When the Missouri ran red
Record details
- ISBN: 1638081875
- ISBN: 9781638081876
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Physical Description:
494 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
large print - Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
- Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Regular print version previously published by: Kensington Publishing Corp. Includes discussion questions. |
Summary, etc.: | "Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives with the help of an unlikely ally -- a new friend in arms and the only person he trusts. But if fate is cruel, war can be crueler . . . Caught in the crossfire of a deadly Yankee ambush, Owen is arrested and jailed in a Union prison. Beaten and brutalized by guards, he begins to give up hope -- until a U.S. Marshal comes to him with an unusual offer. Owen's traitorous half-brother is wanted for murder. If Owen agrees to help the U.S. Marshal infiltrate the Texas winter camp of Confederate guerillas -- and bring his brother to justice -- Owen will have both his freedom and his revenge. But the risks are great. The price of getting caught is death"-- |
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Subject: | War stories Large type books Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction War stories, American Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Hall Memorial Library - Ellington.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | LP WOOLARD, JIM R. (Text) | 34037146762713 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |