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02147aam a2200337 i 4500 001 1FCFDE940C0B11EEB5545B5250ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230616010039 008 210823s2022 meu 000 1 eng 020 $a 1432888552 020 $a 9781432888558 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a PS3554.E1752 $b E53 2022 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Dearen, Patrick, $e author. 245 14 $a The end of nowhere $c Patrick Dearen. $h Book 250 $a Large Print 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c [2022] 300 $a 223 pages $c 23 cm 520 $a "It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his adult sister, Mary, who teaches in the Esperanza school. Smitten by her, Jack accepts a position as teacher of the older students. As Jack assimilates to life in Esperanza, the threat of Rangers looms large, manifesting itself in extortion and physical assault. When bandits raid nearby Brite Ranch, it sets in motion retaliation by bigoted Rangers and their accomplices. Soon, a day of reckoning descends, and it envelops Jack and Mary and the entire village. This novel is based on what actually happened at Porvenir, Texas, in 1918-the blackest moment in Texas Rangers history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Massacres $z Texas $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Texas $x History $y 1846-1950 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Texas $x Relations $z Mexico $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Mexico $x Relations $z Texas $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l W7PA017 $d 20230616010203.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FCFDE940C0B11EEB5545B5250ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search