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Sons of Texas - Abridged by Elmer Kelton
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Sons of Texas - Abridged

Sons of Texas: Book #1

$11.54

Narrator Jason Culp
Length 3 hours 52 minutes
Language English
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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee.

Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters a Spanish patrol determined to repel all American invaders. After a bloody skirmish leaves their father dead, Michael and Andrew find their way back to their Tennessee farm.

Five years later, after the Spanish government in Mexico City has agreed to permit 300 American families to settle in Texas, the Lewis brothers have their opportunity to re-enter Texas. They ride to the frontier town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, where Michael falls in love with Marie Villaret, daughter of a wealthy French landowner, then cross the Sabine to find Stephen F. Austin, a Missouri entrepreneur in charge of the new American colony.

But the Lewises are considered interlopers and horse thieves and are dogged by a patrol led by the same ruthless Spanish offer who killed their father five years before
Sons of Texas is the first volume in a trilogy that follows the lives and adventures of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston.

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Menโ€™s Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards were seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Jason Culp has been acting since the age of ten, and his credits include a variety of television, theater, and film roles.ย He is best known for his role as Julian Gerome on General Hospital.ย  In addition to voiceover work in national commercials, Culp has narrated audiobooks by bestselling authors such as Louis Lโ€™Amour, Danielle Steel, John Irving, and David Weber.ย  He has been recording since 1996 and has nearly 35 audiobooks under his belt.ย  Culp has also narrated documentaries for National Geographic and the History Channel.

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Reviews

โ€œA series that brings to mind L'Amour's multi-generational Sackett Family saga...Readers will eagerly anticipate the next entry in the series.โ€ โ€”Booklist on Sons of Texas

โ€œOne thing is certain: as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die.โ€ โ€”True West Magazine

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