Download or read book Wagons West written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From coast to coast, the railroads offered limitless opportunities to an ever growing number of workers and dreamers. In the parched Utah territory, brawny laborers, engineers and immigrants blasted tunnels through solid rock and laid countless miles of shining steel rails to link cities to frontiers, and frontiers to the future. But some would stop at nothing to halt the iron wheels of progress: rampaging tribes with rifles blazing, unscrupulous ranchers fueled by greed, and most dangerous of all - the unforgiving land itself. A new destiny awaits those brave enough to claim it.
Download or read book Montana written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly repackaged edition of the 10th book in the acclaimed Wagons West saga, readers can rediscover America--in the sprawling epic journey that forged a nation's destiny. Reissue.
Download or read book Oregon written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by In the Hands of a Child. This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagons West Series #
Download or read book Nevada written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General Lee Blake must outsmart Confederate saboteurs and British agents in order to guarantee that a Nevada silver shipment safely reaches Union troops in Missouri.
Download or read book Wagons West Texas written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oregon volunteers led by Colonel Lee Blake and a wagon train from Memphis carrying his wife Cathy meet in Texas to aid the cause of Texas statehood.
Download or read book Wagons West Idaho written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th book in Ross' "New York Times"-bestselling Wagons West series takes readers to the wild lawless region beyond the River of No Return. Reissue.
Download or read book Interwoven written by Sallie Reynolds Matthews and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records one woman's response to pioneer life in Texas at the turn of the century.
Download or read book Wyoming written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a weary band of pioneers makes its way by wagon train across the Great Plains, romance blossoms between wagon scout Whip Holt and the beautiful Indian maiden, La-ena.
Download or read book Washington written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toby Holt, a wounded Civil War veteran, moves West to claim a homestead in Washington, disastrously marries a scheming woman, and encounters profiteers eager to steal his land.
Download or read book Wagons West Colorado written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Lee Blake accepts an assignment from President Buchanan to find out how much gold is present in Colorado and make sure the territory remains part of the Union.
Download or read book Thalia A Texas Trilogy written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Most Beautiful Books of the Year" The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters. *Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.
Download or read book Swept Away Trouble in Texas Book 1 written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter, Romance, and Action Abound in This New Series from Mary Connealy Swept away when her wagon train attempts a difficult river crossing, Ruthy MacNeil isn't all that upset at being separated from the family who raised her. All they've ever done is work her to the bone. She prayed for a chance to get away, and then came the raging flood. Alive but disoriented, she's rescued by Luke Stone...so unfortunately, there are more chances to die in her immediate future. Luke is heading home to reclaim the ranch stolen from his family. But the men who killed his father are working hard to ensure Luke doesn't make it alive. He has no choice but to keep moving. Still, he can't just abandon Ruthy, so she'll have to come along. His friends--a ragtag group of former Civil War soldiers--take a fast interest in the pretty gal. Luke thinks that's rather rude--he's the one who found her. And the more time he spends around the hard-working young woman who is a mighty good cook, the more he finds himself thinking beyond revenge and toward a different future. For the first time in a long time, Luke is tempted to turn from his destructive path and be swept away by love.
Download or read book Wagons West written by Frank McLynn and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book The Time it Never Rained written by Elmer Kelton and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repub. of Doubleday 1973 edition, with new introductions by Kelton and an afterword.
Download or read book Sunset Embrace written by Sandra Brown and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this steamy post-Civil War saga, the most stubborn woman headed for Texas meets her match in a mystery man with a dark past . . . and together, they must take down a common enemy. No woman on the wagon train trek to Texas was more alluring than Lydia Langston. No man was more rugged than Ross Coleman . . . and both were running from the past. Lydia once vowed that no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman has stayed true to his wife, who died giving birth to their son. But despite their challenges, Lydia and Ross now find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them . . . and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit a man's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.
Download or read book Circle the Wagons written by Gregory F. Michno and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne’s face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.
Download or read book Westward written by Dana Fuller Ross and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping a brutal blood feud in the fertile Ohio Valley, brothers Clay and Jefferson Holt strike out for new territories, unaware that a shadowy killer is following their every move.
