Gone to Texas

By Don Wright

Book Overview

Peyton Lewis and Fletcher Rucker are two humble Rebel boys whose innocence was destroyed in the bloody wreckage of the Civil War. Young and desperate, they fall in with a scheme to rob a bank but are totally unprepared for the violence that ensues. Sickened by the carnage and wanton cruelty that they have witnessed, Lewis and Rucker take their cut and join the migration of those who see the possibility of a new beginning in the wilderness of the Texas frontier. Along the way they meet rogues, killers...and two exceptional women: the tortured Molly Klinner, a woman who has also suffered dearly by the ravages of the war, and Gabriel Johnson, an Eastern beauty who decided to join the Texas migration on a lark--but will soon learn the true meaning of humanity. Together, the four travelers will weather the travails that the new frontier offers them--but will they manage to carve out a new life?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765378884
• ISBN13: 9780765378880
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly good for historica fiction

I picked up "Gone to Texas" for some light reading on the airplane. The book was better than I expected. There were a number of fairly emotional passages in the book and the list of about twenty actual historical events at the end (which were woven into the story)was appreciated.