The Headless Horseman (Annotated)

Set on the Texas frontier after the Mexican-American War, The Headless Horseman is a sensational romance of mystery, jealousy, and colonial borderlands. Its plot turns on a spectral rider, a vanished man, and the entanglements of love, inheritance, and racial suspicion. Reid's prose combines Gothic atmosphere with adventure narrative, ethnographic description, and the expansive scenery of prairie ...