Mo Griffin’s Night Riders in the Tallgrass is an uncomplicated cowboy story that, once Griffin gets up to speed, becomes an enjoyable adventure. More meticulous plot and hero development hinder this book from becoming a classic. Griffin captures the Kansas landscape, and his supporting characters are compelling and fun. Night Rider’s hero, Ty McCord, rides as a Confederate sharpshooter and Texas Ranger into the Kansas grasslands. He finds himself in trouble when he falls for a smart, hea

September 2013
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- Rough Drafts 9/13
- What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police?
- When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him?
- How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns?
- Western Horizons
- Opening Shot Dissected…
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- The Pies Have It
- Butter Me Up
- Long Road Home for Buffalo Bill Indian
- Who is Alice Paul?
- The Edge of Perfection
- The Final Camel Charge
- Jack Swilling
- Lights, Camera, Miracle?
- Great Movie (and TV) Hats
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- A Ride on the Wild Side
- Frontier Cavalry Trooper
- Dirty Words in Deadwood
- Skull in the Ashes
- Night Riders in the Tallgrass
- Max Evans’s Favorite Nature Reads
- On the Trail of Solomon Butcher
- Queen of the Cowtowns
- September 2013 Events