Lone Star Sons - Softcover

Hayes, Celia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989782018 ISBN 13: 9780989782012

Publisher: Watercress Press, 2014

Synopsis

The first in a thrilling, old-fashioned Western adventure series, featuring a young Texas Ranger, James Reade, who joins forces with Delaware Indian Scout Toby Shaw, to solve mysteries, find long-lost treasure, rescue the helpless, and track down bad men during the days of the Republic of Texas!

About this title

From the Author:

Lone Star Sons is my reworking of a certain classic western adventure, in the wake of last year's disastrous movie attempt to re-launch it. I suggested in various blog posts here, and in other author blogs,  that the only hope for the franchise was to eliminate some  very identifiable features on the basis of sheer improbability, keep certain classic Western story principles, and rewrite it all as a straight historical adventure, set in 1840s Texas.
There was, I argued, a whole wide-open range of interesting events and characters to explore ... and the more I thought about it all, the more fun it looked like being. So - I went and did the initial establishing adventure. It's a little more of a romp than the other books, and is intended for the YA audience, especially boys of all ages who have sorely missed traditional Western heroes, the Cowboy Way, and all that.  And then I wrote another, and another.  

From the Back Cover:

The time - 1842
The place - the Republic of Texas, a place threatened and besieged on all frontiers!

Jim Reade lay on his back in the desert dust, incuriously seeing that ominous shadow circle, lower and lower until every finger-like dark feather became distinct against the burning sky . . . He hurt in every bone, from his head to his fingertips, and all the way to his booted toes. . .the sun had blazed on his exposed face and hands for many hours, and there was a mass of congealed blood which had oozed from his forehead, running back into his sweat-matted hair.

Jim Reade, a volunteer Texas Ranger, is the sole survivor of an ambush in the contested Nueces Strip. Rescued by Indian scout, Toby Shaw, the two young men join forces in pursuit of a mysterious wagon carrying a treasure in silver and gold - a treasure with a curse upon it!
Sworn blood-brothers, Jim and Toby meet with other challenges and mysteries, including a trove of documents sought after by spies of three nations, a girl vanished in the midst of a vicious feud between two families, a den of murderous robbers on the Opelousas Trace ... and a tiny baby left an orphan in the desert!

Lone Star Sons - the classic Wild West rides again, in this collection of adventures intended for younger readers by the author of the Adelsverein Trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watercress Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0989782018
• ISBN 13: 9780989782012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230