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Title: Texas Blood

Subtitle: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands

Author: Roger D. Hodge

Narrator: Roger D. Hodge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family.

What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state - which he loves and hates in shifting measure - tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands - with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history - as piercing as it is elegiac - Texas Blood is a triumph.

Critic Reviews:

"Hypnotically written, deeply researched, profoundly elegiac - the adverbs pile up, and with good reason. Roger D. Hodge has written a wonderful book about our most vexed and peculiarly American state, with an eye for detail and anecdote that's as loving as it is merciless." (Tom Bissell, author of Apostle)

"Texas Blood blends the personal and the historical to create a vivid portrait of a place unable to transcend its violent past. Roger D. Hodge is a very gifted writer, and he tells his story with the energy of a perfectly paced novel." (Ron Rash, author of Serena)

Members Reviews:

This was a great read. I went out to west Texas to ...

This was a great read. I went out to west Texas to Big Bend for the first time about a year ago and this book gave a lot of great information and history about the area. It was nice to get the history from someone whose family had been there for generations. I recognized most of the places the author described, the book is well written and compelling. I want to go back to West Texas as soon as I can with this book as a tour guide.

Five Stars

Thank you

Interesting book

Interesting book.

History, personal accounts, novel, or all three

My apologies to Amazon and readers for my delay on this one. I had two eye surgeries this summer. Still have problems reading printed pages - even with a magnifier.

I found Texas Blood a fascinating read. Itâs historical research, family history and a heavy but simple almost novel style writing which needs a number of readings to finish.

The author is a true Texan who left for college and rarely looked back. Heâs out for his adult life and returns later in life to fill in the blanks and put his story together. Each chapter is almost a act in itself.