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Book Lone Star 120 santa F

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1992-08-01
  • ISBN : 1101169176
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 120 santa F written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a train ride from hell, Jessie and Ki track a deadly duo of fake lawmen! When a duo of duplicitous criminals posing as lawmen terrorizes a trainload of passengers and attacks Ki, leaving him for dead, Jesse and Ki pick themselves up and set out to bring the fake marshals to justice.

Book Annual Session of the Southwest Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Download or read book Annual Session of the Southwest Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by Methodist Episcopal Church. Conferences. Southwest Kansas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Westerns and the Trail of Tradition

Download or read book Westerns and the Trail of Tradition written by Barrie Hanfling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, to the dismay of many, at one of its lowest points. Beginning with 1929 and the advent of talkies (In Old Arizona), the author discusses the cultural and industry trends, the directors, producers, studios and especially the stars, and looks at the ways in which their personalities (and financial ups and downs) affected the way westerns were shot. The improvements in technology through the years, the trick horses, the fistfight choreography, the evolution of plotlines--these are fascinating indicators of the way Americans themselves were changing.

Book The Whole Story

Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

Book A Lone Star Cowboy

Download or read book A Lone Star Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1922, one of Santa Fe, New Mexico's, most colorful and famous residents was Charles Angelo Siringo (1855-1928), popularly known as "the cowboy detective." Siringo's experiences as the quintessential cowboy and determined detective helped romanticize the West and its myth of the American cowboy.

Book Mexican Americans

Download or read book Mexican Americans written by Michael J. Schroeder and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Mexican immigrants reshaped the US? What is their history and culture? Why did they leave their homeland? Focusing on the human side of the story, this work probes these questions by tracing the lives of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people. Featuring photographs, it points the way to a journey into the Mexican-American experience.

Book Lone Star Politics

Download or read book Lone Star Politics written by Ken Collier and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday government. Explore the state's rich political tradition with Lone Star Politics as this local author team explains who gets what and how. Utilizing the comparative method, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, and Julie Harrelson-Stephens set Texas in context with other states' constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions as they delve into the evolution of its politics. Critical thinking questions and unvarnished "Winners and Losers" discussions guide students toward understanding Texas government and assessing the state's political landscape. The Sixth Edition expands its coverage on civil rights in the state, as well as contemporary issues highlighting the push-pull relationship between the state and federal and local governments.

Book Son of the Old West

Download or read book Son of the Old West written by Nathan Ward and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic narrative of the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo No figure in the Old West lived or shaped its history more fully than Charlie Siringo, as Nathan Ward reveals in his colorful portrait of this epic era and one of its primary protagonists. Born in Matagorda, Texas in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative “beeves” business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north to the burgeoning Midwest Plains states’ cattle and railroad towns, inevitably crossing paths with such legendary figures as Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, and Shanghai Pierce. In his early thirties he joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s Denver office, using a variety of aliases to investigate violent labor disputes and infiltrate outlaw gangs such as Butch Cassidy’s train robbing Wild Bunch. As brave as he was clever, he was often saved by his cowboy training as he traveled to places the law had not yet reached. Siringo’s bestselling, landmark 1885 autobiography, A Texas Cowboy, helped make the lowly cowboy a heroic symbol of the American West. His later memoir, A Cowboy Detective, influenced early hard-boiled crime novelists for whom the detective story was really the cowboy story in an urban setting. Sadly sued into debt by the Pinkertons determined to prevent their sources and methods from being revealed, Siringo eventually sold his beloved New Mexico ranch and moved to Los Angeles, where he advised Hollywood filmmakers, and especially actor William S. Hart, on their early 1920s Westerns, watching the frontier history he had known first-hand turned into romantic legend on the screen. In old age, Charlie Siringo was called “Ulysses of the Wild West” for the long journey he took across the western frontier. Son of the Old West brings him and his legendary world vividly to life.

Book The Official Railway Guide

Download or read book The Official Railway Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Santa Fe Railway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Glischinski
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781616731670
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe Railway written by Steve Glischinski and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Airman s Guide

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1618 pages

Download or read book Airman s Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amtrak in the Heartland

Download or read book Amtrak in the Heartland written by Craig Sanders and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research . . . his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving." —Herbert H. Harwood, author of The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story and Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers A complete history of Amtrak operations in the heartland, this volume describes conditions that led to the passage of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, the formation and implementation of Amtrak in 1970–71, and the major factors that have influenced Amtrak operations since its inception. More than 140 photographs and 3 maps bring to life the story as told by Sanders. This book will become indispensable to train enthusiasts through its examination of Americans' long-standing fascination with passenger trains. When it began in 1971, many expected Amtrak to last about three years before going out of existence for lack of business, but the public's continuing support of funding for Amtrak has enabled it and the passenger train to survive despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

Book From Sail to Steam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780292725034
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book From Sail to Steam written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The maritime history of Texas is a critical but overlooked topic. This book is a significant contribution, a very nice new synthesis. It will be very useful for a general audience." —J. Barto Arnold III, State Marine Archeologist, Texas Historical Commission The Gulf Coast has been a principal place of entry into Texas ever since Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored these shores in 1519. Yet, nearly five hundred years later, the maritime history of Texas remains largely untold. In this book, Richard V. Francaviglia offers a comprehensive overview of Texas' merchant and military marine history, drawn from his own extensive collection of maritime history materials, as well as from research in libraries and museums around the country. Based on recent discoveries in nautical archaeology, Francaviglia tells the stories of the Spanish flotilla that wrecked off Padre Island in 1554 and of La Salle's flagship Belle, which sank in 1687. He explores the role of the Texas Navy in the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836 and during the years of the Texas Republic and also describes the Civil War battles at Galveston and Sabine Pass. Finally, he recounts major developments of the nineteenth century, concluding with the disastrous Galveston Hurricane in 1900. More than one hundred illustrations, many never before published, complement the text.

Book Minerals Yearbook

Download or read book Minerals Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mineral Resources of the United States

Download or read book Mineral Resources of the United States written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: