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...WONDERFUL COUNTRY (387 pp.]-Tom Lea-Little, Brown...
...Lea of El Paso is a good painter and a good writer. He loves his native Southwest, is steeped in its history and traditions. In his first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949), he was an artist writing exactly and movingly about another art: bullfighting. He was also a surprisingly good novelist exploring the range of courage, despair and fear in the heart of a brave...
...Lea is fast nosing out Zane Grey as king of the Cowboys. This latest mesquite and tumbleweed opus offers little to be criticized--maybe because it offers little, period...
...nicest thing about "The Wonderful Country," besides Lea's own illustrations, is that it's all plot and takes around four hours to read. If you can judge westerns by the usual criteria of literary excellence, then the book's worst flaw is that the reader frequently doesn't know who is killing whom, when, where, and why. Of course this might make little difference to the affilcionado, but I'm one and I like to know what is going...
...incisive glimpses into the character of his characters, Mr. Lea just doesn't give us any. They're good when Martin's on their side, and bad when he's not. The author uses an old, but still good, Don Passes trick when in traducing his main figures. He pleasantly deserthes four unrelated groups of people and then weaves them together Los them runs out of tricks. As an afterthought (of any is warranted), the author evidently doesn't believe in transitions between scenes...