Texas Yankee: Homecoming

By: Jerry P Orange

Narrated by: J Rodney Turner

Texas Yankee: Homecoming is an adventurous love story set in Central Texas during the turbulent years following the Civil War.

After fighting in the Yankee Cavalry, Joshua Granger returns to Texas to marry beautiful Sarah Lynn Smith in spite of the fact that one of her Confederate brothers has tried to kill him. Joshua and Sarah refuse to let anything stop them from becoming man and wife in this dramatic tale of triumph.

A hopeful love letter from Sarah sets Joshua on an unusual journey from Kentucky to Texas in early 1866. With a couple of good horses and some big ideas, he leaves the security of family and inheritance behind for the love of a strong woman on the Texas frontier.

In Arkansas, Joshua takes on the responsibility of a mentally challenged orphan and is saddled with two wagons full of prostitutes who need a guide to Dallas. In the meantime, Sarah is planning their wedding in spite of her mother's protests while she waits anxiously for Joshua's return.

Upon arrival in Georgetown, Texas, Joshua finds that he is unwelcome in the community, and marrying Sarah is not the foregone conclusion he expected it to be. The next year is filled with the humor and hardship of homesteading a ranch, fighting Comanche and outlaws, breaking wild horses, catching and branding wild cattle, and hunting buffalo. In between the work, Joshua tries to fulfill the obligations of courtship as required by Sarah's family before they will bless her marriage to the Yankee. The gritty realism, the heartache, and the laughter that go into making this frontier family bring Reconstruction Era Texas to life.

©2012 Jerry Paul Orange (P)2016 Jerry Paul Orange

good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

Great book

Really enjoyed this book very good story and a great job by the narrator again! Hopefully they will put 2nd book on audible.

Outstanding!

Great bill about a man who returns home to the south from the horrific civil war after fighting for the northern army to marry his life long love! Great book about family and friends with a Great narrator J RODNEY TURNER the great narrator of all time he makes a story great and an already great book magnificent, read you will not be sorry.

The Story brought Central Texas to Life!

The colorful portrayal of the characters and country made this an easy tale to play in the theater of my mind!
The descriptions of authentic old west weapons and horsemanship left me with a better understanding of the era. Mr. Orange left me with a definite hunger to hear his next tale!