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Book The Last Trail Drive

Download or read book The Last Trail Drive written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUT TO PASTURE As barbed wire and railroad tracks crisscross the once-open range. Hank Flood has one final herd to deliver, and he wants his old friend Clint Adams to come along for the ride. With a thousand head of cattle to drive and only ten men to do the work. Hank wants to make sure the job is done right. But when one of Hank's drivers is killed, Clint discovers that a rival cattleman and his gang plan to stop the trail drive—even if it brings them into the Gunsmith's line of fire...

Book The Last Trail Drive

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  • Author : J. R. Roberts
  • Publisher : Jove
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780515148091
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Last Trail Drive written by J. R. Roberts and published by Jove. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While accompanying his old friend Hank Flood on a cattle drive, Clint Adams must protect Hank from a rival cattleman who is determined to stop them in their tracks. Original.

Book Arctic Exodus

Download or read book Arctic Exodus written by Dick North and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, c1991.

Book The Goodnight Trail

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  • Author : Ralph Compton
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 1992-08-15
  • ISBN : 1429933437
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Goodnight Trail written by Ralph Compton and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992-08-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory—or die hard.

Book The Last Trail

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  • Author : Zane Grey
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803270633
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Last Trail written by Zane Grey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Zane and his mysterious companion, Wetzel, rescue lovely Helen Sheppard while searching for the murderous Legget band

Book The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas

Download or read book The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas written by Ben K. Green and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Trail

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  • Author : Ralph Compton
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 2009-09-01
  • ISBN : 1429933461
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Western Trail written by Ralph Compton and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad... THE WESTERN TRAIL Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled long and hard to drive thousands of ornery cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley. They're in the midst of setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne when a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land. Now, with the help of the Shoshoni Indian tribe and a man named Buffalo Bill Cody, McCaleb and his men must vow to stand and fight. Outgunned and outmanned, they will wage the most ferocious battle of their lives—to win the right to call the land their own.

Book Trail Drive

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  • Author : Will Welton
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011-07-22
  • ISBN : 0557319854
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Trail Drive written by Will Welton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the Civil War jobs were a thing of luxury if you had one which paid money. The men returning from the war found their lives disrupted, families starving or dead. Then someone decided to drive cattle north to Kansas City or Sedalia Missouri. There was where the markets were for a country which had a need for beef. This is the story of one man who took an old Osage Indian for his word of "All ways help others and they will help you."Teaming up, with a man he found walking and looking for a job, they put together a herd of longhorns and headed north to market. Over the next years they had formed the WH ranch and in doing so had ended up with nineteen orphans from around the area. At times he did not know if he was in the cattle business or raising children. However along the way everyone on the ranch became a big family and the ranch grew through hardships and good times along the way.

Book Up the Trail

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  • Author : Tim Lehman
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2018-08-15
  • ISBN : 1421425912
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Up the Trail written by Tim Lehman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero? Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.

Book TRAIL DRIVER

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  • Author : ZANE GREY.
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 1667627600
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book TRAIL DRIVER written by ZANE GREY. and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arizona Trail

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  • Author : Tom Lorang Jones
  • Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781565792791
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Arizona Trail written by Tom Lorang Jones and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 750-mile Arizona Trail threads its way through magnificent backcountry, hikers on this trail witness the beauty of the state's varying landscape. Also a sight to behold, the diverse flora found along the way ranges from low-lying desert dwellers to towering deciduous and coniferous trees. In this guide, the author describes the route section by section, providing a wealth of knowledge for both thru-hikers and those interested in scenic daylong excursions. Color photographs, maps, and elevation profiles beautifully augment the trail descriptions.

Book On the Pecos Trail

Download or read book On the Pecos Trail written by Patrick Dearen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. His uncle is driving a cattle herd across Texas, and Fish is going with him as far as Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. Little does Fish know that he is saddling up for the wildest rides of his life. With his cousin Gid, Fish is about to face mean broncs, angry longhorns, and a dozen cowboys ready to play pranks. The days ahead will be filled with sandstorms and stampedes, lightning and twisters. It's the roughest stretch of cattle trail in Texas, and it will either make a cowhand out of a boy or break him.

Book Lonesome Dove

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  • Author : Larry McMurtry
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2000-11-10
  • ISBN : 068487122X
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book Lonesome Dove written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-11-10 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths. Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life. Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else. Call's dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters: -- Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have... -- Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure... -- Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book... -- Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity... -- Jake, the dashing, womanizing exRanger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate... -- July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into the wilderness, and turns him into a kind of hero... Lonesome Dove sweeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West). It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honor, and betrayal -- faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. Lonesome Dove is the novel about the West that American literature -- and the American reader -- has long been waiting for.

Book The Cattle Kings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis Atherton
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1972-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803257597
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Cattle Kings written by Lewis Atherton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the ranchers in shaping the American West and probes their contributions to the nation's cultural development

Book The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings

Download or read book The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chisholm Trail Bride

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Y'Barbo
  • Publisher : Barbour Publishing
  • Release : 2020-04-01
  • ISBN : 1643522892
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book The Chisholm Trail Bride written by Kathleen Y'Barbo and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Series for Lovers of History, Adventure, Romance, and AncestryBarbour Publishing offers a series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. Stubborn Hearts Clash on a Cattle DriveEliza Gentry’s pursuit of marriage to the son of her family’s sworn enemy has cost her greatly. Furious at his daughter’s choices, her father sends her off with the cattle drive heading toward Fort Worth and the Barnhart ranch, but under the watchful eye of Wyatt Creed, a Pinkerton man he has hired to see to her safety. With danger at every turn—not the least of which to his heart—can Wyatt Creed keep his focus with Eliza Gentry around? Is the Chisholm Trail a place for falling in love or a place to die at the hands of cattle thieves? Join the adventure as the Daughters of the Mayflower series continues with The Chisholm Trail Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo. More in the Daughters of the Mayflower series: The Mayflower Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1620 Atlantic Ocean (February 2018) The Pirate Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo – set 1725 New Orleans (April 2018) The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep – set 1760 during the French and Indian War (June 2018) The Patriot Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1774 Philadelphia (August 2018) The Cumberland Bride by Shannon McNear – set 1794 on the Wilderness Road (October 2018) The Liberty Bride by MaryLu Tyndall – set 1814 Baltimore (December 2018) The Alamo Bride by Kathleen Y’Barbo – set 1836 Texas (February 2019) The Golden Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1849 San Francisco (April 2019) The Express Bride by Kimberley Woodhouse – set 1860 Utah (July 2019) The Rebel Bride by Shannon McNear – set 1863 Tennessee (December 2019) The Blizzard Bride by Susanne Dietze – set 1888 Nebraska (February 2020)