Download or read book Cattle Country Back Trail written by Erwin A Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is from the author's note for Cattle Country-the first novelette of the three. There are many things here that can be found in nearly any Western; for it is not a calm book. But I hope you will feel: The courage of John Wade as he tries to fill a job that he knows is far too big for him; The strain of the decision Wells has to make of whether to get out of town safely himself or help the sheriff who will probably arrest him when the shooting is over; The sting of Wade's words as he tells Jim Halleran, "I'd like to think you were still a man I could be proud to know;" The frustration of Katherine Wade as she stamps her foot on the floor of the sheriff's office and says, "Damn Cowards;" The bigness of Henry Ashburn as he gives Bob Darlington a hand in a fight that does not concern him at all. This is Cattle Country! "I grew up in times and places much like Erwin Thompson paints in Cattle Country, Back Trail, and The Invincible Three. Although those times are gone, Thompson's well-written voice rings true with the memory and flavor of a world that should not be lost." -Jim Lyle, author of Things Seen in the Dessert

Download or read book Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marshal Sands and Mrs Molly written by V. E Bixenstine and published by Western Adventurer. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis (Marshal Sands and Mrs. Molly) Molly Dandridge trusts a charming rogue and, against her father's wishes, elopes with him from her Chicago home. He abandons her in Green River City, Wyoming, to face her shame and live or perish in frontier America circa 1880. Liz Dunlap urges her to go home. She will not. Instead, she becomes one of Liz's saloon girls. Alas, she is unable to adopt the emotional distance Liz advocates, so when a young customer proposes marriage, her shame reignites. She sets out through winter's snow, seeking release from life's complications. Liz sends Andy Phillips, the saloon owner, who finds her near death. Liz and Andy devise a solution. She becomes Andy's house card dealer. U.S. Marshal Pur (Purgatory) T. Sands arrives and is dispatched to escort Soapy Smith to Denver. Soapy escapes and eludes pursuit, but Purgatory finally divines where he has gone, captures him, and escorts him into his CO's office. The Commander had assigned Purgatory the mission hoping to prove him incompetent, but, with Purgatory's success recapturing Soapy, he decides, "I want nobody else but you back in that post." In Green River City, he meets Molly. They are mutually attracted, but both hold back. Spring comes, putting in motion Milliard Jacobs' plans to provoke ranchers into a range war with his hired ruffians led by Kenneth McMann. Just as the war clouds gather, Jean Frenchy Dubois, one of McMann's men, abducts Molly with Purgatory in pursuit. Purgatory catches up, blunders into a trap, and breaks his leg. Molly diverts Frenchy from killing him by promising to go "freely" with Frenchy. Believing she lies, he is about to kill her when Kenneth McMann appears seeking to show that no underling takes his horse and departs his service without dire cost. McMann kills Frenchy but spares Molly and Purgatory as not worthy of killing. Molly and Purgatory return to Green River City. Purgatory, on crutches, awaits anyone seeking the Doctor's services for wounds incurred from the ongoing war. Hank Miller, who killed Kenneth McMann's brother, escorts in three wounded men. Purgatory arrests Miller. Soon thereafter, Kenneth arrives with three men, one wounded, seeking revenge on Miller. McMann and Purgatory duel. McMann is killed. Purgatory and Deputy Paul Thirloway trade fire with McMann's two able bodied henchmen who are killed, but Paul is wounded. Purgatory turns to Paul, and the wounded, still-living, McMann follower shoots Purgatory in the back. Purgatory recovers and leaves for Trinidad to finally confront his past. He learns that Lilly, Andrew Castle's daughter, killed herself without having a child that she had threatened to claim was Purgatory's. The news drains him of all fear of and hate for Andrew. Without inquiring of Kate Kantel or his abandoned property, he leaves to retrace his outlaw haunts, trying to make sense of his life. The men he killed obsess him. He arrives at Santa Fe and Marshal Sam Boden's office. Sam understands the soul-searching Purgatory is undergoing, and once again offers the fruits of his experience and avuncular regard. Purgatory heals and lays aside the identity of Purgatory Sands to resume that of a more mature Justin Simms. He returns to Green River City. Molly is startled at the change in him. He tells her that he will never again be Purgatory Sands nor ever again leave her. They marry, and some years later Justin Simms unknown to Molly visits her parents in Chicago. She is at first outraged, but gradually he becomes the agent of Molly's return to the bosom of her family.

Download or read book Tango 1 1 written by Jim Thayer and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absorbing account of special forces operations by Airborne Rangers of the Long Range Patrol in the Vietnam Delta . . . a great story.” —Firetrench LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from 18 to 30. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive. Called LRPs for short, they were despised, respected, admired and sometimes thought to be a little short on brains by those who watched from the sidelines as a team started out on another mission to seek out the enemy. They were men who can take a baby or small child in their arms and make them stop crying. They shared their last smoke, last ration of food, last canteen of water. They were kind in some ways, deadly in others. They were men who believed in their country, freedom, and fellow men. They were a new kind of soldier in a new type of warfare. LRPs stand out in a crowd of soldiers. It’s not just their tiger fatigues but the way they walk, talk and stand. They were proud warriors because they were members of the Long Range Patrol.

Download or read book Owlsight written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been four years since Darian saw his village sacked and burned by barbarians. Taking refuge with the Hawkbrothers, he soon finds his life's calling--as a Healing Adept. But even as he learns the mystical ways of this ancient race, Darian cannot escape the dangers threatening his future. Another tribe of barbarians is approaching. The time has come...to stand up and fight.

Download or read book Slocum 310 Slocum and the Teton Temptress written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black-hearted woman makes Slocum see red… In the shadows of the Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole is no place to spend a winter. But, it’s where Slocum hoofs it after getting a desperate letter from his friend Hovis Benton. A swamper at the Silvertip Saloon, Benton appears to have gotten himself in some hot water. A hangout for trail tramps and glitter gals, the Silvertip is owned by the beautiful—and deadly—Gloria Vespa. She and her bunch of cutthroats are responsible for more missing men than a whiteout—including Benton. What could make such a heavenly looking woman so sinful? It doesn’t take Slocum long to find out. Indian gold. In them thar hills…

Download or read book Bounty of Vengeance written by Paul Colt and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderous drifter. A grieving husband. A range war about to explode. Bounty of Vengeance introduces Paul Colt’s sweeping Bounty Trilogy. Former Cheyenne Sheriff Ty Ledger and bounty hunter Johnny Roth pursue a half-breed serial killer responsible for the death of Ledger’s wife and unborn child. The bloody trail leads to Lincoln County, New Mexico, and a town girding for war. Ledger and Roth follow the killer to an encounter with renegade Comanche that has the pair counting their bullets, making sure each has one left for his final escape. Colt’s action races across the pages of history set against the run-up to the Lincoln County War. Ty Ledger, Johnny Roth, Lucy Sample, and Dawn Sky take their places beside John Chisum, John Tunstall, and James Dolan as the principals square off in what will become the making of legends. Told in a gritty style reminiscent of Robert B. Parker, Colt transports the reader to events that test the mettle of men and the hearts of the women they love.

Download or read book A Pathway to an Ending written by Fred Madryga and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lifetime of diverse careers, Canadian Fred Madryga has worked as a logger, in an abattoir, as a roofing kettle, tin basher, a university lecturer and a psychologist in private psychological practice with sexual offenders. His literary essays demonstrate a keen eye for detail and insights into diverse personalities as well as a capacity for self-reflection and personal growth through a wide range of experience and openness to the world around him.

Download or read book No Other Option written by Marcus Wynne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonny Maxwell is loose in Middle America. A trail of bodies left in his wake. He was once America's best. A member of Project Dominance Rain, an elite cauldron of the cream of America's military and intelligence community, his betrayal has brought dishonor to his team, and now they must send in the one man who knew Maxwell best, Master Sergeant Dale Miller. They fought side by side. They watched each other's back in the world's hot spots. Maxwell and Miller know each other's tactics, they know each other's mind, and they both understand their mission: kill or be killed.

Download or read book Ride the Moon Down written by Terry C. Johnston and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time of the mountain man is coming to an end, but some—like Titus Bass will not exit gently. A brilliantly exciting and thoroughly researched novel of the end of the dream that was the unmapped and virgin wilderness in the American West starring the king of the mountain men, Titus Bass. A new dawn was rising over the vast, once uncharted territories west of the Mississippi. And for the original trailblazers like Titus Bass—bold, resourceful men who dine on buffalo meat, trade in beaver pelts, and live among the warrior bands—the world will never be the same. Traveling with his wife and infant daughter, Bass heads north into Crow territory. But what should have been a joyous reunion with his wife’s people turns to tragedy when Bass’s family is kidnapped by the warring Blackfoot. A deadly outbreak of smallpox, brought west by the white man, threatens both Indian nations with annihilation. And another kind of epidemic—this one of greed—brought by two powerful, profit-hungry trading outfits will determine the fate not only of free trappers like Titus Bass . . . but the destiny of the entire nation. Praise for Terry C. Johnston “No one does it better . . . one of the great frontier historical novelists of our generation.”—Tulsa World “Terry C. Johnston is an authentic American treasure.”—Loren D. Estleman

Download or read book Eagle written by Don Bendell and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Wilderness Life One Man s Search for Meaning in Montana s Wilderness written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildlife biologist's journey of discovery through Montana's wilderness As young men, John Fraley and Terry McCoy were kindred spirits, drawn to Montana’s most remote, rugged, wild places. Tragically, one of them died young, his wilderness dreams cut short. The other went on to a forty-year career studying fish and furbearers in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. My Wilderness Life chronicles John Fraley’s lifelong love of all places wild and his obsession with uncovering what happened on the August 1974 morning when Terry McCoy’s airplane crashed in what would become the Welcome Creek Wilderness. Join Fraley on a frantic search to find his friend, and also on epic treks to traverse an impassable river canyon, snorkel with pure westslope cutthroat trout, retrace the footsteps of conservation icon Bud Moore, track lynx and mountain lions across the Great Bear Wilderness in winter, hike 42 miles through the Bob in a single day, and much more. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, My Wilderness Life reveals how one man’s unfulfilled dreams can inspire another’s adventures. Wilderness risks and rewards come alive in first-hand accounts of daring escapades, solo treks, and a few foolhardy misadventures. An inside glimpse of the life of a fisheries biologist in the backcountry. Amply illustrated with 100 black-and-white photographs.

Download or read book Visitor written by C. J. Cherryh and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenario before, when a single kyo ship swooped into the Reunion system and, without a word, melted a major section of Reunion Station with a single pass. These refugees, who were rescued through the combined efforts of an allied group of humans and atevi and brought to safety at Alpha, are now desperate with fear. Bren Cameron—brilliant human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi political leader on the mainland below, and also the appointee of the human president of the island nation of Mospheira—is the obvious choice of representative to be sent up to deal with both the panicked refugees and the incoming alien ship. As a member of the spacefaring delegation who rescued the refugees, Bren has talked to kyo before—and even won their trust by saving one of their kind from a Reunioner prison. Because of his remarkable diplomatic and linguistic abilities, Bren managed to communicate with that grateful kyo individual on a limited basis, and he has evidence that that same kyo is on the ship heading to defenseless Alpha Station. But no one can predict what an alien race might do, or what their motivations could be. And Bren Cameron, the only human ever to be accepted into atevi society, is now the one individual with a hope of successfully interacting with the crew of the incoming ship. But Bren knows it will take putting himself in the hands of the kyo. Can Bren count on the gratitude of one individual alien to save his life and the lives of thousands on Alpha Station?

Download or read book The American Deer Hunter written by Francis E. Sell and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Deer Hunter is the result of a great amount of experience in hunting with an extraordinary degree of success. The content represents the determination to set down the hard facts and the effective equipment and means for stalking and shooting the white-tail and his cousins. The book is highly original in its presentation. It is in no sense a rehash of previous discussions or formulae. The author deals at all times with actual problems of locating, maneuvering, and shooting and with the guns employed. The discussions are based on circumstances of reality in the relationships of deer, environment, hunter and gun, not on preconceived or synthetic situations. Here are interesting and important data on deer habits and on speeds and gaits. Here also is an extensive treatment of selection and care of weapons for deer hunting; the killing and dressing of game; and even on clothing for the deer hunter. All told, it has a wealth of material useful to both the veteran hunter and the novice.

Download or read book The Last Herald Mage Trilogy written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy—three groundbreaking, Lambda Award-winning novels that established Mercedes Lackey as a fantasy tour-de-force and her Kingdom of Valdemar as a place millions of readers return to again and again. This Lambda Award-winning trilogy tells the story of Vanyel, persecuted and abused son of a Valdemaran noble, who finds acceptance at Haven when he is Chosen by the Companion Yfandes. Companions like Yfandes are magical horse-like beings with the power to communicate and bond with their Chosen, and trigger the potential for psychic abilities—and magic. But Vanyel discovers other things about himself at Haven as well…. He discovers love in an unexpected place, and loses it, and nearly his own life. With Yfandes and his aunt, Herald Savil, he will travel to the home of the mysterious Hawkbrothers in search of healing and training, and will grow from a troubled and heartbroken Trainee to become the most powerful Herald-Mage in the history of Valdemar—and the one hope for Valdemar against an implacable foe bent on eradicating magic from the Kingdom entirely

Download or read book Wolves on the Hunt written by L. David Mech and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wolf is an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf - or especially a pack of wolves - can kill individuals of just about any species. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and - in the e-book edition and online - video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters.

Download or read book Gettin There written by Steve Farrar and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gettin' There, bestselling author Steve Farrar delves into the book of Psalms to give men a new sense of continuity, direction, purpose, and perspective. The Psalms are like a marked trail through life, showing that others have walked ahead and faced many of the challenges, temptations, heartaches, and perplexities that men will encounter on their journeys. Farrar shows that when a man begins to understand that the strong and caring hand of God is sovereign over everything in his life -- including his trials and heartaches -- his confidence, hope, and joy will increase dramatically in the God who created him and desires to use him.