The Wonderful Country

Volume 33
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-87565-261-0
Verlag: Texas Christian University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Texas Tradition Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lea, Tom

Über Autor(innen)

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.