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5 out of 5 starsDon't I Know You?, January 18, 2004

 

Reviewer: Laura EStevez from Lorenzo, Texas United States

This is a great Western story that is so good you just can't put it down. The chapters are short. The action is fast and it's just plain fun reading. I loved it!!!

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5 out of 5 starsWONDERFUL STORY-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!, October 16, 2003

 

Reviewer: pm16683 (see more about me) from Lincoln, Nebraska United States

Larry Smith is a common name for a cowboy. But it's not Larry's name folks remember. Everyone Larry meets feels like they know him from somewhere. That's how Larry and Jake Lambert happen to be begin riding together. This face recognition can be both good and bad. Like the time the shop keeper thought Larry always paid his bills on time and was willing to let Larry provision himself for the trail on credit. Then when Jake and Larry happened upon some rustlers, one of who thought he knew Larry. Smith was able to talk the rustlers into returning the cattle from the trail outfit Texas drovers and Jayhawkers in a saloon both thought they knew Larry. Both he and Jake were able to leave the saloon before the two sides had at each other. In Ft. Worth, Smith and Lambert meet up with Amanda Ruth, whose uncle Milt Black owns one of the largest ranches in New Mexico Territory. After taking Mandy to her uncle's ranch, Milt offers both Larry and Jake a job. Things are going along smoothly when a Deputy U. S. Marshall arrests Larry for the shooting of a judge's brother. Now Larry is on trial and since there are witnesses who will testify seeing Larry shoot judge Black's brother, it does not look good for Larry. Even though Larry was working on the M Bar B and has witnesses of his own, will the jury believe his testimony? Will Larry be set free or face the hangman's noose. Along the way Larry and Jake meet such notables as Cochise, Billy The Kid, Pat Garret and Wyatt Earp. There are more surprises in store for the reader of Terry's WONDERFUL STORY-DON'T I KNOW YOU? Terry Burns has done it again...written a very good inspirational western that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!

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Sally J. Walker
Editorial Director, The Fiction Works

Terry --

You are incredibly modest but that reflects well on you, sir.  The many messages of how to live a satisfying Christian life permeate your Westerns.  You do not preach.  You do not proselytize.  Your characters demonstrate how life can be lived by Christian principles.  That, sir, is a literary gift.

I have read widely in the Christian genre trying to find folks who can tell a story as you do.  I HATE the "goodie two shoes" preachy folk whose characters quote a Bible verse for any circumstance and who blatantly judge other human beliefs and life choices, totally forgetting Christ's "first stone" theory, His many comments on tolerance, and even His violent temper with the Temple money changers.

You, sir, stand head and shoulders above these folk and quietly tell a good story about characters with conscience and faith who just happen to live that story in the setting of the Old West.

 

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Subject: "Don't I Know You?"

 

Terry, my book came today, I started reading it about 12 PM and could not put it down until I finished it, of course, I was helping with the laundry and doing a few other things but I got right back to it as soon as possible and finished about 5 PM.  You did a wonderful job weaving this book, also.  I, too, am sorry your friend Dan Parkinson did not live to see his character in print, in your book.  You did yourself proud and I am sure Dan would have been proud.  It is very difficult these days to find a "clean" book, (w/o it being a religious book).  Larry got into a lot of trouble, but did a lot of good.  I would like to ask what year the book is set in, I am guessing the late 1800's?  The Panhandle being where I spent about 20-25 years of my life, I could certainly identify with Palo Duro Canyon, just cannot imagine having ranches there at one time.

Guess you can tell by now that I really did enjoy the book.  Let me know when the next one is due out.  Of course, my maiden name was Smith so I certainly know what Smith's go thru.

 

Edna Dudley

 

 

My son read your book -- Don't I know you?  -- When I asked how he liked it, he said, "Well, I could read another one of his.  Terry's a pretty good writer." Guess that's a positive review from a 16 year old!  I think he also likes the fact that he can say "Terry" and act like he knows an author!

 

Wendy