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...
'Yellowstone Kelly' #1 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 vs. 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. Reviewed on November 24, 2024, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, B&N, BookBub, and Kobo.
'Kelly Blue' is #2, but I almost wish I had read this one first - we have this youngster as he begins his foray into the raw American West, and go with him through the learning curve that prepares him for his Yellowstone days. Not a wasted word, folks. 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.
REVIEWED on November 26, 2024, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, BookBub, and Kobo. Not available for review at B&N.
In 'Imperial Kelly', Book #3, we have US Army Major Kelly, as he does his best to assist in the Spanish-American War with Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, and rubs shoulders with Butch and Sundance and other Western heroes over time. Then, It is a remembered hunk of jade, spied in a SouthWestern canyon, that will lead him across the Pacific, and he will view the fringes of the Boer War. While sailing to southern Africa, he runs into a very young Winston Churchill in Mozambique. He is involved in observing battles with inIgorote tribesmen, confirming his earlier observations and sympathies concerning the fate of native citizens overrun by 'civilization'. An excellent addition to the Yellowstone Kelly Legend - not to be missed, folks. REVIEWED on November 26, 2024, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, B&N, BookBub, and Kobo.
'Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse' #4 We spend most of our time at dig sites across the west with various archeologists and lady Alys - as Kelly and friends muddle along with her from place to place and try to keep everyone safe. I thoroughly enjoyed Uncle Digby and our Arab friends, as well as visits with new Italian and old Yellowstone pals. I was not ready for the series to end.
Though Kelly's ladies appear serially throughout this series, I enjoyed them all - and appreciated the respect and care they were shown. Indian life was much as told me by my maternal grandmother (Tina Velma Goddard Ketner), whose own mother (Mary Ellen Barron Goddard) was Cherokee, born 26 March 1877 on the reservation at De Kalb, Georgia, USA. She died of TB in Roswell in 1017. My grandmother, born in 1905 in Alabama, was for much of her life a New Mexico resident until her death in 1004and her stories of her mother and many sibling's lives were well told and never-ending. This visit through the West with Kelly was just what I needed to celebrate my own 76th birthday. Thank you Peter Bowen, for bringing us into life in the 1870s so thoroughly. REVIEWED on November 28, 2024, at Goodreads, AmazonSmile, Barnes&Noble, BookBub, and Kobo.
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