This Cursed Valley

Denver Post raves about This Cursed Valley calling it a "page-turner, night-light burner of a Western saga" and "action packed enough to be read in hours-long, chapter absorbing chunks." To read the full review by Nancy Lofholm click here :

This Cursed Valley
by Larry K. Meredith
556pages
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ISBN # 0-9673867-7-2
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Map of This Cursed Valley

This Cursed Valley by Larry K. Meredith

This Cursed Valley was honored as a finalist for the Spur Award
by Western Writers of America for Best Western Original Novel.

“Meredith mixes historical fact and local legend with fascinating characters who are good and bad; some actual people, some fictional, but all complex and believable. Over all are great descriptions, which reveal the author’s familiarity with and love for his mountain settings.”
—Don Coldsmith, author of The Spanish Bit Saga and The Long Journey Home

     With This Cursed Valley, Colorado novelist Larry Meredith has come up with an exceptionally strong debut. This novel of the West embraces the pioneer experience with wit, intelligence, and extraordinary historical detail.
A writer of great descriptive and emotional power, Meredith breathes life into Will Martin, a Texas cowboy and unwitting man of destiny. Meredith has
a knack for illustrating how seemingly mundane experiences become legend, as in Martin’s accidental meeting with Bat Masterson on the Kansas prairie, or his relationship with coal king J.C. Osgood.
     This Cursed Valley’s characters are both vivid and visual. Meredith’s descriptive prose allows the reader to imagine with great clarity Martin’s three loves, Tracey, Abby and Judith. The story of their interaction with Martin is a case study in how things are often not what they seem, and much
of the book’s charm lies in the intricate relationships he has with each.
     This is a broad, rich novel; a novel to be savored. Welcome slices of history dot Meredith’s literary landscape, giving his fictional characters a strong, factual background, and bringing to mind the works of James Michener. Meredith’s descriptions of frontier Colorado are dead-on, and he writes with the passion and knowledge of a skilled observer. This Cursed Valley is required reading for those who view the West as a place of both history and myth.
—Jon Chandler, author of The Spanish Peaks and Wyoming Wind

Larry K. Meredith, author of This Cursed Valley

           Larry K. Meredith is an Oklahoma native, Meredith was raised in Kansas. He has been a newspaper man, a salesman, an advertising and sales promotion writer for a fortune 500 company, a college and university public relations director, an instructional technology director, and has owned his own marketing and video production company.
           He is currently an administrator with Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado.
           He and his wife Alley have been part time residents of the Crystal Valley since the 1960s and he has long been interested in its history. Ironically, his son and daughter and their families now live in “This Cursed Valley.”

Map of This Cursed Valley by Larry K. Meredith