The Beauty of the Days Gone By: A Novel

"I loved the story and the way it was told . . . Such an artful narrative, like a more lyrical Lonesome Dove—dark, but also hopeful.”—Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down

Inspired by real events, a vivid and sweeping Western in the grand tradition of Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian: a saga of fathers and sons, captivity and belonging, and the violent struggle between Texans, Comanche, and Kiowa in the years after the Civil War

1866. On a sun-drenched stretch of West Texas prairie, the Terr...