Tehano, the latest novel by Allen Wier

A sprawling epic of the American westering experience set in the years just before and after the Civil War, Tehano brings together a large cast of characters—Comanche braves and their women, profiteers, cowboys, German immigrants, Mexican peasant farmers, buffalo hunters, soldiers on both sides of the great national conflict, runaway slaves, settlers seeking new prospects in Washington Territory—whose lives intersect on the sere and dangerous high plains of Texas. In wonderfully drawn scenes fraught with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and humor, the many disparate skeins of the novel come together at a Comanchero trading place where the stakes are no less than life and death. Read more...



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