Westerns

Following the Civil War, Henry Paul Brannigan, a naïve, deeply religious, non-drinker, finds his native South Texas a wild, brutal land of no law, and sudden death. Brannigan and his resilient, resourceful wife, Elizabeth, operating a bank in Uvalde, Texas where the six-gun rules, find life abrupt and often deadly. Brannigan is offered a job as a Texas Ranger, a job he feels duty bound to accept. The thirteen related short stories of the book describe the frequent transition of peaceful life on the Texas prairie to fatal conclusions.