![]() ![]() ![]() Offering to swap the deeds for his family’s land for some timely assistance in dealing with "Cut Throat Bill," "Nigger Pete" and "Fatty Worth," Jack interests the unlikely pair in his quest. Jack’s obligation to rescue his sister is clear, but the means aren’t, until he runs into tracker Eustace Cox-part black, part Comanche, and maybe a hint of Parker mixed up in him-and his buddy Reginald Jones, a philosophical dwarf everyone calls Shorty. ![]() The wagon makes it only halfway across the Sabine River on a suspiciously expensive new ferry when three men spoiling for a fight shoot Caleb Parker and the ferryman, leave Jack in the river and ride off with Lula. After Jack’s parents are carried off by smallpox, his grandfather packs Jack, 16, and his sister, Lula, 14, onto a wagon and heads for their Aunt Tessle’s in Kansas. “ne thing for sure, this ain’t your day,” the retiring deputy of Sylvester, Texas, tells Jack Parker. If the Coen brothers’ film version of True Grit gave readers an appetite for more underage period Western bounty hunting, Lansdale ( Edge of Dark Water, 2012, etc.) is eager to oblige. ![]()
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