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I wholeheartedly enjoyed this engaging rambunctious adventurous story based loosely on the life of African-American cowboy Nat Love a.k.a. Deadwood Dick. Gritty, brutal but wonderfully addictive as humor, perseverance, and a pinch of luck showcases the time, the 1870s, and place, the frontier, from the point-of¬-view of an African-American. A colorful cast of secondary characters (and the appearances of known Wild West persons) adds to the enjoyment of the story. The landscape is also a characte
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I don’t read westerns, but a GoodReads buddy read this and suggested it for January, so I checked it out and it was available in audio format from my library. Thank goodness is was an audiobook or I would not have enjoyed it—but the reader is VERY good. I didn’t care for the character’s cussing, but it mostly seemed exactly how the character would speak or react, so it was not as bothersome as in other books I have read. I really felt after reading this that you can teach an old dog new tricks a
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Feb 15, 2018
Deedee
marked it as to-read
