Texas Border Business
The Author of Robert’s Story will be a the following locations to sign his work. If you are in the area, please make an effort to stop by and meet him and get your copy signed.
| Thursday, June 29, 2023 – 6:30pm |
| Brazos Bookstore— 2421 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005 |
| Stephen G. Michaud will be in conversation with Dick DeGuerin. |
| https://www.brazosbookstore.com/event/person-stephen-g-michaud-roberts-story |
| Friday, June 30th, 6:00PM |
| Interabang Books 5600 W Lovers Ln #142 Dallas, TX 75209 |
| We are excited to host Stephen G. Michaud in conversation with Jeff Guinn on Friday, June 30th at 6:00 about his book, Robert’s Story: A Texas Cowboy’s Troubled Life and Horrifying Death. |
| https://www.interabangbooks.com/event/roberts-story |
This article is based on a book; there is no need to make it long because it is more important for you to read the story of this heart-breaking death. It could only be written one way, and Stephen G. Michaud captured complete episodes of Robert’s life until the culmination of his bedridden death and the dispossession of millions of dollars, including his San Antonio Viejo cattle ranch of thousands of acres.
Michaud’s brilliant storytelling seized the essence of the truth. He reminds the world of the brutality of elder abuse, a sad, serious, and still prevalent crime to which Robert was subjected. Michaud, an internationally recognized author, writer, and editor, is the author of Robert’s Story: A Texas Cowboy’s Troubled Life and Horrifying Death.
As soon as you get the book, get ready to learn about a human tragedy that could have easily been avoided. Even though he was surrounded by people, Robert was alone, sick, and fragile. The family outside of the ranch was not permitted to visit with him. Mike East, his nephew, sounded the alarm about the conditions his uncle Robert was in.
The following is the book’s introduction; it’s found on the dust jacket, which gives you more insight into this extraordinary case of elder abuse.
A Saga of Greed and Deceit
Tired, disoriented, and confused, Robert East was no match for the wolves when they arrived.
Robert East loved his older brother, Tom, but always resented Tom’s favored role in the family cattle business based at their San Antonio Viejo Ranch near Hebbronville, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande.
Tom was a figure to be reckoned with, a cattleman with ambitions to supplant their Uncle Bob Kleberg, head of the enormous King Ranch, as the leading cattle raiser in Texas. Robert, by contrast, was a cowboy who cared little for what occurred beyond the San Antonio Viejo’s main gate. Handsome and ornery, with no head for business, he nevertheless chafed in his brother’s shadow until 1984, when Tom died young of a heart attack, just as their father, Tom East Sr., had 40 years earlier.
Suddenly Robert was the new and untested patrón of 250,000 acres of East Family ranchland and the majority owner of the ocean of natural gas pooled beneath East rangeland. It was his turn to issue the orders.
Robert’s contentious nature drove the Easts into bitter intra-family legal hostilities that persisted for a decade. He lost his beloved sister, Lica, to cancer, and as old age advanced, he found himself alone and isolated on a remote ranch with only an unreliable foreman and a scattering of vaqueros and other workers for company.
The physical wear and tear from decades of working cattle on horseback began to show. Robert’s knees gave out, and he developed serious cardiovascular problems. His doctors prescribed pain pills, sedatives, and medications for his chronic depression.
In 2000, drillers hit the most productive gas well in the U.S., if not the world, on East property, making the rich old man suddenly and spectacularly wealthy beyond his comprehension.
Soon enough, the wolves began to circle, and Robert’s grotesque final days were at hand.
Click this link to buy the book: https://robertstory.net/
