“Silent We Stood” by Henry Chappell (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95 hardcover) won the Western Writers of America Spur Award this year in the category of best western historical novel.
Chappell’s book, which one reviewer called “among the finest Civil War novels I have ever read,” deals with the Underground Railroad in Texas prior to the Civil War and a fire in Dallas on July 8, 1860, that resulted in the hanging of three slaves.
