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Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Mart n 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 Mart n 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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Lea, Tom
- ISBN: 9780875652559
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.06 x 1.20
- Number Of Pages: 396
- Publication Year: 2002
Language:
English