Download or read book Devil s Hatband written by Robert Greer and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughter of a black federal judge gets carried away with her militant environmentalism, Denver bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter C.J. Floyd is hired to retrieve her. But when C.J. finds her, she's been strangled with barbed wire.
Download or read book Devil s Hatband written by Daniel Aragón y Ulibarrí and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Built in Texas written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud.
Download or read book The Devil s Backbone written by Robert Greer and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only black Pro-Rodeo Hall of Famer has just been killed with a branding iron. When a simple clue leads C.J. up to the barren mountain peaks of Devil's Backbone, he ends up on a lethal trail of diamonds, greed, jealousy, and murder.
Download or read book The Devil s Laughter written by William W. Johnstone and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something funny’s going on in Louisiana’s backwoods . . . Someone in LaGrange has stirred up something truly evil. From beyond, demonic messengers emerge out of the fires of Hell itself, to ignite an orgy of chaos, murder, and bloody destruction. But the Devil was the only one laughing . . . Town veterinarian Link Donovan (former CIA) and Sheriff Ray Ingalls have grave premonitions that the ungodly laughter they heard echoing through the woods meant this was only the beginning. Once they root out the rich folk whose meddling released the minions of Satan, they recruit a band of God-fearing locals like themselves ready to battle—and obliterate—whatever face of evil dares to cross their paths.
Download or read book The Devil s Red Nickel written by Robert Greer and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a beautiful woman hires CJ Floyd to look into the death of her famed DJ father, CJ soon discovers that the death of "Daddy Doo-Wop" is part of a bigger story, one that reaches back to Chicago in the fifties when the Mob called the tune. From payola to paychecks, from the dirtiest of deals to some old tapes that still might be worth gold, CJ stumbles into a world where a great melody can lead to a deadly refrain, and where someone has a murderous hit parade of his own.
Download or read book The Devil s Hatband written by Hugh A MacLean and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme: How he bears himself among others is the gauge of a man¡¦s worth to himself. Michael O¡¦Rourke, a young Texan, in 1876, is fleeing back into the United States from Mexico where he has been a fugitive after his home in Texas was destroyed and his family massacred during the Civil War. He intends to head west vowing to bury his painful years as a refugee in Mexico where as a teenager he learned quick that three things kept you alive: liquor, women, and a fast gun. Now a man in his twenties he loathes that life and swears once more to live by the creed his grandmother¡Xshe who raised him when his mother died young¡Xwho had drilled into him ¡§how you bear yourself among others is a gage of a man¡¦s worth to himself. He crosses the border into the USA near Nogales where camped in the desert one night he is unexpectedly accosted by territorial Sheriff George Burly, searched by Faro, Burly¡¦s cohort, accused of theft because of three pieces of gold found on him, and thrown in jail in the small town of Soda Springs charged with robbery of Don Carlos a local Spanish grandee. In an attempt to break jail O¡¦Rourke assaults the Sheriff¡¦s deputy but the escape effort fails and O¡¦Rourke¡¦s life is saved by Don ga Inez Sheriff Burly¡¦s common-law wife. Don ga Inez has a small son, Eduardo. Don Carlos¡¦ entourage enters Soda Springs joining the already early morning arrivals from around the country who have come to see the hanging. The grandee, an aged Spaniard of pure blood and a Patro gn, is in truth a relic of the splendid days past but still respected and a large land owner. Don Carlos¡¦s wife Rose who was home when the robbery took place examines O¡¦Rourke, says he is not the thief. O¡¦Rourke is stunned to see that Rose is an Anglo his own age, and he is strongly drawn to her. The Sheriff, infuriated, tells Rose she is mistaken, that O¡¦Rourke is the thief. Don Carlos now also suggests O¡¦Rourke is innocent. A bullheaded man who has always believed in the simplicity of black and white and cannot change, the Sheriff draws his revolver to force O¡¦Rourke to confess. This act throws the situation into disorder and on signal from Don Carlos a knife thrown by Ramo gn his foreman, drives the Sheriff¡¦s shot wild, wounding one of Rose¡¦s carriage horses. Quick action by O¡¦Rourke prevents a carriage disaster. Don Carlos orders young vaquero Jose g to shoot the wounded horse, but Jose g refuses; punishment is ordered for disobeying by his father Ramo gn but Don Carlos says, ¡§No, Ramo gn, that one has the kindness of his dead mother in his heart, let him keep it he will lose it soon enough.¡¨ Don Carlos, to show his gratitude, invites O¡¦Rourke to supper at the local hotel. Since a sand storm looms, O¡¦Rourke goes first to the stable to look after his horse. There, Captain Sean Gaylord, commanding a cavalry troop, is just arriving ahead of the storm. Captain Gaylord is a Civil War veteran, a southerner who, though he fought for the north, is now banished to the western frontier. During his association with this officer O¡¦Rourke is soon to learn that the true measure of this man with his soldier¡¦s stance, his swagger stick, his corrupt ideas of honor, his florid rhetoric, is that he can instantly command the respect of the west¡¦s violent frontiersmen. Gaylord now demands exclusive use of the stable for his horses. O¡¦Rourke refuses to move his horse and a confrontation results that shows the fast draw of O¡¦Rourke¡Xwhich puts the mark of a gunslinger on him again, a mark he hates. Everyone in town takes refuge in the local hotel from the sandstorm. There, Gaylord offers O¡¦Rourke safe conduct from the town if he, O¡¦Rourke, will agree to help Gaylord in a shady deal. O¡¦Rourke spurns Gaylord¡¦s offer. Sanchea, a foreman of Don Carlos, battered by the sand storm, staggers into the hotel and before dying tells of an attack by Apaches on Vista Hermosa, Don Carlos¡¦ ranch. Don
Download or read book 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authorswithout any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
Download or read book Longarm in Devils River written by Tabor Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Download or read book American Mystery and Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
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Download or read book Pursuit Of The Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling series: Another man is about to learn what a mistake it is to draw on Smoke Jensen . . . Itching for a challenge, adventurer Count Frederick von Hausen has sailed from Germany and now intends to hunt down Smoke Jensen—after hearing that Smoke was considered the meanest, toughest man in the West. And with a party of the nastiest hardcases he can find, von Hausen shadows Smoke into Wyoming's high Rockies. But Smoke Jensen is the last mountain man, and he knows the country like the back of his hand. He also knows that these doomed backtrailers couldn't have picked a prettier place to be buried . . .
Download or read book A Dictionary of Catch Phrases written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Download or read book The Perfect Fence written by Lyn Ellen Bennett and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling range of meanings beyond the material facts of its construction. In The Perfect Fence, Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott explore the multiple uses and meanings of barbed wire, a technological innovation that contributes to America’s shift from a pastoral ideal to an industrial one. They survey the vigorous public debate over the benign or “infernal” fence, investigate legislative attempts to ban or regulate wire fences as a result of public outcry, and demonstrate how the industry responded to ameliorate the image of its barbed product. Because of the rich metaphorical possibilities suggested by a fence that controls through pain, barbed wire developed into an important motif in works of literature from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Early advertisements proclaimed that barbed wire was “the perfect fence,” keeping “the ins from being outs, and the outs from being ins.” Bennett and Abbott conclude that while barbed wire is not the perfect fence touted by manufacturers, it is indeed a meaningful thing that continues to influence American identities.
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Download or read book That Old Ace in the Hole written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man tryingto make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panahandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed first hand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.
Download or read book The Wild West written by Michael Wallis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively illustrated day-by-day adventure that tells the stories of pioneers and cowboys, gold rushes, and saloon shoot-outs on America’s frontier. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the lure of land rich in minerals, fertile for farming, and plentiful with buffalo bred an all-out obsession with heading westward. The Wild West: 365 Days takes you back to these booming frontier towns that became the stuff of American legend, breeding characters such as Butch Cassidy and Jesse James. Prize-winning journalist and historian Michael Wallis spins a colorful narrative, separating myth from fact, in 365 vignettes. Learn the stories of Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Annie Oakley; travel to the O.K. Corral and Dodge City; ride with the Pony Express; and witness the invention of the Colt revolver. Included throughout are images drawn from Robert G. McCubbin’s extensive collection of Western memorabilia, encompassing rare books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts, including Billy the Kid’s knife.
