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    Victorio's War

    By John Wilson

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    Jim Doolen discovered his father's fate in Written in Blood and met Billy the Kid in Ghost Moon. Now, in the final installment of The Desert Legends Trilogy, he's a scout for the Army in the middle of a brutal war to force Victorio's Apaches onto a reservation far from their traditional lands.

    Deeply troubled by the violence he's witnessed and been a part of, and having lost so many friends, Jim feels trapped between the two worlds he's encountered over the past three years. Captured by his nemesis Ghost Moon and forced to flee with an Apache band of warriors, Jim is only saved from a slow and torturous death when his old friend Wellington adopts him as his son. But now he's on the wrong side. Will he be branded a traitor? Or killed in a battle with the 10th US Cavalry or the Mexican Army? Jim finds his loyalties now divided, and he begins to understand the plight of his captors. But as supplies and ammunition run out, Jim's fate is tied to that of the doomed Apache warriors and survival seems unlikely.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781554698844
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    John Wilson

    Qualified in agricultural science, medicine, surgery and psychiatry, Dr John Wilson practised for thirty-seven years, specialising as a consultant psychiatrist. In Sydney, London, California and Melbourne, he used body-oriented therapies including breath-awareness, and re-birthing. He promoted the ‘Recovery Model of Mental Health’ and healing in general. At Sydney University, he taught in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, within the School of Public Health. He has worked as Technical Manager of a venture-capital project, producing health foods in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Dissenting from colonial values, he saw our ecological crisis as more urgent than attending urban distress. Almost thirty years ago, instead of returning to the academy, he went bush, learning personal downsizing and voluntary simplicity from Aboriginal people. Following his deepening love of the wild through diverse ecologies, he turned eco-activist, opposing cyanide gold mining in New South Wales and nuclear testing in the Pacific. Spending decades in the Australian outback, reading and writing for popular appreciation, he now fingers Plato, drawing on history, the classics, art, literature, philosophy and science for this book about the psychology of ecology – eco-psychology – about the very soul of our ecocidal folly.

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    • 4/5
      John Wilson's final installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy is a good addition to the world of historical young adult fiction. The book focuses on the life of Jim Doolen as he takes a job as a scout for the 10th Cavalry in 1879 New Mexico Territory. He is eventually captured and adopted into the Apache band led by Victorio. A bit of Robert Louis Stevenson mixed with some Hardy Boys and you have this book. There is an understated social message that helps the appeal. Not perfect -- this was an Advance Reading Copy -- but definitely an intriguing writer to watch.
    • 4/5
      it's about trials and problems of the mexican army. The writing is good. I like it better than my first books.
    • 3/5
      Victorio's War is the third book in the Desert Legends trilogy. The trilogy follows Jim Doolen, a young man thrust into incredible encounters with some of the Wild West's more colorful personalities. From Billy the Kidd in the second book to the Apache chieftain Victorio, Wilson does a good job placing his protagonist in the midst of significant historical moments. The text and fictional narrative flows into the factual one which strengthens the narrative and bring the history alive. The pace of the series is never particularly hectic. Time slows down in Jim's eyes as he spends a lot of time recalling what brought him to his current situation. There are several call-backs that would leave a new reader confused and as this book acts as something of a culmination of the first two, several plot points suffer without knowledge of the entire trilogy. Even with three books to establish his story, Jim is not a deep character. Remorse and guilt take over for most of his personal range of emotion s as time goes by. Secondary character have even less dimension which can be forgiven somewhat as they are really only vehicles to move the story forward. This is especially true to the historical figures though the reader gets the feeling that Wilson enjoyed written in the character of such notable people like Bonny.This book did a decent job of wrapping of the series' plot points and presented itself as a quick but fairly enjoyable read. It is hard to really identify with any element of the book so while it was a fun book it was not a particularly engaging book. The series shows potential.
    • 3/5
      This book was really slow. The descriptions were very vivid, but almost to the point where they were too much. The story was ok, but it found myself uninterested in most of it. I did find four pages close to the middle of the book that were simply brilliant (during a time when the main character is talking to the Indians). However, I felt that the author could have spent a little more time on character development as it took me forever to figure out whether Wellington was an Indian.
    • 1/5
      This was the third book of a trilogy, and it felt like just that as I was reading. Since I hadn't read the first two, I felt lost as things and people from past books were referenced, but not really explained. If I had read the first two books, it likely wouldn't have bothered me, or perhaps the references were never explained there either. The story was good, and the characters likeable. However, I had trouble staying engaged since so much of the story had occured in the past and we were simply told about it. Show don't tell. It makes the story come alive, and keeps the attention of the reader. Everything told becomes passive and dull. That is my biggest complaint, but the story was worth reading, and had some deeper points for personal reflection and discussion.The hero was believeable, but I really would have liked to have seen more emotional development. If we could have known a little more what he was thinking, and why when he made his decisions and went through his trials, it may have held more interest. The biggest example of the flaw is, I think, when he tells about how he shot someone to save his life, only to later find out it had been his friend. Both the incident and the revelation are told to us from past memory, and it really lessens the impact. Also...almost nothing else is said after the initial revelation, about the character's reaction to it or how it affects him and his decisions, or lack thereof. I'm assuming that this friend was known in the first two books, because we know virtually nothing about him in this one, but I had more emotional attachment to the little girl he wants to save even though we see nothing more of her than a smile and a doll.Great potential, but I don't feel it will be a story that will stick with me.
    • 3/5
      An entertaining, straight forward, sketch of the old southwest. The book has many of the elements of a good western, the young hero wandering the southwest, Buffalo soldiers, Apaches, Mexican Federales, Indian raids, etc. I enjoyed the story of Jim Doolen, who has traveled the southwest running into various historical characters including Victorio, an Apache chief. Jim tells their stories from his point of view, which often sheds new light on these well known characters. As Doolen tells his tale, he was a scout with the Buffalo soldiers. He was captured and by a stroke of luck adopted by the Apaches. He had to decide which side he was on when the two came in conflict again. The book sketches the southwest and its story rather than painting it. I would have enjoyed it better had there been more color, life and richness in the details and characters.
    • 3/5
      It was good but it needed to have more facts i got lost in spots so i thought they could have talked about some parts more but other than that i really liked it.