Texas Rifles

Texas Rifles
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9780812551211
ISBN-13 : 0812551214
Rating : 4/5 (214 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Texas Rifles by : Elmer Kelton

Download or read book Texas Rifles written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Confederacy, facing into the Union cannon, had too much on its hands to send troops to the Texas frontier to hold back the Indians. Instead, it authorized the State of Texas to raise its own troops. Many kinds of men drifted into the Texas Mounted Rifles. Some thought it might be safer than fighting in far off Virginia. Many were merely young men a-thirst for adventure. Some were settlers who saw this as the best way to protect their families and homes against the murderous thrusts of the Comanche. And some were men who still loved the Union, who had lived too long under that gallant flag to turn their guns against it now. Such a man was Scout Sam Houston Cloud...


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