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I'm a pretty avid reader but I also like to have an audio book going in my vehicle when I'm on the road. I have a pretty varied taste in books and authors but well over half of what I read and listen to is history or historical biography.
The latest audio book I've recently finished is Ride the Devi's Herd by John Boessenecker. It's received mostly good reviews on Amazon with a few negative ninnies who comment it's "too detailed". Well, the extraordinary detail is what made it attractive to me.
Case in point, Boessenecker writes a short section of Wyatt Earp's encounter with Thomas C. Toler, police chief of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a few years after the Earp's escapades in Tombstone. I'm familiar with Tolar as I've read a great deal about him and his involvement in one of the most famous and deadly shootouts of the late 1800's which occurred in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Interestingly, this shootout was between the Hot Springs Police Department on one side and the Garland County Sheriff's Office on the other. In his encounter with Wyatt Earp, Tolar ended up running Wyatt out of Hot Springs with him leaving peaceable enough.
(If you've never read about the Hot Springs gunfight there is a good account of it here: Lawmen's Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs | HistoryNet
I give Ride the Devil's Herd a thumbs up.
The latest audio book I've recently finished is Ride the Devi's Herd by John Boessenecker. It's received mostly good reviews on Amazon with a few negative ninnies who comment it's "too detailed". Well, the extraordinary detail is what made it attractive to me.
Case in point, Boessenecker writes a short section of Wyatt Earp's encounter with Thomas C. Toler, police chief of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a few years after the Earp's escapades in Tombstone. I'm familiar with Tolar as I've read a great deal about him and his involvement in one of the most famous and deadly shootouts of the late 1800's which occurred in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Interestingly, this shootout was between the Hot Springs Police Department on one side and the Garland County Sheriff's Office on the other. In his encounter with Wyatt Earp, Tolar ended up running Wyatt out of Hot Springs with him leaving peaceable enough.
(If you've never read about the Hot Springs gunfight there is a good account of it here: Lawmen's Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs | HistoryNet
I give Ride the Devil's Herd a thumbs up.
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