Rebel with a Gun

What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt’s writing:



Step aside Louis L'Amour, another great Western writer is here…  --Heather



“I had a feeling that Van Holt…might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.”  --Stern0



“Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western…”  --Rarebird1



REBEL WITH A GUN 


He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right.

So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a jealous husband and a dangerous secret that could get them all killed.

Even though he had ridden with Quantrill and Bloody Bill, he was not like the others. Many of them were not the only bushwhackers who flourished during the war. Men just like them had waved the Union flag and used it to cloak their crimes, and now that the fighting was over not all of them would be content to lay down their arms and return to their former pursuits. Some, like their southern counterparts, would become outlaws. Many on both sides had never been anything else, and for them the war had just been a continuation of a life of lawlessness and violence. Now they would use the unsettled conditions in the wake of the war to camouflage their activities.

Of course, many would go west, especially to Texas. For years men had been going to Texas who were wanted or not wanted in other states. There was a well-known saying— “Gone to Texas.” It usually applied to men who had gone there a jump ahead of the law.


Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western.

Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.



More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt:

- A Few Dead Men

- Blood in the Hills

- Brandon’s Law

- Buck Hayden, Mustanger

- Curly Bill and Ringo

- Dead Man Riding

- Dead Man's Trail

- Death in Black Holsters

- Dynamite Riders

- Hellbound Express

- Hunt the Killers Down

- Maben

- Rebel With a Gun

- Riding for Revenge

- Rubeck's Raiders

- Shiloh Stark

- Shoot to Kill

- Six-Gun Man

- Six-Gun Serenade

- Six-Gun Solution

- Six-Gun Showdown

- The Antrim Guns

- The Bounty Hunters

- The Bushwhackers

- The Fortune Hunters

- The Gundowners

- The Gundown Trail

- The Hellbound Man

- The Hell Riders

- The Last of the Fighting Farrells

- The Long Trail

- The Man Called Bowdry

- The Return of Frank Graben

- The Return of the Six-Gunner

- The Revenge of Tom Graben

- The Six-Gunner

- The Stranger from Hell

- The Vultures

- Wild Country

- Wild Desert Rose


Coming soon by Van Holt:

- The Men of Missouri