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Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota
Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless
sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the
time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking
ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the
carnage-a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered
unspeakably-and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to
rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with
vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw. Here is E. L.
Doctorow's debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that
sets the stage for his subsequent classics.
William Mack just wanted peace. He followed trouble back to his home town, Dalston, Missouri, and took care of it. There, he planned to settle with his brother, Joshua, and his uncle, Frank. He was to be married to Mira. Pete Sterns rode in to town and changed all of that. Things around Dalston will never be the same.
The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.
Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his 89 novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L'Amour is also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. This volume features 35 action-packed frontier stories.
USA Today Bestseller! One of Refinery29's Best Reads of September In this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before-Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles' hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses. For more than eighty years, generations of readers have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now, that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past.
A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt,
and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old
west.
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right....
This supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player. - Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the Shadow Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers. - The Hunting Grounds: Scenarios and encounters that focus on this mythical realm and the power and threats found within it. - Territory: Build and develop your headquarters, and exploit the benefits it offers, but beware your enemies taking the fight to your home turf. - Outlaws, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters: New campaign options, allowing you to turn to a life of crime, bring in wanted fugitives, or sell your gun to the highest bidder. - New Monsters: The denizens of the Hunting Grounds, in all their terrifying glory. - New Hired Guns: There's all kinds of folk willing to sell their skills, and these new Hired Guns offer a range of tactical options... if you can afford them. - New Gear: Bring a Gatling Gun to a knife fight, or find out why you were always warned about misusing brimstone chalk and vials of ectoplasm. - New Skills: Riding and Leadership skills give you new combat options and help your posse stay in the fight.
Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
When it comes to boiling up a pot of coffee or stirring up a pot of
stew, Old Laramie's about as good a man as you're going to find.
But other than cooking three squares a day for the cowpunchers over
at the Lazy G ranch, Laramie's not good for much. He's about as
heroic as Walter Brennan on a bender.
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