Beneath the Texas Sky
Print English is a Texas cattleman bent on building a longhorn empire. First the Civil War interrupts his dream and then a feisty, auburn-haired lawyer’s daughter, Julie Denton. She decides that God intends her to be the woman who shares Print’s life. Julie convinces Print to marry her but his headstrong ambitions precipitate a crisis with organized cattle rustlers. A crazed thief who has murdered one girl then sets his sights on Julie. In a time of lawlessness, how will Print and Julie find justice?
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San Simon is also a fictional county in Texas, but all of the pivotal events of Beneath the Texas Sky are based in history. The years following the Civil War in Texas were filled with violence, simmering feuds, and large cattle drives. “Red gold,” the beef of wild longhorns, furnished fortunes to men hardy enough to hunt them.
Details of the open range ranching of Longhorns are as authentic as we have been able to provide through research and the first-hand input of Marilyn’s husband, Bob, taken from his years as a cattleman. As a boy, Bob soaked up stories of old-time cattlemen from his great-grandfather, who began ranching in Texas in the 1880’s.
