The Ysabel Kid A Floating Outfit Western Book 1 edition by J T Edson Literature Fiction eBooks
Download As PDF : The Ysabel Kid A Floating Outfit Western Book 1 edition by J T Edson Literature Fiction eBooks 
The brainchild of Number One Bestselling Western Writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, Piccadilly Publishing is dedicated to issuing classic series fiction from yesterday and today!
THE YSABEL KID
His father was Sam Ysabel, a wild Irish Kentuckian who’d come to Texas in the early days and rode as scout to Jim Bowie. His mother was the daughter of Chief Longwalker and his French Creole squaw. That dangerous mixture of bloods produced a son who inherited the sighting eye of an eagle from the sure-shooting, rifle-toting Kentuckian stock. From the French Creole side he got a love of cold steel and the inborn knack of handling a knife. And from his Comanche grandfather he got his horse savvy and ability to read sign where a buck Apache might falter.
His full name was Loncey Dalton Ysabel. Most men knew him as … the Ysabel Kid.
John Thomas Edson was born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, on February 17 1928, the son of a miner who was killed in an accident when John was nine. He left Shirebrook Selective Central School at 14 to work in a stone quarry and joined the Army four years later.
As a sergeant in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Edson served in Kenya during the Emergency, on one occasion killing five Mau Mau on patrol. He started writing in Hong Kong, and when he won a large cash prize in a tombola he invested in a typewriter.
On coming out of the Army after 12 years with a wife and children to support, Edson learned his craft while running a fish-and-chip shop and working on the production line at a local pet food factory. His efforts paid off when Trail Boss (1961) won second prize in a competition with a promise of publication and an outright payment of £50.
The publishers offered £25 more for each subsequent book, and with the addition of earnings from serial-writing for the comic Victor, Edson was able to settle down to professional authorship. When the comic's owners decided that nobody read cowboy stories any more, he was forced to get a job as a postman (the job had the by-product of enabling him to lose six stone in weight from his original 18).
Edson's prospects improved when Corgi Books took over his publisher, encouraged him to produce seven books a year and promised him royalties for the first time. In 1974 he made his first visit to the United States, to which he was to return regularly in search of reference books. He declared that he had no desire to live in the Wild West, adding "I've never even been on a horse. I've seen those things, and they look highly dangerous at both ends and bloody uncomfortable in the middle. My only contact was to shoot them for dog meat."
His heroes were often based on his favourite film stars, so that Dusty Fog resembled Audie Murphy, and the Ysabel Kid was an amalgam of Elvis Presley in Flaming Star and Jack Buetel in The Outlaw.
Before becoming a recluse in his last years, JT's favourite boast was that Melton Mowbray was famous for three things "The pie, Stilton cheese and myself but not necessarily in that order."
The Ysabel Kid A Floating Outfit Western Book 1 edition by J T Edson Literature Fiction eBooks
FANTASTIC! I am a little biased though. I first read this book 30 years ago when a friend recommended it to me. This is the one that got me hooked on the series, and then on the author's works. Fortunately, with well over 100 titles to his credit, I had plenty of reading material from the imagination of author J.T. Edson. He was the third-most prolific western writer in the hay days of the genre. I recommend this book as the first read for anyone interested in the series. If you love westerns, you'll love the countless books on the floating outfit characters, and form a real attachment to them. My only complaint about the Kindle version was a needless edit for the name of the kid's horse. Yes, the word is no longer considered acceptable, but for the time period in which this take place, it would have been and was used in a tongue-in-cheek manner. A needless PC correction that detracts from the book. Those publishing the Kindle editions would be smart to include the titles "Cuchilo", "Sidewinder", and "The Half Breed" sooner rather than later, though a logical argument can be made to release these in the chronological order for the series.Product details
|
Tags : The Ysabel Kid (A Floating Outfit Western Book 1) - Kindle edition by J. T. Edson. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Ysabel Kid (A Floating Outfit Western Book 1).,ebook,J. T. Edson,The Ysabel Kid (A Floating Outfit Western Book 1),Piccadilly Publishing,FICTION Action & Adventure,FICTION Westerns
People also read other books :
- Knock Knock Things You Do That Really Piss Me Off! Note Pad Knock Knock 0825703120448 Books
- Mía El gato y el ratón Spanish Edition edition by María Border Literature Fiction eBooks
- After Revelations The Revenger J L Bolden 9781475998818 Books
- Claude Monet Calendar 2015 Wall calendars Art Calendar Monthly Wall Calendar by Magnum MegaCalendars 9781617913785 Books
- The Holy Grail Revealed I AM that I AM Ascended Masters Journals Book 1 edition by Akasha Akasha and Asun Asun Religion Spirituality eBooks
The Ysabel Kid A Floating Outfit Western Book 1 edition by J T Edson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Classic western like a John Wayne movie. I enjoyed the action packed story and a little US history thrown in.
Where Dusty meets Cabrito and Mark Counter and thus is the saga of the floating outfit born, good story well told. You really should read Comanche first though, then probably some of Dusty's civil war books to get a sense of the chronology.
I have never read a book by J. T. Edson before, but I must say I have really enjoyed reading this one. It has lots of action. I would really like to read more on The Ysabel Kid. I look forward to more books by this author. Thank you for a great read.
I have read almost all J.T. Edson books, and owned many of them in paperback. Bought this digital version, since it is the first in the Floating Outfit series. Enjoy this book, and have also read the earlier childhood stories of the Ysabel kid. This is a good book to start the series.
I have been a J.T. Edson fan since the early sixties and had over fifty of his books. Unfortunately they were lost in transit in the seventies, and getting hold of them was difficult. The Floating Outfit series are as good as this one with the arrival of the Waco Kid joining their ranks. I rate Edson with Zane Grey and Louis Lamour.
I was delighted to find Edson's books are being released in electronic format. I can finally stop toting my paperbacks every time I move. These are what I like to thimnk of as western fan fiction. Edson loved the west as of was portrayed in classic western movies and television. Don't read these if you are a stickler for details. The good guys always win here. Edson mixes in names from both history and western televion. He takes great liberty with the real famous people he uses. Still these are great books.
This book details the origins of the members of "The Floating Outfit", the subject of the series of the same name. I love JT Edson's earlier work. Some of his later books began to get overly wordy, with the author not saying something in 10 words if he could use 15 or 20. The earlier episodes of the Floating Outfit Series, however were great. I think one of my favorite Edson books is Trail Boss. If anyone is reading this that has any sway over further books being released on , PLEASE concentrate on the Floating Outfit first. I have been waiting a long time for Mr. Edson's books to begin coming out on . Please keep up the good work!! And please...leave the Calamity Jane books and others until later. FOR THE READERS if you are looking for good, simple storytelling in an entertaining (and occasionally educational) western, the Floating Outfit series is an excellent choice.
FANTASTIC! I am a little biased though. I first read this book 30 years ago when a friend recommended it to me. This is the one that got me hooked on the series, and then on the author's works. Fortunately, with well over 100 titles to his credit, I had plenty of reading material from the imagination of author J.T. Edson. He was the third-most prolific western writer in the hay days of the genre. I recommend this book as the first read for anyone interested in the series. If you love westerns, you'll love the countless books on the floating outfit characters, and form a real attachment to them. My only complaint about the version was a needless edit for the name of the kid's horse. Yes, the word is no longer considered acceptable, but for the time period in which this take place, it would have been and was used in a tongue-in-cheek manner. A needless PC correction that detracts from the book. Those publishing the editions would be smart to include the titles "Cuchilo", "Sidewinder", and "The Half Breed" sooner rather than later, though a logical argument can be made to release these in the chronological order for the series.
0 Response to "[TBT]⇒ Descargar The Ysabel Kid A Floating Outfit Western Book 1 edition by J T Edson Literature Fiction eBooks"
Post a Comment