Last Fast Gun

Will Harris, a legendary gun fighter and one of the last living Confederate veterans, turns 100 on July 3, 1939.

A parade is held in his honor, and newspapers and magazines from across the country send reporters to cover the event.

Charles Case, a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, is one of these.

He finds much more than he expected: two families involved in a blood feud that goes back to a train robbery in 1868; and to complicate matters, a boy from one of the families in love with a girl from the other.

The book has an epic, mythical quality, reminiscent of Raintree County and Look Homeward, Angel.