Zeke and Ned.ZEKE ZEKE Zero Electron Kinetic Energy AND NED. Larry McMurtry Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove & Diana Ossana Diana Ossana is an American Academy Award-winning writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. . 1997/2003. Read by Tom Stechschulte Tom Stechschulte is an American actor. His most prominent role may have been that of the Presidential candidate Robert Arthur in The Manchurian Candidate. He has also had guest appearances on the television series Law & Order, , and Mrs. Columbo. . 16 cds. 17.25 hrs. Recorded Books. $119.75. 1-4025-6733-2. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. SA This tragic love story, set in the Cherokee Trail The Cherokee Trail, sometimes called the "Trappers' Trail," was a historic trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1860s. of Tears community, stars two real men, Zeke and Ned, Cherokee Civil War veterans, community leaders and close friends. Ned, a sharpshooter, marries Jewel, Zeke's daughter. Shortly thereafter, Zeke murders a woman he did not mean to kill. There follows mayhem with various ruffians seeking to get even, and finally a courtroom massacre. A series of posses from the "white Law" are then sent after Zeke, Ned and many other Cherokees believed to have been involved in the courtroom massacre. Over the next few years, Zeke finds a way to make his peace with the white Law, eventually raising a Cherokee militia and thereby earning a pardon from President Grant. Ned chooses a solitary route. Stechschulte's dramatic fully voiced reading has different and highly credible voices for each character. He reads with impeccable timing and modulation. Colorful language. Susan Offner, Teacher, Lexington HS, Lexington, MA |
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