Author: John K. HutchensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780800831233
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Gambler's Bedside Book
Author: John K. HutchensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780800831233
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Bedside Book of Bad Girls
Author: Chris EnssPublisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560375256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Take a step back in time with the Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw women of the Midwest. Join author Chris Enss as she digs up and reveals startling facts about some of the most fascinating renegade women of the Midwest. Meet Flora Mundis, the horse thief who disguised herself as a man; Victoria Woodhull, out-spoken activist for free love, con artist, and the first female candidate for president; Ma Barker, mother of the notorious Barker Gang; Opal Long and Patricia Cherrington, trusted sisters of the Dillinger Gang; and many more. Experience history as if you were actually there. Stand witness to the trial and hanging of Elizabeth Reed, and ride the rails with Fannie and Jennie Freeman, the mother-daughter team who bilked railroad companies out of more than $150,000. In eleven captivating profiles, Enss brings to life the stories of these fascinating pistol-packing, horse-thieving, poker-swindling outlaws.
Bedside Book of Bad Girls
Author: Michael RutterPublisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560375353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Meet Kate Bender, who brutally murdered as many as thirty people in Kansas, including children, and buried them in her family's orchard; Laura Bullion, the only woman to participate in a Wild Bunch train robbery; and Madam Vestal, a one-time Confederate spy who organized the famous Deadwood stagecoach robberies. Witness the execution of Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Drawing on fact and folklore, author and historian Michael Rutter brings 21 gun-slinging "bad girls" to life, and explores their motives, hopes, and dreams. He dispels many of the myths about these female outlaws, for sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Featuring forty-two historical images, Bedside Book of Bad Girls sheds light on figures and events often shrouded in fabrication and fantasy. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.
The Gamblers
Author: William Le QueuxThe Underwriter's Bedside Book
Author: Jonathan S. IgnarskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Falling Through the Earth
Author: Danielle TrussoniPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466818743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year New York Times bestselling author Danielle Trussoni's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended. From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the bars and honky-tonks of La Crosse, Wisconsin, young Danielle grew up fascinated by stories of her dad's adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he'd risked his life crawling head first into narrow passageways to search for American POWs. A vivid and poignant portrait of a daughter's relationship with her father, this funny, heartbreaking, and beautifully written memoir, Falling Through the Earth, "makes plain that the horror of war doesn't end in the trenches" (Vanity Fair).
A Gambler's Bedside Reader
Author: John T. GollehonPublisher: Gollehon Books
ISBN: 9780914839583
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Bride Says Maybe
Author: Cathy MaxwellPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062219286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell returns with a delicious new series, The Brides of Wishmore What happens when a bride says maybe? She'd once been the toast of London, but now scandal has brought her down. Still, pretty, petted Lady Tara Davidson can't believe her new fate. She had wanted to marry for love . . . but her profligate father has promised her hand to none other than Breccan Campbell, the "Beast of Aberfeldy" and laird of the valley's most despised clan! Well, Tara may have to marry him, but Breccan can't make her love him—can he? What happens when the groom insists? Breccan Campbell is nobody's fool. He knows that Tara is trouble. Yet he's determined to reform the Campbell name even if it means forging an alliance with the arrogant beauty. There's no doubt that Tara is a challenge, and Breccan loves nothing more. For he's vowed to thoroughly seduce Tara—and make her his in more than name alone.
The Bridge Player's Bedside Book
Author: Tony ForresterPublisher: Master Point Press
ISBN: 9780969846185
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The ultimate collection of bridge stuff, with something for everyone from the beginner to the expert. Humour, mystery, quizzes, history, biography -- it's all here. Over fifty world-class contributors, including Eddie Kantar, Alfred Sheinwold, Ron Klinger, Phillip Alder, Albert Dormer, and many more. Illustrated throughout, including elegant Fougasse cartoons.
Bad Boys of the Black Hills: And Some Wild Women, Too
Author: Barbara C. FiferPublisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560375485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.