Sentences with phrase «losing their family ranch»

The boys do some investigation and find out their mother was in hard financial straits: their father lost the family ranch in a card game and then died, leaving their mother up the proverbial creek.

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When No Country for Old Men appeared and I realized that McCarthy had set the opening scene, in which Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon the aftermath of a cartel shootout, on my family's ranch, I knew it was time, at long last, to write about these books that I'd been inhabiting for so long as a surrogate for my lost Texas landscape.

Mason spent the years he lost with Gina building a business, breeding and training horses, and helping keep his family's ranch going.

Brady takes us back further to a man not well known to nonmarine readers, Gunnery Sergeant Dan Dailey, who profanely asked his men at Belleau Wood in 1918 if they wanted to live forever; to a Westerner who joined up to save the family ranch; and to a decorated two - tour colonel who thinks the Iraq War is lost.

Six years after losing their wife, the McLendon brothers are focused on running their family ranch, Falcon Ridge, and raising their rambunctious twin boys.