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Read [Elmer Kelton Book] * The Rebels: Sons of Texas Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Rebels: Sons of Texas 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 independence from Mexico and o
| Title | : | The Rebels: Sons of Texas |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765348993 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. He died in 2009.. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men's Horses,
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 independence from Mexico and oust the American interlopers from Texas.Standing in opposition to Santa Anna is the former governor of Tennessee and veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian battles, Sam Houston, who is gathering a volunteer army to meet the Mexican forces.Against the heroic, bloody backdrop of the Texas War of Independence--the battles of Gonzalez, San Antonio de Bexar, Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacinto--the Lewis men and their families join such rebels as Jim Bowie, James Fannin, Ben Milam, Juan Seguin, James Butler Bonham, William Barret Travis, and David Crockett, in wresting Texas from Mexican rule.
(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Here he concludes the Sons of Texas trilogy with the strongest entry, set in the mid 1830s. All rights reserved. Historical figures—Sam Houston, General Santa Anna, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett—have cameos and add depth and color to this superb saga of the Lone Star State. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Seven-time Spur Award winner Kelton has always been a masterful western storyteller of tales rich with historical detail, vivid characters and sharply defined plots. The Lewis family—brothers Andrew, Michael and James, and sister Annie—are foreigners in a strange land, raising their families and farming while Mexican and American cultures, politics, racism and tempers simme
Great read Great story , not the usual just shoot em up,. "Texas Tales" according to K. Cook. This is another of the believable and somewhat history lessen of the Great state of Texas.. "An excellent conclusion for the Sons of Texas trilogy" according to Ed Crumley. It's not a wonder that Elmer Kelton has received so many prestigious awards and accolades from numerous Western writers' associations. This native Texan writes with the authority of one who has lived in the environment he writes about and done the research about the historical details of his subject matter.His saga about the Lewis family, which migrates from Tennessee to Texas before Texas won its independence from Mexico, has a fitting conclusion with the Battle of San Jacinto and the brothers returning home. They don't know until the end whether each has made it out alive.An interesting parallel s
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