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These are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938),
Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and
fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases--stage robberies,
train holdups, long pursuits through the badlands, even suits
against Wells Fargo for "delay to a corpse" and the bite of a
vicious horse. In Under Cover for Wells Fargo his "unvarnished
recollections" are preserved and carefully edited by Carolyn Lake,
who discovered Dodge's journals among Stuart N. Lake's papers,
awaiting a biography that was never written.
Fred Dodge was a dead ringer for Morgan Earp, and this led to
his early acquaintance with the famous brothers. In those days
Dodge was posing as a gambler, and even Wyatt did not know that he
was a Wells Fargo agent. Dodge sheds much light on the Earps in
Tombstone and on how he teamed up with Heck Thomas to hunt down
outlaws in Kansas and Oklahoma, including Bill Doolin's gang and
the Dalton brothers.
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Springfield 1880
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William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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Owen Wister's powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology. Set in the vast Wyoming territory, The Virginian (1902) captures both the grandeur and the loneliness of the frontier experience, brilliantly evoking the tension between the romantic freedom of the great, untamed landscape and mankind's deep-seated desire for community and social order. Wister brings to life the honesty and rough justice that ruled the range and the civilizing influence of determined women in frontier settlements that imposed a sense of society on an unruly population. For Wister, the West tested a man's true worth. His hero-influenced by those of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper-is a man who lives by the classic code of chivalry, ruled by quiet courage and a deeply felt sense of honor.
Oakley Hall's legendary "Warlock" revisits and reworks the
traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny,
hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality.
First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era,
Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of
modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American
fiction.
"Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national
Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in
the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the
confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of
the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock
has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded
humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named
Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by
a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds
that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw
not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of
assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the
agonized epic of Warlock is over with--the rebellion of the
proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political
control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal
crises of those in power--the collective awareness that is Warlock
must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society,
with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and
can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily
as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes
"Warlock" one of ourbest American novels. For we are a nation that
can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the
Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need
voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper,
still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." --Thomas Pynchon
No writer chronicles the battles of misfits, underdogs and
renegades like Elmore Leonard ... VALDEZ IS COMING is a stunning
stale of morality and justice in which a simple, honest man is
transformed into a killer - and begins a long journey of revenge
against those who scarred his soul for ever. Elmore Leonard's
Western novels stand as some of the most vivid writing of his
career. With all of his trademark sharp dialogue and set against a
beautifully evoked landscape, this is a classic work that captures
the wild and glorious spirit of the American West.
Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads,
Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade,
Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com,
and NPR's All Things Considered. "A thunderclap of originality,
here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories
we tell about ourselves as Americans and Westerners. It's riveting
in all the right ways -- a damn good read that stayed with me long
after closing the covers." - Timothy Egan, New York Times
bestselling author of The Worst Hard Time From a blazing new voice
in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman
who disguises herself as a boy and heads west In the spring of
1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and
alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation
and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest,
saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find
her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter
herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's
violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting
Noah--dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity,
and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those
who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her
own right. Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice,
Whiskey When We're Dry is a stunning achievement, an epic as
expansive as America itself--and a reckoning with the myths that
are entwined with our history.
Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their
latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig
Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series-the basis for
the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix Craig Johnson's new novel,
The Western Star, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. When
Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the
beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area
the troopers refer to as no-man's-land because of the lack of radio
communication, she starts receiving "officer needs assistance"
calls. The problem? They're coming from Bobby Womack, a legendary
Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a
half-century ago. With an investigation that spans this world and
the next, Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear take on a
case that pits them against a legend: The Highwayman.
When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train,
he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left
him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since
then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while
serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off
dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest
attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger
sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at
the mercy of her rescuer. Trace offers the only shelter for miles
around, and agrees to take them in until she can safely continue.
His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in
the picture and their arrival is unsettling--yet enticing. Working
to survive the winter and finally bring justice to the trail, Trace
and Deborah find themselves drawn together--yet every day
approaches the moment she'll leave forever.
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung
up like weeds on America's frontier--with hustlers and hucksters
arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen
working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life
with a well-placed bullet. The New York Times-bestselling Grand
Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius,
with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . .
. and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.
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