Download or read book Sun River and Bannack written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classic novels of Skye's West by one of America's great Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler. Sun River Barnaby Skye is big, tough, and knows the West as few others do. He’s agreed to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation, and to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne. Before they can face the dangers on the road, though, they must stop fighting among themselves about everything, including the decisions Skye is making. For without his help, they have no chance at all. Bannack If Barnaby Skye had not wanted the new Henry repeating rifle so badly, he would have thought more than twice about leading this particular group of pilgrims from Ft. Laramie into the new Idaho territory. The company includes Alvah Riddle, marriage broker, escorting three mail-order brides; Goldtooth Joyce and other sporting women from a house in Memphis, looking to get rich quick; Blueberry Hill, runaway slave and piano player; and the man calling himself Cornelius Vanderbilt—a gambling man with a fixed deck and hidden guns. Even before the trip began, Skye knew this group would be trouble. Then come the deserters, the flash flood, and the village of Old Bull, and the real trouble begins.
Download or read book Sun River and Bannack written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classic novels of Skye's West by one of America's great Western storytellers, Richard S. Wheeler. Sun River Mister Skye is big, tough, and knows the West as few others do. He's agreed to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne; and they must stop fighting among themselves about everything. To get there, the party won't survive at all, without Mister Skye. Bannack If Barnaby Skye had not wanted the new Henry repeating rifle so badly, he would have thought more than twice about leading this particular group of pilgrims from Ft. Laramie into the new Idaho territory. The company includes Alvah Riddle, marriage broker, escorting three mail-order brides; Goldtooth Joyce and other sporting women from a house in Memphis, looking to get rich quick; Blueberry Hill, runaway slave and piano player; and the man calling himself Cornelius Vanderbilt – a gambling man with a fixed deck and hidden guns. Even before the trip began, Skye knew this group would be trouble. Then came the deserters, the flash flood, and the village of Old Bull. And after that, things got bad...
Download or read book The Owl Hunt written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler delivers the latest installment in the long-running and much-loved Skye's West series, featuring mountain man Barnaby Skye.
Download or read book Sun Mountain written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to Virginia City, Nevada, and its Comstock Lode in the early 1860s, journalist Henry Stoddard mingles with mining titans, speculators, and bankers as well as the men who descend into the dark earth to wrest the gold riches from it. Among those he meets are a young Missourian named Sam Clemens, a reporter for the "Territorial Enterprise" who would transform himself into Mark Twain. (August)
Download or read book The Sheriff s Wife written by Pat Pfeiffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, historical figure Electa Bryan comes to a remote Indian Agency in what is now Western Montana to teach native children. Instead she finds deprivation and lonelinessuntil she meets suave, handsome Henry Plummer and falls hopelessly in love. Rejecting her sisters warning, she marries this stranger and moves to Bannack City. There, they pursue their vision of turning a primitive territory filled with greed, murder and mayhem into a civilized state, with Henry as governor. As sheriff, he is away from home most of the time enforcing the law, searching for a mysterious silver lode, or in the saloons. Electa is neglected and regimented, but blindly ignores the signs he is not all he seems, devotedly believing all he says. Until she meets Pearl. At Electas death in 1912, her son, Vernon Maxwell, inherits an eagle feather and a fortune. He sets out to learn why she left her husband so precipitously and why Henry was hanged for supposedly heading a gang of road agents who were killing innocent people and robbing gold shipment. What is the password he must know to secure his inheritanceHenrys stolen gold? More importantly, can he discover his mothers hidden past?
Download or read book The Exile written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July, 1867, exiled IrishmanThomas Meagher, a giant of Irish history and folklore, disappeared while traveling on a river steamer and was given up for drowned. Wheeler solves this mystery in this moving, meticulously researched novel.
Download or read book The Deliverance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Bent's Fort, Barnaby Sky and his wife agree to rescue Cheyenne children kidnapped by the Utes, with the help of one Colonel Childress and his spider monkey.
Download or read book The Canyon of Bones written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye acts as a guide to a wealthy Englishman who wants to see the wonders of the Missouri River Valley.
Download or read book An Obituary for Major Reno written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working to fulfill a deathbed request to restore the honor of a disgraced Little Big Horn officer held responsible for Custer's death, a newspaper reporter learns about how the major saved most of the troopers under his command.
Download or read book I Do written by Martha Kohl and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Do traces Montana weddings and circumstances that influenced them from the 1860s gold rush to the present day. Engaging stories, insightful analysis, and intriguing photographs provide an intimate and surprising look at an important tradition.
Download or read book Outlaws with Badges written by Laurence J. Yadon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Old West, upright lawmen were scarce. Often, the men who were bound to keep the peace were just as corrupt as the men they pursued. These dishonest deputies chose their professions based on convenience rather than conviction, and the most revered were often the wiliest. These men held grudges, ruled with violence, and instilled fear in all who crossed their paths. Offered here is an untainted perspective of these outlaws that discerns fact from myth. Legends such as Wyatt Earp and renegade lawman Dirty Dave Rudabaugh are presented as real men with quirks and weaknesses. The authors deconstruct not only the Dalton's last stand in Coffeyville, Kansas, and the gunfight at the OK Corral-among other famous heists-but also the triumphs and flaws of their organizers. The Old West's former outlaws turned good, former lawmen gone bad, and honorable citizens who moonlighted as robbers and rustlers are presented in these pages. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Laurence J. Yadon is an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator who presents on various legal subjects, Oklahoma history, and crime history. He has assisted the Department of Justice in litigation matters before his local United States district court and has successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court. He is the co-author of Pelican's 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939; 200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen: 1835-1935; Ten Deadly Texans; Old West Swindlers; and Arizona Gunfighters. Yadon resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Robert Barr Smith is a History Channel commentator and the author of more than thirty articles and five books on the American Old West. He has edited several titles, including Pelican's 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen: 1839-1939; 200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen: 1835-1935; Ten Deadly Texans; and Arizona Gunfighters, and he co-authored Old West Swindlers, also published by Pelican. A retired colonel, Smith served more than twenty years in the Judge Advocate General's Corps and earned the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit while serving in the United States Army. He is a former deputy attorney general of California and a retired professor of the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma. Dirty Dave Rudabaugh � Hoodoo Brown and Company � Henry Newtown Brown � John Larn � Bob and Grat Dalton � Wyatt Earp � King Fisher � Ben Thompson � Henry Plummer � Joseph Alfred Slade � Doc Middleton � Frank M. Canton
Download or read book Order Without Law written by Benjamin E. Sanders and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilbur Fisk Sanders has been mentioned considerably in many works on Montana history but has never been the subject of a comprehensive individual work. Order Without Law is the first and complete work devoted to Montana’s first U.S. Senator and introduces never before published aspects to his colorful and important history.
Download or read book The Canyon of Bones and North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Skye's West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume. The Canyon of Bones Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes—and the act may cost the party their lives. North Star Barnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family's struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Birding Trails Montana written by Robbins, Chuck and published by Wilderness Adventures Press (Sandhill Crane Press). This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montana is one of the great birding states, from sandhill cranes to prairie chickens and sage grouse. From 100,000 snow geese at a time on Freezeout Lake to western bluebirds, glossy ibis, white-tailed kites, crested caracaras, Iceland gulls, Carolina wrens, curve-billed thrashers, and hundreds of other song birds. Montana is the best place for both great birding and wildlife viewing. Many of the birding hot spots also have a wide variety of wildlife including elk, antelope, moose, and grizzly and black bears. Chuck Robbins has spent 20 years traveling the state birding and wildlife watching. Chuck has divided the state into six regions: Glacier Country, Southwest Montana, Central Montana, Yellowstone Country, Missouri River Country, and Southeast Montana. Chuck describes each of the birding locations, the key birds, the best seasons for birding, and the area description along with driving directions and GPS coordinates. There are six regional maps showing the birding locations in each region, along with over 70 maps of individual locations. More than 100 outstanding color photos of key birds are included. Montana is the fourth largest state with less than 1 million residents, offering great uncrowded birding opportunities. With two national parks (Glacier and Yellowstone), thirteen national wildlife refuges, hundreds of wildlife management areas, as well as state parks and 40 Montana Important Bird Areas (IBAs) Montana is a must place for incredible bird and wildlife watching.
Download or read book Downriver written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria's homeland, he makes the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job to the mighty managers of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The 2,000-mile voyage down the Missouri River steamboat Otter is a lesson in survival to Skye and Victoria. The river offers dangers at every turn--but the real danger lies in another passenger on the paddlewheel steamer, the Creole fur brigade leader Alexandre Bonfils. This nefarious man, with influential relatives in St. Louis, is a rival for the job Skye is seeking and is determined to be the only candidate by the time the Otter reaches the city. Adding to Skye's problems is his rescue of a Cheyenne woman, Lame Deer, who needs to get to St. Louis to find her missing husband--a white man who has deserted her and their two children to marry into a prominent St. Louis family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Healy s West written by Gordon E. Tolton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer, a horse dealer, a scout, a lawman, a newspaper editor, a speculator, a merchant, a capitalist, a historian, and a politician. He defied classification while defining the lifestyle of a frontier adventurer and buccaneer capitalist in the late nineteenth century. In Healy’s West, Gordon E. Tolton cuts through the mythology and controversy of this larger-than-life character, giving us the most complete and truly balanced account of Healy’s life ever published. From Irish famine to army saddle; from scouting on the Oregon Trail to digging for mountain gold in Idaho; from taking on powerful monopolies to trading with the Blackfoot; from political manoeuvring to hunting down rustlers behind a sheriff’s badge, Healy challenged life, nature, enemies and, governments head on—in print, in business, and in physical combat. An entertaining and critical portrayal of the west’s most charismatic figure, Healy’s West is a must-read for any history buff.
Download or read book Flint s Truth written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Flint, a courageous editor of a weekly newspaper, fights to defend the helpless, the persecuted, and the humble--no matter the consequences to himself. In Oro Blanco, site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, there are secrets galore--and men who would kill to keep it that way.
