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Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of
Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death
at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his
actions. With a masterful blend of fact and fiction, The
Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer tells us what might have
happened at that trial as it brings to life the most exciting
period in the history of the American West.
"Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and
highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the
American West."--The New York Times Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890,
is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles
known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened
criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young
attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a
posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead
he discovers a survivor, the beautiful, traumatized Jennie
Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessed hangs like a storm
cloud over the investigation. From the trial to the courtroom,
Winding Stair is a classic historical novel that brings to vivid
life a bygone era.
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel "Douglas C.
Jones is one the great novelists of the American West, and Roman is
one of his finest works--a hugely entertaining story with
unforgettable characters."--James Donovan, Author of A Terrible
Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn Young Roman Hasford stood by
his mother and sister on the family's Arkansas hill farm while his
father was off fighting in the Civil War. Now that his father has
returned, Roman heads west to blaze his own trail. Eager for
adventure, Roman gets more than he bargained for--from the
rough-and-tumble boomtown of Leavenworth, Kansas, to the
blood-soaked prairies where he fights Cheyenne warriors at the
Battle of Beecher's Island. Authentic and action-packed, Douglas C.
Jones's Roman is an epic, unforgettable coming-of-age story, set
against the background of the sprawling, wild, new frontier of the
American West.
"One of the best Civil War novels I have read."--James M.
McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom
From Chickamauga to Spotsylvania, from Gettysburg to Appomattox,
The Barefoot Brigade is an unforgettable Civil War novel about the
brotherhood of soldiers. War has ripped Martin Hasford's nation
apart, and like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his
family and his sense of duty. Leaving his wife and children behind
to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Hasford embarks on a
path from which he may never return--and on which he meets men as
embattled as himself: the Fawley brothers, young backwoodsmen
running from the; Beverly Cass, a son of plantation privilege;
Guthrie Scaggs, a judge turned army officer; Sidney Dinsmore, a
no-account drunk; and Liverpool Morgan, a Welsh gambler. Together
these men form a tight niche in the Third Arkansas Infantry
Regiment, trudging from the Ozark foothills, headed east into one
cataclysmic battle after another, determined to beat back the
Yankees and end the war. A testament to a special breed of
American, The Barefoot Brigade is a work of undeniable and lasting
power.
"Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of
Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those
classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and
hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us
to notice what we live in."--The New York Times Book Review From
Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called a superb
storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West, comes a
classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of
the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight
for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her
Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and
Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge,
a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western
front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle.
Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home
stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst
battlegrounds in the West.
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