Welcome to the Spur & Lock Mercantile and Sundries Emporium. Have a seat and pick up a stick for whittlin’. Please remember to bring your own whetstones, and don’t spit on the floor, but aim for the cuspidors, located ubiquitously about the store. And before you decide on a course of action or speech directed toward a fellow store-sitter that may result in strong words or fisticuffs, please ask yourself, “What would Roy Rogers do?”
The Woodstove Whittlers and Wrangling Association is the Mercantile’s reading group. Discussion is lively, members are opinionated, and the snacks are tasty.
Some records of the Association's reading and activities are recorded below. Feel free to join in. (Fair warnin': if you think your opinion might turn out to be off-trail to those others expressed by the group, you might be wise to grease the wheels and jollify the crowd by bringing along a nice chocolate cake or blackberry cobbler to the meeting.)
"The Cheyenne Pool & The Youngerman Guns: Two Novels by Lewis B. Patten"
The Cheyenne Pool is the first book by Patten the Association read. Burl, oldest of the Barlow brothers, had heard good things about his work, so we all agreed it was time to give it a try. The Youngerman Guns is the second Patten novel the The Woodstove Whittlers and Wrangling Association read. (Once an Association member finds something he likes, he sticks with it.) Click here to read more.
“Summer Kill”--a Story by Lewis B. Patten
Some members of the reading group are partial to the writing of Lewis B. Patten, in particular his action-driven narratives and hard-nosed characters. Those in the group who hold a differing opinion argue that Patten is a plot-dependent hack who couldn’t vary his characterizations if his Stetson depended on it. The WWWA decided to try some short stories by Patten to see if anyone might be swayed to another opinion. Click here to read more.
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