Cornwallis Came to Town
My copy of this book is the Triangle edition of October 1942 and is of higher quality than most of those books, as the cover is cloth and not cardboard; it is red and has a cowboy riding a bucking bronco on the front. This Halfaday Creek story is full of the usual characters--Black John; Old Cush; One-armed John; and Corporal Downey--to name just a few. The prose is light and witty when these characters interact, and you never know what Black John will come out with. One such instance is when this "innocuous little man" arrives in town, and quite promptly Black John gives him the name "Cornwallis" just because he and Old Cush had been reading some history and that was one of the names in the "tin can"--the can all the strangers used to get their names, as Halfaday Creek was filled with outlaws. Black John's last name was Smith. For an evening's entertainment James B. Hendryx will not let you down with these novels.
P.S. My review for Badmen on Halfaday Creek is this review also, as I messed up when transferring them from my database of reviews. I cannot leave a second review but that book is as good as this one.
