The Wonderful Country
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro’s business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier—shortly after the end of the Civil War—when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martín Bredi.
Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. When Brady/Bredi returns to Mexico, the Castros distrust him as an American. He becomes a man without a country.
The Wonderful Country clearly depicts life along the Texas-Mexico border of a century-and-a-half ago, when Texas and Mexico were being settled and tamed.
Customer Reviews
Time Capsule
A tremendous story of a man and his special horse as they travel through a Texas border town and Old Mexico. The language is authentic and descriptions of the land are beautiful.
Texas Rangers, US Cavalry, Mexican bandits, and raiding Apaches all breath life into this tale. I hated for the book to end. I love books about the Old West. I believe this is my favorite. It is truly a time capsule to that unique and wonderful time. The Wonderful Country.