It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Kid Colter by MR Scott Christensen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
If you like the style of Louis L'Amour and Ralph Compton, you'll enjoy this novel. Soldiers ride into Jacksboro, Texas to issue a call for volunteers to fight. Shots have already been fired at Fort Sumter in the war for Southern independence. At the time the War was only expected to last three months. Winn Colter was only thirteen years old but steps forward to volunteer with the other Texans. When questioned about his age, he was told to go home and send his father to fight. Being told you can't do something never sits well with a strong willed teenager. One way or another...he was going to fight! After waiting nearly two years, on his 15th birthday, Winn Colter kissed his Mother, mounted his horse and rode away to war without ever looking back. Even at his young age, Colter would prove to be a man of skill! On the frontier, a boy grew up with a gun in his hand almost before he learned to walk. In an area where the only justice rode on a man's own hip, he better have frontier savey or he would be missing his hair and might not survive. That was the way of the west! As the son of a gunsmith, Colter learned more than most boys and had a natural ability. Men that shot as well as Winn sometimes ended up on on the wrong side of the law or even dead. Before Winn goes off to war, he is warned about the dangers of reputations and he tries to heed the warnings. Colter is on a mission when he's forced to make a choice of follow orders and let a woman die or rescue her and run. It's a decision that could change his life. Later, clues to an old murder are revealed and Colter is faced with new challenges that put hidden talents back in action. There's unexpected twist and turns in his journey that will catch you by surprise. in the end you'll wonder how many men have to face the wrong end of Kid Colter's guns!
Kid Colter by MR Scott Christensen is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Kid Colter aloud.
Kid Colter is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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