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"To grow up a boy in Clarksville in my time," recalls the narrator of The Ordways, "was to be a double dreamer." For Clarksville, Texas, was where the Old South met the frontier West and family history retold at the annual graveyard working day provided the stuff to fuel a young imagination. Here, then, is the story of Thomas Ordway, the narrator's great-grandfather, who was blinded at Shiloh and moved his family from Tennessee to Texas.

Here, too, is the saga of his grandfather, Sam Ordway, who scoured the vast land of Texas in futile search of his three-year-old son, stolen by his neighbor in 1898. "Little Ned," that lost, legendary uncle, grew up in the narrator's mind to be now a rancher, now a lonely wrangler, now a good-hearted rustler.

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Louisiana State University Press
Language
English
Pages
362

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Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, general, Texas, fiction, Families
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Texas

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Ordways: A Novel
2015, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
in English
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The Ordways
1997, Louisiana State University Press
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The Ordways
1984, Laurel
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The Ordways
1966-01-01, Bantam
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The ordways
1965, A. Knopf
in English
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The Ordways
1965-01-01, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Ordways: a novel
1965, Chatto & Windus
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The Ordways.
1965, Knopf
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The Ordways
1964-01-01, Alfred A Knopf
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The Ordways
1964-01-01, Alfred A Knopf

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Published in
Baton Rouge
Series
Voices of the South

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.U464 O72 1997, PS3558.U464O72 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
362 p. ;
Number of pages
362

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1005793M
Internet Archive
ordways00hump
ISBN 10
0807121614
LCCN
96045593
OCLC/WorldCat
35885822
Library Thing
433830
Goodreads
2290405

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Work Description

A family chronicle of the Ordways, tenacious Tennessee farm folk who crossed into Texas after the Civil War.

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