Gone to Texas

✍ Scribed by Worcester, Don

• Book ID: 108269726
• Publisher: M. Evans & Company
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781590774007

✦ Synopsis

Ellis P. Bean was a callow youth of seventeen about to embark on a grand odyssey. Philip Nolan, a dashing soldier of fortune invited the young man to join him on an expedition to capture wild mustangs in Texas. Nolan promised Ellis a few months of thrilling excitement, to be capped off by a small fortune in gold coins.
The expedition didn't realize until it was too that they were being stalked by Spanish squadrons of veteran cavalry, for the Spanish rulers of Texas feared Nolan was leading an invading force. After a brief battle, Nolan was killed and the surviving members of the hunting party were taken prisoner. Ellis Bean's real adventure had just begun; an adventure far different from the one he had been promised.
Ellis endured nearly a decade of imprisonment in Mexican jails--in Nacogdoches, San Antonio, and Acapulco--much of the time in painful shackle or in solitary confinement. After many failed escape attempts, Ellis was finally released from...