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Glory
(Paperback)
Lori Copeland
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R241
R218
Discovery Miles 2 180
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Colter's Journey
(Paperback)
William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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R186
R146
Discovery Miles 1 460
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Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L'Amour weaves an unforgettable tale of a man who journeys to his homeland — but discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible....
Barnabas Sackett was leaving England forever to find his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a warrant from Queen Elizabeth had been sworn against him — and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had found and sold — coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, the Queen will stop at nothing to find him. And if he's caught, Sackett will face torture — and even the gallows....
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The Arkansas Regulators
(Paperback)
Friedrich Gerstaecker; Edited by Charles Adams, Christoph Irmscher
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R572
R531
Discovery Miles 5 310
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The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure,
first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English
readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James
Fenimore Cooper, but offering a much darker and more violent image
of the American frontier, this was the first novel produced by
Friedrich Gerstaecker, who would go on to become one of Germany's
most famous and prolific authors. A crucial piece of a
nineteenth-century transatlantic literary tradition, this
long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers
a startling revision of the frontier myth from a European
perspective.
A dying man, Peter Barker asks Sheriff Quigley to deliver a message
to his family. Quigley does so, only to find himself the target of
range baron Huston McRae, who controls everything in Gila County,
including the local sheriff, and doesn't want an outsider nosing
around in his affairs. And above all, he doesn't want Quigley
helping Noreen Barker, Peter Barker's widow. When McRae's attempted
intimidation of Quigley fails, he orders him killed. Quigley sends
for his deputy, Murray Fishbourne, and together they take on the
local sheriff and the gunslingers McRae sends after them. But as
the fighting intensifies, can Quigley and Murray survive?
When Sheriff Cornelius Doyle is killed, his estranged son Kane sets
out to find the culprit, hoping to reconcile with a family that
doesn't want to know him - but he soon discovers that his father's
apparently honourable life was a lie. The sheriff had become a
legend when he killed the notorious outlaw Jesse Sawyer, but Kane
discovers that the facts are at odds with the legend, as Jesse is
still alive. With the sheriff's murder apparently being connected
to the events of ten years ago, Kane hopes that Jesse can lead him
to the killer. Instead he uncovers a dark secret that will not only
put his life in peril, but could make it impossible for his family
to ever accept him.
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams
uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his
fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams
dismantles the myths of modern America.
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an
original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west.
He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the
outskirts of nowhere. "Butcher's Crossing "is full of restless men
looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long
Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales
Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the
taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado
Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the
animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a
place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men
abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing
buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes
them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin
fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to
find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the
"full-blooded Western genius" (Publishers Weekly) that would come
to define McMurtry's incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north
Texas town of Thalia, young Lonnie Bannon quietly endures the pangs
of maturity as a persistent rivalry between his grandfather and
step-uncle, Hud, festers, and a deadly disease spreads among their
cattle like wildfire.
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Monte Walsh
(Paperback)
Jack Schaefer; Foreword by Marc Simmons
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R589
R491
Discovery Miles 4 910
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Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight
readers as a Western classic and popular favorite. The novel
explores the cowboy lives of Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins as they
carouse, ride, and work at the Slash Y with Cal Brennan. As the
West changes and their cowboy antics are challenged, the two must
part ways to pursue new ways of life. Chet marries and goes on to
become a successful merchant and then a politician, while Monte can
only find solace in continuing the cowboy's way of life until the
very end.
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