Includes an excerpt from the author's Feast Day of Fools.
TWO FOR TEXAS has all the lyrical beauty and powerful storytelling of James Lee Burke at his very best.
They realize their best chance for escape is seeking cover in the violent storm of revolution led by General Houston and James Bowie.
James Lee Burke. was now. The dry rocks in the streambeds had never been cut by a wagon rut, as though the history waiting to happen again had been checked south of the Red River. Hugh would live out his last years among the Rickaree ...
Relates how Jane Long and her maidservant Kian held one of the first forts in Texas against Indian attacks and Jane gave birth to the first Anglo baby born in Texas.