“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”
+ N Y Times p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w
“The story has ‘punch.’”
+ Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w
RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD. Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–6711
A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war. Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen, gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the winning of Ramona.
Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20 Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 40w
“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn material.”