This is a very, very good book by Matt Braun. It is a story of part of the life of Bill Tilghman, a lawman of the west. This book deals with his trying to capture outlaw Bill Doolin. The book is very well written. It has lot of action and will hold your interest. You can see the characters in your mind, Braun has done a good job. Tilghman is tough but also has a heart. Doolin led him a merry chase for a long time and as Tilghman is thinking back in the latter part of the book, his thought is, "Bill Doolin somehow seemed the last of the breed." If you like a good western based on fact, you will like this book.

This one was sitting on my shelf for a couple of years while I kept reaching for other, more glamorous titles. Finally, I picked it up and, WOW, it turned out to be a great read. There is plenty of action, intrigue, and suspense despite it's historical characters. Most of the book deals with Bill Tilghman's chase of Bill Doolan, a notorius outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch of Oklahoma Territory. There's even some romance and soft-heartedness thrown in. I confess this is my first book by Matt Braun but will not be my last!

I have read a lot of Westerns , Mountainman books , but this is one of the best so far .

What a great Western. I have read other books by Matt Braun but I think this is the best one I have read. Earl Brannock is in Denver, he is a professional grambler. Virgil Brannock shows us next and becomes a very good business man. Clint Brannock is the last one to arrive. He was always the wild one. He is hired by the city as a Marshall. Clint is looking for Jack Quintin who killed the Brannock boys parents. He also finally show up in Denver and is hired to kill the three boys. A very good Western book. Lots of action, a good ending. I hope Braun writes about these three again. The way the book ended it is wide open for it. If you like books about the old west you will really like this one.

Very good western. I really liked the main character (forgot his name because I read the book a year or so ago) This book was based on a true story. If you like a story of bravery than this is it.

The Reverend Titus Jacoby came to Cimarron on a mission, to put himself up as bait for a coalition of corrupt landowners. In fact he is really Cole Braddock the Wests most notorious manhunter in disguise. With help from a lady friend Braddock will bring the landowners down. Fast paced and action filled.

The Wild Ones takes as its protagonists a troupe of actors and variety artists ,the Fontaines ,who are seeking to rebuild their careers by decamping from the Eastern Seaboard ,to tour in the West.Fontaine -the head of the family-is a flambouyant actor with a penchant for Shakespeare,not shared by his rowdy audiences.Son Chester is an aimiable nonentity and the real star turn is Fontaine's daughter Lillian,a beauty and ,into the bargain a talented singer .It is around the figure of Lillian that most of the action takes place.
During the course of the book she comes into contact with figures of Western myth and legend -including Wild Bill Hickok,Custer,and Cimarron Jordan.She spurns the advances of a smitten cavalry officer,is taken captive along with the rest of the troupe by horse thieves ,and becomes the unwitting cause of exacerbating a range war in Colorado
It is never less than lively and the central role being female gives it an edge over most Westerns-although in "Mattie Silks" Braun did create a memorable woman protagonist earlier in his career.

The book struck me as akin to a TV sitcom "clip show"in that figures of earlier books re-appear and it did cross my mind that ,shrewd old pro that he is Braun was keen to use up old material
Lively and enjoyable

Knowing that most novels of the Old West, present men protagonists, fast-paced action scenes, guns, violence, shoot-outs and good vs. evil, I was pleasantly surprised to find a lady protagonist, a member of a family of traveling stage performers, and an insightful series of events that reveal Matt Braun's research into the entertainment industry of the late l800s as experienced in the West. Certainly, the plot includes all the elements of a traditional western, however, husky-voiced alto, Lilly Fontaine, "The Nightingale," dazzles and beguiles frontiersman all the way from Kansas City to Denver including such famous folks as Bill Hickock and General George Custer. There is also an unexpected twist toward the end of this exciting and interesting approach to a western novel. I am wonderfully pleased with The Wild Ones! A different and delightful read from a versatile and gifted writer. Don't miss this one!
Evelyn Horan - children's author
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I found this to be a waste of my time and money. I had to choose a book on usability in order to make a presentation on for a usability course I am taking at Ohio University. For the course we are reading Jakob Neileon's "Designing Web Usability." This book is a good book on usability.

I found "Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself" to be very uniteresting. The author's are constantly comparing themselves to Neilsen and tearing his books down. While I agree with the authors that there is no "one size fits all" approach to designing on the web and that different things work for different sites, Nielsen does as well. It seems to me that the authors should have worked on providing more useful content and a better layout (the book is laid out very poorly) than trying to bring Nielsen's views down.

I highly suggest that you don't purchase this book, but if you have money to throw away, send me an email, I have some real estate in Flordia I want to sell you too.

I got this book unexpectedly. I wrote to Glasshaus expressing the difficulty in purchasing their titles in India and Bruce Lawson, their Brand Visionary, promptly responded with details and followed it up by sending me a complimentary copy of this book. I was quite surprised, to say the least. It will be tempting to dismiss this as a mere publicity gimmick, but Glasshaus does have a unique way of going about their publishing business. Take a look at their site. I wonder how many other big names in publishing maintain an interesting and useful blog, to mention just one.

Coming to the book itself. I have copies of Jakob Nielsen's books, "Home Page Usability" and "Designing Web Usability". I also have Steve Krug's "Don't make me think" among other books on usability in my personal collection. This Glasshaus title is as different as can be from all those books. For the first time, one gets to hear first person accounts of the how and why of usability decisions made on major, major web sites. I mean, when you are talking about Economist.com, BBC, eBay, evolt, MetaFilter etc, you are talking about some of the most powerful and influential web sites today. The personal narrative form of exposition is another refreshing change; you feel each author is talking directly to you and sharing his/her experiences in making the kind of usability decisions they did for their websites. Each account, when read carefully, can help a web professional connect the excellent groundwork of experts like Nielsen to the practical compulsions behind real-life usability decisions.

Another excellent aspect of the book is the range of web sites that are represented, right from the publishing might of the Economist to the media powerhouse that is the BBC to the ecommerce success of eBay to powerful online communities such as MetaFilter and Evolt. To round all this off, there is a personal ecommerce venture (SynFonts) that is an excellent showpiece for how the Web allows one man to compete with many. In other words, a terrrific amount of thought has gone into developing this book and Glasshaus cannot be commended enough for putting together such a fine team to share its views. I felt that non-profit and church/spiritual (beliefnet would have been a great example) sites were perhaps the only major categories to have been left out. Perhaps a second edition of this book will address that lacuna.

And, refreshingly for a book on Usability, there is almost no Nielsen-bashing in its pages, except a few words from Molly Holzschlag in the editorial, I think. But, then, Molly is always known to be a little irreverent:-)

The only other book of this genre that I can think of is "Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide" by Jared M. Spool's User Interface Engineering (uie.com). But, I don't have a copy so can't really comment. If you are looking for practical examples of usability decision making, this book is a great title to have. Perhaps this review will serve as quid pro quo for Glasshaus' excellent gesture in sending me a complimentary copy that has given me so much learning.

Usability: The Site Speaks For Itself has been bedside reading for a couple months. This book has been a great downtime inspiration. This book, unlike the Guru usability books, teaches you how to approach Web interface design and development with the user in mind. The hard fast rules some experts espouse do not always work well with our own users. This book does a wonderful job teaching us how to think through the process. The book provides examples of six varied sites and their developer's approaches to creating usable sites for their audiences. This books is a joy to look at as well as read. There are many nuggets tucked in the pages that make it worth the price. When building Web sites it is best to remember the one constnt is it all depends and we need to know how to think through these situations.

Luke Starbuck is born in this book. He is top hand for Mr. Langham owner of the LX ranch. All the ranchers in the territory of north Texas are losing horses to thieves. Luck is hired by the ranch owners to be their range detective and seek out the rustlers. He does so by joining up with a gang. The story is easy going and smooth. Regarless of the other persons review stating he does not like the ending I thought it was just the way it could happen; with Luke making very quick and smart decisions under pressure.

Have read several Braun books and for the most part they have all been good. Luke Starbuck is foreman of a ranch owned by Ben Langham. He is hired to go after a gang of men that are stealing horses. He poses as an outlaw to get the job done. Who is the big boss of this gang? Is it Ben Echhardt, Chub Jones, Monty Hall? All are suspected at first but it turns out to be Dutch Henry Horn. Luke uses a quick draw, fist and his natural smarts to get to the bottom of the mess. A fairly quick read, plenty of action and Luke comes to find out he enjoys doing this type of work. I would have given it a five except for the last several pages. I got the feeling Braun was just trying to end the story. It was good, then bam, the ending came very quickly. All in all a very good western.

I don't do too many reviews, but I wanted to say this is a great book about buffalo hunters that should be a hit with anyone who likes the gritty true west. It keeps you turning the pages and has plenty of action and some romance, too.

If you like writers like Louis L'Amour, Kirby Jonas, and Elmer Kelton, you should get a kick out of this one. Good read. I gave it a four only because the language is a little harder than I enjoy reading.

Have read several other books by Matt Braun and enjoyed most of them. I did not really like this one. Not much in it was the real life of Doc Holliday. It seemed like several chapters were a repeat of the previous one. Doc would get up, dress, go eat breakfast, go play poker, shoot somebody and then go back to his hotel. The next chapter he would be in a different town, get up, dress, go eat breakfast, go play poker, shoot somebody and then go back to his hotel. The towns changed and Doc always had to agree to show up at a hearing the next morning to explain the shooting. Was really disappointed in the book, started just skimming pages as it was so much like previous pages.

WHEN I BOUGHT THIS BOOK I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME HISTORIC INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF DOC HOLLIDAY. MR. BRAUN HAS PUT TOGETHER A FAIRLY GOOD BOOK OF FICTION. IT IS NOT AN ACCOUNT OF HOLLIDAY'S LIFE, BUT A STORY ABOUT A GUNMAN WHO HAPPENS TO BE NAMED DOC. IT IS GREAT IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BIT OF OVER SIMPLIFIED READING, OF A MAN WHO WAS MORE INTERESTING IN FACT, THAN HE WAS IN MR. BRAUN'S FICTION.

I think this book was outstanding. If you like westerns, you should definitely read this. The book is detailed and it puts you right there by Doc Holliday himself. A must read!