I have not read Dr. Benner's Sul Ross, Soldier, Statesman, Educator. When I went off to Texas A&M I found Sul Ross' statue, but was eye-ball deep in studying other things. So I missed any good history on Sul Ross. I picked up this book in hopes of broadening my limited knowledge of the man. This is a good book about a kid for kids. It has some good dialogue, some good moral lessons, a few of the things that warriors need to know, no matter when they grow up, a few notes on the imperfections of the institution of parenthood and some pretty solid history. Even though I spent over four years beside Barnard's Mill in Glen Rose and have driven the roads between there and Waco many times, I had a hard time following young Sul's progress from Waco to Comanche Peak. The Brazos, Bosque, and Paluxy River crossings were not emphasized as much as I had expected them to be. Nor was the possibility that his route followed fairly close to the one used by the Santa Fe Expedition a decade before. Poor old George Barnard not only had trading posts in that area, he was also on the Expedition and suffered mightily from it. I also missed the language of the Comanche. Any kid could pick up a few words in a strange and exotic culture in that amount of time: water, food, friend, sleep, fun, magic, strength, good, bad and watch out! We are truly lucky Sul survived his eventful childhood, and that Dr. Brenner wrote about it so well.

I read this book when I was in the eigth grade, that was 1969. It was spellbinding.....an account of cative torture was probably too unsettling for a thirteen year old, but otherwise, awesome. It introduced me to Comanche culture and started an interest in American Indian history that has continued to this day. Fabulous read!

I bought this manual for my Grand Cherokee. I am extremely dissatisfied with it. What do you think you can expect from a book that covers 10 years worth of 3 different model vehicles? I have an earlier book for my regular Cherokee, and it has over 50 pages of electrical information! I can find out any wire, any connection, anywhere!! This book here - NO WAY! It gives me 2 small 5"x5" diagrams for the ENTIRE vehicle!!! Unless you are driving a vehicle that is one third Cherokee, one third Wagoneer, one third Grand, you are basically wasting your time...Stay away from this one...

My husband found this to be very useful in trouble shooting for our 1988 Jeep. Save $$$$$ and do it yourself with confidence.

My 94 jeep cherokee stalls whenever it wants I changed fuel filter,spark plug wires, discribter cap, coil what else?? Thank you Raymond Wooden

The beginning of the book started off smoothly, and was fast-paced. It went downhill from there, though. The plot just died and the book did too the other 200 pages were just stupid sex scenes bettween the two main characters that did not go anywhere or have a point. The book gave up on the plot and just turned the book into one of those crappy romance novels with little plot and too much pointless sex...... I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND READING THIS IF YOU ARE NOT A PERVERTED SICKO.

You can not put this book down,it is that good

Dancer, the way she described him, looked very hamsome! i would recomaned this book to every1

This is the story of the early history of Gus and Call, two of the main characters in McMurtry's tour de force Lonesome Dove.

Dead Man's Walk is a worthwhile read, but not of the same quality as Lonesome Dove. Writing is stark and spare, occasionally quite evocative. Characterization is quite good; Gus and Call are appealing and believable, and for the most part the secondary characters have the vivid qualities one comes to expect from this author.

The plot, that of an improbable filibustering expedition to New Mexico (then part of Mexico proper), has some issues. It seems as if this group of characters has been sent out into the desert merely to die in a myriad unpleasant ways; I'm all for grim stories, but this gets pointless. At about the point where most of the expedition has frozen to death or been killed by Indians, and they're STILL not to the hardest part of the journey yet... I got a little bored with the entropic, meaningless feel of the whole thing. There's also a wildly improbable end: the whole sequence with Lady Carey seems utterly unbelievable to me, although the scene where she buffaloes the Indians is great.

McMurtry's presentation of the Indians as torturing, raping, slave-hunting savages took me aback. I don't know enough to say whether his portrayal of these specific types of raiding bands, from these specific Native American societies, is accurate. It's certainly a different picture than one gets from books like Dee Brown's.

I'd recommend this with reservations; generally entertaining, but not without faults.

In McMurty's prequel to Lonesome Dove, we see the young Gus McCrea and Woodrow Call at the beginning of their Rangering days. It is interesting because both characters are clearly the men they will become in Lonesome Dove, yet without the assurance and confidence that carried them so easily through that book's trials. The author does a good job of portraying them as believable youths rather than as copies of their later selves in younger bodies.

This is a roaming tale. There are three trips which encompass the book. The first is a brief and futile foray against the fearsome Comanche Buffalo Hump. The second, a long and futile expedition to capture Spanish Gold in New Mexico that is thwarted by the elements and a Mexican army. The third, a march in captivity through a desolate country that will prove to be a more ruthless enemy than the Indian or the sons of the conquistadors.

I will warn the reader, the ending is a little bizarre and seems out of place with the rest of the book (and the preceding two) -- it really lost the Western feel for me.

This journey is much less purposeful and more fantastic than that portrayed in LD or Streets of Laredo. This tale feels at times a bit forced, with something exciting fitted neatly into every chapter. On the whole however, it is a good yarn that captures a flavorful frontier West before the Civil War. McMurty remains a gifted storey teller who is able to drive the reader through his pages with gifted dialogue and excellent descriptions.

I'm already digging into McMurty's last book of the Lonesome Dove series, Comanche Moon.

Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk, the original perquel to Lonesome Dove, features that book's main characters when they were just youngsters and had first joined the Texas Rangers. Like Lonesome Dove, it is a big book with a lot of characters and a lot of action, but it differs significantly in that there is very little humor and the character's stories don't mesh into any coherent plot line or ultimate resolution. It is in essence a picaresque novel that kind of wanders around - as do the characters in the story. While Call and Gus are shown to have the beginnings of the personalities that would endear them to Lonesome Dove readers, they are also shown as having little depth and no experience. They really are clueless. And pitted against the merciless indians they face it is a miracle that they survive. Of course they have to for the sake of the story but it isn't any talent or savvy on their own part that makes survival possible.

Despite its limitations, this is still a very interesting book. The action is quite satisfying even if the characters are not.

There was something missing in this tale of a white woman stolen by the Comanche. The premise itself was engaging but the characters were not. The first book I have read by Joan Johnston, I felt like I was missing some vital history and that the characters I were reading about were really not 2-Dimensional as they appeared to be, but there was more to this that was not included in this particular book. Bayleigh Steward, a tall and beautiful redheaded white woman was stolen three years ago by Comanche from her father's plantation. Her sister Cricket has asked that Long Quiet, a friend of her husband's, search for her. Long Quiet is a son of a Comanche woman and a white father and able to pass between the two worlds of Comanche and white people. Long Quiet once met Bayleigh and had decided that she was the woman for him, the one he wanted to have as his wife. He takes on the responsibility of finding her very seriously. When helping a Comanche, Many Horses, escape from a brutal death, he is embraced as a blood brother and taken back to the camp where he understands a redheaded white woman is being help captive. As a thank you for saving his life Many Horses offers Long Quiet the white woman Shadow he sees he desires to use as he wishes. Of course Long Quiet accepts. The reader is led to believe certain things at this stage regarding Shadow, that her captors abused her. However, this never happened in the ways you would think and it's too unbelievable to accept as a reader. The stage is set, the characters are in place, but something is missing. This story lacks the punch necessary to make this an engaging read.

> In the three years Bayleigh Stewart has been held captive by the Comanches and has been sharing a tipi with "Many Horses" a great warrior, she has not been forgotten by her family and most of all by "Long Quiet". Long Quiet,who is half Comanche and half white man, cannot forget the beautiful girl he met in Boston years ago and on behalf of the Stewart family has been searching high and low for her. Finally after three years he discovers she
is now called "Shadow", a woman living amongst a tribe that believes her to have strong powers.Many Horses bestows Shadow as a gift to Long Quiet after saving his life and the love affair begins. It is now up to Long Quiet to return her to her family.The question is will Long Quiet be happy living in the white mans world with Bay when he is a Comanche at heart? And..will Bay be accepted by the world she left behind and how will she adjust to it?

"Comanche Woman" by Joan Johnston is an enjoyable and engrossing romantic Western novel. It is the 2nd in the Sisters of the Lone Star series. The first "Frontier Woman", focused on the youngest of the Stewart girls, the rough and tumble "Cricket" who meets her match in Texas Ranger "Creed". This one now turns it's focus on Bay, the quieter middle daughter, who was captured by the Indians at end of the first story, and I couldn't wait to find out what happened to her. Bay's time spent living among the
Commanches changed her completely. She is now strong and self reliant. The second part of the story, takes a turn and,although we still get some action, it may seem to be more a steamy soap opera,then a western adventure. I think I would have like to read more about the actual events of the Texans escape from the Mexican prison, which is also part of the story. Miss
Johnston also gives us a good look at the traditions and ways of life of the Native American during the 1800's.

Many of the characters from the first story return and all have good stroylines in this one as well. The gruff patriarch, Rip Stewart, Cricket and Creed with their new arrival,Jonas Harper, Bay's first love, who really adds an unusual twist to the story, Sloan, Luke Summers, what's his secret? and of course, the oldest sister Sloan, who was left pregnant and betrayed in
the first story, what will become of her. That's next her story is the soon to be released "Texas Woman", which I also looking foward to reading.

I personally enjoyed "Frontier Woman" a little more than this one, probably because it was more on the adventurous side. But this one was definatly an enjoyable read, and as she has done before Miss Johnston has taken me away to another time and place for a while I would also suggest that "Frontier Woman" be read before this one, as that is where you will get to know all
the characters.

enjoy.... Laurie

In the 1843 Republic of Texas, as he promised three years ago to her sister, half-breed Long Quiet continues his search for the missing Bayleigh "Bay" Stewart with no success. When he saves the life of chief Many Horses Long Quiet believes his quest might be over when he learns of Shadow, a white woman owned by this Comanche chief. As his reward, Long Quiet receives Shadow, who is Bay.

Long Quiet is patient with his frightened gift, but begins to reach the woman he has cherished ever since he saw her back east years ago. When someone tries to kill her, Long Quiet takes Bay to safety. Though they love one another, he knows his Indian people needs him so he wants to live in Comancheria while she needs to go to her family ranch. Bay returns home to learn that the family faces a financial crisis with their only hope left for her to marry her wealthy former suitor Jonas Harper. However, she now carries Long Quiet's baby causing a different dilemma.

Though the story line is typical of most of Joan Johnston's Texas historical romances, the reprint of COMANCHE WOMAN will please sub-genre fans because this is one of the best entries in the extended mythos. The story line enables the audience to observe the lifestyles of Native American and Texans in the middle nineteenth century yet provides wonderful lead protagonists and a strong secondary cast including stars from the first novel (see FRONTIER WOMAN). This is an entertaining tale that readers will gain plenty of pleasure while awaiting the next reprint, Texas woman.

Harriet Klausner

Does not cover the full sized wagoneers that were produced the same years as some of the tiny little wanabe jeeps. I have an '84 full sized Wagoneer.

It helped me to install a air/idle control valve on a 1987 Dodge Caravan. I did not even know where to find it.

As we're not talking about an expensive book, it's OK to buy it as long as you include the Haynes Repair Manual (Jeep Grand Cherokee 1993-2000) in your cart as your primary Choice.
Chilton's tries to cover way to many models of different cars and fails miserably in some aspects. Haynes, in the other hand, deals with Grand Cherokees only, making it much more accurate for ZJs (all the info applicable) and WJs (some info applicable) owners. In case you don't know ZJ stands for Grand Cherokees manufactured between 93 and 98 and WJ stands for Grands made in 99 and after.

I found the electrical and vacuum schematic section's to be very precise. The symbols were very standard and easy to follow. Granted they do not lay out the stereo system to help install a new radio. But if you don't know how to use a Meter then you shouldn't be working on cars. The book was extermly useful in step by step procedures of the dash removal. Also it goes more in depth on the ABS brakes with very useful info on proper bleeding. In my opinion the only manual which may offer more detailed info would be a manufacturer's maintenance manual accompanied by an IPC.

It beats the Haynes Repair hands down! I'll never buy a Haynes Book again afte checking this repair manual out. I received this also in the mail in just a couple of days! First Class Service from Amazon - First Class Book from Chilton's.

this is not really a review but request for help. I have A problem being able to see clearly A very important picture in my book. I was wondering if you could have someone get in touch with me on this subject at my e-mail address. thank you for any help that is possible.

I read this book several years ago and found it very interesting, since the subject (Juana Cavasos) was my great, great aunt. My maiden name was Cavasos. I did feel that, although interesting, it was written in a very elementary style and would be more to what a child would like. Then I found out it actually was placed in the various school libraries before it was discontinued. The book was not too long (the author did not write more than she had to say)and it did hold my interest, possibly because of the familial tie. I do wish it was still in the schools because it told what it was like to live during a time when Native Americans and other people were frightened of each other and of their trials and tribulations caused by this fact.