{"product_id":"the-beauty-of-the-days-gone-by","title":"The Beauty of the Days Gone By","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1926  ninety year-old Charles Goodnight faces the reality that his life will end soon. His accomplishments are legendary as one of the early cattlemen to blaze the Goodnight-Loving Trail and the first to settle permanently in Comancheria. J. Evetts Haley  a young historian collecting folklore for the local historical society  forges a close bond with Goodnight as the elder plainsman shares the memories of his life. As Goodnight fights the urge to free his conscience of a dark secret  his reminiscences turn to the events leading up to the Civil War and during Reconstruction when the frontier of Texas is in chaos. And amidst this chaos emerges Goodnights close friend and former Texas Ranger R. L. Terry  who returns home to find his house in flames  his wife mortally wounded  and his two boys hauled away into captivity. As his eldest boy becomes fully Indianized under the tutelage of Quanah Parker  fighting desperately to defend their homelands in the Indian Wars of the 1860s and 70s  R.L.s desperate search for his sons parallels the relentless passing of the old ways and leads in the end to a revelatory meeting of lives destined from the beginning. Stones breathtaking storytelling pushes the conventions of historical fiction  deftly weaving the tragic captivity narrative into the calamitous clash of cultures that defined the settlement of the American West. Hailed by critics  The Beauty of the Days Gone By announces Jason Stone as a major new writer of American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946468732981,"sku":"ByrdShop_1737604647","price":54.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781737604648.jpg?v=1769950969","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-beauty-of-the-days-gone-by","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}