Download or read book The Legend of Leadwood written by Joe Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen in as Marceau tries to convince a frightened, homeless girl that "just because you make something up doesn't mean that it didn't really happen!"

Download or read book Dusty written by Budd Nelson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rollicking Western Dusty begins in 1878 in Mills County, Texas, when two ranch hands come across a stranger at a campfire. They find out later that the man named Dusty had drawn them there to save their lives from Indians. Dusty Rhodes joins the men as they travel back to the ranch where they work. Dusty is known to the owner, and ends up taking a job for the rancher leading a cattle drive to Kansas. Along the way, there are storms and the herd is attacked by cattle rustlers, but Indians help Dusty and his men fight off the rustlers. Dusty meets a Mexican woman and the two fall in love and marry. Dusty returns from the cattle drive just as his wife is giving birth to their child. The sequel to this book is now being written, and takes up the story four years later.

Download or read book The Rebel written by D & D Books and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen year old Dusty Wilson had never been farther than a day's ride from father's horse ranch in west Texas. That is until a horse business transaction with a confederate army captain affords dusty the opportunity to travel a long way from home with his father ad stepbrothers. Dusty's arrangement goes bad . The young man experiences one life threatening encounter after another.

Download or read book Starlight Riders Boxed Set 50 Western Classics in One Edition written by Ernest Haycox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 5126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Haycox's 'Starlight Riders Boxed-Set' is a comprehensive collection of 50 Western classics in one edition, showcasing the author's prowess in the genre. Haycox's literary style is characterized by vivid descriptions, compelling character development, and fast-paced storytelling. The book transports readers to the wild frontier of the American West, where gunslingers, outlaws, and lawmen clash in epic showdowns, capturing the essence of the Western genre in all its glory. Each story is a gripping tale of adventure, honor, and justice, making it a must-read for fans of Western fiction. Haycox's ability to evoke the rugged landscape and rugged characters of the Old West sets his work apart in the realm of Western literature. The 'Starlight Riders Boxed-Set' is a testament to Haycox's enduring legacy as one of the finest Western writers of his time, making this collection a valuable addition to any Western enthusiast's library.

Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to be a Pony Express Rider written by Thomas M. Ratliff and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1860, and a new mail service from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, is starting up. Riders will have to cope with long hours in the saddle, floods, snow, outlaws, and even a brief war with Native Americans. Have you got what it takes? Does being a Ninja Warrior or a Pony Express Rider sound fun and exciting to you? Get ready to discover the not-so-pretty truth! In this lively series, YOU are the main character in some of history's goriest, darkest, and most horrific moments. Hilarious illustrations, captions, and sidebars leave no doubt that you simply wouldn't want to be there.

Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Download or read book The Last of the Wagon Pioneers written by John And Patty Probst and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last of the Wagon Pioneers, a bold story of the Trevor family's perilous journey in a chuck wagon from their farm in Texas to a new life out West.

Download or read book Silence written by Alan Scott and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide now is the eighth cause of death in the United States, yet it is discussed in hushed whispers or not at all. SILENCE is based, in part, on a true story about a wealthy, respected, successful family; what many of us would label the "perfect" family. On first blush, it appears to be a story about reversal of fortunes, but on deeper analysis it is about self-destructive personalities that lead to suicide. SUICIDE gives the viewing audience the chance to recognize the depths of these tragedies on small doses until they can get to the point of saying, "Suicide is not a personal tragedy but a family watershed." The guilt left behind immobilizes even the most stable families and leaves lifetime emotional scars. Suicide can be addressed when families grasp the warning signs; rage, hopelessness, loss of control and important feelings of coping with life. SILENCE ends by giving people a philosophy that is believed to be the germ of heading off suicide- "WE all have time to understand and know each other, but we don't.".

Download or read book The Life of Dan Rice written by Maria Ward Brown and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Riders From Long Pines written by Ralph Cotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four drovers stumble upon the bloody aftermath of a stagecoach robbery, they discover a hidden cache of money belonging to the most powerful man in the county. Briefly tempted to fill their saddlebags and run, they decide to do the right thing and return the cash. And that task may not be as easy as it sounds. Buckshot Parks, the outlaw responsible for the robbery, is dead-set on getting back his money, and he has a stolen badge to hide behind while he tracks the “thieves.” But there’s a real lawman on Buckshot's trail—Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. With his shotgun-toting partner, Maria, he’s determined to catch the outlaw and get to the drovers before they meet with serious harm for doing good.

Download or read book Yodelling Boundary Riders Country Music in Australia since the 1920s written by Toby Martin and published by Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book tells the story of one of the most enduring forms of popular culture in Australia. Prior to the 1950s, country music was called hillbilly music. Hillbilly was the rock ‘n’ roll of its day. The latest craze, straight from America, it was young, exciting and glamorous. This book traces the journey hillbilly took to become country: the rural nationalistic form it is known as today. Yodelling Boundary Riders is the first book to contextualise country music into a broader story about Australian history. Not just concerned with the development of music itself, it is also a history of the ways in which Australians have responded to the rapid rate of change in the twentieth century and the global fascination with “authenticity”. True to its subject matter, the writing is colourful and entertaining. Along the way Martin introduces some wonderful characters and events: yodelling stockmen, singing cowgirls, sentimental cowboys, coo-ees in Nashville, hobos on the mail train, the Sheik of Scrubby Creek and Australia’s craziest hillbillies.

Download or read book On the Big Wind written by David Madden and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subtitle of this little book is: "Seven Comic Episodes In the Fitful Rise of BIG BOB TRAVIS From Disc Jockey In an Eastern Kentucky Mountain Town To Network-Television News Reporter." And sure enough, Madden's new novel seems like an amalgamation of short stories--one appears in this year's Pushcart Prize collection (p. 556)--and again, as in Bijou and The Shadow Knows, his accurate, reportorial feel for popular culture is on display. Big Bob Travis spins country-and-western and talks dirty off-the-air with adventure-starved women (his wife for one). He does a remote from a recreational-vehicle dealership. He changes names as often as he does jobs. He oozes out on a for-women-only show: "This is Daryl Don Donovan, your secret admirer, waiting for your call on this moist blue August morning. Listen sweetheart, if you've got an interesting response to my little sally this morning--Who had the greatest impact on your life?--I'd love to hear about it, so snuggle down in the sofa and pick up that white, scented telephone and--Well, there you are, my darling."But no matter how phony Daryl/Bob is, the women who call in are just as lonely and sincere--and that paradox is the best material here. Unfortunately, though Bob does eventually become "David Epstein" of network-news fame, the book is shapeless: a pat string of radio vignettes, Madden's second recent novel (see Pleasure-Dome, 1979) to seem patched together rather than dipped and cast whole. Some fun, then, some impressive eye-and-ear observation too--but rather disappointing work from a writer whose best fiction (The Suicide's Wife, 1978) has promised a major talent in the making."--Kirkus

Download or read book Coulee written by J.C. CANTLE and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coulee the Growing Years by J. C. Cantle is a novel set in Billings, Montana, and surrounding country, including Northwestern Wyoming. Formed in the mid 1950s when your dollar was worth something and time and speed were much slower. The newest technology was television which for America began a cultural and value change. The Korean War had only ended a few years earlier; the G.I. Bill enabled those that wished to further their education to do so. Peace and prosperity flourished. It is a story about two brothers, Kipp, a high school teenager who is enamored by Native American culture and hot rod cars. Dakk, his older brother, having graduated high school, is trying to find what he is going to do with his life now that he is an adult. His love is horses and the cowboy way of life but is unsure that he wants to pursue it for the rest of his life. Both boys are now entering the passage of adulthood. To both, this is the season for the discovery of love, sex, danger and exploration. They discover growing into men the hard way, by getting into trouble and making mistakes, thus learning from them. As time grows on, each finds his fate in life.

Download or read book Horse Girls written by Halimah Marcus and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds. As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus’ imagination. When she wasn’t around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as “horse girls,” weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. Decades later, when memes about “horse girl energy,” began appearing across social media—Halimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders don’t fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion. Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literature—including Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney Maum—Horse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan. By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.

Download or read book Sydney s Passion written by Susie Wright and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one of Kentucky's most sought-after tracks for equestrian racers is a new rider that is taking the track by storm. Young teen Chase Payne has taken multiple wins and isn't showing any signs of backing down. But something proves to be quite different with him. Could an unexpected accident change his life, faith, and the racing world forever?

Download or read book The State Must Be Our Master of Fire written by Dennis C. Galvan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book Just Give Me 10 Minutes written by Gail Kirby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail has an incredible perspective as the mother of an injured Corpsman who suffers from PTSD. At the Armed Forces Foundation, we believe families serve too and Gails journey is one necessary to tell. When I first met Gail six years ago at Bethesda, I was immediately taken in by her warmth and generosity. Shes a natural and gifted storyteller who deserves far more than 10 minutes. Patricia Driscoll, President of the Armed Forces Foundation Christmas Day 2006. Dustin Edward Kirby was serving his second tour in Iraq. The dreaded phone call came; Dusty had received small arms enemy fire. This is a first-hand account of how this event changed Dustins life and the lives of his family, and their seven year struggle to understand not only the physical trauma inflicted by his injury, but also the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The physical impact of the injury was critical as the armor piercing bullet travelled through his face. The emotional and psychological impacts have been debilitating. This is the story of a family making every attempt to find a way to give their hero the reasons that he needs to live...every single day.