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Sylvia McDaniel
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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.
"A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil."
"-The Washington Post"
"We are caught up with these people as real human beings."
"-Chicago Sun-Times
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"Dramatic and exciting."
-"The New York Times
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"Terse and powerful."
"-Newsweek"
"A taut, bloodthirsty read."
"-The Times Literary Supplement"
"A superb piece of fiction."
"-The New Republic"
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.
It's the 19th century on the GulfCoast, a time of opportunity and
lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a
virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her
lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a
pirate's buried treasure.
Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart
and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer
named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even
children across the frontier. Who--if anyone--will survive when
their paths finally cross?
As Lucinda and Nate's stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are
paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a
woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for
herself.
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....
When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre — P.I. and Ph.D. — is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes.
It should be an easy assignment — but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin — and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side....
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.
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.
But Laramie's luck--and life--are about to take an amazing turn.
Quite by accident, he somehow manages to save a family of Mexicans
from bandits, and as a token of their gratitude they give him The
Magic Quirt--a horsewhip that he's told will turn him into a new
man.
The transformation is indeed magical. Suddenly Laramie is
performing feats of ingenuity and courage that would make even the
Lone Ranger proud. But magic is a funny thing--and as Laramie's
about to discover, sometimes it's all an illusion.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote of his childhood: "The weather of Montana is,
of course, brutal. The country is immense and swallows up men
rather easily, hence they have to live bigger than life to survive.
There were still Indians around living in forlorn and isolated
tepees. Notable among them was Old Tom, a full-fledged Blackfoot
medicine man." Hubbard and Old Tom became blood brothers, and the
medicine man shared with him the kind of lore that make stories
like The Magic Quirt as compelling as they are.
Also includes the Western adventures, Vengeance Is Mine , the story
of a young man who sets out to avenge his father's death only to
commit an act beyond redemption, and Stacked Bullets, in which a
game of chance is fixed, a whole town is cheated, and nothing but a
stack of bullets can make things right.
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"Pure entertainment from first page to last with that L. Ron
Hubbard touch giving this tale an enduring reading engagement from
beginning to end."" --Midwest Book Review
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