The Sergeant's Lady

The Sergeant's Lady won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America as the Best First Western Novel of 2004. The Sergeant's Lady is based upon a Saturday Evening Post short story published in 1959, "Attack On The Mountain" by my late novelist father, Glendon Swarthout. The Sergeant's Lady is......more

Finally finished it. Not because it was a real "dog", but I kept getting sidetracked by more interesting titles. It was a good story, but it read like a movie. Jumping from scene-to-scene, long descriptive paragraphs that were never referred to again. Not surprising since the author is a screen writ......more

Good story - historically accurate details.......more