Ebook {Epub PDF} Two for Texas by James Lee Burke

An enjoyable book which places a forebear of the Holland family with Sam Houston and the drive for Texas Independence. James Lee Burke 's Two for Texas starts out with two men, one of them Son Holland, breaking out of a brutal Louisiana prison camp.4/5. Two for Texas by James Lee Burke - This James Lee Burke classic features Son Holland, the great-grandfather of beloved hero Billy Bob Holland, as he flees a Released on: Aug. Burke is an excellent writer and his books are loaded with history, especially "Two for Texas" which takes place during the Texas Revolution. Much like James Michener, Burke weaves his fictional characters into the true events of the time and has them interact with actual historical figures that most people will be familiar with/5().

Two For Texas by James Lee Burke available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. Son Holland and Hugh Allison have only one thing in common--they escaped from prison together. James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in www.doorway.ru has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana. James Lee Burke was born on December 5th in Los Angeles www.doorway.ru childhood life was pretty normal as he grew up on the Louisiana Gulf www.doorway.ru passion for writing began when he was in his teenage years where he was an avid reader of "The Hardy Boys."He was however to realize his dream of becoming a great novelist after he graduated.

Two for Texas. Burke, James Lee. Published by Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., ISBN ISBN And as they make their way towards General Houston's infamous Texas Rangers they find themselves in the midst of the final tragic battle for the www.doorway.ru FOR TEXAS has all the lyrical beauty and powerful storytelling of James Lee Burke at his very best. Two for Texas ONE THE FIRST DAY that Son Holland arrived in the penal camp, manacled inside a mule-drawn wagon with seven other convicts, he knew that he would eventually escape, that he would die before he would spend ten years in a steaming swamp under the guns and horse quirts of malarial Frenchmen with Negro blood in their veins and a degenerate corruption in their hearts.