tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post720918914006345620..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: Wild Bill #1: Dead Man's Hand - Judd ColeJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-81872281565499829892012-01-09T06:44:02.378-06:002012-01-09T06:44:02.378-06:00Wow. Hey James, thanks for finding my comment and...Wow. Hey James, thanks for finding my comment and replying to it even though it's stuck to the wrong post. I must have been short on coffee.<br /><br />I'll seek around for that Powell collection and let you know what I find.<br />It's a real shame that the Ed Rivers novels have never been reprinted. It seems to me that they are little gems of detective fiction.<br /><br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-11508572414097306112012-01-08T10:23:22.630-06:002012-01-08T10:23:22.630-06:00I'm pretty sure there's at least one colle...I'm pretty sure there's at least one collection of Powell's mystery stories, but I don't recall the title. I like the Ed Rivers books a lot, too.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-43864749725782623402012-01-08T09:57:27.223-06:002012-01-08T09:57:27.223-06:00Good to see you gave the Talmage Powell story top ...Good to see you gave the Talmage Powell story top marks.<br />I recently read through most of Powell's Ed Rivers detective novels and was pleasantly shocked by how good they were. Solid little plots, but strikingly strong, vivid first person narration.<br />I wonder if his short stories were ever collected.<br /><br />John HockingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-46250533520785909192012-01-06T13:27:52.269-06:002012-01-06T13:27:52.269-06:00I read one of the later ones and enjoyed it.I read one of the later ones and enjoyed it.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-46107229420038747802012-01-06T09:25:46.808-06:002012-01-06T09:25:46.808-06:00I've read all eight of these and found them to...I've read all eight of these and found them to fun reads. Great entertainment as long as you can bypass the historical inaccuracies as you say James.<br /><br />From what I can remember the reporter is with Hickok in all the books and Calamity might be too - she's in more than one anyway.Steve Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11631734673248632467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-91024292558597525692012-01-06T09:16:47.128-06:002012-01-06T09:16:47.128-06:00Yeah, it is John Ames. I actually don't have t...Yeah, it is John Ames. I actually don't have this one, although I have a couple of the later ones. Haven't seen John in a while. guess he's been keeping his nose to the grindstone. He always tells a good action packed story.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-37872618869323552022012-01-06T08:47:45.981-06:002012-01-06T08:47:45.981-06:00It's really hard to find Leisure Books around ...It's really hard to find Leisure Books around here so I'll have to turn to the Internet for this one. WILD BILL sounds like fun!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-13984693475729626552012-01-06T06:53:56.156-06:002012-01-06T06:53:56.156-06:00Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary was an old...Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary was an old - well, middle aged - drunk who loved to claim she was Hickok's one true love - though she blew into Deadwood at least a year after his death (and Hickok was happily married to Agnes Lake then)<br /><br />Hickok never did much beyond scouting for the army and then taking on a series of town marshal jobs, padding his income with gambling among other things.<br /><br />Lou Cameron's Longarm books have a huge lot to say about Edward Zane Carroll Judson (aka Ned Buntline) tagging Hickok with a nickname he didn't use much if at all, and loves to call buntline an asshole. I suppose he'd just have snorted at this Judd Cole book ..Suresh Ramasubramanianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115337255064583852noreply@blogger.com