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Author:

Grove, Fred, author.

Title:

Bitter trumpet [large print] / Fred Grove.

Format:

[large print] /

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Center Point Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

382 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Subject:

Soldiers--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers--Mexico--Fiction.
Peasant uprisings--Mexico--Fiction.
Large type books.
Mexico--Fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Western fiction.

Notes:

Originally published in the U.S. by Doubleday.

Summary:

It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee. But the word of his "treachery" has preceded him and Jesse finds himself shunned by his neighbors, and worse, disinherited by his late father. Like so many disillusioned survivors of the old Confederacy, Jesse drifts west. In El Paso he meets Cullen Floyd, a Mississippian who runs weapons across the border to the Jùristas in Mexico. Cullen needs another gun against the marauding Apaches and murderous bandidos; Jesse needs a job. In Mexico, they meet Father Alberto Garza, a defrocked priest leading a poorly armed band of peasants against the trained mercenaries of the Emperor Maximilian. Inspired by the justice of the Jùristas' cause, Jesse and Cullen agree to train Father Garza's ragged troops.

ISBN:

1638080895
9781638080893

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1261049014

LCCN:

2021940857

Locations:

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)