Journal of the Gun Years - Softcover

Matheson, Richard

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528 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425132072 ISBN 13: 9780425132074

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 1992

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A survivor of the Civil War, Clay Halser must flee to frontier America when he kills a man in self-defense, and his action brings him notoriety as a gunslinger and encounters with Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hickock. Original.

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Review:

The best novel I read last year. Stephen King

The best western of the season! Booklist

The author gives his story a credibility and honesty unusual in the genre. Publishers Weekly

Breathtaking . . . first-rate . . . impossible to put down. Mr. Matheson has done something remarkable: with a single novel he has placed himself in the front rank of Western novelists. Richard S. Wheeler, author of Virgin River

A novel filled with remarkable surprises . . . a fine and unique book. Ed Gorman, author of Sleeping Dogs

A remarkable western novel. It strips the romanticism from the old West, but retains the blood-and-guts violence, as well as the high excitement of the frontier. Clay Halser's journals are the stuff of myth. Norman Zollinger, author of The Road to Santa Fe

Journal of the Gun Years is a three carat diamond. Read and enjoy it without delay. Max Evans, author of For the Love of Horses

Some of the best damn writing Matheson's done in his spectacular career. Loren D. Estleman, author of Gas City

"The best novel I read last year." --Stephen King

"The best western of the season!" --Booklist

"The author gives his story a credibility and honesty unusual in the genre." --Publishers Weekly

"Breathtaking . . . first-rate . . . impossible to put down. Mr. Matheson has done something remarkable: with a single novel he has placed himself in the front rank of Western novelists." --Richard S. Wheeler, author of Virgin River

"A novel filled with remarkable surprises . . . a fine and unique book." --Ed Gorman, author of Sleeping Dogs

"A remarkable western novel. It strips the romanticism from the old West, but retains the blood-and-guts violence, as well as the high excitement of the frontier. Clay Halser's journals are the stuff of myth." --Norman Zollinger, author of The Road to Santa Fe

"Journal of the Gun Years is a three carat diamond. Read and enjoy it without delay." --Max Evans, author of For the Love of Horses

"Some of the best damn writing Matheson's done in his spectacular career." --Loren D. Estleman, author of Gas City

-The best novel I read last year.- --Stephen King

-The best western of the season!- --Booklist

-The author gives his story a credibility and honesty unusual in the genre.- --Publishers Weekly

-Breathtaking . . . first-rate . . . impossible to put down. Mr. Matheson has done something remarkable: with a single novel he has placed himself in the front rank of Western novelists.- --Richard S. Wheeler, author of Virgin River

-A novel filled with remarkable surprises . . . a fine and unique book.- --Ed Gorman, author of Sleeping Dogs

-A remarkable western novel. It strips the romanticism from the old West, but retains the blood-and-guts violence, as well as the high excitement of the frontier. Clay Halser's journals are the stuff of myth.- --Norman Zollinger, author of The Road to Santa Fe

-Journal of the Gun Years is a three carat diamond. Read and enjoy it without delay.- --Max Evans, author of For the Love of Horses

-Some of the best damn writing Matheson's done in his spectacular career.- --Loren D. Estleman, author of Gas City

About the Author:

Richard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.