The Big Drift, Patrick Dearen
The Big Drift, Patrick Dearen
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The Big Drift

Author: Patrick Dearen

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/06/2015

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon him-the likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds an unexpected (and unwelcome) savior in the form of Zeke Boles, a former slave on the run from a bloody, guilt-filled past. In Zeke's dark features Will sees a reflection of the haunting memories he has been trying to escape for so long, but he reluctantly offers him shelter for the night at the Slash Five camp. Little does he know that their lives will be inexorably linked in the spring of '85 through what will be one of the most brutal roundups of the nineteenth century. Follow Will, Zeke, and the rest of the Slash Fives as they ride through West Texas in search of stray cattle in an unforgettable tale of love, redemption, and true grit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Diamond

I really enjoyed this book. It takes place in the west of America in the late 1800s. The book deals with heroism, prejudism, friendship and honor in equal messure. It deals with some cattle hands and an X slave who saves them from certain death. I highly recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Lani

This book was a gift and I probably wouldn’t have ever picked it up on my own. Great read though - set during the great cattle drift in early America just after slaves were set free. About a black and white cattle hand working together to find forgiveness for what they have done in the past while mo......more

Goodreads review by Wesley

One of the best Western novels you’ll ever read.......more

Goodreads review by Danny

loved it......more

PATRICK DEAREN The Big Drift: A Novel FICTION TCU Press, trade paper, 978-0-87565-570-3 192 pp., $22.95 2014 reviewed 3.8.2015 by Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor The Big Drift by Patrick Dearen begins in the Middle Concho of west Texas during a blizzard in December 1884. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand an......more