Bowie's Mine - Softcover

"Elmer Kelton is truly a Texas legend and a good friend." --Texas Governor, Rick Perry " If you're looking for a trail guide through old Texas, Elmer's your man." --Lucia St. Clair Robson

His name was Daniel Provost, and it was the time of the Texas Republic. He had been a farm boy, and his heroes were the people who had died defending the Alamo. Without quite knowing why, he wanted desperately to have at least one adventure before setting for life behind a plow. When Milo Seldon came riding in with his packmules loaded with contraband tobacco to sell across the border in Mexico, Daniel naturally wanted to give a helping hand, especially when it became clear tha Milo was being followed by two unwholesome characters who claimed the packmules as their own property. Fortunately for Daniel, when he went thundering off into the sunset on his plowhorse, he thought to pack a gun. After all, he hadn't been a hardscrabble farmer for nothing...