“[Rhodes’s] writing stimulates fanaticism, cultism. To the faithful, he could do no wrong. . . . Certainly he mastered his material as few others in the field, in any field, have done.” - Jack Schaefer, author of Shane
“Rhodes is the peer of Owen Wister in portraying the cowboy in his code, and often . . . the equal of such factual narrators as Andy Adams and Will James in presenting the mode of his working life. In variety and scope, he is the best of the four.” - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of The Ox-Bow Incident
“The finest [novels] ever written about that strange and violent and beautiful era in American life. . . . The only body of fiction devoted to the cattle kingdom which is both true to it and written by an artist in prose.” - Bernard DeVoto, author of Mark Twain's America and The Course of Empire