Download or read book The Checker Board written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1883, Dave Smith has matured into the cowboy life without fear of retribution from his father's criminal schemes, but the long reach of Jason de Forest sends bounty hunter outlaws after Dave resulting in a shootout that kills four men. The last great overland cattle-drive of the Checker Board on the old Chisholm Trail into Kansas is confounded by misfortunes. Subsequent confrontations lead deeper into disaster, all maneuvered by an unseen vicious hand at land grabbing that results in a deadly attack. The combined forces of Checker Board hands, Mexicans, and Comanche Indians assault the Checker Board ranch to seize control from brutal squatters. The ensuing massacre brings reprisals against them and brands them renegades. Sam Eagle Feather attempts to bring about a cease-fire between the law and the renegades succeeding only in a lone rescue in order to fight another day....

Download or read book Numbers written by John Rechy and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging male hustler wages an obsessive battle against the passing of his youth in this darkly compelling follow-up to the cult hit City of Night. Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Like a retired boxer—an undefeated champion—who refuses to accept the possible ravages of time, Johnny is led by some unfathomable force to return to combat once again. Combat, for him, takes place in the dark balconies and dismal bathrooms of LA’s all-night movie theaters and on the hot sands of the city’s gay beaches. But these are only warm up bouts. The real test, Johnny soon learns, will be in the shaded glens of a rambling park on the outskirts of the city. Through those alcoves, as a gallery of sexhunters emerges, he sets out to discover whether the passage of time—as terrifying to the male hustler as to the dancer or ingenue—has diminished the allure that was the source of his pride. For Johnny, the final proof resides in numbers. So he sets himself a rigorous time-table—ten days—and goal: thirty “numbers” to prove is mettle. But through all the sexual episodes, the self-indulgence which comprises Johnny’s tawdry world, there resounds the universal cry of a human being’s desperate need to be loved.

Download or read book The Checker Board Book Three Satan s Havoc written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1883, Dave Smith and Sam Eagle Feather Larson leave West Texas when bounty hunters pursue them. Finding a way to survive by chasing wild horses, the two settle into a horse camp where they round up likely horses for re-sale in El Paso. One magnificent herd leader has a reward on its return to the owner, Stan Piper. Dave agrees to break the wild stallion and sets about the dangerous task with help of a large Percheron horse that is three times the size of the herd stallion. Complications begin when Dave locates his missing girl-friend, Dolores Alconda and attempts to rekindle their loving relationship, only to learn that Dolores is to marry someone else, and he is devastated. Young fifteen year old tom-boy Andee Piper has designs on Dave Smith, and becomes his one true friend; though artless and clumsy, Andee attempts to snag Dave’s affections. Dolores further confounds matters, believing her fiancé dead, decides to marry Don Ruis Matoes, wealthy local ranch owner over the protests of her relatives and of Dave, who feels that Matoes has an underlying forbidding agenda. Having no other alternative, Dave stages a raid in which he abducts Dolores, steals Ruis’ racehorse, and a priest which turns into a deadly encounter with Ruis Matoes and his henchman, Ramon Garcia. Dave is seriously injured by the overzealous attempts of the Don and Garcia to learn where Dave has hidden the girl and the horse. Seeking help from the Piper’s, Dave becomes the object of a murderous attempt by Ruis to get what he wants through maneuvering and outright arson. The Piper’s become entangled in the two-way tug of war between Dave and Ruis after they learn that Wes Piper may have legitimate claims on the Matoes rancho. Only through perseverance and the assistance of a federal circuit judge does the show-down come about. Ruis, in his maddened lunacy, snatches Andee and her mother in the hope of outdistancing the law by using the two women as hostages. Saving Andee and her mother from being savagely murdered by the deranged Don falls to the capable hands of Dave, Sam, the Piper’s and the men from the village of San Miguel.

Download or read book Relentless written by Dennis O’Keefe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his nearly twenty years of providing personal security, Case McIntire had never lost a client. Now here he is, wounded and left for dead in a Colombian jungle. With most of his security detail killed, including his guide and his client, and three others have been kidnapped. Case has no weapons, food, water, transportation, or communications. His reputation was his rice bowl, and he damn well wasn’t going to allow anyone to pollute his rice bowl, so he has to get his people back. In doing so, he has to fight narcotraficantes, mercenaries, and the elite Colombian Army.

Download or read book The Checker Board Book Four Medicine Bow Spirit written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued by bounty hunters, in 1883, Dave Smith rides out of New Mexico territory toward Wyoming Territory. He encounters the Cheyenne nation in the person of young ‘Moon Stands in Water’ who was taken from her tribe during a raid. Together they encounter a bounty hunter who nearly succeeds in capturing them. Dave accepts a mission from his Cheyenne friends. While on a train from Laramie to Medicine Bow, Dave helps fend off an attack by renegade Comanche. His actions in stopping a holdup attempt on the train leads to a job offer when he reaches Medicine Bow. Bound by his promise to the Cheyenne, Dave cannot leave Medicine Bow. The town is controlled by Cassius Harding, owner of the hotel and gambling hall, as well as much of the surrounding land. The locals are restive because of a burdensome water tax levied by Harding. Finding work with Harding, Dave soon recognizes Harding has him trapped, as well as controlled by threats against his girlfriend, Rose Loughery. Forced to do Harding’s bidding, Dave advances the Comanche renegade band’s diversion raids on the outlying settlers and miners in the area. Having been the one to set up these deadly attacks, Dave learns he has been duped by Harding. In a rage, Dave takes apart Harding’s outfit, man by man. A rousing western full of Indians, outlaws, and powerful individuals cause Dave to lose his freedom. At the end, Medicine Bow is attacked by revengeful Indian renegades who have also learned of Harding’s treachery in dealings with them. Dave is caught in the fight to save the town and his life.

Download or read book The Checker Board Book Six Yellow Band written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1880's, Dave Smith finds work at a freight line in a remote mining town as he pursues the reason why renegade Cheyenne chief, Yellow Band, is stealing assay rock samples; and why vindictive Sheriff Gus Tern turns the entire town against him. One of the surprising finds is none other than Andee Piper who now teaches at a local School for Girls. Five years earlier, Dave encounters the teenage irrepressible tom-boy, finds she is now all grown up, and regards Dave in an entire different manner, renewing her efforts toward captivating him. Floyd Wilkins also has notions of exclusive intentions on Andee which soon creates a clash. Maxwell Perkins, a successful mine owner and operator, also sees Andee's unique personality as fascinating. This creates a three way conflict is one which Dave would sooner evade than confront. A near fatal Indian holdup while Dave is driving the freight run points toward his being set up to take the blame for the incident. Instead he tracks the bunch, and after a shootout recovers the wagon. He captures the prize, renegade Chief Yellow Band who does not remain captive long. In a later attack, Dave stands off the horde long enough to survive. Dave pursues the fleeing attackers into the mountains on a rigorous track. Joined by Floyd Wilkins, who grimly rescues Dave from his own folly, the two man hunt becomes a trial of wits against wily Yellow Band. Unable to identify who has been paying off Yellow Band, Dave investigates the gold mines owners and slowly begins to unravel the devious plot to high-grade a mine. Now immersed in identifying the devious scheming behind a killer's organization, Dave doggedly pursues leads that eventually strike pay-dirt. The climax requires all of Dave's grit, honesty, and resolute determination to stay alive.

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Download or read book Dictionary of Occupational Titles Occupational classification and industry index written by United States Employment Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Occupational Titles Definitions of titles written by United States Employment Service. Division of Occupational Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Checker Board Book Five The End of Reckoning written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885 Dave Smith undertakes to track criminal Cassius Harding to Kansas. The man now operates as Josh Hardton, successfully amassing thousands of acres through a cunningly engineered river bed diversion and a bribed resurvey. Landowners are angry at losing valuable land through clever manipulation and outright fraud, and a shooting war threatens. Dave resolves to work smarter than his previous encounter with Hardton. Dave has several run-ins with Lucy Allen, Hardton's fiancée. Her perturbed reaction is to use a gun against Dave's reprehensible behavior. Her vow is to kill him the next time. With proof developed against Hardton, Dave waits to build legal action, but Hardton retaliates with night raiders against the very landowners who protested. The raiders wound Dave, forcing him to seek aid. Lucy Allen suddenly controls the situation. The real threat is that she will turn him over to Hardton's gang. Dave must save both their lives and he initiates altering the Allen woman's outlook, telling her all of the things she hates to hear. Confronted with Hardton, she delivers the lie that sends away the menacing gang. Dave successfully averts a stage holdup by Hardton's gang to silence a government investigator. During the melee, Dave captures Hardton. Lucy Allen blames Dave Smith for her failed life opportunity. Dave realizes Lucy Allen attitude needs adjusted. He sets about doing just that, and in the process discovers Lucy Allen is an extremely complicated young woman. Over struggles to plan a new life, Dave learns his deceased father has engineered one last humiliation. Disinclined to accept revenge from the grave, Dave cuts off the beginning of a warm relationship with Lucy Allen, and disappears, heading back to his old fugitive existence. As once sworn enemies the two collide, hurling words of recrimination, only to reach the end of reckoning in a surprising conclusion.

Download or read book Mister Right written by Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the terrific trio and inseparable college roommates, Freddy Forest, Jack Scratch and Ermine Tuft ducked graduation ceremonies at the University of Midland so they could set off without delay to romance the universe. After all, what's an education for?

Download or read book The Checker Board Book I The Life Game Begins written by Nedler Palaz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880 West Texas, Dave Smith seeks a way to stay alive after choosing to run away from a family scandal in St. Louis. Dave encounters drunken Red Talbot and learns a hard knock lesson in a one sided fistfight. Pinto Larson, wily owner of The Checker Board ranch, believes Dave Smith can become a seasoned drover with training from Sam Eagle Feather, the Cheyenne Indian adopted by Pinto. While the two are at a remote line camp, they rescue a battered woman. Sam acknowledges he has feelings for the woman and takes her to safety. Ignoring laws relating to Indians, trouble develops for both of them when crazed Red Talbot calls out Sam in a fatal fight in which Dave makes a deadly decision. Through a series of lethal encounters, Dave becomes a gun hand under the tutelage of Pinto Larson, who had plied the trade in his youth before settling down to ranching. Dolores Alconda, an orphan from Santa Fe, now the schoolteacher in the village of San Miguel, finds an extraordinary affinity with Dave's own self elected banishment from family. Together they form a loving relationship and plan a wedding, expecting to settle and prosper on a small cattle holding provided by Pinto Larson. Life's game of luck is fleeting.

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Download or read book A Checkered Past written by William Van Poyck and published by 1st Book Library. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cataclysmic events set the stage for the formation of an unlikely partnership that will bend the course of history. In China a brutal attack by a rampaging warlord sends a rich young couple on a desperate voyage where they become targets of the Tong Of The Black Hand. Meanwhile, a half-dead Yankee officer escapes from a notorious Confederate prison and returns to his ranch and the arms of his raven haired wife, a beauty in bootpants. Fate, destiny, or maybe just pure accident will soon bring Malcolm and Steffi Frazier and Ben Wang and Su Chang together. Events unfold rapidly when copper prices skyrocket. Bank stock in an Arizona mining venture becomes available to Ben and his banker when the mine owners are gunned down. The bankers wife is murdered during a kidnapping in which Su Chang is captured by the Tong and taken to Colorado. Malcolm leads a high mountain rescue attempt and Steffi gains heroine status when forced into a gunbattle with rustlers, actions which endear them to Ben Wang who now controls the mining stock. In this fast paced thinking person's thriller, the reader is swept up in blazing action occurring in China, Kansas, Colorado, Mexico, and Arizona, and is treated to a rare look into the financial pressures and strategies to be dealt with as our heroes prepare to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: The quest for the untold riches of the Rose Pit Mine. It all welds a colorful cast of never-to-be-forgotten characters together in a saga which will enrich the reader from beginning to end. BLACK HAND OVER KANSAS-the first in a series of three books-stands alone. It can be enjoyed singly, or, if the reader is caught up in the adventure, THE JOURNADA DEL MUERTO and THE VICTORS will be available for publication soon.

Download or read book Rills from the Fountain of Wisdom or the Book of Proverbs Arranged and Illustrated written by William M. Engles and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.