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Author | : John Boessenecker |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1488057214 |
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The story of how a young Wyatt Earp and his brothers defeated the Old West’s biggest outlaw gang, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Texas Ranger. Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang in the history of the American West. After battles with the law in Texas and New Mexico, they shifted their operations to Arizona. There, led by Curly Bill Brocius, they ruled the border, robbing, rustling, smuggling and killing with impunity until they made the fatal mistake of tangling with the Earp brothers. Drawing on groundbreaking research into territorial and federal government records, John Boessenecker’s Ride the Devil’s Herd reveals a time and place in which homicide rates were fifty times higher than those today. The story still bears surprising relevance for contemporary America, involving hot-button issues such as gang violence, border security, unlawful immigration, the dangers of political propagandists parading as journalists, and the prosecution of police officers for carrying out their official duties. Wyatt Earp saw it all in Tombstone. Praise for Ride the Devil’s Herd A Pim County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year 2021 A True West Reader’s Choice for Best 2020 Western Nonfiction Winner of the Best Book Award by the Wild West History Association “A marvelous book. By means of meticulous research and splendid writing John Boessenecker has managed to do something never before attempted or accomplished, tying together the many violent clashes between lawmen and outlaws in the American southwest of the 1870-1890 period and showing how depredations by loosely organized gangs of outlaws actually threatened “Manifest Destiny” and the successful taming of the Wild West.” —Robert K. DeArment, author and historian “A ripsnortin’ ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and company. . . . Boessenecker displays a fine eye for period detail. . . . A pleasure for thoughtful fans of Old West history, revisionist without being iconoclastic.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Ken Schultz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780982201596 |
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America's greatest city lies in ruins after a nuclear bomb is detonated in New York Harbor during a Fourth-of-July celebration. Chaos and anarchy reign while the American government is morally adrift. The concept of liberalism has become so perverted that even chimpanzees are granted civil rights! Atheistic humanism has become the de facto religion of the state...A "Race of Devils" is not just a gripping "whodunnit." You won't be able to put it down. It will force you ponder the unthinkable: Can America redeem itself before it's too late?
Author | : E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806186801 |
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E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Author | : Laura Anne Gilman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481429698 |
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Hailed by RT Book Reviews as “fresh and original…stark and lovely,” a heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic. A Locus Magazine Bestseller. Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes the choice to work for the Boss called the Devil by some, in his territory west of the Mississippi. But this is not the devil you know. This is a being who deals fairly with immense—but not unlimited—power, who offers opportunities to people who want to make a deal, and they always get what they deserve. But his land is a wild west that needs a human touch, and that’s where Izzy comes in. Inadvertently trained by him to see the clues in and manipulations of human desire, Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel circuit through the territory helping those in need. As we all know, where there is magic there is chaos…and death.
Author | : Patrick Dearen |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0875654509 |
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In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the coming of the railroad. He vividly retells stories of Indian encounters, train robberies, and other horrific events that prove just how the name “Devils River” was coined. With his inimitable style, the author weaves together a variety of themes--military events, including the Civil War and stories about the Texas Rangers; the development of the first mail lines; and the introduction of cattle and sheep raising--into a comprehensive account of the violence and bloodshed surrounding the Devils River. The nature of the river’s history is such that very few anecdotes have happy endings, but Devils River contains stories of triumphs as well as disasters. Although this is an excellent account for historians studying the west, it is also very accessible to others with little or no background in early western history.
Author | : Zane Grey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint women |
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After inheriting a southern Utah estate from her Mormon father, Jane Withersteen becomes the victim of a cruel frontier law.
Author | : Zeke Crandall |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2004-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1553957504 |
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To My Readers: "These stories are historical fiction. "The setting for the first story is at the Palace Bar in Prescott, Arizona in 1889. The story brings back to life Arizona Charlie. He was a famous, cowboy, gambler, and miner, and once performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. "The second story is a murder mystery. The story takes place between Mayer and Flagstaff, Arizona in the middle 1930's. The investigation involves a local detective from Phoenix. He and his brother-in-law, who is the sheriff of Flagstaff, solve the crime. It is a good look at life in Arizona during that time period. "The third story takes place in and around Castle Hot Springs. A famous resort known for its healing hot sulfur pools. It was frequented by the rich and famous of that time period. A gang of robbers is working in the area. They hide in a mine in close proximity to the resort and they befriend a couple from New York, who are guests at the resort." Zeke Crandall
Author | : Paul Kingsnorth |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1555979726 |
Download Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Author | : Carole Marsh |
Publisher | : Carole Marsh Books |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0793310334 |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1887 |
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