tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post8619678779614481112..comments2024-03-25T02:53:26.373-04:00Comments on Women in Crime Ink: Texas-based Crime Writer Pens 2nd NovelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post-67019187386672627852013-09-02T15:25:40.369-04:002013-09-02T15:25:40.369-04:00Phil Sheridan, a Famous Civil War General and Indi...Phil Sheridan, a Famous Civil War General and Indian fighter said of Texas after a visit in 1883, “If I owned Hell and Texas, I would rent out Texas and Live in Hell.” This is the Texas that can especially be found in the remote Chihuahuan high desert of the Big Bend in far West Texas. This is the setting for Steven Long’s trilogy Sauceda, Clair de Lune, and Ruby’s Passing, and it is indeed hellish a lot of the time, with phantasmagoric demons conspiring with the ovenlike heat that can kill an unwary traveler in one day, as well as flora and fauna that administer venom, tooth, and claw, at every turn. Welcome rain comes with chain lightning as bright as day, and roaring arroyos that carry away the living and the dead. But Long has captured the Godliness of this desert country, the cool desert breezes, star spangled nights, the awesome grandeur of a place so remote that it appears that time has forgotten it. And so, he brings us the ghost mining town of Shafter and the Big Bend Ranch Headquarters of historic Sauceda. Long knows this country intimately, he has traveled the lonely miles and climbed the precipitous peaks. Plus his stories are just damned good!Phil Sheridan, a Famous Civil War General and Indian fighter said of Texas after a visit in 1883, “If I owned Hell and Texas, I would rent out Texas and Live in Hell.” This is the Texas that can especially be found in the remote Chihuahuan high desert of the Big Bend in far West Texas. This is the setting for Steven Long’s trilogy Sauceda, Clair de Lune, and Ruby’s Passing, and it is indeed hellish a lot of the time, with phantasmagoric demons conspiring with the ovenlike heat that can kill an unwary traveler in one day, as well as flora and fauna that administer venom, tooth, and claw, at every turn. Welcome rain comes with chain lightning as bright as day, and roaring arroyos that carry away the living and the dead. But Long has captured the Godliness of this desert country, the cool desert breezes, star spangled nights, the awesome grandeur of a place so remote that it appears that time has forgotten it. And so, he brings us the ghost mining town of Shafter and the Big Bend Ranch Headquarters of historic Sauceda. Long knows this country intimately, he has traveled the lonely miles and climbed the precipitous peaks. Plus his stories are just damned good!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com