The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War

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The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War

by Gustave Aimard

EN·~8 hours·32 chapters

Chapters

32 total
1

LONDON: - WARD AND LOCK, - 158, FLEET STREET. - MDCCCLXI.

0:03
2

PREFACE

2:16
3

CHAPTER I. - THE RUNAWAY.

16:48
4

CHAPTER II. - QUONIAM.

17:15
5

CHAPTER III. - BLACK AND WHITE.

18:57
6

CHAPTER IV. - THE MANADA.

14:51
7

CHAPTER V. - BLACK-DEER.

15:12
8

CHAPTER VI. - THE CLAIM.

16:14
9

CHAPTER VII. - MONKEY-FACE.

17:28
10

CHAPTER VIII. - THE DECLARATION OF WAR.

17:11

Description

Set against the sweeping transformation of the American frontier, the story follows a band of fiercely independent frontiersmen as the wilderness gives way to settlement. Their lives are caught in the clash between Mexican authority and the restless settlers who yearn for liberty, and the narrative moves from dense, untamed forests to the newly cleared fields of early Texas. The narrator paints vivid scenes of rugged terrain, native tribes retreating from the advancing plow, and the simmering tensions that will soon ignite into open conflict.

Through a mix of daring raids, personal rivalries, and the stark moral questions of a land in flux, the tale captures both the raw violence of the border war and the uneasy humanity of its participants. As the characters confront loyalty, love, and betrayal, listeners are drawn into an early chapter of a larger saga that examines how an emerging Texas wrestles with its identity amid the broader currents of a nation on the brink of civil war.

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Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (465K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2012-07-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Gustave Aimard

Gustave Aimard

1818–1883

Adventure, frontier danger, and far-off landscapes run through these fast-moving novels by a French writer who turned his taste for travel into popular fiction. Best known for stories set in the Americas, he helped bring the western and frontier tale to a wide 19th-century readership.

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