Showdown at Yellow Butte by Louis L’Amour

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I noticed this with a few other L’Amour books I’ve read: Within twenty pages the reader finds themselves dumped in a sea of names with little to no background as to who they are. In this case it was worse for a couple names are similar. Worse, as the book goes on, some switch from good to bad and vice versa. Many characters are hardly explained throughout the book except for what side they are. I had trouble keeping track of who was through throughout the book. Here’s further credit I can give for the William Johnstone clan and their westerns that are often peppered with lots of characters as I’ve yet to get so confused.

However, I thought the story was a good one even if I did get lost at times. There’s a good mystery that can keep you guessing until the end and plenty of shootouts. I kinda wish L’Amour had done more with series, because I do like the main character, Kedrick, and wish there was more of him. Especially outside the Western genre as referred to in the book.

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This book makes 30 books read so far this year.

Here’s my newest watercolor painting! This one is of Six Gun Territory. The scene is lifted from a postcard and the humans are replaced with frogs. This is the Father’s Day card I gave to my father this past week.

Here’s a page depicting discussions our Socrates Cafe group had at Chelsea Coffee Company on Tuesday.

When I saw the word of the week for Illustration Friday is ‘Theater’ I immediately thought of the work being done by our incredible military in the Mid-East. I had to knock this out fast as I’m buried in deadlines, but wanted to draw a small bit of action in the “theater”. So this is more illustrative than the cartoony art I usually do.

Below is some sketchy stuff I did before I rushed the above out. I realized I was getting way too involved in something I had to do very fast.