Set in Texas at the end of the Civil War, Bud Shrake's novel brings together an odd collection of characters, thrown together by circumstance: a young Condederate office, an English writer and adventurer, a young French mulatto girl from New Orleans, an aristocratic Spanish lady, and Tom Custer, brother of the Custer of Little Big Horn fame. Custer's Brother's Horse, Athena, provides a unifying thread throughout the narrative. Shrake writes of a Texas filled with uncertainty and torn by violent conflict ? between ...
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Set in Texas at the end of the Civil War, Bud Shrake's novel brings together an odd collection of characters, thrown together by circumstance: a young Condederate office, an English writer and adventurer, a young French mulatto girl from New Orleans, an aristocratic Spanish lady, and Tom Custer, brother of the Custer of Little Big Horn fame. Custer's Brother's Horse, Athena, provides a unifying thread throughout the narrative. Shrake writes of a Texas filled with uncertainty and torn by violent conflict ? between Confederates and anti-secessionists, pro and anti-slavery groups, the people of Texas and the occupying military forces of the victorious North. This is a great Texas book from a great Texas writer. It is filled with adventure, romance, humor and mystery ? all in an authentic historical context.
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