Sharpshooter, Dusty Richards
Sharpshooter, Dusty Richards
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Sharpshooter
A Byrnes Family Ranch Western

Author: Dusty Richards

Narrator: Brian Hutchison

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/04/2018

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Western Heritage and Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards spins a thrilling new tale in the epic Byrnes family saga... In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the U.S. marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land. When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, Chet fights to get the Indians a contract to supply the locomotives with coal. But the corrupt politicians in Tucson and D.C. have other ideas. The coal contract means millions, and the ruthless Tucson Ring will do anything to get it-even if it means killing a U.S. marshal. Battling bandits, the railroad, and a corrupt gang of millionaires, Chet won't back down until the desert is painted red with blood.

About Dusty Richards

Western Heritage Award and three-time Spur Award winner Dusty Richards authored over 100 acclaimed westerns. He spent his youth in Arizona and worked as a rancher, auctioneer, rodeo announcer, and TV anchor before he moved to writing full-time, going on to become the only author ever to win two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America in one year (2007). He received his third Spur Award for The Mustanger and the Lady, which was adapted into the film Painted Woman. An inductee of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, Dusty was also the recipient of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction and was honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009. He was a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and served on the local PRCA rodeo board.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deb on April 05, 2018

The Western writers world was saddened by the passing of author Dusty Richards in January of this year. Richards was an award winning author who wrote over eighty novels. He worked on The Byrnes Family Ranch series up until his death. Sharpshooter is the twelfth book in this hard hitting western ser......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on April 21, 2025

This is an enjoyable story about nothing. As I read this book, and it is not short, I keep wondering where the story was/what the problem was we were solving. There wasn't a strong one. We have some horse thieves. We have found treasure. We have the promise of a new treasure. We have the telegraph l......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 04, 2022

I did like some of the story and the characters but when you read the series in its entirety, it kind of starts getting to you. The main thing that annoys me is how the author really fills in by repeating the same stories all the time. Not just once or twice just in case you did not read the previou......more

Goodreads review by Linda on March 29, 2018

An ok read As much as I enjoyed the other books in this series , this book left a lot to be desired. Was written in a scattered way so you had to keep up with what was currently happening in the story and in the past.......more

Goodreads review by Fred J. Neslage Jr on April 17, 2018

This was a great series, Dusty could write a great story. I have read nearly all his books and they were all a good read. It’s a shame that he is gone. He was one of the great western writers of his generation.......more

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