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The Ordways
- Title
- The Ordways / by William Humphrey.
- Author
- Humphrey, William.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.U464 O72 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 362 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- Voices of the South
- Uniform Title
- Voices of the South.
- Subject
- Families > Texas > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Western stories.
- ISBN
- 0807121614 (p : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96045593
- OCLC
- ocm35885822
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries