{"product_id":"dark-thicket-a-novel-texas-tradition-series-no-26-9780875652085","title":"Dark Thicket: A Novel (Texas Tradition Series  No. 26)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this novel  first published by Doubleday in 1985  Texas novelist Ehner Kelton returns to the Civil War period  once again examining  as he first did in Texas Rifles  the effect of the war on Texans at home. Even while the conflict raged to the east  several groups of Texan Union loyalists hid out across the state  trying to avoid the anger and violence of the confederate sympathizing home guard. Kelton bases this story on a group who lived in a then-huge thicket on the Colorado River near present day Columbus  although the characters  incidents and town of the book are of Keltons invention. As he always says  fiction writers are liars and thieves. Owen Danforth  a wounded Confederate soldier  comes home to Texas to recover  intending to return to his regiment. His family is torn apart by the war -- two brothers dead  one uncle  a Union sympathizer  shot in the back by the home guard. His father -- also a Unionist -- hides out in the thicket with his remaining family because the home guard  led by Captain Phineas Shattuck  has sworn revenge on the Danforth clan. Torn between duty and family loyalty  Owen Danforth faces difficult decisions until a violent encounter leaves him only one choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924478582837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0875652085","price":64.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780875652085.jpg?v=1787672278","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dark-thicket-a-novel-texas-tradition-series-no-26-9780875652085","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}