{"id":6673,"date":"2018-03-01T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2018-02-28T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:05:22","slug":"wild-wild-west-reviews-for-january-february-and-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wild-wild-west-reviews-for-january-february-and-march","title":{"rendered":"Wild Wild West Reviews for January, February, and March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment.jpg\" alt=\"Cowboy Hat and Rope\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment.jpg 800w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment-500x313.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a link-up of reviews of western books for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wild-wild-west-reading-challenge-2018\">Wild Wild West Challenge<\/a>. It&#8217;s March already and I didn&#8217;t think to make link posts for January and February reviews. If you did read a western for the Wild Wild West 2018 Challenge in January or February, then you can link to your reviews below, along with any books you review in March. Going forward I&#8217;ll try to do better at providing linkups at the beginning of each month so you can link to your reviews as you write them.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re wondering what all the fuss is about, head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wild-wild-west-reading-challenge-2018\">Wild Wild West Challenge signup page<\/a> and join us in reading one of America&#8217;s unique contributions to literature, the novel of the American west. The more books you read, the more cowboy\/cowgirl\u00a0accoutrements you earn.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve earned a lasso by reading my first western of the year, a very fine story by William W. Johnstone called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-drifter-the-last-gunfighter-book-1-by-william-w-johnstone\"><em>The Drifter<\/em><\/a>. I also read a short story called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/deal-me-in-story-3-buffalo-horns-by-arthur-winfield-knight\">Buffalo Horns<\/a>&#8221; from\u00a0<em>The Montanans<\/em>\u00a0anthology.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nine more westerns on my list for this year, but I&#8217;m already looking ahead at next year, since the Kindle editions of several westerns have gone on sale lately. In fact, just Last Sunday I had the chance to pick up the Kindle edition of Ron Hansen&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The\u00a0Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel<\/em> for $2.99. Earlier in February I picked up\u00a0<em>Glory Riders\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Mistakes Can Kill You<\/em> by Louis L&#8217;Amour, and\u00a0<em>Hard Money<\/em> by Luke Short. Each book was less than two dollars, so I couldn&#8217;t pass them up. That&#8217;s not helping me decrease the size of my TBR pile, but it is helping to assure another Wild West challenge next year.<\/p>\n<p>As promised, here&#8217;s the linkup for any Wild Wild West reviews you&#8217;ve written since the beginning of the year, and for any you write in the month of March.<\/p>\n<!-- start InLinkz script. added by InLinkz_scripter plugin -->\r\n              <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inlinkz.com\/cs.php?id=768425\"><\/script>\r\n          <!-- end InLinkz script -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a link-up of reviews of western books for the Wild Wild West Challenge. It&#8217;s March already and I didn&#8217;t think to make link posts for January and February reviews. If you did read a western for the Wild Wild West 2018 Challenge in January or February, then you can link to your reviews below, along with any books you review in March. Going forward I&#8217;ll try to do better at providing linkups at the beginning of each month so you can link to your reviews&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Wild Wild West Reviews for January, February, and March #westernfiction #westerns","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[953,986],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-western","tag-wild-wild-west-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/cowboy_equipment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1JD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6681,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}