Phil Thomas Denver Rocky Mountain News 05-18-1997 `BILLY' ROPES IN ADVENTURE Billy Gashade By Loren D. Estleman Forge, 351 pages, $23.95. Loren D. Estleman has written a number of impressive novels, but his latest, Billy Gashade, rises above them all. The novel is set in America between 1863 and the early 1930s, as Estleman superbly spins a captivating tale of this country's social and political history during those often turbulent years. The momentous and not so momentous events of that time are chronicled by the title character, who speaks directly to the reader in a warm, intimate voic...
