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02412aam a2200301 4500 001 7306E176BF3D11EEBECD222F56ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240130010059 020 $a 0786047755 020 $a 9780786047758 040 $a Donated 0.00 $d SILO 100 $a Johnstone, William W./Johnstone, J.A. 245 $a Forever Texas: $h Paperback $b Forever Texas 1 250 $a 1st paperback 264 1 $a New York $b Kensington $c [2020] 300 $a 364 490 $a Forever Texas $v 1 520 $a Based on real events and the true history of the legendary King Ranch in South Texas, this riveting historical adventure evokes the reality of life on the Texas frontier, as one pioneering family battles to forge a new life and carve out their own piece of the American West 520 $a Its 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis Bone McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent rolling prairie: the Santa Calina range teeming with wild mustangs, cattle, and eighteen-thousand acres of lush promise. 520 $a 520 $a But all dreams have a price. For Regis, its hell to payand the fire is coming at him from all directions. On one side of the border, its banditos and a vengeful Mexican heiress with a passionate hatred for greenhorn gringos. Especially those who have their eye on land once owned by her family. On the other side, the Apaches, slave traders, and outlaws have Santa Calina in their sights. And none of them are going to walk away from the bloody battle. 520 $a 520 $a The brothers Royle and their partners have the most to loseincluding their lives. They made a pledge to themselves to build the greatest ranch in America. To see it through to the end, theyll have to ride hard and learn the bitter necessity of violence and bloodshed. 655 $a western fiction $y 1852 $z Santa Caline, Texas $x partners 008 s2020 941 $a 1 952 $l WOPA185 $d 20240307011843.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7306E176BF3D11EEBECD222F56ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search