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Twelve-year-old Bing, visiting his Uncle Jim Groves, Sheriff of Wilbarger County, Texas in 1922, is swept up in adventure: investigating a bank robbery and tearing off in a posse after the robber, pursuing by car and on horseback the famous outlaw Frank Holloway across two states, then breaking off for a private mission of revenge, chasing the Eastern con men behind the theft of his grandfather's long-buried bones.
Bing engagingly narrates his encounters with newsreel cameramen, an English lord, a biplane, a blue norther, his own murderous impulses, and the historic (if illusory) "Edwards Estate"--not to mention a certain embroidered Mexican dress--in this richly detailed, Texas-sized adventure story about growing up, inspired by real events from the author's family history.
A propos de l'auteur
Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm near Grand Junction, Colorado. While living in New York City, he began writing plays, and later switched to writing fiction. His novels include Good People, All That Money, Queer's Progress, The Wedding on Big Bone Hill, My Mad Russian: Three Tales and Another's Fool. He has also published a biographical study of the once-famous Indiana painter Harvey joiner, as well as a memoir, I Remember Caramoor, recounting his time as teenaged underbutler at that famous Westchester County estate. In 2018 he published a short novel, The Last Posse, making use of several strands of his Texas forebears' history, including the historic posse his great-uncle led in pursuit of outlaw Frank Hollowell, and currently he is at work on a kind of sequel called The Ringers.
