Download or read book THE SOILED DOVES OF HANGTOWN the Way it Really was written by Janis Hoffman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ann was raised in a whorehouse. Didn't want that kind of life, so jumped on a wagon train when but 15. Ride with her into the wild west of long ago. She describes the way it really was in the gold fields of the Sierras and among the soiled doves of Hangtown and San Francisco. Not the sugar coated fairy tales of story book and Hollywood. ____________________ Come along. Click on the bar, top right.
Download or read book MARY Raised Among the Soiled Doves written by Janis Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a whorehouse Didn't want that kind of life so jumped on a wagon train when she was but 15. Ride with her into the Wild West of long ago. She promises not to lie too bad.I found Mary's handwritten story in an old trunk I bought at an auction in Walton, NY.I liked the humor...Indians and whorehouses and the characters were developed to make the story fun. Also loved the old pictures. A fun story and fast read. JoanhughsThoroughly enjoyed this book! I love history and to read it in the first person and in the words of a woman who had "grit" and enjoyed life and adventure was very entertaining. Kindle CustomerCome jump on the wagon train. Click the bar, top right.
Download or read book The Trailsman 379 written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This city has no limits. In the remote ranges of Wyoming, Fargo and a work party setting up telegraph lines are bushwhacked, so Fargo takes a posse and gives chase. They end up tracking the killers to a hideout full of vicious men and one wild, willful woman who runs the entire damned gulch known as Hangtown. And if a name like that has ever been earned, the Trailsman knows this is the time.
Download or read book SARA a Tale of the Wild West written by Janis Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara's story is based on many old records, principally the diary of Mary Faraday. There are many more old photographs to illustrate her story and many changes to increase readability and enjoyment. And I added a path. A path into the vastness. I liked the humor...Indians and whorehouses and the characters were developed to make the story fun. Also loved the old pictures. A fun story and fast read. JoanhughsThoroughly enjoyed this book! I love history and to read it in the first person and in the words of a woman who had "grit" and enjoyed life and adventure was very entertaining. Kindle CustomerCome jump on the wagon train with her. Click the bar, top right.
Download or read book Hell s Angels written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
Download or read book Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway written by Effie Price Gladding and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against the Day written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
Download or read book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads written by John Avery Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Western Ghost Towns written by Lambert Florin and published by Seattle : Superior Publishing Company. This book was released on 1967 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Films of Joseph H Lewis written by Gary D. Rhodes and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores American Joseph H. Lewis's eclectic career, including his best-known film, Gun Crazy. Joseph H. Lewis enjoyed a monumental career in many genres, including film noir and B-movies (with the East Side Kids) as well as an extensive and often overlooked TV career. In The Films of Joseph H. Lewis, editor Gary D. Rhodes, PhD. gathers notable scholars from around the globe to examine the full range of Lewis's career. While some studies analyze Lewis's work in different areas, others focus on particular films, ranging from poverty row fare to westerns and "television films." Overall, this collection offers fresh perspectives on Lewis as an auteur, a director responsible for individually unique works as well as a sustained and coherent style. Essays in part 1 investigate the texts and contexts that were important to Lewis's film and television career, as contributors explore his innovative visual style and themes in both mediums. Contributors to part 2 present an array of essays on specific films, including Lewis's remarkable and prescient Invisible Ghost and other notable films My Name Is Julia Ross, So Dark the Night, and The Big Combo. Part 3 presents an extended case study of Lewis's most famous and-arguably-most important work, Gun Crazy. Contributors take three distinct approaches to the film: in the context of its genre as film noir and modernist and postmodernist film; in its relationship to masculinity and masochism; and in terms of ethos and ethics. The Films of Joseph H. Lewis offers a thorough assessment of Lewis's career and also provides insight into film and television making in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Scholars of film and television studies and fans of Lewis's work will appreciate this comprehensive collection.
Download or read book Blood and Thunder written by Hampton Sides and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.
Download or read book Daily Warm Ups Reading Grade 3 written by Shelle Russell and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each book in the Daily Warm-Ups: Reading series provides students with over 150 opportunities to master important reading skills. The warm-ups include both fiction and nonfiction reading passages, followed by questions that are based on Bloom's Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Octopus written by Frank Norris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.
Download or read book Dear Carrie written by Kathleen Haun and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written in 1878 by a young woman new to the West, and found in an old trunk in the twenty-first century, reveal the daily life of a bygone era in the towns along the Eastern Sierra of California. Revealed are the early pioneers who settled this part of the state, the early ranchers, women both good and "bad," and miners who brought forth gold and silver from the mines of Cerro Gordo, Mammoth, Lundy, Aurora and Bodie. The letters describe the people, places and natural beauty of the area before it became today's recreational paradise, before its water was sent down the California aqueduct to Los Angeles, and before the long asphalt ribbon of Highway 395 cut through it.
Download or read book The fiend s delight by Dod Grile written by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish and Indian place names of California written by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book believes that every placename contains its unique history and romantics. By viewing toponyms as footprints of the distant epochs, Nellie Sanchez collects the names of the Spanish and Indian origin in the areas around San-Francisco and Los-Angeles and provides a fascinating historical insight into their roots. For example, a reader learns that a Mercy River obtained its name, as it was the first river met by thirsty men who had traveled over 40 miles over a dry valley.
Download or read book The Life of Bret Harte written by Henry C. Merwin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
