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21) The cowboy way
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"In The Cowboy Way, acclaimed Western writer Elmer Kelton chronicles the highs and lows of cowboy life. These sixteen stories--including "The Black Sheep," a little-known story not seen in print since 1956--are classic tales brimming with action, adventure, brotherhood, betrayal and the romance of the American West."--
22) Sons of Texas
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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters...
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In "Massacre At Goliad", In his later years, Joshua Buckalew seldom spoke of Goliad and the terrible thing that happened there. Even in his old age there were nights when the memory returned in a dream and he would wake up suddenly with a cold sweat breaking--the horror as vivid as it had been in his youth. The Buckalew brothers were tough as Tennessee mule-hide when they crossed the Sabine River to stake out some growing room. But soon the land was...
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It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of the turmoil are the Lewis brothers - Andrew, Michael, and James - scions of Mordecai Lewis, who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade past. Now the news along the Texas frontier is of a young general, a self-styled "Napoleon of the West," named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who wants to stamp out any gringo talk of...
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