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The Buckskin Line: A Novel of the Texas Rangers
Contributor(s): Kelton, Elmer (Author)

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ISBN: 0765390388     ISBN-13: 9780765390387
Publisher: Forge
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2000
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Westerns - General
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
Dewey: FIC
Series: Texas Rangers
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.73 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Topical - Country/Cowboy
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 34758
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 15.0
 
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On the Texas frontier in the 1840s, a red-haired child whose family has been massacred is captured by a Comanche war party led by a great warrior named Buffalo Caller. The boy is rescued by Mike Shannon, a Mexican War veteran riding with a ranging company of Texans dedicated to protecting settlers against Indian raids, and is adopted by the Shannon family. In 1861 his adoptive father is bushwhacked and murdered and the boy--now known as Rusty Shannon--follows Mike's footsteps, riding to Fort Belknap to join the Rangers. Texas is now in the throes of secession and Union sympathizers are treated as traitors. One such traitor is Lon Monahan, whose family befriends Rusty. Lon Monahan's particular enemy is Colonel Caleb Dawkins, a former army officer and Confederate zealot determined to conscript the Monahan boys and drive Lon and all Unionists out of Texas. When the youngest Monahan attempts to escape Texas and wait out the war, Dawkins's thugs hang him and his father. Rusty Shannon carries heavy burdens. Both of his families are dead; he is haunted by Mike Shannon's murder, thinks he knows the culprit and intends to kill the man; his new-found friends have been lynched; and his duties as a Ranger conflict with his sense of justice. And he is fated to meet again the Comanche warrior whose band killed his family and took him captive over two decades ago: Buffalo Caller.


Contributor Bio(s): Kelton, Elmer: - Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men's Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards were seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.
 
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