Toby Ryker
Toby Ryker, a colorful old man similar to J.B. Books in Swarthout's classic, "The Shootist," is forced to come to grips with his mortality. He moseys into Laramie and stirs up a saloon brawl just for the fun of it then pays for the damages, thus bailing everyone out of a passel of trouble. Moments later, he collapses of a heart attack. When he wakes up, the doctor directs him to adopt a quiet way of life. He looks up an old friend, David Stewart, a rancher living in the area who is now married with a family, and the two decide to go on a last hunting trip in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Ryker learns that McQuiston, a sadistic bounty hunter, has trailed him to Laramie over a shooting he committed in Deadwood. McQuiston kills a local cowboy soon after his arrival and the chase is on, with Ryker and Stewart hunting elk, McQuiston hunting Ryker, and the sheriff hunting McQuiston. The final shootout leaves McQuiston dead, but with a story ending that is not what it appears to be.<p/>
The debut western novel of author Steven Merrill Ulmen, Toby Ryker is the story of a colorful, likeable old ex- cavalry scout, and former mountain man who drifts into Laramie, Wyoming, only to get himself involved in a saloon brawl (which he stirred up just for the fun of it!). Toby wins friends by offering to pay for the bar room damages and buy drinks for the house. He then departs only to moments later collapse from a heart attack. Waking up in the office of the town doctor, Toby is informed that he is dying and must adopt a quiet, peaceable way of life for what time remains to him. The trouble is, Toby is wanted for a murder in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, has a price on his head, and a rather nasty bounty hunter named John McQuiston after him. Toby Ryker is a smoothly written and generally terrific novel that will leave the reader eagerly looking forward to Steven Ulmen's next foray into western fiction.MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2006
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"Ulmen's novel (Toby Ryker) has humor and movement, and a fine story-telling technique, which weigh much in it's favor." - ELMER KELTON, AWARD-WINNING WESTERN NOVELIST <p/>
"Steven Ulmen creates believable characters we feel we have met along the trail and incorporates them into a seamless story." RALPH COTTON - USA TODAY BEST SELLING WESTERN AUTHOR <p/>
"TOBY RYKER is a lightening-paced, granite-touch western told in the classic mode." LOREN ESTLEMAN - SPUR AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE UNDERTAKER'S WIFE" <p/>
"A very interesting concept for both a book and a screenplay." -- JOHNNY WESTERN - Singer/Composer of CBS TV's "Paladin" theme from the series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" <p/>
"You'll be captivated by the story, the western caricatures, and come to love tough, gentle, irascible old Toby Ryker." -- SUZANNE SCHREMS Ph.D, author of western non-fiction <p/>
"Toby Ryker," though plotted, is a character-driven western like those made popular during the 1950's and 1960's on such TV shows as "Gunsmoke" and "Have Gun, Will Travel." The story contains a liberal dose of humor and affection for the western genre and is intended to be a pleasant, laid-back read." STEVEN ULMEN, AUTHOR
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The debut western novel of author Steven Merrill Ulmen, Toby Ryker is the story of a colorful, likeable old ex- cavalry scout, and former mountain man who drifts into Laramie, Wyoming, only to get himself involved in a saloon brawl (which he stirred up just for the fun of it!). Toby wins friends by offering to pay for the bar room damages and buy drinks for the house. He then departs only to moments later collapse from a heart attack. Waking up in the office of the town doctor, Toby is informed that he is dying and must adopt a quiet, peaceable way of life for what time remains to him. The trouble is, Toby is wanted for a murder in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, has a price on his head, and a rather nasty bounty hunter named John McQuiston after him. Toby Ryker is a smoothly written and generally terrific novel that will leave the reader eagerly looking forward to Steven Ulmen's next foray into western fiction.MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2006
<p/>
"Ulmen's novel (Toby Ryker) has humor and movement, and a fine story-telling technique, which weigh much in it's favor." - ELMER KELTON, AWARD-WINNING WESTERN NOVELIST <p/>
"Steven Ulmen creates believable characters we feel we have met along the trail and incorporates them into a seamless story." RALPH COTTON - USA TODAY BEST SELLING WESTERN AUTHOR <p/>
"TOBY RYKER is a lightening-paced, granite-touch western told in the classic mode." LOREN ESTLEMAN - SPUR AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE UNDERTAKER'S WIFE" <p/>
"A very interesting concept for both a book and a screenplay." -- JOHNNY WESTERN - Singer/Composer of CBS TV's "Paladin" theme from the series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" <p/>
"You'll be captivated by the story, the western caricatures, and come to love tough, gentle, irascible old Toby Ryker." -- SUZANNE SCHREMS Ph.D, author of western non-fiction <p/>
"Toby Ryker," though plotted, is a character-driven western like those made popular during the 1950's and 1960's on such TV shows as "Gunsmoke" and "Have Gun, Will Travel." The story contains a liberal dose of humor and affection for the western genre and is intended to be a pleasant, laid-back read." STEVEN ULMEN, AUTHOR
Toby Ryker
Toby Ryker, a colorful old man similar to J.B. Books in Swarthout's classic, "The Shootist," is forced to come to grips with his mortality. He moseys into Laramie and stirs up a saloon brawl just for the fun of it then pays for the damages, thus bailing everyone out of a passel of trouble. Moments later, he collapses of a heart attack. When he wakes up, the doctor directs him to adopt a quiet way of life. He looks up an old friend, David Stewart, a rancher living in the area who is now married with a family, and the two decide to go on a last hunting trip in the Medicine Bow Mountains. Ryker learns that McQuiston, a sadistic bounty hunter, has trailed him to Laramie over a shooting he committed in Deadwood. McQuiston kills a local cowboy soon after his arrival and the chase is on, with Ryker and Stewart hunting elk, McQuiston hunting Ryker, and the sheriff hunting McQuiston. The final shootout leaves McQuiston dead, but with a story ending that is not what it appears to be.<p/>
The debut western novel of author Steven Merrill Ulmen, Toby Ryker is the story of a colorful, likeable old ex- cavalry scout, and former mountain man who drifts into Laramie, Wyoming, only to get himself involved in a saloon brawl (which he stirred up just for the fun of it!). Toby wins friends by offering to pay for the bar room damages and buy drinks for the house. He then departs only to moments later collapse from a heart attack. Waking up in the office of the town doctor, Toby is informed that he is dying and must adopt a quiet, peaceable way of life for what time remains to him. The trouble is, Toby is wanted for a murder in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, has a price on his head, and a rather nasty bounty hunter named John McQuiston after him. Toby Ryker is a smoothly written and generally terrific novel that will leave the reader eagerly looking forward to Steven Ulmen's next foray into western fiction.MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2006
<p/>
"Ulmen's novel (Toby Ryker) has humor and movement, and a fine story-telling technique, which weigh much in it's favor." - ELMER KELTON, AWARD-WINNING WESTERN NOVELIST <p/>
"Steven Ulmen creates believable characters we feel we have met along the trail and incorporates them into a seamless story." RALPH COTTON - USA TODAY BEST SELLING WESTERN AUTHOR <p/>
"TOBY RYKER is a lightening-paced, granite-touch western told in the classic mode." LOREN ESTLEMAN - SPUR AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE UNDERTAKER'S WIFE" <p/>
"A very interesting concept for both a book and a screenplay." -- JOHNNY WESTERN - Singer/Composer of CBS TV's "Paladin" theme from the series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" <p/>
"You'll be captivated by the story, the western caricatures, and come to love tough, gentle, irascible old Toby Ryker." -- SUZANNE SCHREMS Ph.D, author of western non-fiction <p/>
"Toby Ryker," though plotted, is a character-driven western like those made popular during the 1950's and 1960's on such TV shows as "Gunsmoke" and "Have Gun, Will Travel." The story contains a liberal dose of humor and affection for the western genre and is intended to be a pleasant, laid-back read." STEVEN ULMEN, AUTHOR
The debut western novel of author Steven Merrill Ulmen, Toby Ryker is the story of a colorful, likeable old ex- cavalry scout, and former mountain man who drifts into Laramie, Wyoming, only to get himself involved in a saloon brawl (which he stirred up just for the fun of it!). Toby wins friends by offering to pay for the bar room damages and buy drinks for the house. He then departs only to moments later collapse from a heart attack. Waking up in the office of the town doctor, Toby is informed that he is dying and must adopt a quiet, peaceable way of life for what time remains to him. The trouble is, Toby is wanted for a murder in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, has a price on his head, and a rather nasty bounty hunter named John McQuiston after him. Toby Ryker is a smoothly written and generally terrific novel that will leave the reader eagerly looking forward to Steven Ulmen's next foray into western fiction.MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2006
<p/>
"Ulmen's novel (Toby Ryker) has humor and movement, and a fine story-telling technique, which weigh much in it's favor." - ELMER KELTON, AWARD-WINNING WESTERN NOVELIST <p/>
"Steven Ulmen creates believable characters we feel we have met along the trail and incorporates them into a seamless story." RALPH COTTON - USA TODAY BEST SELLING WESTERN AUTHOR <p/>
"TOBY RYKER is a lightening-paced, granite-touch western told in the classic mode." LOREN ESTLEMAN - SPUR AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE UNDERTAKER'S WIFE" <p/>
"A very interesting concept for both a book and a screenplay." -- JOHNNY WESTERN - Singer/Composer of CBS TV's "Paladin" theme from the series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" <p/>
"You'll be captivated by the story, the western caricatures, and come to love tough, gentle, irascible old Toby Ryker." -- SUZANNE SCHREMS Ph.D, author of western non-fiction <p/>
"Toby Ryker," though plotted, is a character-driven western like those made popular during the 1950's and 1960's on such TV shows as "Gunsmoke" and "Have Gun, Will Travel." The story contains a liberal dose of humor and affection for the western genre and is intended to be a pleasant, laid-back read." STEVEN ULMEN, AUTHOR
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| BN ID: | 2940016061887 |
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| Publisher: | Eagle Entertainment USA |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 211 |
| File size: | 237 KB |
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