Buck Books

When my kids were given this by a grandparent, I was skeptical as it looked to be just another comic book, but I'm so thankful that they got hooked on this series! My kids love reading the adventures and looking at the colorful drawings so much that they don't even realize they are learning along the way!! It's too bad there aren't more new titles right now.

The book is phenomenal. Anyone interested in trophy North American big game animals should deffinitely check out this book.

This story, about the love of a woman for her dog and the true meaning of happiness, should not be missed! It tells the tale of a woman who trades her old dog, Buck, and continues to make better and better trades until she ends up with a mansion. What will her last and best trade be? The rhyming and brief text makes this book appropriate for children of all ages, but would be most meaningful for ages four through twelve. What a wonderful message it conveys!

Comments on "Buck Barry, Texas Ranger" edited by J. Greer.
Like John Salmon "RIP" Ford and Sam Houston, Buck Barry was one of the great men who "made" Texas. Ranger, farmer and sheriff, he fought Indians and outlaws before, while and after the American Civil War. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican War and he led the "Texas Frontier" Regiment on the border of the Llano Estacado during the Civil War. Never his men met a Yankee unit, but they had to deal with Comanche ad Kiowas raids on the Texas Northern counties. Thanks to the editor James K. Greer, Buck Barry's private papers and reminiscences are a fascinating epic never dull to read and a welcome and useful contribution to the history of Texas and of the Confederate States.
Serge P. Noirsain, Belgian Historian. Author of "La flotte européenne de la Confédération sudiste" and "La Confédération sudiste, Mythes et Réalités".

From book's back cover:

"Westerns are as much a part of Americana as baseball and apple pie, and Carl L. Brown's Buck Bresson holds its own in the genre of Western fiction. All the components we have come to expect from stories of the Wild West. - a manly man, his horse, a womanly woman, the good versus evil. W all know that in the traditional Western, the good guy always wins and gets the girl. Despite this given, Buck Bresson gives us a galloping ride back to when a man's best friends were his horse and his gun, and the old frontier was filled with adventure."

This is a fantastic book! It is full of helpful information for the dedicated deer hunter, and it gives a true insight to deer hunting in south Georgia. Being a deer hunter myself for 45 years, this book made me relive many of my own hunting experiences. The author did not add or take away anything from the true-to-life hunting stories, making it some what humorous and very exciting. The section on hunting tips made me a beliver that the author knows his stuff and I can't wait to try some of the tips this deer season.

If you love C.J. Box (Blue Heaven) you'll love Buck Gentry. Both novelists do a fantastic job of setting the scene for a game warden hero. Boyer, who I have been a fan of since his Sherlock Holmes pastiche (A Sherlockian Quartet) The Giant Rat of Sumatra, is a bit different than C.J. Box.

Boyer's novel has more of what Martin Heidegger calls the world worlding. That is, there is more of each of the characters in GENTRY. Every character is gone into in depth, from the villainous dog fight runner to a old drunken friend of Gentry's. All these people, dog fighters, bootleggers, a serial killer, a drunk, a real-estate manipulator, the mob and more are so real here they could be your neighbors.

On the other hand, C.J.Box does a much better job of making his women characters realistic. Boyer's good women are so 'sugar and spice and everything nice' they are surreal. They instantly like each other, fall in love without complication, etc. Box's women are much more realistic (though I do have a problem believing the main character's wife is related to his mother-in-law). Only the one bad girl in Boyer's novel seems real.

Both Boyer and Box do a great job of building suspense. Boyer over a much longer novel span. At 600 pages Gentry is a long and enjoyable read.
Gentry's ending is as action packed as Box's, though I wish this one were a little more drawn out. It feels a little like the end of the hour on a television show and we have to fit an ending in. If found myself wondering if the publisher made Boyer cut it a bit to save paper. I think you'll find yourself, anyway, like I did, wishing that Boyer will come out with another episode.

Buck Moline was a great book, full of action, and it would make a great movie or western tv series.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that loves to read. L.L. Layman is definitely a talented author that knows how to tell a story.

Grass is an inspirational compilation of the life, poetry and study of Buck Ramsey including works from himself and many students and fans of his life and work. As an extraordinary documentation of Ramsey's life in a generally biographical form of prose, Grass enlightens readers of the many complications and glories of the easy-going cowboy idol. Grass is a very highly recommended read to the non-specialist general reader for its fun content and unique style and a perfect introduction to the wit and wisdom of Buck Ramsey.

This is Better Little Book No. 1409 published in 1940 by Whitman. It features Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. vs. The Fiend of Space. It's 424 pages, half text with every other page an illustration. It measures 3.5 x 4.5 x 1.25 inches thick. A great rare classic collectors item for any sci-fi fan. This is the stuff that inspired Star Wars and Star Trek.