Download or read book Silver City Reckoning written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Toal returns home to discover that his sons have been taken by a brutal desperado who wants revenge for the death of his brother. Will’s foreman has been murdered, and his woman has already gone after the killer that has taken their boys. He heads out after them to set things straight. Just as things begin to look up for Will, he discovers that the woman he loves, the mother of his twin sons has been captured. Can he find her before she’s murdered? Will realizes he is not alone. He’ll do whatever it takes to protect his family, starting with killing Sam Brown. Hell is on the horizon. There will be a SILVER CITY RECKONING “…Crafts’ skillful integration of real-life characters into his narrative is a marvelous accomplishment. He keeps readers anxious as Will goes it alone until he suddenly doesn’t. Bursts of action and colorful characters make this outing a breathtaking ride through the Old West. One man’s crusade to save his family provides pulse-pounding adventure." —Kirkus Review

Download or read book RailRoaded written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Toal has seen a lot of the world in his twenty-three years, including war, the death of his family, and the loss of everything he owns. The gold his father left him, buried in the family graveyard, provides hope for a new future. He is determined to leave Georgia and the past behind him, and start fresh in Carson Valley, at the base of the mountainous Sierra Nevada bowl cradling Lake Tahoe. But here, Will comes up against a Goliath he never expected—Washington’s support of San Francisco capital and influence to finish the transcontinental railroad as soon as possible. Big business is backed by national pride and unbelievable monetary gain, and this means driving the railroad construction through the upper reaches of Carson Valley—no matter whose land stands in their way. Untenable right-of-way issues lead to a fierce gun battle between the railroad’s hired guns and the Carson Valley ranchers based on the real-life 1880 events of Mussel Slough, California, just outside the city of Hanford. Will and his fellow ranchers must try to survive the indomitable forces and insurmountable odds against them, fueled by more greed for power and money than they could ever have imagined. Can a compromise be reached in the completion of the grandest engineering effort the country has ever undertaken in its history, or will the ranchers and Will find themselves RAILROADED?

Download or read book Clear Cut Justice written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring 1876 . . . . When a bomb explodes and destroys a sawmill in Glenbrook Harbor, the residents and businessmen on the shores of Lake Tahoe are left reeling. Will Toal and his wife, Beth, are caught in the deadly, fiery fragments of the devastating explosion, and Beth is severely injured. Will gets Beth to the doctor and sets out to find those responsible. Once again, he is drawn back into the crosshairs of business barons clashing among themselves while competing for economic and political clout amid the sliver riches of the West. Will’s been in this position before in earlier days, but this time, the big company money is out to get him—and the things just got personal. Will just wants those who hurt Beth brought to justice, but he must find out who’s responsible for setting that blast—the first of many to come, if he figures right. With the timber business leveling the forests around Lake Tahoe, and the silver mines clamoring for the necessary wood, the arsonists could be working for anyone. Those who don’t believe in the deforestation process will go to any length to save the woodlands, but those who need the jobs lumbering provides are just as determined. Ina race against time, Will is forced to work with an old nemesis, private investigator Dale Paris, to try to stop the arsonists and save the sawmills from disaster. Can they stop the bloodshed? At any price, Will is determined to have CLEAR CUT JUSTICE . . . .

Download or read book Continental Reckoning written by Elliott West and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History 2024 Spur Award Winner Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.

Download or read book Silver City written by Rui Li and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life, and along the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the men and women of the founding era. But the book also demonstrates that domestic dramas--from unplanned pregnancies to untimely deaths--could be just as heartbreaking, significant, and inspiring as the actions of statesmen and soldiers. A special focus of the book is Adams's complex relationships: with her mother, sisters, and children; with her husband's famous contemporaries; and with Phoebe, one of her father's slaves. At the same time that John exhibited his own diplomatic skills on a better-known canvas, Abigail struggled to prevent the charitable gifts she gave her sisters from coming between them. In a departure from the persistently upbeat tone of most Adams biographies, Holton's work shows how frequently her life was marred by tragedy, making this the deepest, most humanistic portrayal ever published. Using the matchless trove of Adams family manuscripts, the author steps back to allow Abigail to respond to her many losses in her own words. Holton reveals that Abigail Adams sharply disagreed with her husband's financial decisions and assumed control of the family's money herself--earning them a tidy fortune through her shrewd speculations (this during a time when married women were not permitted to own property). And he shows that her commitment to women's equality and education was intense and explicitly expressed and practical, from the more than two thousand letters she wrote over her lifetime to her final will (written in defiance of legislation prohibiting married women from bequeathing property). Alternately witty, poignant, and uplifting, Holton's narrative sheds new light on one of America's best-loved but least-understood icons.

Download or read book Range War written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Toal had been told his entire family had been killed at the close of the Civil War. Here he finds out that was not entirely true. He has a sister that not only survived but has moved to Nevada not far from his ranch. But his sister has traveled with a beau who is determined to start ranching in the middle of Nevada’s open range. Across the west, large ranch owners had long standing permits to graze cattle on the same open stretches of public land available for homesteads. Those ranch owners let their cattle roam. Unbranded new calves, called mavericks, were collected only during spring roundups. However, homesteaders also collected these new foundlings viewed legally as “public property” in some states, yet the automatic property of stock growers associations in others. The combination of these competing legal and economic interests spanned the entire industry stoking the fires of anger, greed, politics, and the law. When his newly found sister finds herself threatened with the worst kind of violence, Will gets involved only to become a target himself. Wealthy ranch owners and hundreds of local townspeople square off. It takes the U.S. Military by order of the country’s President to separate the combatants. After the legal system could not provide a resolution, Will is forced to re-establish the simple principles of right and wrong and end the Range War himself.

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 The Burt Arthur Western MEGAPACK written by Burt Arthur and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burt Arthur (1899-1975), a longtime Chicago resident, wrote more than 100 novels over the course of his career, plus numerous radioplays and short stories. He also collaborated with his son, Budd Arthur, on westerns. We are pleased to present a collection of four of Burt Arthur's classic western novels in the MEGAPACKTM series. Included in this volume are: BOSS OF THE FAR WEST -- The rough-and-ready miners needed Reed McCandless and his Rangers to enforce law and order. But the crooked mine owner has his own idea of justice... FLAMING GUNS -- Meet "Mustang" Marshall, the man who stirred up the hottest hell-hole in the west! GUNSMOKE IN NEVADA -- Ex-Ranger Johnny Canavan was two hundred pounds of fighting man -- one hundred pounds to each fist. When he decided to clean up the town, the gang of gunslingers figured they'd better get a lot more muscle if they wanted to stop him... SILVER CITY RANGERS -- When a tall, lanky man named Marshall rode into town, he was just travelling through...until a sheriff's dead body stopped him... If you enjoy this volume of classic westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see all the other entries in this series, covering classic and historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries -- and much, much more!

Download or read book The Estelusti Trail written by Roy V. Gaston and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARD WINNING AUTHOR It is Florida in 1835 during the time that would come to be known as the Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson’s army is on the march to enforce The Indian Removal Act. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek and Choctaw have already been marched to the western territories beyond the far Mississippi River. Only the Seminole and Estelusti, the descendants of centuries of escaped slaves, resist. Estelusti leader John Horse and Seminole chiefs Osceola, Alligator and Wild Cat fight back. Bloody ambushes fill the swamps of west Florida and slave revolts leave the east coast sugar plantations in flames. Seen through the eyes of Pete Horse, a fourteen-year-old Estelusti boy-warrior, the Second Seminole War rages. In vicious, desperate jungle warfare from the Cove of the Withlacoochee to the shore of Lake Okeechobee, the Estelusti and Seminole frustrate and defeat the American generals time after time. After each defeat, a new general with a larger army comes, slowly forcing the defenders deeper into the treacherous Everglades. Facing annihilation and enslavement, the Estelusti must fight to the bloody end. Praise for Beyond the Goodnight Trail “A wild and thrilling, offbeat ride through a rough Texas and New Mexico landscape . . . Bigfoot Wallace, Bass Reeves, Britt Johnson, and all the legendary characters of the West are here. This tale of adventure, bloodshed, violence, and unlikely friendships in the old West should win Gaston plenty of fans." —Booksiren rates it: Amazing “A captivating, frequently philosophical page-turner that delivers a visceral portrait of the Wild West” —Kirkus Reviews “The world building is wonderful . . . in a setting that is not just rough but lawless. Beyond the Goodnight Trail is captivating and written in elegant prose." Rating: 5 Stars Reviewed by —Ruffina Oserio for Readers' Favorite "This action-packed Western is a gift that keeps on giving...It’s been years since I read a traditional Western, and this one surpasses all expectations.” Rating: 5 Stars —Joelene Pynnonen The Independent Book Review “Very atmospheric . . . an exciting storyline about trust, honor, and valiance in this classic western. Beyond the Goodnight Trail reminds us of the adventure a good cowboy story can bring...this western novel will please readers looking for tension, adventure, and, of course, cowboys." Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars —The Book Review Directory "I would certainly recommend Beyond the Goodnight Trail to fans of classic westerns . . . plenty of action-packed events to keep you on the edge of your seat." Rating: 5 Stars —K.C. Finn Editorial Book Review for Reader’s Favorite

Download or read book Search Of The Bounty written by Jerry Barker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert O'Reilly seeks out his old friend, Chip Blanc, and asking for help. He feels he will not make it back to Kansas and wants Chip to help his daughter, Rita Marie, when she comes west. O'Reilly needs Chip to help Rita Marie find a stash of savings hidden in a remote location. It can only be found by two map pieces and a pair of broken spurs. O'Reilly has one part of the map and a broken spur. Rita Marie has the other two. Since there is no immediate danger, the two friends return to their jobs. Mending broken ribs from a breaking horse throw, he is forced to stay the winter in Silver City with friends, Ed Long and Stony. Later, Chip is forced to help get some men out of a farm prison. Afterwards, he is jumped and left along the trail. His dog shot, Chip is out for revenge, as well as trying to make things right again. He stops the men from killing a sheriff. Rita Marie O'Reilly and Chip Blanc finally meet in Duck Creek, Nevada, and start looking for her father. She only has her portion of the map and one broken spur.

Download or read book A Second Reckoning written by Scott D. Seligman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A Second Reckoning" tells the heartbreaking story of the murder that led to the city of Annapolis's last hanging and a broader appeal for posthumous justice, especially in racially tainted cases"--

Download or read book The Silver Pigs written by Lindsey Davis and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver Pigs is Lindsey Davis' classic novel, which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her—a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain—and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....

Download or read book Northern Paiutes of the Malheur written by David H. Wilson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper’s Weekly. Ten years later, as her people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War, she convinced Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to grant the requests in her letter and free the Paiutes as well. Schurz’s decision unleashed furious opposition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cattlemen, and settlers. A campaign of disinformation by government officials followed, sweeping truth aside and falsely branding Paiute chief Egan as instigator and leader of the Indian forces. The campaign succeeded in its mission to overturn Schurz’s decision. To this day histories of the war appear to be unanimous in their mistaken claim that Egan led his Paiutes into war. Indian agents’ betrayal of the people they were paid to protect saddled Paiutes with responsibility for a war that most opposed and that led to U.S. misappropriation of their land, their only source of life’s necessities. With neither land nor reservation, Paiutes were driven more deeply into poverty and disease than any other Natives of that era. David H. Wilson Jr. pulls back the curtain to reveal what government officials hid—exposing the full jarring injustice and, after 140 years, recounting the Paiutes’ true and proud history for the first time.

Download or read book THE NEW FAR WEST AND OLD FAR WEST written by W. HENRY BARNEBY and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northern Paiutes of the Malheur written by David H. Wilson, Jr. and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper's Weekly. Ten years later, as her people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War, she convinced Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to grant the requests in her letter and free the Paiutes as well. Schurz's decision unleashed furious opposition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cattlemen, and settlers. A campaign of disinformation by government officials followed, sweeping truth aside and falsely branding Paiute chief Egan as instigator and leader of the Indian forces. The campaign succeeded in its mission to overturn Schurz's decision. To this day histories of the war appear to be unanimous in their mistaken claim that Egan led his Paiutes into war. Indian agents' betrayal of the people they were paid to protect saddled Paiutes with responsibility for a war that most opposed and that led to U.S. misappropriation of their land, their only source of life's necessities. With neither land nor reservation, Paiutes were driven more deeply into poverty and disease than any other Natives of that era. David H. Wilson Jr. pulls back the curtain to reveal what government officials hid--exposing the full jarring injustice and, after 140 years, recounting the Paiutes' true and proud history for the first time.

Download or read book Bankers Magazine and State Financial Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bankers Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: