It was a long and complicated journey that took Turner Brown, a former Union cavalry officer and Deputy
U.S. Marshal, from the Civil War to the West.
Author Steven Yount’s Death on the Trail takes the reader back to
the New Mexico Territory in 1868. Only by chance was Brown in Santa Fe when John
Robert Bean, an unabashed Texas rebel, led his gang in a blood-spattered bank
robbery of the Miners and Merchants bank.
It was a hold-up that that left three innocent people dead. And a hold-up that led Turner Brown on
another quest to bring justice to the West.
Death on the
Trail is is an excellent, old
fashioned Western adventure with all the riding and shooting a fan of Western
novels would expect. Lots of Indians,
too. And a little bit of romance thrown
in for good measure. What makes Death
on the Trail a true Western adventure is author Steven Yount’s knowledge of
Western history and attention to detail.
The reader can really see that bank in Santa Fe, taste that breakfast at
the Union Saloon and choke on the dust kicked up by a hard riding posse. Yount has a good grasp of Civil War history
and New Mexico history, as well, plus a positive working knowledge of the lore
of all the indigenous people in and around New Mexico. The main character, Turner Brown is loosely
based on the author’s own great-grandfather.
Death on the Trail is the first novel of what will be a four book
series.
Steven Yount, the author of The
Turner Brown Westerns is a veteran, award-winning broadcast journalist who
has worked as a news reporter and news anchor at the premier all-news radio
stations in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York City as well as the most prestigious
financial news reporting publication in America, The Wall Street Journal Radio
Network. This Easterner who knows the
West now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Joanne, their Cocker
Spaniel, Joey, and their Chihuahua, Lola.
Death on the Trail, A Turner Brown Western, is available
at www.booklocker.com/books/5618.html.
The
Ebook version is available at www.amazon.com/dp/B0058PROO2.
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