The Terrible Teague Bunch

During an evening of carousing these four good men at heart agree on one thing: There''s got to be an easier way to make a living. They decide to turn badmen and rob a train that is bringing money to a brand-new bank down at a place called Teague.But the train''s arrival is a month off and 150 miles away. In an overland odyssey that includes cattle rustling blistering heat and a head-on encounter with a tornado the foursome meet up with the roughest obstacles and toughest luck that ever beset a bunch of well-intentioned badmen. In addition there is the complication of a beautiful woman and her feisty half-breed daughter.When the Teague Bunch arrives at the hold-up destination all the bad luck they have previously endured is forgotten--because they find out for a fact just how bad their luck can get...In a novel that is rousing hilarious and even poignant Gary Jennings re-creates that peculiarly American turn-of-the-century time of grit sweat and swift change. Here is the real Old West; this is the way it was.