This entry in Elmer Kelton's Tales of Texas series whisks us away to witness a violent 1875 conflict. Thirty years after the Battle of San Jacinto, Texans and Mexicans are still spilling blood over control of the Nueces Strip. And Horse thieves and bushwhackers transform this hot, dry stretch between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers into a lawless inferno. Despite long odds, Captain McNelly and his small band of Texas Rangers strive to bring lasting peace to this swirling vortex of murder and racial hatred.
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"Good book about the taming of the Nueces Strip, just north of the Rio Grande. Kelton weaves appropriate historical facts in with his fiction and always makes it interesting. Highly recommended to western fans." — Jeff (4 out of 5 stars)
"Good book about the taming of the Nueces Strip, just north of the Rio Grande. Kelton weaves appropriate historical facts in with his fiction and always makes it interesting. Highly recommended to western fans."
" I wished every state had an author like Elmer Kelton. "
" In my opinin ElmerKelton is one of the best writers of westerns we have today. He has a real way of painting the scene in his books I like his characters and they heroic but also belivable people. "
" Kelton is rated among the top writers of Westerns and I have to agree. In this particular book he takes historical fact and makes of it an interesting and fast-moving story. "
George Guidall, winner of more than eighty AudioFile Earphones Awards, has won three of the prestigious Audie Award for Excellence in Audiobook Narration. In 2014 the Audio Publishers Association presented him with the Special Achievement Award for lifetime achievement/ During his thirty-year recording career he has recorded over 1,700 audiobooks, won multiple awards, been a mentor to many narrators, and shown by example the potential of fine storytelling. His forty-year acting career includes starring roles on Broadway, an Obie Award for best performance off Broadway, and frequent television appearances.
Kevin Orton is a musician, composer, and actor. He performed in the 1999 Broadway revival of Amadeus and has appeared in numerous other New York and regional theater productions, as well as on television and in film. As a musician, he is most noted for composing and performing original music in the Tony Award–winning production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
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