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Genre/Form: | Western stories |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elmer Kelton |
ISBN: | 9780765320506 0765320509 |
OCLC Number: | 401076178 |
Notes: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
Description: | 335 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Elmer Kelton. |
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Abstract:
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son, Jeffrey, manages to hide and is rescued by the militia men.
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"* "Kelton's writing is absolutely authentic, and he is a master at spinning that wildly expressive species of dusty idiom that makes good western writing so gratifying. Add to that some stern, if flexible morality and tight plotting full of tense, finger-twitching action, and you have some outstanding western fare." - Booklist on Texas Showdown" Read more...
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