{"id":37589,"date":"2025-01-27T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37589"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T00:18:58","slug":"buckskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37589","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S BUCKSKIN by Robert Knott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Cyz32o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z012725zview_buckskin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Cyz32o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S BUCKSKIN<\/a> by Robert Knott<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An all-day celebration had been taking place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fever has come to Appaloosa.\u00a0 Gold was discovered just north of town on land owned by two groups.\u00a0 A group of business men led by Henry Baptiste own one piece.\u00a0 The other belongs to the McCormick brothers.\u00a0 The McCormicks bought their land from Baptiste before the gold was found.\u00a0 Now Baptiste has regrets, but the McCormicks aren&#8217;t selling the land back.\u00a0 Tempers have flared.\u00a0 Both sides brought in gunmen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First a miner disappeared.\u00a0 Then another was found dead.\u00a0 Now one of the Baptiste&#8217;s men has been murdered. So <span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">US Marshall Virgil Cole and his Deputy Everette Hitch are called in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, miles away, a sociopathic escaped convict hooks up with a mysterious woman with grudge.\u00a0 The woman plans to use the psycho as an instrument of retribution.\u00a0 The escaped con and his muse head for Appaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>The citywide Appaloosa Days festival is going to be one to remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S BUCKSKIN by Robert Knott First sentence&#8230; An all-day celebration had been taking place. The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38246,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589\/revisions\/38246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}