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01881aam a2200325 i 4500 001 6AE8285AFB5411E7891C5F6197128E48 003 SILO 005 20180117010240 007 n 008 160311t20172016||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2017017780 020 $a 1432839292 large print : permabound library binding : 020 $a 9781432839291 large print : permabound library binding : 035 $a (OCoLC)944408576 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Nicholson, Thom,. 245 10 $a Home to Texas / $c Thom Nicholson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2017. 300 $a 375 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Civil War 520 $a Doctor Travis Sasser, the chief surgeon of General Hood's Texas Brigade, has served with distinction since the beginning of the war. Unfortunately, he is captured during the Chattanooga campaign and sent to the POW camp at Rock Island, Illinois. As the time drags by and the war nears its end, Travis receives word that his family's ranch in Texas is about to be grabbed by carpetbaggers for nonpayment of taxes. In desperation he breaks out of prison along with his medical orderly, Homer Waites, and Jake Wheeler, a crusty sergeant from Nathan Forrest's cavalry corps. Jake knows where a Union payroll is hidden, just what Travis needs to save his ranch. Joining with Marie and Irma, two female spies working for the South, they brazenly make their way through the Union lines to Texas. But that is only the beginning of Travis's trials... 541 $d 20171024. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Ranchers $z Texas $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Western stories. 830 $a Civil War. 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909044901.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6AE8285AFB5411E7891C5F6197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search