The Devil's Backbone

by Bill Wittliff

Book Overview

The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader. Momma's flight sets Papa on a relentless quest to find her that thrusts him and his scrappy little dog Fritz into adventures all across the wild and woolly Hill Country of Central Texas, down to Mexico,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292759959
• ISBN13: 9780292759954
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.0"