Lone Star Rising The Texas Rangers Trilogy

In Lone Star Rising, Elmer Kelton, who is a "Texas Legend," according to Texas governor Rick Perry, brings together the first three books of his acclaimed Texas Rangers saga. The Buckskin Line introduces Rusty Shannon, the red-haired Comanche captive rescued and adopted by Mike Shannon, who is a member of a Texas "ranging company" that protects settlers from Indian raids. In the throes of the War Between the Status, Rusty joins the Rangers and searches for the renegades who killed his adoptive father. In Badger Boy, the Rangers are disbanded and Rusty returns to his home on the Red River only to discover that the girl he loves has married another. In a time of personal turmoil that coincides with the postwar upheaval in Texas, Rusty's childhood returns to haunt him as he rescues Andy Pickard, called Badger Boy by his Comanche captors. Andy and Rusty ride together in the newly re-formed Rangers in The Way of the Coyote, in a time when Texas is overrun with outlaws, Confederate raiders, Ku Klux Klansmen, and marauding Comanches.Kelton, Elmer is the author of 'Lone Star Rising The Texas Rangers Trilogy', published 2005 under ISBN 9780765312303 and ISBN 0765312301.