptionalism. Might stick to horror and weird western if the next few books don't turn out anything interesting.
August 11, 2019
Outstanding!
The Best!Thanks Zane you have proven to be the great author who has been touted so much for your work!
The Best!Thanks Zane you have proven to be the great author who has been touted so much for your work!
December 30, 2022
Texas Rangers and bank robbers and rustlers, oh my!
All six Gun westerns have a face off at thirty paces. History only relates one such face of with Wild Bill Hickok killing his man with a shot through the heart at 75 feet. Given that, Bruce Lockheart becomes the soul of a man hunted through west Texas. The detail of the ground he rode and the troubles he faced ring as true as an arid wind or biting frost. You don’t question his reason for running. You see his need for hiding. And you will glory in his retribution. (This is a morality play, after all).
Zane Grey always could set a screen, put you on the fighting ground, let you live in his character’s thoughts. Never better than here.
No moralizing about bad Mormans. No condemning shallow, weak Easterners. No psychological analysis on the corruption of miss-understood gang leaders.
This is a story about a simple western couple living through a turbulent time to come out whole on the other side.
You can read it chapter-a-day or bing. The country and companionship will pull you in for a wonderful ride.
All six Gun westerns have a face off at thirty paces. History only relates one such face of with Wild Bill Hickok killing his man with a shot through the heart at 75 feet. Given that, Bruce Lockheart becomes the soul of a man hunted through west Texas. The detail of the ground he rode and the troubles he faced ring as true as an arid wind or biting frost. You don’t question his reason for running. You see his need for hiding. And you will glory in his retribution. (This is a morality play, after all).
Zane Grey always could set a screen, put you on the fighting ground, let you live in his character’s thoughts. Never better than here.
No moralizing about bad Mormans. No condemning shallow, weak Easterners. No psychological analysis on the corruption of miss-understood gang leaders.
This is a story about a simple western couple living through a turbulent time to come out whole on the other side.
You can read it chapter-a-day or bing. The country and companionship will pull you in for a wonderful ride.
February 10, 2009
I think this one is now my favourite Grey book. Nice twisty plot. Could have made a great depressing ending, but alas a nice happy one yet again...
June 13, 2023
I am a huge Zane Grey fan. I enjoyed this story, but it was one of my least favorites of his work. Too many remarkable coincidences to draw me into the story.
June 1, 2024
A very Zane Grey-style western romance that turns into an adventure, "The Fugitive Trail" (1957, well after Grey's death in 1939; I don't know if this was released in another form during his life or if it was released by the family posthumously) starts with a female protagonist Trinity Spencer deciding to marry the lesser of two brothers named Lockheart. Out of a teen crush obligation and long courting, she feels she owes it to the lazy and morally bankrupt brother Barse to marry him and fix him, though his brother Bruce is the better man, a hard working ranch hand and gunslinger; she has feelings for both but an obligation to Barse is carrying her decision.
When the loser brother Barse's crew of outlaws robs a bank, Trinity is hiding along their escape path and watches the honorable Bruce step in to take his brother's disguise and horse and tells him he'll take his place as the suspect, hoping that Barse will marry Trinity, turn his life around, and make her life better. This obviously pushes Trinity to finally fall in love with Bruce, who is now on the run from the law while protecting his brother's secret.
Trinity says the heck with all this and sets out in pursuit of Bruce and then we jump to Bruce's POV as he dodges Texas Rangers on his tail and outlaws who know he has a reputation to defend. His adventure eventually leads him to Trinity and they help a rancher against some cattle rustlers.
Verdict: A fun Grey western with two great protagonists and a better plot than his books usually have but held back a bit by a bit too much yokul-speak in the dialogue exchanges. If you are a Zane Grey or old westerns fan, I think you'll love "The Fugitive Trail."
Jeff's Rating: 3 / 5 (Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG
When the loser brother Barse's crew of outlaws robs a bank, Trinity is hiding along their escape path and watches the honorable Bruce step in to take his brother's disguise and horse and tells him he'll take his place as the suspect, hoping that Barse will marry Trinity, turn his life around, and make her life better. This obviously pushes Trinity to finally fall in love with Bruce, who is now on the run from the law while protecting his brother's secret.
Trinity says the heck with all this and sets out in pursuit of Bruce and then we jump to Bruce's POV as he dodges Texas Rangers on his tail and outlaws who know he has a reputation to defend. His adventure eventually leads him to Trinity and they help a rancher against some cattle rustlers.
Verdict: A fun Grey western with two great protagonists and a better plot than his books usually have but held back a bit by a bit too much yokul-speak in the dialogue exchanges. If you are a Zane Grey or old westerns fan, I think you'll love "The Fugitive Trail."
Jeff's Rating: 3 / 5 (Good)
movie rating if made into a movie: PG
November 16, 2024
El fugitivo
Un western de Zane Grey, el rey de este tipo de libros al comienzo del siglo pasado.
Un hombre, para salvar a su hermano, decide cargar con su culpa luego de atracar un banco.
Se inicia aquí una vida huyendo de la ley recorriendo el sur del país. Una mujer lo seguirá hasta el final.
Entretenido, sin alardes.
Un western de Zane Grey, el rey de este tipo de libros al comienzo del siglo pasado.
Un hombre, para salvar a su hermano, decide cargar con su culpa luego de atracar un banco.
Se inicia aquí una vida huyendo de la ley recorriendo el sur del país. Una mujer lo seguirá hasta el final.
Entretenido, sin alardes.
September 27, 2023
Interesting, pleasant, and clean mystery-romance penned by a master storyteller. Fine and clear narration. Worth the price and worth the reading.
Audiobook and hardcover.
Audiobook and hardcover.
October 14, 2024
Luv Zane Grey books!
This is a grand "old-time" western adventure, complete with rugged hardworking cowboys and a not so dainty heroine in beautiful mountain scenery.
This is a grand "old-time" western adventure, complete with rugged hardworking cowboys and a not so dainty heroine in beautiful mountain scenery.
January 12, 2025
I remember my mother reading Zane Grey books as a kid. It's predictable but entertaining.
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