Death on the Bozeman - review

One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, the three friends accept work at Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian ambush, the men flee the fort, together with a man called Slade. But there is more to Slade than meets the eye, and when he is revealed as a hired gun and murderer the southerners are drawn into the hunt to apprehend him to clear their names.

Death on the Bozeman starts off with three Southerners after the Civil War. They are an affable bunch and the reader quickly falls into the familiarity that they share with each other.  However, the story quickly widens up to include a larger than life bad guy, some crooked vice peddlers in a gold town, Union soldiers, and a larger than life man write out of the history books, Jim Bridger. The pace is swift and always forward moving, the action comes swiftly, and the reader will be satisfied with the ending as everyone gets what’s coming to them.

The classic traditional western is alive and well in Black Horse Westerns