Texas Rangers
Forge Books
November 2002
On Sale: November 18, 2002
Featuring: Rusty Shannon
272 pages ISBN: 0812577515 EAN: 9780812577518 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal
officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides
to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a
captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a
ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids.
Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man
accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued
from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger
Boy. Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws,
lawmen exacting penalties from suspected former
Confederates, nightriders, and the ever-dangerous Comanche
bands. In this tempestuous time and place, Rusty tries
desperately to resume his prewar life. His friend Shanty, a
freed slave, is burned out of his home by the Ku Klux Klan;
his own homestead is confiscated by his special nemesis, the
murderous Oldham brothers; and the son of a girl he once
loved is kidnapped by Comanches.
Elmer Kelton, a master of novelist of the American West,
literature, has crafted a satisfying and remarkably accurate
tale of Texas life at the end of the Civil War.
Elmer
Kelton, most honored of all Western writers, writes of the
formative years of the Texas Rangers with the knowledge of a
native Texan and the skill of a master storyteller. In Rusty
Shannon, tough and smart--necessary survival attributes on
the 1860s Texas frontier--Kelton has created one of the most
memorable characters in modern Western fiction.
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