The Ordways

Description

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

Description

"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.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Voices of the South

Other Editions

• The OrdwaysLouisiana State University Press1997-01-01
• The OrdwaysAlfred A Knopf1964-01-01
• The OrdwaysAlfred A Knopf1964-01-01
• The Ordways.Knopf1965-01-01
• The OrdwaysAlfred A. Knopf1965-01-01
• The ordwaysA. Knopf1965-01-01