An H. H. Lomax Western, #5
by
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PRESTON LEWIS
Genre: Historical Fiction / Western / Humor
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Date of Publication: February 5, 2020
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Date of Publication: February 5, 2020
Number of Pages: 449
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HISTORICALLY SOUND AND HILARIOUSLY FUNNY! H.H. Lomax meets Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield, Missouri, and is responsible for Hickok’s legendary gunfight with Davis Tutt. Fearing Hickok will hold a grudge, Lomax escapes Springfield and agrees to promote Joseph G. McCoy’s dream of building Abilene, Kansas, into a cattle town, ultimately leading the first herd to Abilene from Texas.Along the way, he encounters Indians, rabid skunks, flash floods, a stampede, and the animosities of some fellow cowboys trying to steal profits from the drive. Lomax is saved by the timely arrival of now U.S. Marshal Hickok, but Lomax uses counterfeit wanted posters to convince Hickok his assailants are wanted felons with rewards on their heads.
Lomax and Wild Bill go their separate ways until they run into each other a decade later in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, where Hickok vows to kill Lomax for getting him fired.
First Herd to Abilene is an entertaining mix of historical and hysterical fiction.
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DADDY BILL’S BONUS BOOK REVIEW: Thanks to my *connection* to Lone Star Literary Life, my dad, who is going
to be eighty-six this year, was introduced to the works of Preston Lewis. He
started with Bluster’s Last Stand, Lewis’s 4th book in the
H.H. Lomax series, and then gobbled-up the first three books in the series
before I had a chance to try and get him signed copies from the author (perks). Lewis has put out two beefy anthologies in the last few months (Western Collection,
Volumes 1 & 2), and Pop’s already read those, too. He has a tough time holding print books anymore,
so he is not happy that Rio Ruidoso is only available as a paperback. And I think he is a little jealous, too, because I have read it and he has not.
But his revenge is that he read First Herd to Abilene the same week it
published, which was well before we featured the book on Lone Star Book Blog
Tours. Pop is a certified SUPER-FAN.
Since I have not yet had the pleasure of reading First
Herd to Abilene, I thought I would ask Pop for his thoughts on the book, and below is
what he said. Please enjoy DADDY BILL’S BONUS BOOK REVIEW.
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FIRST HERD TO ABILENE is the saga of a man who was
dealt a number of cow patty sandwiches in his life, but he managed to gain sustenance
from them —while bringing some true-to-life (many times grim) humor to his life
and experiences.
Lewis’s narrative of the cattle drive is one of the best,
and probably truest, I have read, as were his depictions of what we have been led to
believe were Western heroes, who in true life were far from that. H.H. Lomax is a great and often humorous
character, and his various experiences are so widespread that you wonder how
his life was big enough to have them all.
Starting out with $3 and Old Abe, his Army mule (not to be confused with
jackass of human or animal kind), who had the habit of kicking out anytime the
name Jefferson Davis was spoken, to heading up the first cattle drive to
Abilene, Kansas, and on and on (all narrated in the first person), FIRST
HERD TO ABILENE is indeed great reading.
If you enjoyed the Lomax character in the previous books,
this is a somewhat stronger man than what we have seen before.
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Dad bought his own digital copy of First Herd to Abilene and his opinions are his own (though I might share them from time to time.)
Preston Lewis is the Spur Award-winning author of thirty novels. In addition to his two Western Writers of America Spurs, he received the 2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Western Humor for Bluster’s Last Stand, the fourth volume in his comic western series, The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax. Two other books in that series were Spur finalists. His comic western The Fleecing of Fort Griffin received the Elmer Kelton Award from the West Texas Historical Association for best creative work on the region.
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