Download or read book The Ghosts of Skeleton Canyon written by Robert W. Callis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man goes missing while searching for treasure in Skeleton Canyon in Cochise County, Arizona. Kit and Swifty are called in by a relative after local law enforcement fails to come up with any clue to the missing mans whereabouts or what happened to him. Skeleton Canyon is located just north of the Mexican border. The east end of the canyon is in New Mexico and the west end is in Arizona. For hundreds of years the canyon was a thoroughfare for Mexicans and the Apache. It has been the scene for a massacre of all the members of Mexican burro train carrying silver bullion. It was where the Apache ambushed Troop D of the Fourth U S Cavalry, killing three troopers, burning their wagons and supplies and driving off forty horses and mules. It was where old man Clanton of the Clanton gang of Tombstone was murdered. It was also the site of Geronimos surrender to General Nelson Miles in 1886. The canyon has a dark and bloody history and is a rugged and desolate spot locals fear and tend to avoid. Kit and Swifty find themselves in danger as they encounter bands of illegals sneaking into the U.S., cartel drug smugglers, and others who have become experts at not being seen or found in one of the most dangerous places in the United States.
Download or read book The Trailsman 276 Skeleton Canyon written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger awaits Fargo in a haunted canyon… In a rugged corner of Arizona, Skye Fargo saves old-timer Bert Olmsted from a flying bullet. But the disgruntled shooter doesn’t plan on letting Fargo—or Bert and his pretty granddaughters—leave town without spilling some of their blood. Determined to make their fortune in Skeleton Canyon, Bert and his girls refuse to be bullied by some bloodthirsty critter. They agree to Fargo’s protection, but what the Trailsman doesn’t know is that a gun-toting bully is the least of their troubles. The Apaches believe Skeleton Canyon is haunted—and would rather scalp some innocents than see gold-diggers stir up the dead. Now, if Fargo isn’t careful, the canyon could wind up hosting a few more ghosts…
Download or read book Tombstone written by Walter Noble Burns and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-01-01T20:43:10Z with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three books by Walter Noble Burns covering the post-Civil War American West, Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, first published in 1927, is one of the earliest popular semi-fictional histories of some of the West’s most famous lawmen and outlaws. Wyatt Earp (the “Lion of Tombstone”), his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and their friend Doc Holliday face off against rustlers and outlaws like Curly Bill, Billy and Ike Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, and Johnny Ringo, culminating in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Throughout the narrative, Burns draws the reader into the life of the boomtown, from founding, to meteoric rise, and final collapse, with a focus on the personalities, conflicts, and myths that have cemented the town and its characters as a fixture in many aspects of American popular culture, including books, comics, radio dramas, films, and television. Burns’ Tombstone is the iconic frontier town of “The Old West.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Test written by Robert Callis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divorced financially successful father who was has been denied access to his three sons for the past ten years desires to learn what kind of young men they have become and how prepared to face the challenges of life ahead of them. he devises a test and uses deception to lure them into it.
Download or read book Big Dave written by Robert W. Callis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1941, the area around Kemmerer, Wyoming, is still in the grip of the Great Depression. World War II rages overseas in Europe and Asia but is not yet a reality in the United States. This is the story of eight young men, newly graduated from Kemmerer High School, as they make their journey from boyhood to manhood in a summer filled with new challenges, new opportunities, and new dangers. Some will succeed. Some will fail. This is their story.
Download or read book The Horse Holder written by Robert W. Callis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the siege of Atlanta in the American Civil War, General Sherman ordered a series of Union cavalry raids behind Confederate lines to destroy railroad facilities and cut off the source of supplies to Atlanta to force the surrender of the city. One of those raids was led by General Stoneman, who not only planned to lead five thousand Union cavalrymen to destroy a railroad works but also planned to then continue south to Macon, Georgia. Once there, he intended to capture the city along with its notorious Camp Oglethorpe prison and free the fifteen hundred Union officers imprisoned there. Macon, Georgia, is approximately 160 miles south of the Union lines along the Chattahoochee River just north of Atlanta. If successful, Stonemans raiders would then have to fight their way back north to the Union lines and somehow manage to bring fifteen hundred weak and sick men along with them. This is the story of one young soldier from Illinois who took part in that raid and what happened to him and his three squad mates as they tried to make their way back to the Union lines and safety. Traveling at night and hiding by day, progress back north will be much slower and much more dangerous than the original ride south to Macon. Failure on their part will either end in death or imprisonment in the notorious Andersonville prison.
Download or read book Ghost Rider written by Neil Peart and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the deaths of his daughter and then his common-law wife, musician Neil Peart got on his motorcycle and drove for over a year, traveling Canada, the U.S. and Central America. The need to do something, to move, kept Neil going and pushed him toward healing. 2002.
Download or read book The Night Hawk written by Robert W. Callis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tang Kellys hermit-like grandfather goes missing, she turns to Kit Andrews and Swifty Olson of Rocky Mountain Searchers to find him. Tang has not seen her grandfather in ten years, and her only connection has been a yearly birthday card sent from a post office in Woods Landing, Wyoming. Kit and Swifty begin the search for Tangs grandfather and eventually find his remote, off-the-grid cabin high in the foothills of Wyoming. The grandfather is nowhere to be found, but they discover that six framed illustrated letters from the legendary western artist Charles M. Russell to his old cowboy pal, Kellys great-grandfather, are missing. Kit and Swifty initiate a search, bringing them in contact with the local law enforcement officials and numerous colorful characters who seem to flourish in this wild and remote area of Wyoming. The disappearance of Kellys grandfather becomes a search for him and the missing Russell-illustrated letters. The search leads both Kit and Swifty into a dangerous confrontation with the kidnappers and thieves who are willing to commit murder to protect their secrets and the Russell letters.
Download or read book Skeleton Canyon written by Otis Carney and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the truth is stranger than fiction, the truth about the 9/11 tragedy is so bizarre and convoluted that, to my mind at least, no one has yet put it all together . . . "Hundreds of clues are out there. Facts or incidents that are still waiting for an explanation. But they're scattered. That's the problem . . . "It's one big whodonit. Not knowing the answers, I've fallen back on the strategy (or the dodge) of the novelist. I ask the "what if?" questions."--Author's note.
Download or read book LOST CITIES ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTHWEST written by David Hatcher Childress and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes to the road again in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. This time he is off to the American Southwest, traversing the region’s deserts, mountains and forests investigating archeological mysteries and the unexplained. Join David as he starts in northern Mexico and searches for the lost mines of the Aztecs. He continues north to west Texas, delving into the mysteries of Big Bend, including mysterious Phoenician tablets discovered there and the strange lights of Marfa. He continues northward into New Mexico where he stumbles upon a hollow mountain with a billion dollars of gold bars hidden deep inside it! In Arizona he investigates tales of Egyptian catacombs in the Grand Canyon, cruises along the Devil’s Highway, and tackles the century-old mystery of the Superstition Mountains and the Lost Dutchman mine. In Nevada and California Childress checks out the rumors of mummified giants and weird tunnels in Death Valley, plus he searches the Mohave Desert for the mysterious remains of ancient dwellers alongside lakes that supposedly dried up tens of thousands of years ago. It’s a full-tilt blast down the back roads of the Southwest in search of the weird and wondrous mysteries of the past!
Download or read book Spirits of the Border V written by Ken Hudnall and published by Omega Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.
Download or read book Heart of Gold written by Dick Brown and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Gold, this historical novel is Book Two, in Under the Canyon Sky: about the early Grand Canyon pioneers. It is the story of gold discovery, copper mines, rockslides, outlaws, beer-drinking burros, a railway on the brink, conflicting federal regulations, and badgering by a flourishing commercial tourist industry that fiercely opposes independents. Monte Bridgestone – miner, trail-builder, guide, hotel manager, and homesteader on the South Rim. He becomes emotionally attached to the Grand Canyon and advocates its protection for future generations to behold, experience and cherish. Kirby and Sabrina O’Brien – their romance springs from below the rim and their life together evolves from prospecting to ranching. They work to preserve the legacy of the canyon pioneers by planning and financing a Canyon Pioneers Museum. Clint McCarty – Monte’s mining partner until a falling out over his rampant abuse of mining laws. He opposes making the Canyon a national park and wants it all for himself. His proliferation of mining claims hinders administrative control of the Canyon. Teddy Roosevelt – in his notorious address on the South Rim, he asks that the Canyon remain void of anything manmade. He establishes Grand Canyon National Monument, and twice returns for adventurous canyon mule trips. “Follow the twists and turns of mining, politics and romance in Heart of Gold, Dick Brown's well-written continuing saga of pioneer life at the Grand Canyon. A definite page turner!” —Dr. Gary Fogel, Author and Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University The Grand Canyon’s long journey from unexplored wilderness to a great American national park involves tangled bureaucracy, greedy schemes, fraudulent mining claims, and competition between favored commercial operators and private entrepreneurs. The government’s rough start in managing this natural wonder and the pioneers conducting their own tourism enterprises create bitter conflicts that last for decades.
Download or read book Desert Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Arizona written by Charles A. Stansfield and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arid desert to the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona is rich in tales of the paranormal.
Download or read book Understanding the American Promise Volume 2 From 1865 written by James L. Roark and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the ever-changing challenges of teaching the survey course, Understanding the American Promise combines a newly abridged narrative with an innovative chapter architecture to focus students' attention on what's truly significant. Each chapter is fully designed to guide students' comprehension and foster their development of historical skills. Brief and affordable but still balanced in its coverage, this new textbook combines distinctive study aids, a bold new design, and lively art to give your students a clear pathway to what's important.
Download or read book Canyons written by Gary Paulsen and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men. Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid. But he is to be a man for only a short time. More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, 15-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it is the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find peace until Coyote Runs' skull is carried back to an ancient sacred place. In a grueling journey through the canyon to return the skull, Brennan confronts the challenge of his life.
Download or read book First Americans A History of Native Peoples Combined Volume written by Kenneth W. Townsend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the agency and vitality of Native peoples and cultures in the context of regional, continental, and global developments. This updated edition of First Americans continues to trace Native experiences through the Obama administration years and up to the present day. The book includes a variety of pedagogical tools including short biographical profiles, key review questions, a rich series of maps and illustrations, chapter chronologies, and recommendations for further reading. Lucid and readable yet rigorous in its coverage, First Americans remains the indispensable student introduction to Native American history.
