Nevin's History
Subtitle: A Novel of Texas
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780896725188
Subjects: Historical - General; Westerns; Fiction - Historical; Cattle stealing; Outlaws; Mexico; Ford, John Salmon; Americans; (Juan Nepomuceno),; 1824-1894; Cortina, Juan N; Fiction
First sentence: IN the stultifying, late afternoon Brownsville heat, which made even the flies fat and lazy and promised an even hotter, marrow-shriveling summer, I waited in my favorite whorehouse, the Bivouac, to buy a goat for my nephew.
Description: The turbulent lower Rio Grande valley of the 1870s is the backdrop of this epic historical novel of romance, violence, and the struggle for civilization on the frontier. Against that backdrop protagonist Andrew Nevin, news-paper reporter, Civil War draft dodger, informer, and self-professed coward, tells a story of three legendary figures: Texas Rangers John "Rip" Ford and Lee H. McNelly and the bandit mayor of Matamoros, Juan Cortina.