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050 00 $aPS3552.A8213$bD54 2005
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100 1 $aBass, Rick,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84160556
245 14 $aThe diezmo /$cRick Bass.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2005.
300 $a208 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Diezmo tells the story of the Mier Expedition, one of the most absurd and tragic military adventures in the history of Texas - a country and a state, as Rick Bass writes, that was "born in blood."" "In the early days of the Republic of Texas, two young men, wild for glory, impulsively volunteer for an expedition Sam Houston has ordered to patrol the Mexican border. But their dreams of triumph soon fade into prayers for survival, and all that is on their minds is getting home and having a cool drink of water. After being captured in a raid on the Mexican village of Mier, escaping, and being recaptured, the men of the expedition are punished with the terrible diezmo, in which one man in ten is randomly chosen to die. The survivors end up in the most dreaded prison in Mexico. There they become pawns in an international chess game to decide the fate of Texas, and with their hopes of release all but extinguished, they make one desperate, last-ditch effort to escape."--BOOK JACKET.
611 20 $aTexan Mier Expedition$d(1842-1844)$vFiction.
650 0 $aAmericans$zMexico$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100656
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108762
650 0 $aTorture victims$vFiction.
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107471
651 0 $aTexas$xHistory$yTo 1846$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aWestern stories.$2gsafd
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