Author: James William BuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Heroes of the Plains
Author: James William BuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Heroes of the Plains, Or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides
Author: James William BuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Knight on the Texas Plains
Author: Linda BrodayPublisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843951202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Duel McCain is a gambling drifter, but a poker game soon thrusts him into the role of father to an abandoned baby. Then a beautiful but condemned woman stumbles upon his campfire. The fugitive beauty aims to keep Duel at arm's length, but she and the baby are clearly made for each other. Worse, the innocent infant and alleged murderess open Duel's heart, making him long for a real family.
Lords of the Plain
Author: Max CrawfordPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The U.S. 2nd Cavalry rolls into Texas in the 1870s with orders to keep the peace and persuade the fierce Comanches to move quietly onto the reservation.
My Sixty Years on the Plains
Author: William Thomas HamiltonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Darkness Lit by Heroes
Author: Doug AmmonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692900420
Category : Copper mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine disaster of 1917 is one of the most inspiring and heart-rending stories in the history of the American West. It was the worst hard rock mining disaster ever, killing 168 men, affecting nearly 1000 miners and the whole city of Butte, Montana. In 1917, the Speculator mine was the most complex and deepest copper mine on the ¿richest hill on earth¿, with 400 men in more than 300 miles of tunnels and workings extending 3700 feet underground. Just before midnight, June 8th, a fire started 2400 feet down in the main shaft, and rapidly filled the tunnels with smoke and deadly gas. Most of the miners had no idea where the fire was, but were suddenly thrust into life and death situations, making split second decisions on which everything depended. Their actions ranged from animal terror to the most inspirational courage. They desperately tried every means to escape the labyrinth to other adjacent mines as the poison gas chased and overwhelmed many. Hundreds were trapped, including groups that sealed themselves into dead-end tunnels to try to survive the onslaught of gas. The book is written in the form of a novel from the miners¿ perspective and their families above ground, but is journalistically true in detail, based on 600 pages of eye-witness testimony from 70 survivors. This testimony was carefully matched with mining maps to reconstruct the men¿s actions and thoughts. The disaster unfolds like an accelerating avalanche, a chaos of frantic terror along with tremendous self-sacrifice of the miners for each other. It then turns into a detective story as the rescuers fight against time with the survivors¿ lives ebbing away, hidden behind air-tight walls deep in the mine, lost in an ocean of darkness and rock. This is a true story of the hearts of men and the human spirit, as men are stripped down to their core with nothing left to sustain them but their wills and devotion to each other: ¿no greater love hath any man than to lay down his life for his friend.¿
Heroes of the Faith
Author: Gene FedelePublisher: Bridge Logos Foundation
ISBN: 9780882709598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Be inspired through the life sketches of these 70 godly men and woman.
The Plainsman
Author: Frank Jenners WilstachPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
It has not been the purpose of this book to novelize Wild Bill Hickok. That has already been done, and rather effectively. The main purpose of this work is to find out what was real, and what imaginary, in the stories about him. Wild Bill was a fascinating personality to all who knew him. The mere mention of his name never failed to bring a crash of brasses from the orchestra. His friends never ceased to chant his praises as an honest man, an incredibly accurate pistol shot, and an individual who was without fear in the presence of danger. Contents: The Prince of Pistoleers Ancestry and Early Manhood The Magnum Opus of Pistolry The Mccanles Mystery Solved Wartime Adventures Fight With Conquering Bear and a New Indian Romance The Duel With Dave Tutt A Blue Ribbon Outburst of Guns On the Plains With the Wilson Party Marshal of Hays City and Abilene Wild Bill Starts a Wild West Show Traits and Personal Appearance Three Shooting Stars A Visit to Cheyenne Romance and Marriage The Calamity Jane-Wild Bill Myth Last Days The Trial and Execution of Jack Mccall
Sharp Ends
Author: Joe AbercrombiePublisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316390801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day single-handed when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain Bethod is desperate to bring peace to the North. There's only one obstacle left -- his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine . . .
The Book of Missionary Heroes
Author: Basil MathewsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Book of Missionary Heroes" by Basil Mathews. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.