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Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
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"In Dead Man's Walk, the author takes the reader back, to the days when Gus and Call -- two of the most beloved figures in American fiction -- were young Texas Rangers . . ."
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Desperate for help after assuming responsibility for her younger siblings and the ranch that her missing father recently acquired on the Texas plains, Hannah Dandridge forms an uneasy truce with wounded soldier William Barnett, who is desperate to regain his family's land--the ranch that Hannah is struggling to keep running.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
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Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
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2017.
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"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...
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