Download or read book Invite to A Showdown written by Terrell Bowers and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a bizarre double killing forces her into exile, Rowena Jansen is living like a hermit in Keylock, Colorado, and concentrating only on survival. Travis Clay went off to war and witnessed the terrible suffering of men and his country. Afterwards, he joined his friend to work on a ranch, but when a deadly ambush costs Clay a herd of cattle and leaves him near death, he sets out to find the men responsible. Inadvertently ending up in Keylock, his fate is joined with that of Rowena. Four men are searching for her, intent on a killing, while Travis is on the trail of five or six murdering rustlers. The only way to win such a war is to invite both sides to a showdown.

Download or read book Showdown written by Thomas Smith and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961—as America crackled with racial tension—the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year history of the franchise, no African American had ever played for George Preston Marshall, the Redskins’ cantankerous principal owner. With slicked-down white hair and angular facial features, the nattily attired, sixty-four-year-old NFL team owner already had a well-deserved reputation for flamboyance, showmanship, and erratic behavior. And like other Southern-born segregationists, Marshall stood firm against race-mixing. “We’ll start signing Negroes,” he once boasted, “when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.” But that was about to change. Opposing Marshall was Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, whose determination that the Redskins—or “Paleskins,” as he called them—reflect John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier ideals led to one of the most high-profile contests to spill beyond the sports pages. Realizing that racial justice and gridiron success had the potential either to dovetail or take an ugly turn, civil rights advocates and sports fans alike anxiously turned their eyes toward the nation’s capital. There was always the possibility that Marshall—one of the NFL’s most influential and dominating founding fathers—might defy demands from the Kennedy administration to desegregate his lily-white team. When further pressured to desegregate by the press, Marshall remained defiant, declaring that no one, including the White House, could tell him how to run his business. In Showdown, sports historian Thomas G. Smith captures this striking moment, one that held sweeping implications not only for one team’s racist policy but also for a sharply segregated city and for the nation as a whole. Part sports history, part civil rights story, this compelling and untold narrative serves as a powerful lens onto racism in sport, illustrating how, in microcosm, the fight to desegregate the Redskins was part of a wider struggle against racial injustice in America.

Download or read book The Final Showdown written by Pat Garrett Jr and published by Wildwest Press Co. This book was released on with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bill Boone and Neva Winters found each other, it seemed as if a generations long feud had finally ended. Then the elder Boone and Winters were found where they’d shot it out, and peal of weddings bells changed to the whine of bullets and moans of dying men...

Download or read book Black Mesa written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turnbaugh gave a dark chuckle. ‘‘You lawdogs and your badges,’’ he said, ‘‘you’re worse than priests with their crosses.’’ He shook his head. ‘‘I never could understand why a little ornament like that makes such a difference to yas.’’ ‘‘I don’t expect you would,’’ said Sam. He paused, took a breath and gave another glance at either end of the bar. Here goes, he said to himself, hoping he’d given Maria enough time to get into position near the empty window frame to back him up. But there was no time to wonder about it now. ‘‘I’m taking you to Fort Smith, Turnbaugh,’’ he said. Turnbaugh gave another dark chuckle. ‘‘Are you now?’’ he said in a cocky tone, as if it were all a joke. ‘‘Care to hear some numbers on how many twobit lawmen like you has tried that same thing?’’ ‘‘The numbers don’t matter,’’ said Sam, barely shaking his head. ‘‘You’re going with me. Don’t make me kill you.’’ *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Sabio's Redemption at the end of this book.

Download or read book Valeron s Range written by Terrell L Bowers and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, three Valeron brothers brought their families to an untamed wilderness at the Colorado-Wyoming border. Fifteen years later, they had carved out an empire, complete with cattle, mining, a mill, and the nearby town named after them. When Scarlet Valeron, poised to be married in Pueblo, Colorado, is kidnapped and her betrothed killed, a desperate call goes out to the Valeron family. Brothers, cousins, and hired help unite in an effort to find her and bring her back. They learn Scarlet is on her way to Brimstone, a bandit stronghold of over a hundred gunmen and outlaws. Most men would look at the incredible odds and figure Scarlet was lost forever. The Valeron’s, however, see it as a matter of family honour to get their kin back, and settle the score!

Download or read book Badman s Bordello written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bordello Backshooter written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN… WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW—AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! A MYSTERIOUS MADAM DECIDES THAT BOLT NEEDS A GOOD LICKING! Nobody—not even Jared Bolt—has ever seen the face of curvaceous Cherry Bonner, the mysterious madam who runs Cherry's Jubilee, the bawdiest bordello in Cheyenne. Al Cripps works for Cherry but he's a pimp with big ideas and a terrible temper. And when Bolt keeps Cripps from having his way with the bountiful Miss Bonner, gunfire flares and a gambling man would bet on murder: Bolt's! Then, as if his running war with Cripps wasn't enough, things really get sticky when sweet, ripe Cherry gets mad and decides that what Bolt needs is a good licking!

Download or read book The Last Bordello written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Search for Montana Red written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ranger Lives for the Hunt - The Outlaw Lives for the Killing - Now They Are About to Come Face to Face at Last. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a man of courage with a lightning-quick draw. His goal is swift justice, and his aim is as sure as death. With a .58 caliber rifle behind his saddle and a list of outlaws next to his heart, he tracks his prey relentlessly, alone, and to the bitter end. No one under the badlands sun would put the Ranger’s skills to the test like Montana Red Hollis, a man more brutal than any beast and more cunning than any desperado the Ranger has ever hunted. No one is safe from the wrath of Montana Red and, until the Ranger took up the search, no one was brave enough to stop him. Now, on the high badlands where the fastest gun rules and only the strongest survive, a bloodthirsty killer is about to meet his match. From master storyteller Ralph Cotton comes an extraordinary story about lawmen and the lawless—and of gun justice in the rugged American West.

Download or read book Hopi Runners written by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesas—and when they won footraces, they received rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture. The book places Hopi long-distance runners within the larger context of American sport and identity from the early 1880s to the 1930s, a time when Hopis competed simultaneously for their tribal communities, Indian schools, city athletic clubs, the nation, and themselves. Author Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert brings a Hopi perspective to this history. His book calls attention to Hopi philosophies of running that connected the runners to their villages; at the same time it explores the internal and external forces that strengthened and strained these cultural ties when Hopis competed in US marathons. Between 1908 and 1936 Hopi marathon runners such as Tewanima, Zeyouma, Franklin Suhu, and Harry Chaca navigated among tribal dynamics, school loyalties, and a country that closely associated sport with US nationalism. The cultural identity of these runners, Sakiestewa Gilbert contends, challenged white American perceptions of modernity, and did so in a way that had national and international dimensions. This broad perspective linked Hopi runners to athletes from around the world—including runners from Japan, Ireland, and Mexico—and thus, Hopi Runners suggests, caused non-Natives to reevaluate their understandings of sport, nationhood, and the cultures of American Indian people.

Download or read book Hot on the Warpath written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Garrett s Trail To Justice written by Terrell Bowers and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dayton Garrett is something of a trouble-shooter, often taking on hard or dangerous jobs. His brother offers to help with his most recent problem, but the aid comes at a price. Soon, a simple child recovery escalates and ends up angering the family who run the town of Shilo. Dayton then finds himself drawn into a second battle, this time against the most powerful family in Larkinville. Kidnappers, slavery, and guarding a condemned prisoner, while facing off against deadly killers from two different towns who want him dead - it could be that Dayton has finally taken on more than any one man can handle. However, Dayton has never quit a job until it is done. He battles the odds, no matter how great, until he wins the fight ...or dies trying.

Download or read book Hard in the Saddle written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Showdown at Viking Cave written by Clifford Blair and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Saddler was a former deputy marshal trying to build up his small Oklahoma farm when Professor Trevor Hastings made him a proposition. The archaeologist would pay a fee if Wayne would serve as a guide. Unfortunately, before meeting Wayne, Hastings had tried to hire the unsavory Girt Tannery who was convinced that the professor was on a trail of buried loot. As they ascended the mountain, Wayne's instincts took over. He was certain they were being watched. Was it Girt or another variety of human predator? Large print