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Author | : Lori A. Cox-Paul |
Publisher | : History Nebraska |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780933307025 |
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For residents of frontier army posts, the celebration of Christmas was an exercise in imagination. An important break in the routine of army life, the rich traditions of this holiday came alive in the Old West. Divided into ten chapters, the book offers a series of contrasting images of this favorite holiday: war and peace, officers and enlisted soldiers, men and women, adults and children.
Author | : John E. Baur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | : Pinnacle Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786033614 |
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USA Today bestselling author: In Wyoming Territory, a deadly outbreak and a pair of escaped killers are making this the season for danger . . . From two of America's bestselling western writers comes a heart-racing story of frontier justice, pioneer spirit, and one town's last-chance miracle . . . Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to pay their last respects, Duff MacCallister saddles up to go after the killers. He returns with two outlaws—a cold-blooded, nasty pair of snakes, Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the Cave brothers escape their fate . . . Into this holiday hell-storm ride three friendly travelers. Smoke, Sally, and Matt Jensen, come to spend Christmas with Duff. But a deadly diphtheria outbreak leaves the town beholden to the mercy of the Cave brothers. It's a desperate bind to be stuck in, but Duff and the Jensens will use every bullet they can find to shoot their way into a bloody but merry Christmas.
Author | : William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | : Pinnacle Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786029099 |
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Smoke and Matt Jensen team up with Falcon and Duff MacCallister in this special Western adventure from the USA Today bestselling author! They just wanted to get home for Christmas—but fate had other plans . . . It's December 1890. A Texas rancher named Big Jim Conyers has a deal with Scottish-born Wyoming cattleman Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with bloodthirsty Indians and trigger-happy rustlers. And the worst is yet to come—the party rides into a devastating blizzard, a storm so fierce that their very survival is at stake. From America's greatest Western author, here is an epic tale of the unforgiving American frontier and how, amidst fierce storms of man and nature, miracles can still happen.
Author | : Carla Kelly |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780875652702 |
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Carla Kelly wants to tell the truth, to discard myths about the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars. This collection of nine stories set in the era of the frontier army gives an entertaining and educational glimpse into a world not often explored in fiction. "Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter" weaves a tale of an Irish woman who has no choice but to marry a man she barely knows after the death of her husband leaves her penniless. She struggles with isolation and the cruelty of the others in the fort because of her rapid marriage. In the end, hers is a story of loss, love, and survival. But these are not all love stories. In "Mary Murphy" one soldier reflects about the hard life of a laundress. "A Season for Heroes" tells of a buffalo soldier named Ezra Freeman, a true hero to one officer's family. The collection concludes with "Jesse MacGregor." The narrator, John, looks back on an Apache attack in the desert. After his detail's captain is killed and John is injured, authority falls to surgeon Jesse MacGregor. The account of their struggle to fight hunger, thirst, the elements, and of course, the Apaches, is mesmerizing. Kelly does not leave comedy out of her collection. "Fille de Joie" is a charming story of a married couple reunited after an almost two-year separation. The wife is arrested after the two make too much noise during their afternoon tryst. She is charged with being a fille de joie, and the comedy ensues. Kelly's work will find an audience among those interested in feminist literature, American history, fiction, and nonfiction.
Author | : Michael L. Tate |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806133867 |
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A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.
Author | : Madeline Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Romance fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leisure Arts |
Publisher | : Leisure Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780843946642 |
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Discover the magic of an old-fashioned Christmas on the frontier in this collection of stories by authors Madeline Baker, Norah Hess, Robin Lee Hatcher, and Connie Mason. Reissue.
Author | : Kevin Adams |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806185139 |
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Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post–Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class divide” that overshadowed ethnic prejudices. Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records and soldiers’ diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life—from work and leisure to consumption, intellectual pursuits, and political activity—and shows that an inflexible class barrier stood between officers and enlisted men. As Adams relates, officers lived in relative opulence while enlistees suffered poverty, neglect, and abuse. Although racism was ingrained in official policy and informal behavior, no similar prejudice colored the experience of soldiers who were immigrants. Officers and enlisted men paid much less attention to ethnic differences than to social class—officers flaunting and protecting their status, enlisted men seething with class resentment. Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life in that era—with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging class-consciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.
Author | : Jeremy Agnew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Focusing on the Indian Wars period of the 1840s through the 1890s, Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier captures the daily challenges faced by the typical enlisted man and explores the role soldiers played in the conquering of the American frontier.