Rio Grande

by Matt Braun

Tom Stuart takes risks―in war, in love, and in card games all the way from St. Louis to Mexico. . .

The hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain, who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville, has a dream of building a shipping empire that will span the windswept Gulf of Mexico to rich, exotic New Orleans. But this is a kind of gamble he’s never faced with a woman to win, a woman to lose, and a dangerous man standing in the way. Now, Stuart is plunged into a fight that will engulf his very soul. And to the winner will go the mighty Rio Grande...

358 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 15, 1998

About the author

Matt Braun is an author of fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre and has over 40 million copies in print.

Reviews

[Laura Jemison · Rating 1 out of 5]

Got through a couple dozen pages before I threw it away in disgust. The author's use of language is execrable. He refers to a girl's "stem-like waist" in the first chapter. The the protagonist offers a round of drinks in the third chapter with a "baroque" sweep of the arms. But I had to throw in the towel when he used the phrase: "rammed the moist bog" as a euphemism for sex.

[Carol · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Violet · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an outstanding saga of the competition between two shipping businesses in the Rio Grande area. One of them is a real villain that wants all of the business. Tom Stuart, the good guy, may start out dreaming of a shipping empire, but in the end, he just wants a fair shake at making a living. It's a story of overcoming constant challenges; business and personal. I don't think I've read any of Matt Braun's books that get into the personal relationships quite as much as this one does. I couldn't put it down.