Nicely written! Shows a few signs of its time, though. Coupla words made me jump.

Luck Lindsay is a movie creator and director, specializing in "westerns". This is in olden times when movies were silent. But, he got sick of the formulaic shoot-em-up movies that Hollywood was turning out and wanted to produce something that represented the "real" west of olden times, i.e. real cow

Very good read!

Seemed a little bit dragy because it contained so much descriptive material, but I enjoyed the script and had an ending in line with my expectations.

This is a meta work: a Western novel that explores what a Western ought to be. Bower runs with this theme at a time when Zane Gray and other pulpy writers in print and on screen had a firm reign over the Western myth —black hats and white hats; crooning maidens and high noon showdowns. Bower didn’t

Great western tale

I found the telling of the early movies and the western connection fascinating. I have read other books in this series and all were good but this was the best so far.