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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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Former Texas Rangers leave their unsuccessful cattle business when they hear of good opportunities in newly opened territory.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Language
English
Description
As Buffalo Hump becomes older, his Comanche children rise to power, but his son Blue Duck breaks away to form a renegade group favoring guns over bows and arrows.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
During the years of the Texas Republic, a group of Rangers travel across Texas on several misbegotten missions. Two of the youngest Rangers, Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae, are featured in Lonesome Dove. Their coming of age can be charted by the rivers they cross--the Brazos, the Trinity, the Big Wichita--and the hardships they endure. Death is a constant companion, coming quickly at the hand of hostile Natives, fellow rangers, and nature itself. Their...
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Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
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Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
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Berrybender narratives volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her brother.
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
Language
English
Description
Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying "Dead Man's Walk" to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans.
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
Language
English
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
589 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Lonesome Dove, Captain Call, now an old man, is hired by the railroad to hunt down a young train robber from Mexico named Joey Garza, who was raised by Apaches and who strikes targets well into Texas. The cast of characters includes a Yankee accountant sent to keep track of Call's expenses and Pea Eye, Call's longtime deputy, now settled down to a farming life with Lorena, a former prostitute who is the region's schoolteacher.
15) The evening star
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Series
Houston series volume 4
Language
English
Description
The story picks up several years after Emma's death, when Aurora's three grandchildren (the children of Emma) have all grown up into troubled adulthood. Tommy, the oldest, is in prison for killing his girlfriend; brother Teddy is a depressive genius prone to nervous breakdowns; sister Melanie is fat, pregnant, and demonstrably incapable of finding a decent man.
16) Texasville
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 2
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
542 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Jacy, the high school beauty, returns to Thalia from a career as a Hollywood star and changes the lives of her fellow townspeople.
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her wealthy but eccentric family as they make their way through the unexplored wild West during the 1830s, when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is on the verge of becoming a full-blown tragedy.
20) Zeke and Ned
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English
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Two Native Americans, Zeke Proctor and Ned Christie, find themselves on the wrong side of the law--the law of white folks, that is--and as desperadoes in the eyes of some and as heroes in the eyes of others, they take their stands and fight to the finish.
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