Wondrous Times on the Frontier PDF Download

Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Frontier times (Perkins), Okla.).
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Languages : en
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Timothy Bottoms
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743313829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history.

Author: Ron Williamson
Publisher: G.R. Williamson
ISBN: 0557069327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Known as two of the best pistol fighters of their day, Ben Thompson and King Fisher have remained an enigma in the chronicles of the American West. While other gunfighters have achieved infamy through the stories told in pulp magazines and newspapers of the day these two men were largely ignored. Both were credited with killing a string of men during their lifetime and the mere mention of their names was usually enough to sober up a drunken opponent or cause a sober man to contemplate his own epitaph. The Texas Pistoleers tells their story in vivid detail and relates the historically accurate account of their deaths in a mystery shrouded ambush in a San Antonio saloon on a chilly March night in 1884.

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Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0735272468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

Author: G.R. Williamson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439676968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The Vaudeville Theater Ambush of 1884 went down in history as one of the most famous gunfights in San Antonio, but the killing that night of Ben Thompson and John King Fisher, two of the most notorious pistoleers of the day, became something of a mystery. The two men entered the theatre just before midnight on March 11, and less than an hour later, both lay dead, shot down in what for all accounts was a true massacre. The responsible gunmen never were prosecuted for their crimes, and Thompson and Fisher--a mere mention of either man's name was enough to put the fear of death in any opponent--have been widely ignored since. Now, historian G.R. Williamson brings to light the mystery and the myths surrounding these men and their infamous deaths in Texas Pistoleers.

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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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