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Book Blandina Segale  the Nun Who Rode on Billy the Kid

Download or read book Blandina Segale the Nun Who Rode on Billy the Kid written by Gale Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Cooper's Blandina Segale, The Nun Who Rode on Billy the Kid: Sleuthing a Foisted Frontier Fable, in hardcover and paperback, 548 pages, exposes, as a self-serving hoax, the published claims of a 19th century nun - currently in running for sainthood - that she befriended famous Billy the Kid to lessen his outlawry.

Book Thunder in the West

Download or read book Thunder in the West written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West. Billy the Kid—born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney—emerges from these pages in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion, and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. As we move from his peripatetic early years through the wild West to his fatal involvement in the Lincoln County Wars, we see the impressionable boy give way to the conflicted young man and, finally, to the opportunistic and often amoral outlaw who was out for himself, for revenge, and for whatever he could steal along the way. Against this deftly drawn portrait, Etulain considers the stories and myths spawned by Billy’s life and death. Beginning with the dime novels featuring Billy the Kid, even during his lifetime, and ranging across the myriad newspaper accounts, novels, and movies that alternately celebrated his outlaw life and condemned his exploits, Etulain offers a uniquely informed view of the changing interpretations that have shaped and reshaped the reputation of this enduring icon of the Old West. In his portrayal, Billy the Kid lives on, not as a cut-throat desperado or a young charmer but as both—hero and villain, myth and man, fully realized in this twenty-first-century interpretation.

Book Waxing On

Download or read book Waxing On written by Ralph Macchio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller! Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn’t been a week Ralph Macchio hasn’t heard friendly shouts of “Wax on, wax off” or “Sweep the leg!” Now, with Macchio reprising his role as Daniel LaRusso in the #1 ranked Netflix show Cobra Kai, he is finally ready to look back at this classic movie and give the fans something they’ve long craved. The book will be Ralph Macchio’s celebratory reflection on the legacy of The Karate Kid in film, pop culture, and his own life. It will be a comprehensive look at a film that shaped him as much as it influenced the world. Macchio will share an insider's perspective of the untold story behind his starring role—the innocence of the early days, the audition process, and the filmmaking experience--as well as take readers through the birth of some of the film’s most iconic moments. Ultimately, the book centers on the film itself, focusing on the reason that the characters and themes have endured in such a powerful way and how these personal experiences have impacted Macchio's life. It will bring readers back to the day they met Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi for the first time, but will also provide a fascinating lens into how our pasts shape all of us and how the past can come back to enrich one's life in surprising and wonderful ways.

Book Classic Cottages

Download or read book Classic Cottages written by Cindy Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Cottages lifestyle relaxes the soul and welcomes family and friends to retreat in a comfortable space of simplicity and charm.

Book The Legend of Russian Bill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Lapidus
  • Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781432838386
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Legend of Russian Bill written by Richard Lapidus and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880 a tall, handsome man rides into Tombstone on a pure white horse. Dressed in fringed white buckskins, he has long yellow hair and a mustache. One of his pearl handled Colts bears four notches. He buys everyone drinks, so they listen to his wild claims that his mother is Russian royalty that he is personally acquainted with President Grant and once shook hands with Sherman and Custer. His story is a journey through the mining camps and ranches of Arizona and New Mexico that begins with hero worship and ends with unexpected love.

Book Montana

Download or read book Montana written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Image of the Road in Literature  Media  and Society

Download or read book The Image of the Road in Literature Media and Society written by Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Always Discerning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph A. Tetlow
  • Publisher : Loyola Press
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 0829444572
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Always Discerning written by Joseph A. Tetlow and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, First Place: Spirituality: Soft Cover Pope Francis has explicitly and repeatedly stated that discernment is essential for anyone who is a follower of Jesus Christ. But what, exactly, is discernment? Why must we do it? When do we do it? How should we do it? In Always Discerning, Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, delves thoughtfully into these questions and shares how lay Christians can implement discernment into not only life’s big decisions but also into the everyday, more mundane choices we constantly find ourselves having to make. Guided by Scripture, Pope Francis’s own words, and Ignatian spirituality, Fr. Tetlow helps us see that the dynamic interrelationship of head, heart, and hands is crucial to the discernment process. Ultimately, Always Discerning provides a powerful and highly practical way for the “people of God” to pray in the new millennium, while teaching us how to recognize God’s will in every area of our lives and respond to it in joy and love.

Book Billy the Kid s Pretenders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gale Cooper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08-31
  • ISBN : 9780998865577
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Billy the Kid s Pretenders written by Gale Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Cooper's Billy the Kid's Pretenders, Brushy Bill and John Miller, in hardcover and paperback, 348 pages, debunks old-timer Billy the Kid imposters, "Brushy Bill" Roberts and John Miller, by comparing their tall tales to actual history, and links their hoaxes to the later "Billy the Kid Case" forensic hoax.

Book One Unicorn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gale Cooper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-06
  • ISBN : 9780984505470
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book One Unicorn written by Gale Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE UNICORN, at 48 pages with elaborate full-color illustrations, transforms Medieval unicorn mythology into a fairytale of innocence lost and regained in love’s eternal cycle. In the thirtieth year of his reign, a kind king gets a sad mystical prophecy: he cannot protect his beloved young daughter’s innocence. The next day, that princess finds a perfect flower, whose thorn-prick brings her first tears. From a droplet of her blood and her teardrop, materializes a unicorn. She secretly meets that loving unicorn until her first lie ends her innocence and leads to his killing by waiting hunters. Ultimately, a unicorn returns to her own daughter, after the princess becomes queen. Unicorns appear in ancient Greek writings, in the Judeo-Christian Bible, and in heraldry. Most famous are Medieval images, epitomized by two sets of tapestries depicting a pure maiden and the hunted unicorn, having overtones of holy martyrdom. Seven such tapestries are in the Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York. Another six unicorn tapestries are in the Musée de Cluny in Paris, France. The author and illustrator, GALE COOPER, is a Harvard educated, M.D. psychiatrist, who has written and illustrated other books on fantasy, animal anatomy, and human interest; and has written both fiction and non-fiction books on the Old West. Other Books by the Author: Unicorn Moon; Meerly A. Bair; Inside Animals; Introduction to Animal Anatomy; Anatomy of the Frog; Anatomy of the Guinea Pig; Joseph Naiman and his Family; Animal Peop≤ Joy of the Birds: A Novel; Billy and Paulita: A Novel; Billy the Kid’s Writings, Words, and Wit; MegaHoax: The Strange Plot to Exhume Billy the Kid and Become President; Billy the Kid’s Pretenders: Brushy Bill and John Miller; and Pardon for Billy the Kid: An Analysis.

Book Cincinnati Magazine

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Book The West of Billy the Kid

Download or read book The West of Billy the Kid written by Frederick Nolan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the life Billy lived and the places and people he knew. This unique assemblage is complemented by maps and a full biography that incorporates Nolan’s original research, adding fresh depth and detail to the Kid’s story and to the lives and backgrounds of those who witnessed the events of his life and death. Here are the faces of Billy’s family, friends, and enemies: John Tunstall and John Chisum, Sheriff Pat Garrett and Governor Lew Wallace, Jimmy Dolan and Bob Olinger, Alexander McSween and Paulita Maxwell, and many others. Here are Santa Fe and Silver City as Billy the Kid saw them, Lincoln, Las Vegas, and Tascosa. Recent photographs show the Kid’s haunts as they appear today.

Book Love Poems from God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Various
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2002-09-24
  • ISBN : 9780142196120
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Love Poems from God written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz One of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays “All kinds of beautiful poetry.” –Hoda Kotb In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz—brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz—these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.

Book The Story of the Santa Maria Institute

Download or read book The Story of the Santa Maria Institute written by Anna Catherine Minogue and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Hell on a Fast Horse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Lee Gardner
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-02-09
  • ISBN : 0061969532
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Book Shot All to Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Lee Gardner
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 006224888X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Shot All to Hell written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West’s most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield’s First National Bank and back out on the streets to square off with heroic citizens who risked their lives to defend justice in Minnesota. With compelling details that chronicle the two-week chase that followed—the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody final shootout on the Watonwan River, Shot All to Hell is a galloping true tale of frontier justice from the author of To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Lee Gardner.

Book The Authentic Life of Billy  the Kid

Download or read book The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid written by Pat Floyd Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: