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Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout (The Yellowstone Kelly Novels) Kindle Edition

by Peter Bowen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
With “unparalleled dialogue” and “a very sly sense of humor,” Luther Kelly’s debut adventure takes him from the Wild West to the land of the Zulus (Booklist).
 Luther “Yellowstone” Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the Old West. The intrepid scout’s talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would take him all over the world, from the Great Plains to Africa to the Philippines. Throughout his adventures, Kelly maintained a stoic outlook, a fierce wit, and a talent for survival that got him out of more than a few dangerous scrapes. Yellowstone Kelly: Gentleman and Scout, the first novel in Peter Bowen’s fast-paced series, finds Kelly hunting wolves with the Nez Percé while trying actively to avoid contact with just about everyone else. This plan quickly falls apart, and Kelly is hired by a group of Englishmen who need a guide for a buffalo hunt. Kelly soon finds himself swept further from home than he ever has been before, going from the Indian Wars to the Zulu Wars.
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  1. Book 1 of 4
    The Yellowstone Kelly Novels
  2. Print length
    304 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  5. Publication date
    January 15, 2013
  6. File size
    4.2 MB
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Praise for the Yellowstone Kelly series:
“Very, very funny.” —Publishers Weekly
“The Old West is a wonderfully wild place in Bowen’s hands.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[The Yellowstone Kelly series] features an endearing, slightly mysterious protagonist who always has one more unexplored trait, unparalleled dialogue that hints at ethnic or regional inflections, and a very sly sense of humor.” —Booklist

About the Author

Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is an author best known for mystery novels set in the modern American West. When he was ten, Bowen’s family moved to Bozeman, Montana, where a paper route introduced him to the grizzled old cowboys who frequented a bar called The Oaks. Listening to their stories, some of which stretched back to the 1870s, Bowen found inspiration for his later fiction.

Following time at the University of Michigan and the University of Montana, Bowen published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring the real-life Western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. Bowen has written fourteen novels in the series, in which Du Pré gets tangled up in everything from cold-blooded murder to the hunt for rare fossils. Bowen continues to live and write in Livingston, Montana.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ARQXYMI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (January 15, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.2 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

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Peter Bowen (b. 1945) is best known for mystery novels set in the modern American West. He published his first novel, Yellowstone Kelly, in 1987. After two more novels featuring this real-life Western hero, Bowen published Coyote Wind (1994), which introduced Gabriel Du Pré, a mixed-race lawman living in fictional Toussaint, Montana. To date, he has written thirteen Du Pré mysteries. Bowen lives and writes in Livingston, Montana.

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  • thejab
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent entertainment and amusing vernacular.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020
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    Great writing and amusing story. Written about a colorful character who lived before the days of strict political correctness so keep that in mind when reading dialogue. This author also has a compelling murder mystery series that I also enjoyed- bought all the books and reread the whole series every 2 or 3 years.
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  • Ernest Peterson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016
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    good but like his dupre series better
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  • Bonnye Reed Fry
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Exceptional Western Series
    Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024
    Book #1 of the Yellowstone Kelly Novels, I am delighted with this series, and can happily encourage friends and family to take it on. There is scarcely a chapter without a good chuckle, but the life and times covered are also appropriately realistic, and it is a story not to be put aside until you find a true stopping place. I wanted to read these stories before I watched the TV series, and just the reading of this first one may make the idea of TV redundant. But maybe not - Kevin Costner...
    The American battles with our natives are at times very frank, as are those from Africa, but it is what it is. I must admit I didn't see the similarities between the battle of natives vrs. invaders around the world in such frank terms until now. With several American natives in my family history, my sympathies were already very much set, but Kelly sure makes it easier to get riled up about it. This is a series I can highly recommend to friends and family. It's our history, like it or not.
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  • get out
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2015
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    A bit pricey but my wife loves the author. NO problems with seller book arrived fast.
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  • ML
    4.0 out of 5 stars History with a twist
    Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2016
    Luther Kelly is the most adventurous and lucky guy you'll ever read about in this fictional account of important events in history. The book is a interesting fast paced account of the late 19th century.
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  • Bill Smart
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great tale, beautifully written!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2015
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    Bowen is the Tops!
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  • Topper
    3.0 out of 5 stars Yellow is right
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2014
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    Disappointing. Yellowstone was a real life scout in the Indian Wars. I was hoping to find out more about him in the West. What I got was a string of stories that contributed nothing to an overall story line. And to make things worse, our hero was directed by the author to South Africa for about 40% of the book. Stringing short stories together is not my idea of writing. WTH?
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  • Artygrrl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, authentic read
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014
    This is a refreshingly non-romanticized look at the Old West. The dialogue and characters seem authentic, and the stories are very entertaining.
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