A Thousand Texas Longhorns is the first book I have read by Johnny D. Boggs. I thought it was a great introduction. I am giving it four stars. I look forward to more by him and recommend this one for those who like to read Westerns.

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I love a well written western. It includes real people performing real tasks in a true to the time background. You will find all of that in A THOUSAND TEXAS LONGHORNS.

Nelson Story is looking for an adventure, but one that will make him some money. He's heard talk that driving Texas longhorns north can make a man a lot of money. He fails to figure out there is a reason not many fools make that trip. But, make it he will. Hiring a trail boss who used to fight against him in the Civil War and an assorted crew of rough around the edges...and the middles...cowboys is only the first of many challenges Nelson will wade through before he even hits the trail. Once on the trail, well if there is a way to make this drive harder, he will find it.

Johnny D Boggs has written of the late 1800's Texas west with so much detail, you can smell the herd and taste the dust as you follow them on the trail. The characters are real, swearing and spitting included. He makes an enjoyable read a great experience too.

In Johnny Bogg's A Thousand Texas Longhorns (Pinnacle 2020), Nelson Story, sometimes entrepreneur, sometimes miner, always a risk-taker, decides that a lot of money can be made moving Texas longhorns north. He's warned of the difficulties, challenges, and impossibility of this task but all that only makes him more determined to do it. With the help of former enemy, Mason Boone, who's run out of options in his own life, they set out to prove everyone wrong.

Johnny Boggs has a reputation for gritty, realistic stories of the Old West and in this one, he doesn't disappoint. There is so much late 1800's atmosphere in this story, you could drown in it. I say that as a compliment. The characters are authentic. The story's day-to-day activities are so believable, I almost got bored reading about them. Life was boring back then. To tell the story accurately, Boggs includes a lot of subplots, all leading eventually to the main plot, like tributaries that dump into the main river. They’re all interesting but don’t expect a focused story with one goal, at least not for a while.

Overall, this is a good story with strong writing and unique characters that tell what happened in the old west.