Fired Up

Follows directly from book one in the Trouble in Texas Series that began with Swept Away. Once more Cowboy Romances superior in nature to anything written by L'Amour or Zane Grey but with no pretensions of being great literature. As is written of many B-movies, okay time-wasters, or a pleasant way to curl up in an easy chair when you don't want a challenging read. This is not to say that they don't confront difficult issues.

White settlers laid claim to the Mother Earth native peoples felt no one could own and hunted the Buffalo on which they depended to near extinction. The Texas Longhorn Cattle, descendents of escaped Spanish herds developed immunity to diseases that plagued most other cattle whereas native peoples' numbers were decimated by European Diseases.

Texas at the time this story is set was a land before the law and legal statutes held sway. Hence we have a lawyer who had no degrees, a doctor who hadn't studied medicine and a restaurant owner who couldn't cook. What we do have is a confraternity of men whose attitude is us against the world.

Though I realize it may be a challenge to make day to day drudgery sound interesting this book seems to go to the other extreme of piling disaster on disaster. To put it more plainly I preferred book one in the series to this one.