The Devil's Backbone

by Bill Wittliff

The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader. Momma's flight sets Papa on a relentless quest to find her that thrusts him and his scrappy little dog Fritz into adventures all across the wild and woolly Hill Country of Central Texas, down to Mexico,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292759959
• ISBN13: 9780292759954
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.0"