Download or read book Danville Stagecoach Robbery written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Colebrook hasn't travelled to Nebraska looking for adventure - he wants revenge. Travelling on the Danville stagecoach as a young lad, he survived the robbery but was badly wounded. Twenty years later, determined to uncover the truth, he gets a lead to a frontier town where he finds the townspeople are being cheated by a man running for election. Jason soon falls foul of a local gang, but also falls for a beautiful redhead only to discover she is entangled in a network of corruption, evictions and underhand dealings. Although help arrives unexpectedly from the local hotel owner's daughter, Jason has to use all his cunning, determination and gun skills to unmask his quarry and see justice is done.
Download or read book Two Trees Hollow written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweetspring is a quiet western town until an itinerant gang of robbers causes havoc. Wesley Vernon, a twenty-four year-old mine engineer, thinks he recognises the robbers' leader as a childhood friend and determines to bring him to justice. Before he sets off he is devastated to learn that his intended bride, Maddy, has been promised to a wealthy banker from Boston. Never could Wes have imagined how his moral courage would be tested as he faces gun battles, bank raids, a prison breakout and coming face-to-face with his childhood friend, and then incredibly with Maddy's suitor. Further complications ensue with a chance meeting with Alice, a devious beauty, who plays a dangerous game of her own.
Download or read book Two Trees Hollow written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweetspring is a quiet western town until an itinerant gang of robbers causes havoc. Wesley Vernon, a twenty-four year-old mine engineer, thinks he recognizes the robbers' leader as a childhood friend and determines to bring him to justice. Before he sets off he is devastated to learn that his intended bride, Maddy, has been promised to a wealthy banker from Boston. Never could Wes have imagined how his moral courage would be tested as he faces gun battles, bank raids, a prison breakout and coming face-to-face with his childhood friend, and then incredibly with Maddy's suitor. Further complications ensue with a chance meeting with Alice, a devious beauty, who plays a dangerous game of her own.
Download or read book A Gold Half Eagle written by Brad Fedden and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of twenty-two Hal Chesterton's world is turned on its head. He could never have guessed a blocked watercourse heralded such a disastrous change to his life. His pa's lucky coin, a gold half eagle, responsible for a stroke of good luck, now bears a bitter fruit. For the first time, Hal has to stand on his own two feet, and the prospects don't look good. Gunfights, loose women and deception play havoc with his search for the culprit. Hot-headed and vengeful, he is not so easily deterred, but falling for a beautiful young woman clouds his judgment.
Download or read book Black Hearts Black Spades written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned after tragic events during a dreadful storm, two young children, Jacob and Rachel Peterson, leave Beckinson in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains for adoption by an uncle and aunt in Chicago. Ten years later, when the opportunity arises to expand his uncle's business, Jacob chooses to set up in Beckinson. Fifteen year-old Rachel remembers nothing of the past and is unaware of the anger that is consuming her brother. Jacob is set on discovering the truth behind the events that took their parents, but Beckinson is now rife with corruption; a degenerate and dangerous town where outlaws walk free. What could Jacob possibly do against that?
Download or read book Baruch Elias written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baruch Elias is a lucky man. At twenty-three he has pretty much everything he wants including the girl he hopes to marry. But life never runs so smooth. When a rider races into the yard with some devastating news, he has to unravel a fire, a family secret, a fatal accident and work out how all that fits together. A pair of ridge riders and a fatal shooting put Baruch in grave danger, while a corrupt lawman complicates everything. Fast on the draw and a crack shot, but headstrong and inexperienced, Baruch lets his heart rule his head and that can only lead to one thing ... more trouble.
Download or read book Chace Hexx written by Frank Chandler and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of twenty-eight, Chace Hexx is in danger of letting life pass him by. Drifting from ranch to ranch, he hones his skills with guns, horses and cattle, but for what purpose? Then, out of the blue, a proposition is made by a friend who turns out to be something rather different. Gunplay, tragedy, murder and disaster suddenly give Chace a new purpose in life. Vengeance is sweet, but the most dangerous task still lies ahead. All his skills are going to be needed searching from Arizona to Colorado, where he falls for a pretty young widow who adds a whole new bunch of problems to his overburdened shoulders. Is there no end to it?
Download or read book Stage coach Days in the Bluegrass written by John Winston Coleman (Jr.) and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stage-Coach Days in the Bluegrass was first published in 1935 by the Standard Press in Louisville, the New York Times reviewer described ""this charming work"" as ""an interesting example of that very useful class of books, local histories, which so rarely get the attention they deserve."" Along with his focus on the development of stage-coach travel, Coleman covers details such as pioneer roads, taverns, travelers' experiences, mail carriers, and the coming of the railroad. This fascinating look at an age gone by is truly a work of regional culture.
Download or read book Chace Hexx written by Frank Chandler and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 28, Chace Hexx is in danger of letting life pass him by. Drifting from ranch to ranch, he hones his skills with guns, horses, and cattle, but for what purpose? Then, out of the blue, a proposition is made by a friend who turns out to be something rather different. Gunplay, tragedy, murder, and disaster suddenly give Chace a new purpose in life. Vengeance is sweet, but the most dangerous task still lies ahead. All his skills are going to be needed searching from Arizona to Colorado, where he falls for a pretty young widow who adds a whole new bunch of problems to his overburdened shoulders. Is there no end to it?
Download or read book Time to Decide written by Frank Chandler and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding to Colorado to investigate a shipment of doctored silver ingots, Trey Cormac comes across a robbery. Scattering the bandits and saving a hostage is what any professional bounty hunter would do, but nothing is quite what it seems. At twenty-five and slightly inexperienced, he lets himself be sweet-talked by a pretty young woman, which lands him in a whole load of trouble. Embarrassed at being such a gullible target, Trey sets out to restore his self-respect. But chasing after the young woman only draws him in deeper. Framed and friendless, he is left to face a hostile jury and a hanging judge. Could things get any worse? Probably.
Download or read book 99 Nooses written by Kale Meggs and published by BLACK OAK MEDIA INC. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1779 and 1896, ninety-eight men and one woman were legally executed by hanging in the state of Illinois. Some were innocent, but most were guilty. Includes the story of H.H. Holmes, the most notorious and evil man to ever walk the streets of Chicago.
Download or read book Quigley s Way written by P McCormac and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying man, Peter Barker asks Sheriff Quigley to deliver a message to his family. Quigley does so, only to find himself the target of range baron Huston McRae, who controls everything in Gila County, including the local sheriff, and doesn't want an outsider nosing around in his affairs. And above all, he doesn't want Quigley helping Noreen Barker, Peter Barker's widow. When McRae's attempted intimidation of Quigley fails, he orders him killed. Quigley sends for his deputy, Murray Fishbourne, and together they take on the local sheriff and the gunslingers McRae sends after them. But as the fighting intensifies, can Quigley and Murray survive?
Download or read book The Mighty Land written by Cliff Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the historical facts and the legends of the Old West, describing its attractions and perils and the heroes, villains, and common folk who, in taming and settling its vastness, created its continuing romance.
Download or read book The Civil War Era and Reconstruction written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.
Download or read book A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War.
Download or read book The Visible Hand written by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.
Download or read book Report Stockton State Hospital Calif 1863 written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
