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Title: Captain's Rangers by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0-8125-7490-7 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Summary: Violent Times In Texas
Comment: Thirty years after the Texans defeated Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, the area in far Southwest Texas betwen the Nueces river and the Rio Grande was still a virtual battleground between Texans and Mexicans. Texans claimed the area by virtue of the treaty ending the conflict with Mexico, and Mexican settlers claimed the area because the land had been in their families for generations. As usual, Kelton brings a great sense of place and local dialogue to this novel. The settings and people around which the action takes place are, in many instances, drawn directly from the pages of Texas history.
Lanham Neal, a Confederate vetran wounded in his first and last battle against the Yankees, had finally settled in as "caporal" at the small ranch run by Griffin Daingerfield and his daughter Zoe. While Lanham, Zoe, and some ranch hands were away from the ranch house rounding up and branding their cattle, Mexican guerillas crossed the border, killed Griffin Daingerfield and others, and burned the ranch buildings to the ground. Neal found himself in the middle of the conflict. He must balance his priorities between his love and loyalty to Zoe, her insistence on revenge for the death of her father, and his own conscience. Eventually Captain L.H. McNelly and his small company of Texas Rangers enter the scene with orders to bring law and order to the territory regardless of the price in lives and property and the action excalates.
This novel is part of a series of "Tales of Texas." Anyone reading this book will gain an interesting insight into this violent time in Texas history.
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Title: Dark Thicket by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812565223 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Texas Rifles by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812551214 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812551206 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Bitter Trail by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0812551184 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Ranger's Trail by Elmer Kelton ISBN: 0765344793 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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