Dearen, Patrick
End of nowhere The end of nowhere Patrick Dearen - Large print edition - Waterville, Maine Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023 - 331 pages (large print) 23 cm. - Thorndike large print Hardcover Western .
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his adult sister, Mary, who teaches in the Esperanza school. As Jack assimilates to life in Esperanza, the threat of Rangers looms large. Eventually a day of reckoning descends, and it envelops Jack and Mary and the entire village"--
9781432888558 1432888552
2022036141
1846-1950
Large type books
Massacres--Texas--Fiction.
International relations.
Texas--History--1846-1950--Fiction.
Texas--Relations--Mexico--Fiction.
Mexico--Relations--Texas--Fiction.
Mexico
Texas
PS3554.E1752 / E53 2022b
Dea 38
End of nowhere The end of nowhere Patrick Dearen - Large print edition - Waterville, Maine Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023 - 331 pages (large print) 23 cm. - Thorndike large print Hardcover Western .
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his adult sister, Mary, who teaches in the Esperanza school. As Jack assimilates to life in Esperanza, the threat of Rangers looms large. Eventually a day of reckoning descends, and it envelops Jack and Mary and the entire village"--
9781432888558 1432888552
2022036141
1846-1950
Large type books
Massacres--Texas--Fiction.
International relations.
Texas--History--1846-1950--Fiction.
Texas--Relations--Mexico--Fiction.
Mexico--Relations--Texas--Fiction.
Mexico
Texas
PS3554.E1752 / E53 2022b
Dea 38