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Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child, he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
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Language
English
Description
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
3) The son
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
4) Badger Boy
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles Indians, Confederates,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drunken Bride, Texas, April 1875. Writing furiously in a jail cell in the days leading up to his hanging, former slave Persimmon "Persy" Wilson's last wish is to set the record straight. He may be guilty, but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his master's wife. Fifteen years earlier, Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking young house slave named Chloe. Persy and Chloe arrive bound...
Author
Series
Land of the lone star volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A feisty young woman fights to protect her family's Texas ranch against mounting threats.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
8) Prey
Author
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator--leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown"--
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