Texas 1866: Burrell's Rebellion
(2026)(The seventh book in the Elias Burrell series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon
A federal land grant signed in Chicago. A railroad determined to carve through East Texas. And a forge owner willing to bring an empire to its knees rather than surrender the ground beneath his feet.
When Garrick Shaw arrives in the river settlement with surveyors, armed enforcers, and a federal right-of-way mandate, he expects resistance. What he does not expect is Bose Calderon. The Calderon Ironworks stands at the heart of the proposed rail corridor, and Bose has no intention of selling the forge his father built or abandoning the community that depends upon it. As railroad crews begin driving stakes into the valley, a legal dispute quickly becomes something far more dangerous.
Elias Burrell, Delia Burrell, Boone Elwood, Lugo Varela, and a growing network of settlers soon discover that the railroad's claim rests on purchased influence, corrupted courts, and distant financiers who believe local families can be removed with paperwork and intimidation. Faced with an opponent backed by money, political connections, and hired muscle, they are forced to wage a campaign unlike any they have fought before, targeting bridges, supply lines, rail shipments, and the economic foundations of the project itself.
As the conflict spreads across the Neches country, farmers, craftsmen, rivermen, and ranchers find themselves drawn into a rebellion that is about far more than a railroad. Homes are threatened, deeds are challenged, livelihoods are placed at risk, and entire communities must decide whether to submit to the advance of corporate power or stand together against it. Every mile of track laid across the valley comes at a cost, and both sides are prepared to pay it.
Filled with frontier action, legal intrigue, desperate sabotage, memorable characters, and the hard-earned loyalty that defines the Blood Reunion series, Burrell’s Rebellion is a powerful Western adventure where ordinary people confront extraordinary power, and where the fight for a single forge becomes a battle for the future of an entire region.
Genre: Western
When Garrick Shaw arrives in the river settlement with surveyors, armed enforcers, and a federal right-of-way mandate, he expects resistance. What he does not expect is Bose Calderon. The Calderon Ironworks stands at the heart of the proposed rail corridor, and Bose has no intention of selling the forge his father built or abandoning the community that depends upon it. As railroad crews begin driving stakes into the valley, a legal dispute quickly becomes something far more dangerous.
Elias Burrell, Delia Burrell, Boone Elwood, Lugo Varela, and a growing network of settlers soon discover that the railroad's claim rests on purchased influence, corrupted courts, and distant financiers who believe local families can be removed with paperwork and intimidation. Faced with an opponent backed by money, political connections, and hired muscle, they are forced to wage a campaign unlike any they have fought before, targeting bridges, supply lines, rail shipments, and the economic foundations of the project itself.
As the conflict spreads across the Neches country, farmers, craftsmen, rivermen, and ranchers find themselves drawn into a rebellion that is about far more than a railroad. Homes are threatened, deeds are challenged, livelihoods are placed at risk, and entire communities must decide whether to submit to the advance of corporate power or stand together against it. Every mile of track laid across the valley comes at a cost, and both sides are prepared to pay it.
Filled with frontier action, legal intrigue, desperate sabotage, memorable characters, and the hard-earned loyalty that defines the Blood Reunion series, Burrell’s Rebellion is a powerful Western adventure where ordinary people confront extraordinary power, and where the fight for a single forge becomes a battle for the future of an entire region.
Genre: Western
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