TWO ROADS TO GUADELUPÉ by Robert Lewis Taylor. 428 pages. Doubleday. $5.95.
In the first chapter of this new adventure novel, Mother is whacked on the head with an ax. In the second, a prairie wagon rigged with sails like a ship crashes into a store front. By the third, Mother's two sons have been lured into joining the Missouri Volunteers to fight the Mexican War.
The sonspompous, bookish Blaine Shelby, 33, and happy-go-lucky 14-year-old Samtell the story in alternate chapters. Angelina Hughes, a beautiful hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a...
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