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Nevin's History: A Novel of Texas by Jim Sanderson (English) Hardcover Book
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- 9780896725188
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- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Nevin's History: a Novel of Texas
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S.
- Genre
- Adventure
- Topic
- Books
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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'Jim Sanderson has created a terrific story around a memorably roguish central character...Nevin's History is a good, good-humored story, and Jim Sanderson is a writer to watch' - Dallas Morning News . 'This novel of Borderlands violence and romance is an enjoyable read for anyone, especially those interested in Texana...The book's best character development is Nevin, who reveals that even a professed coward with scruples can display violence and even bravery when his own life is in the balance' - Southwestern Historical Quarterly . '[An] exciting novel of those who fought to bring civilization to the southwest' - Susan Zabolotny, The Historical Novels Review . 'A delightful and instructive panorama of South Texas' late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century past...An epic, exciting story' - Tom Pilkington, Tarleton State University. The turbulent lower Rio Grande valley of the 1870s is the backdrop of this epic historical novel of romance, violence, and the struggle for civilization on the frontier. Against that backdrop protagonist Andrew Nevin, newspaper reporter, Civil War draft dodger, informer, and self-professed coward, tells a story of three legendary figures: Texas Rangers John Rip Ford and Lee H. McNelly and the bandit mayor of Matamoros, Juan Cortina. In 1875, cattle theft and savage retribution along the Rio Grande are approaching open warfare. The governor of Texas has appointed thirty-two-year-old consumptive McNelly to lead a special force of Rangers to end the banditry. Pursuing his goal, McNelly twice invades Mexico, with predictably violent results. Fifty-year-old Cortina, who lost his American citizenship after a war with his fellow Texans in the late 1850s, is rumored to be behind the rustling. Following these tensions is Rip Ford, who has retired to Brownsville after a long career through the Mexican and Civil Wars and fighting Comanches. Hoping to avert war with Mexico, Ford assigns Nevin, his nephew, to join McNellys force and report back to him. Suspected by everyone, Nevin treads an uncomfortably fine line, taking solace in the love of two women, Mexican courtesan Catalina Taracn, and Jessie Ford, Rips young wife. When events force Nevin to leave Brownsville and begin a new life in San Antonio as a saloon owner, theater critic, and reputed nancy, Rip and Jessie Ford and McNellys Rangers continue to influence his life, as do gunslingers and San Antonio citizens. In attempting to redeem himself by telling the history of the border wars, Nevin also chronicles the growth of San Antonio and the influence of civilization on South Texas at the end of one century and the beginning of another.
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Texas Tech Press,U.S.
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9780896725188
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Book Title
Nevin's History: a Novel of Texas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Adventure
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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