The Borderland [Audio Cassette]

Edwin Shrake (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Recorded Books, LLc (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402505973
• ISBN-13: 978-1402505973
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,075,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BORDERLAND, March 21, 2000

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Michael Rudman (london, england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Borderland: A Novel of Texas (Hardcover)

this superb book is so big that it entices one to match its size in praising it. There are dozens of literally, fabulous, characters. texas rangers, europeans, actresses, generals, and, of course, native americans. i can't imagine that these warriors, sages, half-breeds, captives, politicians and womenfolk have ever been better drawn.the scenes of their meetings read like shrake was taking minutes as do the pow wows of the white invaders. in short, it is the entire mix that created the republic of texas from president lamar down to the boatman who takes them across their stygian river. this book has a heart as big as the state of texas and as much wisdom as i have ever encoutered on the page. and the story is told with vigour and humour , laced with a fair amount of blood, sweat and lust.it could easily be called "jacobean." and probably will be. certainly its last line will be quoted for a long, long time.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new classic, March 27, 2000

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T. Pipkin (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Borderland: A Novel of Texas (Hardcover)

This is one great novel; the very best from the underappreciated author of two other classic works of fiction: "Blessed McGill" (the story of the first Saint of North America) and "Strange Peaches" (the first Kennedy conspiracy theory book). Shrake has reached his peak with the Borderland which gets at the real heart of the founding of the nation of Texas, the period after the Alamo and before admission to the Union during which Sam Houston moved the Capitol west to the middle of a Comanche paradise (oh, how we wish Austin was still a paradise), setting off a 40 year war with the Comanches and ethnic cleansing of the Cherokees. Imagine Austin with a Capitol Building surrounded by a stockade fence and a moat and protected by cannons against attack. It's bigger than life because these people were bigger than life. The climax of the book comes with the biggest Comanche raid in history which ended with the Texas Rangers triumph and slaughter of the Indians at Plum Creek south of Austin. I could give you a dozen other great scenes, but skip to the chase and simply read this book; it's a winner!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for All Texans, March 24, 2000

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Michael R. Levy, publisher, TEXAS MONTHLY (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Borderland: A Novel of Texas (Hardcover)

There is an article on Bud Shrake by senior editor Gary Cartwright that appears in the April 2000 issue of TEXAS MONTHLY. See it on texasmonthly.com.

Bud's new book, Borderland, is a truly great novel about Austin, carefully researched and set during the frontier era of the republic of Texas. If you love Austin, you need to read this book. You'll be surprised at what you'll learn about the town. And you'll probably wind up writing me a thank you note for this suggestion. (signed) Mike Levy, publisher, TEXAS MONTHLY