Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998)The year is 1898 and Matthew Dubchek (aka, Mattthew Chumms, aka, The
Ringo Kid) comes drifting into Twenty-Mile, Wyoming (so called because
it's twenty miles from some place twenty miles away). Eighteen year old
Matthew, all of whose ideas about life come from the Ringo Kid series of
books, has just lost his parents & has come to town looking for work,
which is scarce because the town is nearly deserted and the few remaining
townsfolk serve only to take care of periodic visits from workers at the
local mine. But Matthew is a natural con man & soon talks his way into
a half dozen part-time
Meanwhile, Hamilton Adams Leider has escaped from prison with two psychotic henchman & he too is headed to Twenty-Mile where he plans to rob the next silver shipment from the mine to fund his American Freedom Militia. Seems Leider has been captivated by the lunatic writings of a man known as The Warrior, whose magnum opus The Revelation of Forbidden Truth reveals the fact that immigrants are being dumped into America by the International Conspiracy. Leider plans to take up The Warriors cause and lead an army against these "scum of the Earth." This is Trevanian's first book in 15 years and it's a shame he's been
inactive. He's taken the standard elements of the Western given them a
vigorous shake & added an ironic modernist twist (the local stable
is run by two gay men, one black, one white & the town's three whores
are a black, a
(Reviewed:) Grade: (B+) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: Trvanian -OBIT: Rodney Whitaker, a.k.a. Trevanian, 74; Author Wrote ‘Eiger Sanction’ (MYRNA OLIVER, DEC. 19, 2005, LA Times) Book-related and General Links: -FIRST CHAPTER: Incident at Twenty-Mile -Trevanian (Stop You're Killing Me) -PROFILE : I want to be alone : J.D. Salinger isn't the only reclusive writer in America (JEFF BAKER, August 29, 1999, The Oregonian) -PROFILE : Outspoken Opinions : A.K.A. Trevanian (David J. Schow , Gothic.net) -Who is Trevanian ? (Dirda on Books Transcript, Michael Dirda, Washington Post, September 29, 1999) -REVIEW : of Incident at Twenty-Mile (Tom Walker, Denver Post) FILMS :
GENERAL :
If you liked Incident at Twenty-Mile, try:
Abbey, Edward
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Berger, Thomas
Connell, Evan S.
Grey, Zane
Horgan, Paul
MacLean, Alistair
Matthews, Greg
McCarthy, Cormac
McMurtry, Larry
Michener, James
Parkman, Francis
Schaeffer, Jack
Slotkin, Richard
Snyder, Midori
West, Jessamyn
Wister, Owen
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