In Cactus Hill, Kerry Taylor paints a vivid portrait of the dusty, dangerous, Texas frontier of the mid 1800s. No author has written more evocatively of the most emblematic era of American history. The biography of the author’s great grandfather offers a new perspective on the Western Pioneer. The reader is seized and transformed into a witness of hardship, romance, and the profoundly unique Civil War experience of Marion Taylor. Cactus Hill combines authentic characters into an amazing story that rivals any fictional Western.