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(More customer reviews)OK, first things first. Ignore the review that claims there is something mystical/Cormac McCarthy about this book. Admit it, McCarthy can be daunting and hard work to read. Think Lonesome Dove, not Blood Meridian. Cobb's characters come to life immediately. He tells their stories in alternating chapters. He also inserts the diary of another central character, a kidnapped settler, that I feared would grow cloying, but didn't. How he resolves her situation initially seemed abrupt, but the more I thought about it, I realized it was the correct resolution. Cobb obviously has done his research. The book reeks of authenticity (and reeks is the right word when you consider his descriptions of life in an Arizona Army outpost in 1871). Oh yeah, did I forget to mention, Shavetail is a lot of fun to read. This is the best Western I've read since Lonesome Dove and up there with my all-time favorite, Welcome to Hard Times. Buy it. Read it. Enjoy.
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