The Wonderful Country (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 33)
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Tom Leas The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martn Bredi is returning to El Puerto El Paso after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castros business in Texas. Fourteen years earliershortly after the end of the Civil Warwhen he was the boy Martin Brady he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martn Bredi. Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and finally to right another wrong he kills a man. When Brady/Bredi returns to Mexico the Castros distrust him as an American. He becomes a man without a country. The Wonderful Country clearly depicts life along the Texas-Mexico border of a century-and-a-half ago when Texas and Mexico were being settled and tamed.
