One of Western fiction’s most celebrated novelists creates a story filled with all the passions and struggles of the people who forged a new country. Set in the vast grasslands of Texas just after the Civil War, Franklin’s Crossing follows former slave and seasoned scout Moses Franklin as he leads a wagon train through Comanche territory to Sante Fe.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
“In this ambitious historical novel set ten years after the Civil War … Reynolds achieves a Louis L’Amour-style realism …”
—Publishers Weekly
“Ambitious and absorbing.” –Larry McMurtry