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Title: Texas Yankee: Homecoming
Author: Jerry P Orange
Narrator: J Rodney Turner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-21-16
Publisher: Jerry Orange
Genres: Romance, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Texas Yankee: Homecoming is an adventurous love story set in Central Texas during the turbulent years following the Civil War.
After fighting in the Yankee Cavalry, Joshua Granger returns to Texas to marry beautiful Sarah Lynn Smith in spite of the fact that one of her Confederate brothers has tried to kill him. Joshua and Sarah refuse to let anything stop them from becoming man and wife in this dramatic tale of triumph.
A hopeful love letter from Sarah sets Joshua on an unusual journey from Kentucky to Texas in early 1866. With a couple of good horses and some big ideas, he leaves the security of family and inheritance behind for the love of a strong woman on the Texas frontier.
In Arkansas, Joshua takes on the responsibility of a mentally challenged orphan and is saddled with two wagons full of prostitutes who need a guide to Dallas. In the meantime, Sarah is planning their wedding in spite of her mother's protests while she waits anxiously for Joshua's return.
Upon arrival in Georgetown, Texas, Joshua finds that he is unwelcome in the community, and marrying Sarah is not the foregone conclusion he expected it to be. The next year is filled with the humor and hardship of homesteading a ranch, fighting Comanche and outlaws, breaking wild horses, catching and branding wild cattle, and hunting buffalo. In between the work, Joshua tries to fulfill the obligations of courtship as required by Sarah's family before they will bless her marriage to the Yankee. The gritty realism, the heartache, and the laughter that go into making this frontier family bring Reconstruction Era Texas to life.
Members Reviews:
Anyone ever curious about post-Civil War Texas will love this book!
What a phenomenal book from Mr. Jerry P. Orange! This book has a bit of everything in it. It is a true western adventure. I would even go so far as to say that this is the start of the grown up version of the "Little House on the Prairie" series! Everyone interested in what it was like living in Texas in the late eighteen-sixties would absolutely love this book! And, it continues on with the second book "Texas Yankee Honeymoon".
When we first meet our protagonist, Joshua Granger, he had been a boy having lived half of his life in Texas, after fleeing his brother's farm in Kentucky. When war breaks out, he follows his instincts and does what he feels is the right thing and fights for the union. However, the war is over and he is rereading a letter from his sweetheart back home in Texas, who wants to marry him. Next, he has to get there, even if it means getting past ex-confederates, bandits, and Comanche Indians. The same goes for living on the land. And, we mustn't forget Mr. and Mrs. Smith, his sweetheart's parents plus her brothers, who both fought for the Confederate side.
This book takes you through a lot of places, people, and things. If you have ever been interested in the old West and what homesteading comprised of, you will be in for a surprise! The plot is solid, the setting is spectacular. You will love the characters. And be begging for more at the book's end.
Thank you Mr. Jerry P. Orange and Word Slinger for giving me a copy of this book to read in exchange for my honest review.
I particularly like the historical and technical detail which shows that the ...
I just finished both books in this series and will definitely read any more. It is a welcome change from the "All action, all the time" novels...