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A former Comanche captive known as Badger Boy, Andy Pickard, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley Brackett, a Confederate veteran turned ranger, to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to a neighboring county to stand trial for the murder of Ned Hopper, but the two lawmen soon find themselves caught in the middle of a blood feud between the Landon and Hopper families. Reprint.
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In this fifth volume of his Texas Rangers series, Elmer Kelton takes the young ranger Andy Pickard, once a Comanche captive called Badger Boy, into the midst of a bloody vendetta between hate-filled families. Pickard and ranger Farley Brackett, a former Confederate soldier, are assigned to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to the sheriff of a neighboring county to stand trial for killing a man named Ned Hopper but from the outset the seemingly simple assignment gets complicated. The Landon and Hopper families are in a blood feud; the Landons are gathering to free Jayce, and the Hoppers are gathering to kill him.Filled with the author's always engaging characters and set in the historically accurate backdrop of post-Civil War Texas, Texas Vendetta chronicles the pinnacle era of the legendary Texas Rangers.
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