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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span>BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Bower Yousse and Thomas L. Cryan<\/span><\/p>\n

Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

University of Texas Press, hardcover, 978-1-4773-0821-9, 287 pages, $24.95, September 2015<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Freddie Steinmark was one of his team\u2019s smallest players<\/span> when the University of Texas Longhorns battled their way to college football\u2019s national championship in 1969. Yet, on the field, Number 28 seemed fearless as he brought down big running backs, broke up pass plays, intercepted throws, and returned punts.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was,\u201d the authors note in this well-written book, \u201ca master of extra effort, fighting for every play, battling for every inch, and that was what set him apart and contributed to so much to the Longhorns\u2019 historic run of victories.\u201d >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Indians, buffalo hunters
head for a showdown<\/h1>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West<\/span><\/a><\/span> is Fort Worth author Jeff Guinn\u2019s<\/span> second book in a historical fiction trilogy featuring Cash McLendon, who is on the run from a man who wants to kill him (G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, $27 hardcover).<\/p>\n

McLendon finds himself in Dodge City, Kansas, in the winter of 1873\u201374 trying to put together a stash so he can return to Arizona and win back the woman he loves and start a new life in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Buffalo hunters, led by Billy Dixon, are riding out the winter in Dodge before heading south in the spring to Texas, where the buffalo have migrated. McLendon\u2019s pal, a young and reckless Bat Masterson, plans to join them. McLendon has no interest in hunting but finally signs up because he can earn more money quickly and get on with his life.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Comanche chief Quanah Parker is mobilizing not only the Comanche but also the Cheyenne and Kiowa for an all-out war on the white settlers and hunters who continue to push them out and destroy their cherished buffalo.<\/p>\n

Guinn tells the story in alternating chapters from Quanah\u2019s and McLendon\u2019s points of view as the two sides appear headed for a showdown at the Adobe Walls hunting camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuffalo Trail is history-based fiction,\u201d Guinn tells readers. \u201cWith the exception of Cash McLendon, all the main characters really did exist.\u201d He also recommends several nonfiction books about the battle of Adobe Walls and the life of Quanah Parker.<\/p>\n

The first novel in his western trilogy, Glorious,<\/span> came out last year, but both books are standalone reads. Guinn also has published three novels about Santa Claus as well as non-fiction accounts of Charles Manson and Bonnie and Clyde.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Strong: <\/span>Best-selling novelist Jon Land<\/span> features fearless fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong in his series of murder mystery thrillers, now numbering seven titles.<\/p>\n

I recently read the newest in the series, Strong Light of Day<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Forge, $25.99 hardcover). It was the first one I have read, but I plan to go back now and read some more. If you want to start at the beginning, that would be Strong Enough to Die,<\/span> published in 2009.<\/p>\n

Or you can do as I did and just plunge in with Strong Light of Day.<\/span> The reader gets to know Caitlin Strong right away as she puts herself in the middle of the action investigating an uprising by a rural Texas militia, the disappearance of a busload of youngsters from a Houston prep school, and the mysterious case of a whole herd of cattle being picked clean to the bone. Russian extremists determined to bring America to its knees and a ruthless Texas billionaire figure into the plot of this fast-paced tale.<\/p>\n

Lisa Gardner,<\/span> a best-selling mystery author herself, praises Strong Light of Day<\/span> as \u201can adrenaline-packed, tension-soaked thrill ride that\u2019s a top-notch addition to an already terrific series.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author, with Carlton Stowers, of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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