Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238736 in Books
• Published on: 1978-01-01
• Released on: 1978-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Fantastic journals of a tough breed,lifestyle and adventure
I own originals of Hobson's three books and re-read them every few years. His ability to vividly portray the life that he and The Top Hand and later Mrs. Hobson had in the interior of British Columbia is to have been there. It is hard in today's comfortable way of life to envision the situations and dangers that were simply a part of how it was back then. Having grown up in the mountains of the U.S. West, I can only marvel at the abilities of these adventuresome pioneers in the cattle country of B.C. To have met Rich Hobson was of great interest to me... I simply waited too long and he had passed away. The travels and travails through Hobson's life would make an awsome story for a movie. Note: Make sure you read the three books in sequence... and enjoy!

The saga of Grass Beyond the Mountains continues
This is a more orderly, "together" book than the middle one in the series - Grass Beyond the Mountains was excellent; the book in the middle was... spotty and inconsistent; and The Rancher Takes a Wife returns to the neat, sensible storyline, though not meeting the standards of the first book. I've found it hard to "know" the characters, and really wonder what happened to all the people in the first book, of whom few words are devoted. The characters after the first book are seen through a haze... I wonder if that's due to the passage of so much time before he started to write.