I was pleasantly surprised. Just a good old western. ( )

What can ya say? It's Louie!!! ( )

What can ya say? It's Louie!!! ( )

A good post-Civil War "Louie." A TV movie has been made from this one, which wasn't bad, although, as usual I like the book better.

Some people don't want to admit the Civil War is over. Del and Mac Traven come home from the war to find that all the stock for miles around has been stolen, along with a great many women including their sisters and Del's sweetheart. Colonel Ashford plans to sell the stock and the women to finance a Confederate attack out of Mexico. The Traven brothers and their crazy Uncle Jack set out to get them back, helped in no small measure by the brains and inventiveness of the women themselves. ( )

Product Description Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn the nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives…but one man held their future hostage. Colonel Henry T. Ashford had gathered an army of criminals and renegade soldiers, leading them on a path of destruction and kidnapping through Texas to the Gulf. Among Ashford’s captives were the Travens’ sister and Dal’s tough-minded fiancée, Kate. Now Mac and Dal must take up arms once again and ride together against Ashford’s army—ready to fight another war, if that’s what it takes to win the freedom of the women they love. From the Publisher Dal and Mac Traven fought on opposite sides of the Civil War but rode home together to start rebuilding the family ranch. Instead, they discovered the chilling aftermath of a guerrilla rampage of terror. It was said no force in Texas could stop these raiders one their bloody path to Mexico. But now the raiders had the Travens' sister and Dal's girlfriend, Kate Connery, held captive. Now they had the Travens on their trail and even though it would be just me Mac and Dal and their brother Jesse and Uncle Jack against thirty killers, the Travens would keep on coming. For as Kate Connery kept telling the other women hostages, "The Travens will never stop until we are free or they are dead." ( )