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Horse Sense (Large Print Edition)
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Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He taught the boy how to hunt men. Then he taught him when to stop.
Eldridge Sample is a man who knows the price of survival. Riding across the baking hardpan of the high plains, he stops for water at a struggling homestead and meets a family of brothers on a desperate mission: driving thirty head of wild mustangs to Fort Campbell to save their farm.
Sample wishes them luck and rides on, but luck is in short supply in the territory.
When the ruthlessness of the frontier strikes-leaving the boys beaten, bloodied, and their herd stolen by the notorious horse thief Silas Kreeger-Sample turns his horse around. He isn't a marshal anymore, but he can't walk away from a debt that needs collecting.
Teaming up with Nate, the eldest brother who is burning with a rage that could get him killed, Sample leads a two-man manhunt into the jagged breaks. It's a brutal masterclass in violence as the drifter teaches the farm boy the hardest lesson of the West: to catch a wolf, you have to become a monster.
But as they close in on Kreeger's camp, orchestrating a stampede to reclaim what was stolen, Sample must ensure that in learning to kill, the boy doesn't lose his soul.
Being a monster gets you through the fight, Sample said. Stopping makes you a man.
Raw, poignant, and packed with grit, Horse Sense is a coming-of-age thriller wrapped in the smoke of a gunfight. Perfect for fans of The Cowboys, the mentorship of Shane, and the sharp-edged realism of Elmore Leonard.
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