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Book Science fiction  the Early Years

Download or read book Science fiction the Early Years written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

Book Frank Reade  Jr   and His New Steam Man  or  the Young Inventor   s Trip to the Far West

Download or read book Frank Reade Jr and His New Steam Man or the Young Inventor s Trip to the Far West written by Luis Senarens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Man, or, the Young Inventor’s Trip to the Far West by Luis Senarens

Book The Frank Reade Library

Download or read book The Frank Reade Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Hurrah of the James Younger Gang

Download or read book The Last Hurrah of the James Younger Gang written by Robert Barr Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.

Book Two in the Field

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darryl Brock
  • Publisher : North Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 1583943900
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Two in the Field written by Darryl Brock and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball-loving time traveler Sam Fowler returns for another heart-pounding through America’s past in this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back The year is 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Once again, time traveler Sam Fowler falls in with ballplayers, but then spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of Caitlin, the woman he loves. His knight-like, hazardous quest forces him to ride the rails with tramps, deal with starving miners and the desperate Molly Maguires, work in a Saratoga casino, venture into the Nebraska prairies—and even encounter author Mark Twain. In the end, Sam will have to head into the Black Hills accompanied by Cait, a former slave, and a Sioux guide to face the ultimate reckoning of his life. Like its predecessor, Two in the Field combines authentic research (including accurate details of early baseball), a narrative filled with twists and turns, and memorable characters in a white-knuckle ride through a dramatic period of American history.

Book Jesse James Was His Name

    Book Details:
  • Author : William A. Settle
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803258600
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Jesse James Was His Name written by William A. Settle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesse James," said Carl Sandburg, "is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this country what Robin Hood or Dick Turpin is to England, whose exploits are so close to the mythical and apocryphal." For this definitive study no significant source of information concerning Jesse James and his brother Frank has been neglected, and from it emerges resolution of the debated point: "Were the Jameses common criminals or gallant Robin Hoods?"

Book Stephen Crane

Download or read book Stephen Crane written by Paul Sorrentino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Crane’s short, compact life—“a life of fire,” he called it—is surrounded by myths, distortions, and fabrications. Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane’s footsteps. The result is the most accurate account of the poet and novelist to date.

Book Frank Reade and His Steam Team

Download or read book Frank Reade and His Steam Team written by Luis Senarens and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gilded Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles William Calhoun
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780742550384
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Charles William Calhoun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.

Book Patterns of American Popular Heroism

Download or read book Patterns of American Popular Heroism written by James G. Shoopman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American popular hero has deeply bipolar origins: Depending on prevailing attitudes about the use or abuse of authority, American heroes may be rooted in the traditions of the Roman conquerors of The Aeneid or of the biblical underdog warriors and prophets. This book reviews the history of American popular culture and its heroes from the Revolutionary War and pre-Civil War "women's literature" to the dime novel tales of Jesse James and Buffalo Bill. "Hinge-heroes" like The Virginian and the Rider's of the Purple Sage paved the way for John Wayne's and Humphrey Bogart's champions of civilization, while Jimmy Stewart's scrappy rebels fought soulless bankers and cynical politicians. The 1960s and 1970s saw a wave of new renegades--the doctors of MASH and the rebel alliance of Star Wars--but early 21st Century terrorism called for the grit of world weary cops and the super-heroism of Wonder Woman and Black Panther to make the world safe.

Book Frank Reade and His Steam Team

Download or read book Frank Reade and His Steam Team written by and published by . This book was released on 1894* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dime Novel Detective

Download or read book The Dime Novel Detective written by Gary Hoppenstand and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.

Book Frank Reade  Jr  and His New Steam Man

Download or read book Frank Reade Jr and His New Steam Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1894* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories

Download or read book Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lansdale shows himself at the top of his form in this varied collection with something to suit every reader's taste.