I was really looking forward to this, billed as the first western and immensely influential on 20th Century American culture. I could cope with the dated supremacist mindset similar to Gone With The Wind, but I guess that for me the western is primarily a cinematic medium, and I want to see the epic scenery, the harshness and beauty of nature and the lone hero with his code of honour prevailing against the odds. I got all that, but the environment didn't come to life on the page and there was far, far too much of an interminable courting of a dull prim schoolmarm that would have been at home in any Victorian hack's novel
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