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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Contents |
Chapter Thirty-FiveChapter Thirty-Six; Chapter Thirty-Seven; Chapter Thirty-Eight; Chapter Thirty-Nine; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Plum Creek is a historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas. It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a fifteen-year-old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old girl. The girl was captured by a band of renegades led by a half-breed Comanche killer after they slaughtered the rest of her family in a raid on their home in rural Central Texas. The pursuit of the renegades is set against a backdrop of post-Civil War Texas, just beginning to recover from the devastation of war and Reconstruction. The character of the former Texas Ranger is loosely based on John Coffee Hays, known as Jack Hays, who was called "Devil Yack" by many Mexican and Native American people because of the fame he won fighting in the Mexican War and, before and after, fighting the Comanches. As Billy and the older men ride, Texas is emerging into a new age around them. A new social structure is taking hold, the old ways of life are dying, and the future is uncertain. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Country life -- Texas -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Country life. |
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Texas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Novels.
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Novels.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McNeal, W.W. Plum Creek. Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2016] 9780875656410 0875656412 (DLC) 2016016743 (OCoLC)948176093 |
| ISBN |
9780875656472 (electronic book) |
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0875656471 (electronic book) |
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9780875656410 |
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0875656412 |
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