Perhaps because The Shadow Riders was written to turn immediately into a television movie, it skimps on L'Amour's typically strong portrayal of setting. For every evocative description like that of the town of Refugio — "a muddy, rutted alleyway between two rows of nondescript shacks, sodden with rain" — there are several cliched descriptions empty of sensual or emotional content. The narrator at one point, for example, tells his readers, "It was almighty still, and there was nobody around a body could see."
L'Amour is working with a setting other than the West — the gulf coast of Texas — but,.....
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