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Loading... Adobe Moon (Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey)by Mark Warren
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love historic fiction! The only thing I knew about the old west was from the movies I used to watch growing up. The only thing I knew about Wyatt Earp was from "Tombstone" and the Kevin Costner movie "Wyatt Earp". "Adobe Moon" is the "real deal". It is first in the trilogy "Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey". This book was well researched, and it is beautifully written. I think Mark really nailed Wyatt Earp's character. It's almost like he knew him in another life. I enjoyed watching Wyatt grow up, and learning more about his family, his life on the farm, and his early career before becoming a lawman. Wyatt was down to Earth, straight-forward, and no-nonsense. His life before his fame is very intriguing and it is understandable how it all contributed to the man he became. More than anything I appreciate beautiful writing, and Mark Warren does that well! His descriptions put us right there on the prairie and in the saloons. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy a great read and learning more about our western heritage. I am looking forward to book 2 in the trilogy "Born to the Badge" ( ) Adobe Moon is a biographical novel by Mark Warren. It has a lot of fact, a little fiction mixed in. This book starts off with the Earp family, when Wyatt was a teenager-chomping at the bit, because the Civil War is going on and his three older brothers are off fighting. He desperately wants to quit working the family farm and join up in the fight. The book is enriched with a lot of well known history and other lesser known facts. Mr. Warren blends it into an interesting story. I enjoyed it. This is the first book in this trilogy. no reviews | add a review
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"It is 1862. With his older brothers fighting in the war, Wyatt Earp - at fourteen - is left to manage the family's Iowa farm under his father's iron rule. These years of labor inculcate into him an ambition to seek his fortunes by his wits rather than the sweat of his back. The open territory to the west, he knows, offers that opportunity. When his family treks to California he makes the passing acquaintance of a beguiling Mexican girl, whose philosophy of success and failure will haunt Wyatt for years to come. It is the prophecy of the "adobe moon," a rusty-hued orb that reminds a man: If you do not achieve your dreams, you must settle for what you have. Though rejecting this creed, Wyatt feels the notion dog him like a ghost. After stints as coach driver, freight-hauler, and grader for the railroad, Wyatt takes his first "respectable" job as constable in a small Missouri town. There he meets the woman who teaches him the value of settling down with family. When she dies with child, Wyatt sinks into a depression where the lines of ethics blur. Wanted by the law he loses himself in the waterfront slums of Peoria working in brothels. Fed up with his self-made squalor, he returns to the West for a second chance at a proper life. In a Kansas cattle town he comes face to face with his salvation ... and his destiny as a lawman with his own iron rule"-- No library descriptions found. |
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