
The Wonderful Country
Volume 33
Tom Lea(Author)
Texas Christian University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2002
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-87565-261-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martin 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 Martin 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Fort Worth
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87565-261-0 (9780875652610)
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Persons
The late Tom Lea is author of The Brave Bulls, The Primal Yoke, The Hands of Cantu and the two-volume history of the King Ranch.
John O. West is professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. West is author of Tom Lea: Artist in Two Mediums and Mexican-American Folklore.
John O. West is professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. West is author of Tom Lea: Artist in Two Mediums and Mexican-American Folklore.