Download or read book Pinebox Collins written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER When Jonathon “Pinebox” Collins loses his right foot and lower leg to a cannonball in his first Civil War battle, the course of his life is forever changed. While recuperating, he learns The Dismal Trade of undertaking, the emerging art of arterial embalming, and coffin construction. His first customer is the victim of Wild Bill Hickok’s first showdown, and Collins crosses paths with the legendary gunfighter—and occasionally his victims—across the Old West. Lost love, monotony, and violence at the hands of men and Mother Nature repeatedly put the young undertaker on the road in pursuit of new places and new opportunities across the Western frontier. Violence is always there to greet him and there is never a shortage of clientele. Old West legends Phil Coe, John Wesley Hardin, Jim Levy, Porter Rockwell, Colorado Charley Utter, and Calamity Jane come and go in the life of Pinebox Collins, but death is ever-present. Often avoided and sometimes shunned owing to his practice of The Dismal Trade, Pinebox Collins learns to drink alone. Love eludes him and friends are hard to come by. His recurring acquaintance with Wild Bill proves the most lasting, even after Hickok is in the ground.
Download or read book Rawhide Robinson Rides a Dromedary written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER “Miller’s solid historical research is bound to win him a lifetime of dedicated fans . . . and I am one of those fans.”—Loren D. Estleman, author of The Ballad of Black Bart RAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES A DROMEDARY: THE TRUE TALE OF A WILD WEST CAMEL CABALLERO Rawhide Robinson sails across the sea to help the Army acquire camels for military service in the desert Southwest. With Major Benjamin Wayne and Ensign Ian Scott, our ordinary cowboy teams up with camel trainer Harry and his precocious orphaned niece Hurry to fight off the evil Hasan Hussein and his henchman Balaban to fulfill their mission. Back in America, the ungainly camels cause nothing but upheaval. Army and civilian packers claim the camels are no match for their mules, and a desert challenge is mounted. Will Harry and Hurry and Rawhide Robinson convince the army that camels are the way to go? Find out as an ordinary cowboy becomes a camel caballero.
Download or read book A Thousand Dead Horses written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER It is 1840. The fur trade has all but ended and trappers in Taos feel the pinch. With a band of Ute Indians, they follow the Old Spanish Trail to California to steal horses and mules, then return and reap the profits in Santa Fe. The unprecedented raid results in the theft of some 3,000 animals. Daniel Boone Pickens, a young man on the run from the law in Missouri and in search of a future, signs on for the adventure. Nooch, a young Ute, follows the leader of his band to prove his worth as a warrior. A young vaquero from California, Juan Medina, finds himself involved more from circumstance than choice. Along the trail, the young men forge bonds that surpass race and culture as they face hunger and thirst, fire and flood, bullet and blade. And together they grieve the deaths of more than a thousand of the stolen horses and mules on a mad dash across the dry and desolate Mojave Desert. Based on the real-life exploits of mountain men “Pegleg” Smith, “Old Bill” Williams, and Jim Beckwourth with Ute leader Wakara, A Thousand Dead Horses dramatizes conflicts in the evolving Old West.
Download or read book Justice and Mercy written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER Justice Payne built a town on an island in a river. He owns all the land and buildings as well as many of the businesses that occupy the buildings, and collects rent and taxes from the others. As self-appointed judge, mayor, tax assessor, and holder of every other office of note, Justice controls all aspects of life in his town. Most accept the situation, if grudgingly. All, that is, except for Mercy O’Malley, owner and madam of a profitable brothel on the island. Justice and Mercy are often at odds. He suspects her of short-changing him financially and she resents his autocratic highhanded manner. Mercy foments a strike and a revolt, demanding elections. Will Justice prevail? Will Mercy? Follow the rollicking conflict through the pages of Justice and Mercy.
Download or read book Tomahawk written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE RANGE KING WAS DEAD—NOW THE GRASS WAR WAS STARTING Guy Van Horn had built Tomahawk Ranch by his own harsh strength and his unbending will. Now he was dead, and the Salt Creek settlers—desperate for grass and water—were ready to move in. Only the old man's three sons could stop them. But Matt Van Horn was cautious, a man without much physical courage. Billy was a scared kid, still in his teens. Kirk Van Horn was still young and unproved when the showdown came. And so most of the Tomahawk men chose to draw their pay and ride over the hill. Now Kirk Van Horn, with a handful of loyal riders, faced the task of leading the shrunken Tomahawk forces against an invading rangeland army—the desperate settlers who had to win or die.
Download or read book Cold as the Clay written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER Orphaned, homeless, and on the verge of manhood, Wilson Hayes finds refuge in the employ of powerful rancher Jesse Longmore. Cowboy skills, tenacity, and grit propel the young man’s rise to a powerful position on the Fishhook Ranch and membership in the family—but Longmore’s belief that he has become a threat results in his driving Hayes away and into the uncomfortable company of an outlaw band and then a rival rancher. Follow Wilson Hayes on an empire-building quest of biblical proportions as he seeks a way home to the Fishhook. “Rod Miller has been taking home those Spur Awards, and it’s no small wonder. He’s a cowboy who writes like one, and even talks like one. But he’s got a real grip on the genre with Cold as the Clay. Don’t read it in an isolated line shack, it’s a tough story by a master storyteller.” —Dusty Richards, Western Writers Hall of Fame author
Download or read book Father unto Many Sons written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, ROD MILLER Is Lee Pate a man of principle or a misguided dreamer? Troubled by the institution of slavery, he uproots his family—wife, Sarah, and sons, Richard, Melvin, and Abel—without notice and heads west. Lee sends his sons back to Tennessee on a quest that will change the relationship between the brothers forever. In Fort Smith, the Pate family meets the Lewises, a Mormon family fleeing persecution in Missouri. Together, they follow a barely explored trail to the Mexican Province of New Mexico. The travelers face many difficulties, but family struggles prove the most formidable obstacle. Testing the strength of family ties, Father unto Many Sons tells a story as old as time in a new country.
Download or read book Rawhide Robinson Rides the Tabby Trail written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER PEACEMAKER WINNER RAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES THE TABBY TRAIL: THE TRUE TALE OF A WILD WEST CATASTROPHE A Spur Award–winning series: Babysitting a herd of beeves on a train bound for Chicago, Rawhide Robinson reads about a rat infestation in Tombstone and hatches a plan for another astonishing adventure. All along the way Rawhide holds the enterprise together, and regales his drovers―and anybody else who will listen―with campfire tales of insane exploits and escapades experienced elsewhere during his extraordinary cowboy career on the western frontier.
Download or read book Rawhide Robinson Rides a Wormhole written by ROD MILLER and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Forget Pecos Bill, Deadwood Dick, and even Buffalo Bill. Rawhide Robinson tops them all.”—Johnny D. Boggs, Western Writers Hall of Fame author RAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES A WORMHOLE: The True Tale of Bravery and Daring in the Weird West Extraordinary things often happen to ordinary cowboy Rawhide Robinson. While riding herd on a ranch in the remote Nevada desert, a lightning strike zaps him into the middle of the twentieth century and the middle of Area 51, a top-secret experimental airbase where strange things are said to happen. A chance encounter with Eric, a young teenager, helps the discombobulated cowboy escape the clutches of military police, the CIA, and local law enforcement, and gets him mixed up in a kidnapping by Las Vegas mobsters. All the while, Rawhide Robinson entertains with his signature tall tales as he wonders if he will ever get out of the modern world and back to the Old West. “Move over Pecos Bill. Step aside Bunyan, and take that mangy blue ox with you. There’s a new man riding the range, a teller of tales as tall as the Rocky Mountains and as slick as a goose on grease. His name is Rawhide Robinson.” —Michael Zimmer, Wrangler and Spur Award-winning author
Download or read book All My Sins Remembered written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER On a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude and coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor boorish and vulgar. Travelers are few and far between, and almost all must stop for water—which comes at a price. A mounted mail carrier who visits the roadhouse with some regularity suspects there is more to the place than meets the eye, and he comes to believe that for some travelers the roadhouse is the end of the road… All My Sins Remembered is destined to join the ranks of the frontier classic. Here is suspense as taut as freshly strung barbed wire, rock-solid period detail, and an emotional roller-coaster ride set against a West that is both historically accurate and stunningly immediate. Rod Miller does what only a handful of writers have ever done: make you care about (and even perhaps root for) an astonishingly evil man. —Loren D. Estleman Western Writers Hall of Fame author One of the more powerfully haunting novels to come along in years, Miller’s All My Sins Remembered stands shoulder to shoulder with such literary classics as Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. A brutal, beautifully rendered masterpiece, guaranteed to stay with you long after the last page is turned. —Michael Zimmer Winner of the Spur Award and Western Heritage Wrangler Award It is not by chance that Rod Miller has taken his title, All My Sins Remembered, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet for this novel. Comparable to the Bard, his book is about madness—with Biblical dimensions. —True West magazine
Download or read book The Trouble Kid written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser Curt Curran was a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. His boss sent him out to investigate the case of Gordy Morgan, a kid who had disappeared after killing the son of a powerful and unscrupulous man. Now Gordy was wanted by both sides of the law. In a desperate race against time and hired guns, Curt is determined to get to Gordy first and see that he gets justice—whatever that might be!
Download or read book The Diablo Ghost written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GHOST WALKED THE STREETS OF DIABLO AND FOUR MEN WHERE DOOMED TO DIE They lynched an innocent man—and paid a terrible price! The day after the most horrible killing in Diablo, the lynch mob strung up an innocent man. The Sheriff was helpless against them. But now the men responsible are dying, one by one and no one knows who's doing the killing. Is it a ghost?—or a cold-blooded killer? Sheriff Bill Dawson must find out, or he'll be next!
Download or read book Rawhide Robinson Rides the Range written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER RAWHIDE ROBINSON RIDES THE RANGE: TRUE ADVENTURES OF BRAVERY AND DARING IN THE WILD WEST Was Rawhide Robinson really there when the Grand Canyon came to be? Is he responsible for Pikes Peak? And how about riding horseback to Hawaii? Although an ordinary cowboy in every respect, Rawhide Robinson lays claim to these extraordinary accomplishments, and more. While on a trail drive from Texas to Dodge City, he regales his cowboy companions with campfire tales that entertain and amuse, inspire awe, and invite skepticism. Saddle up and ride along. Then, at the end of the day, after a cowboy supper of beans, bacon, biscuits, and scalding coffee, sit back and relax around the campfire while Rawhide Robinson launches into another extraordinary—and true—adventure of bravery and daring in the Wild West.
Download or read book OUTLAWMAN written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLEROUTLAWMAN: The Life and Times of Matt Warner Matt Warner was an outlaw. And a lawman. In a word, an outlawman. Once among the most notorious bandits in the Old West, riding with Butch Cassidy and other famous outlaws, Warner was wanted for crimes across the Southwest, the Northwest, and the Mountain West. After serving time on overblown charges following a shootout, Warner changed his prison stripes for a badge and served as a town marshal, justice of the peace, and deputy sheriff. Whether wearing a black hat, a white hat, or some shade of gray, Warner outlived the Old West but never abandoned its wild and wooly ways. Follow the trail through Brown’s Hole, Robbers Roost, and other outlaw enclaves as a mysterious old man tells the outlawman’s story in a rundown barroom once owned by Matt Warner himself.
Download or read book Soldiers of Conquest written by F.M. Parker and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, comrades in arms in the Mexican-American War 1846–1848. President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Winfield Scott to invade Mexico at Veracruz and march inland and capture Mexico City. Mexico controlled much of what is now the southwestern part of the United States and California. Scott arrives at Veracruz with 100 ships crowded with 9,000 soldiers and the tools of war, cannon, muskets and cavalry mounts. Among the soldiers are Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant and Captain Robert E. Lee. Grant, 24 years old, is a hardened combat veteran from fighting with General Taylor in northern Mexico. Lee, 40 years old, is untested in battle. Both men desire grade and glory and it is during war that these can be won if a man acted bravely. General Scott lands his army upon the hostile Mexican shore. After a heavy bombardment of Veracruz, the Americans capture the city. Scott waits for the reinforcements that President Polk had promised. When they do not arrive and his men begin to die from yellow fever, Scott severs his link with the States and his supply base at Veracruz and marches his small army into the mountains. He must capture Mexico City lying in the center of the nation of seven million inhabitants. He will lead his men to victory or death. General Santa Anna is waiting with an army of 30,000 soldiers to annihilate the small force of invading Americans.
Download or read book Not Fit to Print written by Greg Hunt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his murder, meek, retiring Edwin Raines secretly wove a complicated tapestry of false identities and unexplained activities that even his widow is at a loss to understand. When magazine publisher Danny Skerett begins looking into the curious, covert life that his friend Edwin led before his death, he is drawn into an investigation that ultimately leads to revelations of murder, arson, fraud, drug trafficking, adultery, and an extremely inconvenient illegitimate child.
Download or read book Silver Screen Cowboy written by Rod Miller and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER Latigo Brown is a cowboy. A real cowboy, not like those TV and movie cowboys who ride everywhere at a high lope firing off six-shooters and hardly ever come into contact with a cow. But he finds himself lured to Hollywood by a rodeo hero, where he unexpectedly becomes a box-office star. Amidst the glitter and glamour of the movie business, he still harbors resentment for the way he—and other cowboys—are portrayed. Will Latigo Brown swallow his pride and pocket the money? Will the starlets, the luxuries, the acclaim, the big bucks turn his head? Or will the lure of the ranch and rodeo arena and real cowboys overcome all that?
