### Review 'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail 'A brilliant warts-and-all depiction of Wellington's famous riflemen.' Daily Telegraph ### Product Description As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard o
Texas Rifles
β Scribed by Kelton, Elmer
- Book ID
- 109098002
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780812551211
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The new Confederacy, facing into the Union cannon, had too much on its hands to send troops to the Texas frontier to hold back the Indians. Instead, it authorized the State of Texas to raise its own troops.
Many kinds of men drifted into the Texas Mounted Rifles. Some thought it might be safer than fighting in far off Virginia. Many were merely young men a-thirst for adventure. Some were settlers who saw this as the best way to protect their families and homes against the murderous thrusts of the Comanche. And some were men who still loved the Union, who had lived too long under that gallant flag to turn their guns against it now. Such a man was Scout Sam Houston Cloud...
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