In the inimitable yarn-spinning fashion of _Horse Tradin'_ and _Wild Cow Tales_ , Ben K. (Doc) Green now takes us back with him to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as practicing horse doctor--working out of Fort Stockton, Texas--along the Pecos and the Rio Grande, in one
West of the Pecos
β Scribed by Grey, Zane
- Book ID
- 109026876
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 691 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781510702004
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story.
Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son-- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.
Upon the arrival of the Civil War, Lambeth enlists in Lee's army, leaving behind his wife and tomboy daughter, with hopes to reconcile living in the shadow of his brother. By the time the war ends, Lambeth returns a colonel and his wife has passed. Tired of his old life as a cotton planter, he packs up with his tomboy daughter, Rill, and heads for the alluring western frontier to start anew.
After they arrive in the West, the Colonel is brutally murdered. Rill, disguised as a youth of eighteen who rode with the toughest, is left...
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