{"id":2531,"date":"2017-05-30T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:13:00","slug":"marianos-choice-reviewed-true-west-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Mariano’s Choice Reviewed in True West Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The June issue of True West Magazine contains a nice review of Mariano’s Choice, my second historical novel. \u00a0Here’s a quote:<\/p>\n

Is courage\"Mariano's something learned or is it in our DNA? Can we control it? Based on a true story, Mariano\u2019s Choice<\/i> (Pronghorn Press, $19.95) follows Mariano Medina\u2019s quest for courage and respect\u2014growing from a cowardly teenager to a mountain man who, at long last, learns to stand up for those he loves. Not your stereotypical Western \u201chero,\u201d Mariano changes with the challenges life throws at him. At first blush it\u2019s hard to like Mariano. But within a matter of pages, he blossoms into someone you truly care about. Set in the mountain West, northern New Mexico and up to Wyoming\u2019s South Pass and Fort Bridger, author David Jessup\u2019s fluid and compelling prose of early 1800s fur trappers pulls the reader into a time and place rarely written about. The attention to detail and obvious research Jessup has done brings an unparalleled richness to the story.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Melody Groves, author of<\/i> She Was Sheriff<\/p>\n

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The June issue of True West Magazine contains a nice review of Mariano’s Choice, my second historical novel. \u00a0Here’s a quote: Is courage something learned or is it in our DNA? Can we control it? Based on a true story, Mariano\u2019s Choice (Pronghorn Press, $19.95) follows Mariano Medina\u2019s quest for courage and respect\u2014growing from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[80,126,128,127,71,125,130,129,124,131],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-colorado-history","tag-fort-bridger","tag-john-fremont","tag-kit-carson","tag-mariano-medina","tag-melody-groves","tag-new-mexico-history","tag-taos","tag-true-west-magazine","tag-wyoming-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}