I just ordered a Kindle Paperwhite 32 gig. I want to read Texas style novels and some Texas and Texas Rangers stories. I think I’d like the whole Larry Mac series. Help me out.

Start with True Grit. Its the book that got em stared.

I gotta figure out the whole buying Kindle books.

My wife set mine up. I now get bargains from Book Bud every day. You can order direct from Amazon by going to google and typing in the book title.

Here's what you get. Be sure you turn the wireless on.


Amazon.com › True-Grit-Novel-Ch...
True Grit: A Novel: Portis, Charles: 9781590204597: Amazon.com ...

True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic ...

Not Texas, but small town/country life on the high plains (Colorado) - Plainsong, by Kent Haruf

Longmire mystery series.

If my wife can work a kindle, I’m sure you’ll have no trouble.

I'm a cheapskate. I always find most of my stuff either through my local library's online stuff or https://archive.org or https://www.gutenberg.org

I now have 2,000 stored in my archives.

Lots of free books on Amazon for Kindle. Ya just gotta search for them.

Very cool.
True Texas history by first hand accounts. Not books made by reading other books
Rangers and Pioneers of Texas by Andrew Jackson Sowell
Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas by Andrew Jackson Sowell

Fiction or nonfiction?

Non fiction is tough to find. What are some of your favorites?

My favorite of all time is Unbroken.

Bill O'Reilly wrote a whole series of non fiction books. All were the test in their category.


Killing Jesus: A History (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series): O'Reilly, Bill ...
Killing Jesus: A History (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) [O'Reilly, Bill, Dugard, ... Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, ... Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history.

If you don't have a library card get one pronto. There are thousands of free e-books and audiobooks you can borrow on-line through your library system and easily download to your Kindle or an MP3 device.. My local library has True Grit and the entire Longmire series.

I download a lot of books to my Kindle, but mostly download audiobooks to my Sandisk Clip Jam MP3 player. My hearing is poor so I can't hear deer moving in the woods. So I'm just about always listening to an audiobook when in my deer stand, or driving to and from the lease.

Within the genre requested, the book I’m currently reading is hard to beat. Empire of the Summer Moon. It’s not for the feint of heart, but as far as I can tell, it’s as honest as can be had this far from its actual happening.

Otherwise, Marine Sniper has always been a favorite. I was young when I read it, and I remember more of that book than most, so it left quite an impression.

Anything by Elmer Kelton is great. He was born and raised around Ssn Angelo.

I just read 'Bring Me His Ears' by Clarence Mulford downloaded free from Gutenberg ... action adventure set on an 1840's wagon train (traders not settlers) headed for Santa Fe. Just after the failed invasion of NM ... pretty good

Mulford created the Hopalong Cassidy character later morphed into a Saturday morning kid-friendly version. There are Hopalong books on Gutenberg as well.

You can buy books from Amazon directly from the kindle or a pc/tablet. The kindle downloads via wifi.

I like the Dan Rhodes mysteries (by Bill Crider) ... small town sheriff of clearview a rural and dwindling Texas town. light hearted murder mysteries/police procedural

Empire of the Summer Moon is a great one Sneaky.

S. C. Gwynne on Joe Rogan’s podcast was what turned me on to it. The podcast is well worth your time, if you haven’t listened to it, already.

We have a bunch of kindle keyboards that we picked up cheap over the years. As much as we read we've gotten our moneys worth out of them for dang sure.

What helps is getting free ebooks....

What about a story from the other side of the saddle?

Addendum: Herman Lehmann was Kim's great grandfather. Kim is my old roommate. We lived together recently for 6 years.

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Indian Depredations of Texas

I read that many years ago. I need to read it again.
The first hand stories from the books I mentioned previously share similar stories. What our settlers went through was amazing.

John Selman, Gunfighter...………………..
Quanna Parker, The Last Comache Chief...………..
The True Story of Daniel Boone...………..