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Price of a Horse: A Jeston Nash Adventure
by Ralph W. Cotton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper (1996-05)
ISBN: 0312957939
EAN: 9780312957933
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 339 pages
SKU: SA08072721s
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Exactly as shown, Covers flat and shiny, Spine uncreased, Text clean with NO marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Hoping to reclaim his prize horse from rustler Two Diamond Joe, Jeston Nash teams up once again with companion Quiet Jack and begins an adventure on the desert frontier that brings him up against a lawman and beautiful women.
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Customer Reviews
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A fine mixture of history, humor, and the old west.
Rating  (5)
Date: 1998-11-12
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked up my first Ralph Cotton novel while on vacation in Montreal. I read it on a train ride from Montreal to New York and loved every minute of it. When I returned to Chicago, I ordered the other five Jeston Nash novels from Amazon.com. Price of a Horse, the third in the series, is a fine read. The story never flags, the inclusion of historical characters (Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday to metntion two) doesn't seem forced, and there are moments of sly and side-splitting humor (the scenes with Nash and Gustav the cook had me laughing out loud). Cotton writes with the authority of a scholar and the easy style of a true storyteller. In his Jeston Nash novels he has managed to tell fast-paced, entertaining stories filled with action and humor and to slip in a few weightier issues (women's emancipation in this novel). He takes a genre form, elevates it to serious literature, and doesn't become boring. If you are a a fan of novels of the old west, buy this book (as well as the others in the series). You won't be disappointed.
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Fantastic new Western writer!
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-06-15
The day I found out Ralph Cotton and I shared
the same grandfather, the main character of this
book, I went out and found Price of a Horse and
dove in. I didn't know what to expect, since I'd
never heard of Ralph's work and had grown up
reading the wonderful novels of Louis L'Amour.
No way could this new guy, let alone a long lost
relative, prove to be a writer of merit.
Boy was I wrong! Price of a Horse is one of the
finest Westerns I have ever read, and the other two
Cotton novels I have read are at least as good or
better. He uses beautiful turns of phrase, slam-
bang action, nice period detail and well-drawn
characters. You don't find all this usually in one
Western novel. Usually you have to pick and choose
the merits of regular Western fare.
Not with Ralph, though. He has many more stories
to tell, hopefully all about our rapscallion grand-
father, James H. Beatty. Read on--you are sure to
enjoy.
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Mark Twain reincarnated
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-05-01
Cotton's use of humor ranks right up with the old master of American literature and he uses it in a way that weaves itself into the dark drama of the story page by page. Like his other work he is telling us much more than the title and story line implies. He exposes such things as spouse abuse, women's rights, and the male mindset of the 1800s while at the same time depicting the tragic depths man will sink to in order to defend some warped belief in right and wrong. The price of a horse becomes the value we place on the one thing we think we must have in life and the exagerated lengths we will go to to have it. (Did Billy the Kid really smoke pot?) His wisedom and insight into human nature is enchanting and enviable
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A who's who of outlaws
Rating (5)
Date: 1997-04-15
Ralf Cotton is the only writer with the energy to put Billy the Kid and Doc Holiday and Clay Allison together under the same roof and pull it off in way that doesn't read like a history book. First western I've enjoyed in years becaus it has action in it instead of sommebody trying to prove that they know what really went on in them days. Keep it up, pleas
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