Jason Culp
1) Bitter trail
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996, c1962
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...