01995cam a2200325 i 4500 517019244 TxAuBib 20161227120000.0 160908s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016040098 9781410493804 hardback 1410493806 hardback DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Manning, Jason. Christmas in the Lone Star State [large print] : a Texas novel of the west / Jason Manning. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. ©2016. 379 p. ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A LAWMAN PAST HIS PRIME Texas Ranger Bill Sayles rode scout for Sam Houston when he was no more than fifteen. These days the lawman s on the wrong side of three score years, and the glory days of the Rangers are on the wane. But Sayles still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas in the harsh winter of 1876, Sayles arrives at the state prison in Huntsville to escort prisoner Jake Eddings on a furlough to his hometown, where his ten-year-old son is being laid to rest. A PRISONER PAST ALL HOPE In a desperate scheme to save his farm, Eddings took part in a stagecoach holdup in which the driver was killed. After serving two years of a fifteen-year sentence, he is already a broken man. Despite the agony of regret, he longs to see his wife and bury his beloved boy. But when Sayles gets wind that the murderous Litchfield brothers are headed in the direction of Eddings farm, the Ranger and his prisoner join forces to keep Eddings wife from harm and maybe grab a last shot at redemption. 20161227. Action & Adventure. Large Type Books. Westerns. Christmas stories. BTCLS