In Cruce Stark s rambunctious, action-
packed novel--a kind of cross between The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lonesome
Dove--Mirabeau Lamar ("Bo") Johnson learns
some eye-opening lessons about expediency
and the resilient nature of "the rules." Set in
the post-Civil War era, the novel tracks Bo s
adventures after he has volunteered to find
"Uncle" Charley to tell him that he can come
home. (A former schoolteacher in a small East
Texas town, Charley has hightailed it west
thinking he s killed a man, but the man didn t
really die.)
Bo s meandering route west to the Hill
Country, south to the border region, then
northwest into Indian Territory is filled with
escapades both hilarious and perilous--
gunfights, Indian raids, trail drives, and con-
frontations with "Mescan" bandidos. Seeking
the elusive Charley, the boy meets up with
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