Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Cuno Massey ends up on the wrong side of the law in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold... Cuno Massey killed those deputy U.S. marshals all right, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence—until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border. Pursued by lawmen as brutal as the desperadoes he travels with, Cuno rides a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie, and wondering if he was better off waiting for the gallows…
.45-Caliber Desperado
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Cuno Massey ends up on the wrong side of the law in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold... Cuno Massey killed those deputy U.S. marshals all right, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence—until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border. Pursued by lawmen as brutal as the desperadoes he travels with, Cuno rides a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie, and wondering if he was better off waiting for the gallows…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Cuno Massey ends up on the wrong side of the law in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold... Cuno Massey killed those deputy U.S. marshals all right, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence—until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border. Pursued by lawmen as brutal as the desperadoes he travels with, Cuno rides a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie, and wondering if he was better off waiting for the gallows…
The Great West Detective Agency
Author: Jackson Lowry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698144503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
On the run from some sore poker losers, gambler Lucas Stanton ducks into an office housing the “Great West Detective Agency”—followed by a client who mistakes him for a sleuth. Amanda Baldridge lives in one of Denver’s more well-to-do neighborhoods, and someone has snatched Tovarich, her Russian wolfhound puppy. Unable to resolve this case of mistaken identity—and unwilling to refuse the up-front cash from such a lovely patron—Lucas agrees to find the purloined pooch. But what he believes to be easy earnings for an absurd request becomes a riskier proposition when Lucas finds himself in the crosshairs of the wealthy and powerful Jubal Dunbar, who has already set his sights on Colorado’s governorship—and on the missing mongrel…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698144503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
On the run from some sore poker losers, gambler Lucas Stanton ducks into an office housing the “Great West Detective Agency”—followed by a client who mistakes him for a sleuth. Amanda Baldridge lives in one of Denver’s more well-to-do neighborhoods, and someone has snatched Tovarich, her Russian wolfhound puppy. Unable to resolve this case of mistaken identity—and unwilling to refuse the up-front cash from such a lovely patron—Lucas agrees to find the purloined pooch. But what he believes to be easy earnings for an absurd request becomes a riskier proposition when Lucas finds himself in the crosshairs of the wealthy and powerful Jubal Dunbar, who has already set his sights on Colorado’s governorship—and on the missing mongrel…
Rube Burrow, Desperado
Author: Rick Miller
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491717815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Rube Burrow was a prolific train robber in the 1880s and early 1890s ranging from Texas to Arkansas to Mississippi and Alabama. He ended his career with a cold-blooded murder that triggered a major manhunt. Rick Miller through diligent research has laid out the true story from primarary resources (see 456 endnotes) correcting many errors previously written about Burrow and his cohorts.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491717815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Rube Burrow was a prolific train robber in the 1880s and early 1890s ranging from Texas to Arkansas to Mississippi and Alabama. He ended his career with a cold-blooded murder that triggered a major manhunt. Rick Miller through diligent research has laid out the true story from primarary resources (see 456 endnotes) correcting many errors previously written about Burrow and his cohorts.
Most Wanted in Brunswick County: The Saga of the Desperado Jesse C. Walker
Author: Mark W. Koenig
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"A roving, shiftless fellow..." That's how the newspapers described Jesse C. Walker, who in 1908 was served with an arrest warrant by Brunswick County sheriff Jackson Stanland, with tragic results. Little did Walker know that he was about to set off on twenty-five years of headline-grabbing exploits. Two murders, two wives, three prison escapes, and thousands of miles of travel across eight states are only the surface of the adventures of this North Carolina desperado. Local author Mark W. Koenig relates the untold saga of a man who rocketed to notoriety in the first years of the twentieth century and found atonement decades later.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"A roving, shiftless fellow..." That's how the newspapers described Jesse C. Walker, who in 1908 was served with an arrest warrant by Brunswick County sheriff Jackson Stanland, with tragic results. Little did Walker know that he was about to set off on twenty-five years of headline-grabbing exploits. Two murders, two wives, three prison escapes, and thousands of miles of travel across eight states are only the surface of the adventures of this North Carolina desperado. Local author Mark W. Koenig relates the untold saga of a man who rocketed to notoriety in the first years of the twentieth century and found atonement decades later.
America's First Woman Sheriff Captures Kentucky's Barefoot Desperado
Author: Diane L. Griffith
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781563115387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781563115387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
.45-Caliber Cross Fire
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101561335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Fugitive Cuno Massey is caught between the law and the lawless in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold. Cuno Massey may be a federal fugitive, but he’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan’s best chance to run down a gang of gunrunners. A wagon train of rifles, ammunition, Gatling guns, and dynamite was stolen by U.S. cavalry deserters who intend to sell the weapons to a Mexican general waging war against Yaqui Indians. To even the odds against them, Cuno and Spurr form an alliance with Ojos de Fuega—“Fire Eyes”—a Yaqui queen as savage as she is beautiful, and her band of renegades. With so much firepower and so many deadly players on the warpath, Cuno and Spurr know that they’re sitting atop a powder keg with a sizzling fuse…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101561335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Fugitive Cuno Massey is caught between the law and the lawless in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold. Cuno Massey may be a federal fugitive, but he’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan’s best chance to run down a gang of gunrunners. A wagon train of rifles, ammunition, Gatling guns, and dynamite was stolen by U.S. cavalry deserters who intend to sell the weapons to a Mexican general waging war against Yaqui Indians. To even the odds against them, Cuno and Spurr form an alliance with Ojos de Fuega—“Fire Eyes”—a Yaqui queen as savage as she is beautiful, and her band of renegades. With so much firepower and so many deadly players on the warpath, Cuno and Spurr know that they’re sitting atop a powder keg with a sizzling fuse…
Hell's Angel
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110162339X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Bounty hunter Lou Prophet takes on a corrupt town in this western from Peter Brandvold. While on the run from Rurales in Mexico, Lou Prophet stops at the familiar desert town of Chisos Springs. Except now it’s called Moon’s Well. And it appears that more than the name has changed. It’s being controlled by the scoundrel Mordecai Moon, who even charges people for water. Lou Prophet won’t stand for such shady business, but he’s never made an enemy like Mordecai... When Mordecai has Lou beaten and sends him into the blazing desert tied over his horse, matters go from bad to personal. Rescued by an old friend and business partner, Lou is ready to end Mordecai’s reign of terror. And with the outlaw’s own girlfriend straddling sides, Lou will make sure he goes out with a bang.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110162339X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Bounty hunter Lou Prophet takes on a corrupt town in this western from Peter Brandvold. While on the run from Rurales in Mexico, Lou Prophet stops at the familiar desert town of Chisos Springs. Except now it’s called Moon’s Well. And it appears that more than the name has changed. It’s being controlled by the scoundrel Mordecai Moon, who even charges people for water. Lou Prophet won’t stand for such shady business, but he’s never made an enemy like Mordecai... When Mordecai has Lou beaten and sends him into the blazing desert tied over his horse, matters go from bad to personal. Rescued by an old friend and business partner, Lou is ready to end Mordecai’s reign of terror. And with the outlaw’s own girlfriend straddling sides, Lou will make sure he goes out with a bang.
.45-Caliber Law
Author: William MacLeod Raine
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789126622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
William MacLeod Raine was a small boy when he came to this country in 1881 from London, England, with his father and brothers. They settled in the Southwest, then a land lawless at times and places. Jesse James and Billy the Kid still terrorized the districts in which they lived. Most of the characters mentioned in this book were alive, and vigorously fighting for or against the law, while Raine was growing up. After his graduation from Oberlin College, in Ohio, young Raine returned to the West and lived there, although with frequent excursions to other parts of the world. He had been a newspaper reporter, an editorial writer, a university lecturer, and a contributor to magazines. For more than sixty years Raine was in and of the West. He knew personally some of the men whose adventures he tells of in this book, and from other of their friends and acquaintances he picked up details and anecdotes. Even in his fiction Raine was noted for the accuracy with which he portrays the spirit and the background of the locale in which his characters move.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789126622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
William MacLeod Raine was a small boy when he came to this country in 1881 from London, England, with his father and brothers. They settled in the Southwest, then a land lawless at times and places. Jesse James and Billy the Kid still terrorized the districts in which they lived. Most of the characters mentioned in this book were alive, and vigorously fighting for or against the law, while Raine was growing up. After his graduation from Oberlin College, in Ohio, young Raine returned to the West and lived there, although with frequent excursions to other parts of the world. He had been a newspaper reporter, an editorial writer, a university lecturer, and a contributor to magazines. For more than sixty years Raine was in and of the West. He knew personally some of the men whose adventures he tells of in this book, and from other of their friends and acquaintances he picked up details and anecdotes. Even in his fiction Raine was noted for the accuracy with which he portrays the spirit and the background of the locale in which his characters move.
45-Caliber Deathtrap
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425218266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
When his business partner is murdered by a notorious bank robber, Cuno Massey, bent on revenge, follows a trail of dead bodies to the den of a killer and, along the way, comes to the aid of a bartender and a Chinese man searching for his daughter. Original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425218266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
When his business partner is murdered by a notorious bank robber, Cuno Massey, bent on revenge, follows a trail of dead bodies to the den of a killer and, along the way, comes to the aid of a bartender and a Chinese man searching for his daughter. Original.
.45-Caliber Widow Maker
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110110578X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A prison wagon of caged killers means hell on wheels in this thrilling western from Peter Brandvold. “When you knew how to use a .45, there were times when you couldn’t very well not use it…” Cuno Massey is determined to start a new, peaceful life. But when he comes across a prison wagon under attack, he can’t just ride on. A gang of outlaws is hell-bent on granting four hardened convicts an early release, and with two other lawmen down, the marshal is badly outnumbered. Dispensing frontier justice from the barrel of his Colt .45, Cuno does his best to even the odds and keep the murderous animals where they belong—in their cage. But the trail is long, and the gang is relentless. Looks like Cuno has just signed on for the ride of his life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110110578X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A prison wagon of caged killers means hell on wheels in this thrilling western from Peter Brandvold. “When you knew how to use a .45, there were times when you couldn’t very well not use it…” Cuno Massey is determined to start a new, peaceful life. But when he comes across a prison wagon under attack, he can’t just ride on. A gang of outlaws is hell-bent on granting four hardened convicts an early release, and with two other lawmen down, the marshal is badly outnumbered. Dispensing frontier justice from the barrel of his Colt .45, Cuno does his best to even the odds and keep the murderous animals where they belong—in their cage. But the trail is long, and the gang is relentless. Looks like Cuno has just signed on for the ride of his life.