After returning home from the Confederate Army, Rawls Slaton and his brother, Marcus, drive 750 head of cattle up from Texas to Kansas to make their fortune and encounter freak storms, corrupt businessmen, and Comanche warriors along the way. Reprint.

Blood for Brother

Literature & Fiction

Murdock, Mackey

Genre Fiction

Dorchester Pub Co Inc

Chute #3 goes behind the gates of big-time rodeo and small-town Texas into the hearts and lives of the folks who make up both. Its characters reflect our own mirror's images, capturing the best of emotions, memories, and the realities surrounding them to wrap us like an old quilt. It's the Wild West a few years newer, the story of love and life and realizing dreams come true. 
For those of you who've ever imagined besting a buckin' bronc, Chute #3 is a must-read. For the rest, climb on aboard for a ride you'll never forget.

Chute #3

Action & Adventure

Longhorn Creek Pr

Eighteen years later, Bones Malone is still suffering from his memories of Civil War combat, as he tries to reconcile the past and the present and stay on good terms with his cousin Wade, who has married the woman that Bones once loved.

War Relic: A Western Story (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Western)

United States

Wheeler Publishing

In the early 1900s, much of Texas remained raw and unbroken, waiting to be tamed. Mackey Murdock's tribute to these old-time Texans describes how they accomplished this task with their sweat, their laughter, and their livesóhow they harnessed her blessings and sowed seeds for the future. Told in their own words by the builders of our state, Last of the Old-Time Texans is an enlightening account of life at the beginning of the twentieth century when it was lived and enjoyed with only the essentials. Their stories of hardships and triumphs and everyday living are gathered and told with great warmth and respect, and a precious piece of history is lovingly preserved in the interviews with these turn-of-the-century Texans.

Last of the Old-Time Texans

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Taylor Pub

This book applauds the sacrifices of the fighting men who answered their country's call. Here, they tell their story in the informal setttings of veteran bull sessions.

The Forgotten War: Texas Veterans Remember Korea

History

Americas

Taylor Trade Publishing

Chute #3 goes behind the gates of big–time rodeo and small–town Texas into the hearts and lives of the folks who make up both. Its characters reflect our own mirror's images‚ capturing the best of emotions‚ memories‚ and the realities surrounding them to wrap us like an old quilt. It's the Wild West a few years newer‚ the story of love and life and realizing dreams come true.

Chute #3 (Western Series)

Center Point Pub

Following his discharge from the Confederate Army, Rawls Slaton slowly made his way on foot from North Carolina to the Texas ranch his father earned as a land grant from Sam Houston after the battle of San Jacinto. Now Rawls and his brother Marcus own it, and it's up to them to do their father proud.Rawls' return home was anything but triumphant. As he approached the house, he heard screams -- and learned soon enough that those screams were coming from Bess, the woman he loved and who was now his sister-in-law, as she gave birth, frightened and alone.Rawls learns that Marcus left eight days ago to take some cattle to market in San Antonio -- a job that should have taken no more than four days. Something was wrong, and though Rawls knew what he had to do, he wasn't sure he was in any condition to do it. Rawls is disheveled, and plagued by physical and mental conditions that the doctors say may improve over time. But time is something that's in short supply. The war may be over, but the battle to save the ranch is just beginning . . .

Blood for Brother (Center Point Western - Large Print)

A veteran of the Battle of Chancellorsville must come to terms with torments, both past and present, in this story by Western author Mackey Murdock. "Bones" Malone earned his moniker collecting buffalo bones on the plains. Even in 1881 Bones is still haunted by his role in the war eighteen years earlier. Now his cousin, Wade, has started a big ranch in the area. Bones cannot escape the past, or the idea that he is the designated protector of the Malone family. He will have to reconcile his past and the conflicts of the present, including his relationships with Wade and his wife, Sassy-the woman Bones had once loved.

War Relic: A Western Story

Blackstone Western

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