JON CHANDLER. The Spanish Peaks: A Novel of Frontier Colorado. Paperback. Paperback, 197 pages, $15. Rodgers & Nelson Publishing Co.
Frontiersman Sam Tate tracks the homicidal Garcias to avenge the murder of his daughter and to save young Amos Herald. “This is no cliché-ridden yarn. The author has studiously avoided the hackneyed plot lines of pulp westerns, crafting a tale that stands outside the herd. Chandler’s eastern slope of the Rockies could be the Serengeti of Hemingway’s Africa stories, with the Spanish Peaks brooding over the landscape like Kilimanjaro.” — American Cowboy Magazine