Travis, Texas (e-book) (used book) | Gary Harmon | bookbook.eu

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Travis, Texas is the third in a series of historical fiction about the old West not long after the Civil War. Gary Harmon writes a factual, yet entertaining book about the growth of a small Texas cattle town called Travis and its development in the 1880s. The town becomes filled with unique characters from renegade Comanche Indians lurking in the shadows, to the town drunk, to the dentist cum Lutheran minister, to the young couple trying to keep their ranch viable on the edge of the frontier. Harmon has poured hours of research into his books to make them historically accurate and the reader comes to realize that much has been left out of our school textbooks: from the plight of women after the Civil War with the loss of so many men, to the problems encountered trying to develop a ranch with “wild” Indians hoping to destroy the white settlement. Gary also makes clear why the hate of the Indian toward the white man has been well-earned. In the old West, life was full of challenges, fear, disappointment and death. Gary knows much of what he writes—he grew up on midwestern ranch and adjoining stockyard so he knows first-hand the tough life of a cowhand and the struggles involved in living off the land.