Download or read book The Red Mountain Ranch War written by Voyle A Glover and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men flooded the Old West after the Civil War. Some came looking to start a new life, leaving homes that had been destroyed in the war. In the mountains, men settled themselves onto land that was empty, filed claims, built homes and began raising families. They were pioneers. Few of them left their guns behind. And, some of them carried their violent ways with them. Those men were used to killing. They'd grown accustomed to taking what they wanted with a gun. It remained for tough, battle-hardened men who were principled to stand against the lawlessness that threatened to overcome the good men and women who settled in the West. These men refused to surrender, refused to be intimidated, and refused to back down. Ben Hayes was such a man. He had been a soldier. He understood war. When the outlaws and violent men came against him and his friends, for him it was just another war. His view was summed up in a remark he made to a friend. "The easiest way to end a war is if the other side surrenders. And if they don't, then you just kill them until there's no one left to fight." Ben Hayes and Artie Longer lived in the West for several years after the Civil War. Hayes spent time riding for the Texas Rangers, then as a cowboy and a hunter for ranches down near the Brazos where he often was hired to chase rustlers across the border. Artie spent his years as a cowboy, once making a cattle drive across Texas and into Kansas. They met up in Texas and became friends. Hayes had an interest in seeing California and Longer, who had little else to do, agreed that California would be a place he'd like to see. They started out in Kansas, dropped down to Texas and cut across the top of New Mexico. Hayes had been through Arizona, all the way to Tuscon and Phoenix, and he'd heard that going to California through the south was the best way to go, though it was a pretty dry ride. As they are riding south through the northern end of Arizona Territory, they stop at the Red Mountain Ranch.It's a small ranch nestled in the mountains amongst the many pine trees there, with a sprinkling of open pastures with lush grass. The ranch is owned by Colonel William J. Harken and his daughter, Mary, who'd recently lost her husband. She has a small boy, Billy. They learn that a local rancher, Jacob Jarvis, has hired gunmen and has managed to intimidate several of the small ranchers into selling. He's threatened Harken and made it clear to several in the community that he wants Mary as well as the ranch. Ben Hayes is one of those principled men, not a man to walk away from someone needing help. He turns on the gunmen who are attacking the ranch with a vengeance. His friend, Artie Longer says of him: "One minute, you're looking at a man who looks to be a gentle, mild-mannered dude, except for the black, holstered Colt at his side, then quicker than a big cat jumping on a calf, you're seeing a man whose eyes have turned as cold and frosty as a Montana January morning, and whose face has lost every sign of gentle. Everything about the man changes. I've seen some full-growed, battle-tough men back away from him, startled, and suddenly afraid at what they were looking at. It was as though they'd come suddenly on a hungry wolf who was looking at them as its next meal." Hayes and Longer recruit two other men to help at the ranch . The battles that follow become deadly lessons for Jarvis. Ben Hayes is a tactician, a warrior whose mettle has been tested in battle. Jarvis will come to wish he'd never heard of the Red Mountain Ranch. And, he'll come to regret ever coming face to face with Ben Hayes. This is a western story that even the Dean of Western Fiction, Louis L'Amour would have enjoyed.
Download or read book Military Operations of the Civil War written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fallbrook written by Rebecca Farnbach and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addition to the Images of America series examines the sleepy towns of Fallbrook, DeLuz, and Rainbow, California, where the ground yielded vast crops that were shipped by rail across the U.S. and where a quiet, agricultural lifestyle can still be found. Original.
Download or read book Flat Top Mountain Ranch written by James E. Doucette and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Two Men Escape the Horror of the Civil War and the Prejudice of Reconstruction by Heading West? As in all wars, young men volunteer to fight. The Union recruited Jack Donaldson from the Catskill Mountains in New York to whip the Rebels into submission and return home before the next harvest. After he survives two years of war, watches his closest friends die in battle, and suffers a gunshot wound at Gettysburg, he's had enough. Jack decides to muster out and start a new life by heading west on the Santa Fe Trail. In Louisiana, a Confederate major convinced a Louisiana detachment of free-born black men, including Ty Jones, to help the South repel the northern invaders. Ty leaves the peaceful, sheltered plantation of his childhood and marches off to war, full of pride. Brutal wartime conditions and senseless discrimination are a rude awakening to the outside world and after humiliating defeat at Vicksburg, he returns home. With the advice of his father, he leaves war and the aftermath of the Southern defeat behind and heads west in search of a new opportunity. The two veterans from opposite sides of the war meet on the Santa Fe Trail, discover they have plenty in common, and form a partnership. Their goal: start a cattle ranch in the rough country of the west Texas plains and make it a place to call their own. Their dreams come with a price. Their pasts haunt them as they struggle to establish the Flat Top Mountain Ranch during the Westward Expansion and Indian Wars. James E. Doucette is a retired businessman and part-time rancher. He grew up in the Northeast and moved to Texas in 1983. In 1988, he and his wife, Denise, purchased the Flat Top Mountain Ranch. One thing they've learned about ranching is that when the fences are down, the cattle are scattered, and the Texas High Plains winter wind is blowing, there are only two people out chasing the cattle-the rancher and his wife.
Download or read book Annual Reports of the War Department written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Various Positions written by Ira B. Nadel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the “Prince of Bummers,” Leonard Cohen is a multi-talented poet, singer-songwriter, novelist, and Zen Buddhist whose career has spanned more than forty years and inspired countless other artists. In this critically acclaimed biography originally published in 1996 by Pantheon Books, Ira Nadel draws on extensive interviews with Cohen, as well as excerpts from his unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings, to offer a full portrait of this enigmatic man and his artistic career. A new concluding chapter brings Cohen’s story up-to-date, including the release of the albums Dear Heather, Ten New Songs, The Essential Leonard Cohen, and Blue Alert, as well as the publication of Book of Longing and the screening of the documentary film Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man.
Download or read book Western Times and Water Wars written by John Walton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-08-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walton first uses his magnifying glass to capture images of struggle in a California valley during a century and a half of transformation, then inverts it to scrutinize the American state, popular politics, and collective action in general. The maneuver is bold, the outcome stimulating."—Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research "A passionate and first rate historical adventure. The plot is as intricate, fascinating, and full of intrigue and detail as a Dickens or a Tolstoy novel."—John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War
Download or read book Military Operations of the Civil War Main Eastern theater of operations written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Uris written by Ira B. Nadel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the best-selling author of Exodus, Mila 18, QB VII, and Trinity, Leon Uris blazed a path to celebrity with books that readers could not put down. Uris’s thirteen novels sold millions of copies, spent months on the best-seller lists, appeared in fifty languages, and have been adapted into equally popular movies and TV miniseries. Few other writers equaled Uris’s fame in the mid-twentieth century. His success fueled the rise of mass-market paperbacks, movie tie-ins, and celebrity author tours. Beloved by the public, Uris was, not surprisingly, dismissed by literary critics. Until now, his own life and work—as full of drama as his fiction—have never been the subject of a book. In Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Ira Nadel traces Uris from his disruptive youth to his life-changing experiences as a marine in World War II. These experiences, coupled with Uris’s embrace of his Judaism and desire to write, led to his unprecedented success and the lavish excesses of a career as a best-selling author. Nadel reveals that Uris lived the adventures he described, including his war experiences in the Pacific (Battle Cry), life-threatening travels in Israel (Exodus), visit to Communist Poland (Mila 18), libel trial in Britain (QB VII), and dangerous sojourn in fractious Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic (Trinity). Nadel also demonstrates that Uris’s talent for writing action-packed, yet thoroughly researched, novels meshed perfectly with the public’s desire to revisit and understand the tumultuous events of recent history. This made him far more popular (and wealthy) than more literary authors, while paving the way for writers such as Irving Wallace and Tom Clancy.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank Capra written by Joseph McBride and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being considered a possible “subversive” during the post-World War II Red Scare, McBride adds a final chapter to his unforgettable portrait of the man who gave us It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.
Download or read book The Prehistory and Management of Cultural Resources in the Red Mountain Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Embrace of Hope written by Kate Fuglei and published by Barbera Foundation. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.”—Frank Capra Crossing the Atlantic Ocean was going to be the biggest adventure of Frank Capra’s life, but the five-year-old Sicilian boy’s dreams were soon hobbled by the cramped steamship’s unsanitary conditions. Feverish and weak, Frank suffered the seemingly endless nightmare through rolling seas torn from his family and frightened in the isolated sick bay. Emerging from the darkness into a new world, Frank craned his neck to see the torch atop Lady Liberty’s reaching arm. Awestruck, his heart swelled with a hope and gratitude that came to define his life and his work. Frank Capra’s movies celebrated the individual’s power to define their own destiny through hard work and selflessness. Today, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and other classics elicit nostalgia for an America that was, and continue to inspire audiences with the deep-rooted sense of patriotism and optimism held by their creator.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skiing Heritage Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skiing Heritage is a quarterly Journal of original, entertaining, and informative feature articles on skiing history. Published by the International Skiing History Association, its contents support ISHA's mission "to preserve skiing history and to increase awareness of the sport's heritage."
Download or read book The Great Southwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pipeline South Pipeline Pit Expansion Project Battle Mountain written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
