Last Stand at Saber River. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1959 book
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Last Stand at Saber River
Elmore Leonard, 1959
movie vs book
Dick Lowry, 1997

As America recovers from the Civil War, Paul Cable returns home to Texas after being away from his family for years while fighting for the Confederacy. His wife, Martha, is a strong-willed frontier woman whose independence makes her a force in and of herself. Upon her husband’s unexpected return, she once again devotes herself to being his wife, but resents him for having left her and their children behind.