December 2012 | Mule Trader

Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Great reading for history buffs relating facts about the people, cities, politics involving the making of whiskey. The town of Lynchburg, Tennessee with the whiskey distillery is still very much active today 9-11-2009 as I visited this historical town in August of this year. Jack Daniels appeared to...

Savannah (The Civil War Battle Series, Book 9) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)SAVANNAH, the ninth book in James Reasoner's The Civil War Battle Series, concerns itself mainly with the two youngest of the surviving Brannon brothers, Cory and Henry.Cory, now with General Hardee's troops, takes part in the long, fruitless struggle to save Atlanta from the advancing Federal troops...

Skeleton Lode (Sundown Riders, #6) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book for my dad to read and he brought it back to me and I read it and I had to apologize - this is, without a doubt, the worst Western I have ever read.What makes it so bad?When I read a Western, I expect a certain amount of realism. I am not talking about the picky, picky details like...

Life Amongst the Modocs Unwritten History Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Loved the rustic descriptions and accounts of primative life and actions between the indians and gold seekers. Joaquin Miller was in the ironic position of being married to an indian woman and was attacked by miners and was also park of a posse that attacked indians in retaliation for a precious attack...

My Lady Wayward (Sonnet Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The mummer finds the severely injured knight, Gresham Sedgewick lying unconscious near his hurt but awake squire. The mummer takes Gresham to the nearby St. Swithin's Abbey where the nuns can nurse him back to health even as his frightened squire flees. Siblings, Meg and Elizabeth Redclift, are the...

Santa Fe Passage Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There have been many novels about the Santa Fe Trail, most of which tell little if anything about the historic route, but Santa Fe Passage is based on extensive research and is by far the best historical novel about the Trail. Jon Bauman, an international lawyer with special interest in Latin America,...

Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A trip through Peru nearly a century ago that is as compelling now as when Bingham wrote the book. We are always looking for something we know is 'out there'. Hiram Bingham not only found what he was searching for, but the added surprise experience of seeing the breath taking beauty of Macchu Picchu....

Come Sundown Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Blakely is more than an author. I couldn't put this book down. It has history that should be required reading for every high school student to learn about the western plains tribes and the Europeans moving in. Blakely weaves classical music through battles, philosophy from both the European and Indian...

Hard Tack and Coffee Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Josh Billings served with the 10th Mass Battery of Light Artillery during the Civil War. After having written the Official "History of the 10th Mass Battery" he responded to numerous requests to write a book about daily life in the Union Army. "Hardtack and Coffee" is an unpretentious, humorous look...

Forty Acres: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Phyllis Dixon has managed to capture in graphic details, the circus which surfaces at the first sign of illness or death. Her portrayal of family struggles over money and property was definitely accurate.But this story was not just about bickering over assets, it was a reminder of just WHAT that 40 acres...

Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was doing a booksigning with western writing icon Elmer Kelton a while back and picked up his book "Lone Star Rising." It's a trilogy of Texas Ranger stories featuring a ranger by the name of Rusty Shannon, and an ongoing feud with several generations of Comanche warriors, set against a cast of other...

The Small Woman Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a true story of an insignificant English maiden who went to China to tell the Chinese people of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Alan Burgess weaves a masterful tale, including harrowing escapes, a clash of cultures and customs, extreme poverty and deprivation, amidst an enchanting background of picturesque...

First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Sir Richard F Burton is one of the most famous of unread authors. Nearly everyone can tell you about his scandalous doings with native women, his marriage to an ultra-Catholic Englishwoman, and the latter's destruction of the author's private papers after his death. Ever since I read Fawn Brodie's excellent...

Refuge Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Those who are lucky to know Dot Jackson's writing as a journalist and columnist have long awaited this, her first novel, and she does not disappoint. Luminously written, evocative, and filled with a deep love for her Appalachian roots, Refuge is a new American masterpiece. You will be homesick for the...

Hard Tack and Coffee: Soldier's Life in the Civil War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a very genuine and accurate account of a subject that has always fascinated me. It is written by the person who would know the material best--a genuine Civil War soldier--in excruciating detail and a suprisingly lively, colorful style for a book of nonfiction, not the stuffy, pompous style of...

The Frasers-Clay Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ana has done it again! The Mackinzies were great , but the Fraser's are going to be even better. Ana has done a great job of depicting the hardships of that era, but moreover has shown Rebecca as a very strong, and determined woman to make this journey to the West. And then to make it even better, Rebecca...

Aztec Fire Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)After having read Aztec Rage I was pumped to read this next installment in the series. While it had a good beginning, once the plot was taken overseas, the author's just seemed to cram too many underdeveloped stories into the trip inorder to take our character around the world. Each new region encountered...