Download or read book No Need for a Gunfighter written by Robert J. Conley and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town of Asininity feels it's gotten too respectable to have a gunfighter as its sheriff, but they'll have to kill Barjack to get him to give up his lucrative position.
Download or read book Gunfighter Without Legs written by D. T. Gray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist, English teacher, small engine mechanic, welder, farmer, carpenter, public health worker, and milkman: these are jobs D.T. Gray has held. But writing is where he found his voice. As the gunfighter struggled to overcome his handicap for his place in the world, so, also, his author struggled with bipolar disorder to find his place in life. His audience will benefit from his experience.
Download or read book No Man s Land written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY In his authentic, powerfully told tales of the American frontier, William W. Johnstone has defined the Western hero and established an action-packed series that ranks among the bestselling in print. In this rugged new novel, Johnstone sets his sights on the one place that was too wild even for the Wild West . . . No Man’s Land Kansas doesn’t want it. Neither does Texas. The 35-mile wide strip of land destined to become the Oklahoma panhandle is a place unlike any other on the frontier: with no laws, no rules, and a powerful attraction for killers, looters, and fugitives. Frank Morgan, a gunfighter feared by all and hated by some, has been warned to stay the hell out of “the strip.” But warnings never did work well on Morgan, and he’s more determined than ever to stay—when an ambush nearly takes his life. Soon, in a remote cabin in the heart of No Man’s Land, Morgan will wake up to discover that he has just cause and a burning need to go out and fight. All he lacks is an ally—in a place where all his enemies want him dead . . .
Download or read book Anything for Billy written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning "absolute master of 'Western' prose," comes McMurtry's electrifying take on the classic tale of Billy the Kid, the teenage outlaw of the American Old West. The first time I saw Billy, he came walking out of a cloud... Welcome to the wild, hot-blooded adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape their way into the shining memories of Western myth. Surrounded by a splendid cast of characters that only Larry McMurtry could create, Billy charges headlong toward his fate, to become in death the unforgettable desperado he aspires to be in life. Not since Lonesome Dove has there been such a rich, exciting novel about the cowboys, Indians, and gunmen who live at the blazing heart of the American dream.
Download or read book A Gunfighter s Gold written by Cheyenne West and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight-laced Emily is building a new life for herself breeding horses with her father on his cattle ranch in Jackson, California. However, shes angry, and hiding dark secrets about her failed marriage. When she finds herself in gunfighter, Garrett Stones arms shes even angrier. Garrett Stone rode into town with a saddlebag of secrets he is hiding from everyone in Jackson. As far as everyone knows hes a famous gunfighter, hired to guard Gold shipments for the Kennedy Mine, and has a desire to play Poker. However, when Garrett is forced to take in his late sisters two children he and Emily are just barely on speaking terms. Garrett unknowingly by reputation foils a kidnapping attempt and in turn is ambushed by six of Kennedys men. Emilys father, Jed Thomas decides to hide Garrett at their vast cattle ranch forcing both of them to face their physical attraction and desire for one another. Jed has also been keeping a secret from his two children for some time now and when it is revealed it could blow the family apart. Gunfighters Gold is a true western romance with an Old South Flare, set in the Gold Rush town of Jackson Ca. in the 1860s. This book will have you laughing one moment, crying the next, with plenty of intrigue, action and romance to keep you turning the pages.
Download or read book The Confederate Farmers written by Gene Gulliver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, veterans of the war returned home to their farming communities along the Missouri-Kansas border. They were looking for peace and tranquility; what they found was turmoil. Forced to leave their homes, four of these men came to Independence and returned to farming. Things were going well for these former confederate soldiers and their families until Bruce Yeager came to town with a carpetbag, $100,000 and a confidential map showing where a proposed railroad line was being planned. Bruce planned to acquire the land that the railroad was going to pass through. To accomplish this plan, he befriended the mayor and hired a gunman named Tony Creek. He used the mayor to acquire the land by the powers of eminent domain and used Tony Creek to enforce his desires. When Bruce attempted to take land from these farmers he found out that they were not ordinary farmers. These men were veterans with a shameful, dark secret.
Download or read book Retribution written by Douglas Orahood and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, betrayal, greed, and conspiracy are the grievous ingredients in this story about twelve year-old Jake Tanners witness to the brutal murder of his mother and father by five seemingly desperate men. Now, eight years later and grown to manhood, Jakes promise to his dead father to find and kill the five men is hampered only by his younger sister, Emily, who also witnessed the murders and has been hopelessly traumatized. Through a chance encounter with a beautiful young woman, Jake is finally free to begin his long awaited search to find the five men and the motive behind the murders. With the help of a federal marshal, and using his own ingenuity, Jakes search for retribution does not ignore even the slightest hint of each killers whereabouts. The resulting capture of each killer is a unique, dangerous, and compelling story in and of its self that slowly reveals the astounding motive for the murders. A motive that is far more sinister than anyone could possibly conceive. A murder so far reaching, and of such epic proportion, that it stains with blood the hallways of our nations capital.
Download or read book Requiem for a Gunfighter written by William Davis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUMMARY This is a western love story. It is the tale of a man named Jake who, defeated and disillusioned by the horrors of the War Between the States, heads west with his brother to create a better life. However, his refusal to back down from confrontation, which served him well in war, leads to a life of violence. Through his skill with firearms and the quickness of his reflexes, he acquires a reputation as a dangerous foe. When a writer publishes a fictitious account of his exploits, everyone sees a cold-bloodied killer and no one, except his brother, sees a man of honor trying to come to terms with what he has done and who he is. Only through the love of a woman and her understanding of the demons that drive him does he begin to put his life back together again and find, among the constant battles for survival, a life worth living.
Download or read book Art and Politics in Have Gun Will Travel written by Kathleen L. Spencer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1955 to 1964, American television was awash in adult Westerns, as much as one quarter of all prime-time programming. During its six seasons (1957-1963), Have Gun-Will Travel was recognized as one of the best shows on television--politically the most liberal, and intellectually and aesthetically the most sophisticated, largely because of Richard Boone. This work places the series in its larger historical context, exploring why the Western was so popular at the time, and examines how the early history of television affected the shows. A brief biography of Boone is included, revealing how his values and experiences shaped the series. Behind-the-scenes life on the show is compared with that of its most popular competitors, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train and Bonanza. Major themes and patterns of the shows are compared, in particular the figures of the lawman, the gunfighter and the outlaw, racial and ethnic minorities, and women.
Download or read book Accidental Gunfighter written by Donovan Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As winter sets in and work is scarce in 1870âs Wyoming, cowhand Rusty Stewart sets out in search of his sister Ruthann, the only family he has left. Heâs heard she settled in Texas. When two outlaws attempt to rob the saloon where he stops for a meal, Rusty protects himselfâand kills a man. Though he vows never to kill again, the word spreads and one tinhorn gunslinger after another comes to Canyon City to find if he is faster than the âCanyon Kid,â as Rusty is now dubbed. What they find is death. But how long before one shows up who is faster than Rusty?
Download or read book Day of the Hired Gun written by Ethan Flagg and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired gunfighter Cole Jardine has decided to call time on his dangerous profession when he receives a mysterious job offer from the Colorado town of Red Mesa. All set to ignore it, his partner Waco Santee suddenly arrives back at their cabin in Wyoming to announce that the army are hot on their heels. With minutes to spare, flight across the border is their only option. The pair succeed in evading pursuit and then head their separate ways. But nothing is ever that simple. A bushwhacker attempts to remove Cole but fails. Arriving in Red Mesa, he is then challenged to a shoot-out by rancher Ed Clifford who claims the gunslinger has been hired by an unscrupulous crook who wants to steal his land. Which faction will the hired gun support? And how will he react when his old partner turns up backing the opposing side in the dispute?
Download or read book Other Covenants written by Harry Turtledove and published by Ben Yehuda Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.
Download or read book Age of the Gunfighter written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph G. Rosa's vivid and expertly written tale of this violent time combines contemporary accounts with meticulous historical research and an unjaundiced appraisal of the facts. Telling the story of every major gunfighter, peace officer, and outlaw of the West, Rosa places them within the context of a violent frontier and the coming of law and order. Complementing the text are twenty-seven outstanding color spreads featuring firearms from the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (Los Angeles) and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody). Many of the spreads contain guns owned and used by such well-known individuals as Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Frank James, and Harvey Logan.
Download or read book The Last Gunfighter written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest Western adventure by "USA Today"-bestselling author William W. Johnstone, legendary lawman Frank Morgan returns to the town he once called home and ends up in the middle of a killing ground. Original.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Lawmen Outlaws and Gunfighters written by Leon Claire Metz and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.
Download or read book The Western written by David Lusted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
Download or read book Gunslinger written by Edward J. Knight and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate Wild West where humans and monsters coexist, a teenage sharpshooter and her revolver must defend a fort from a deadly dragon. They say girls can't be gunslingers. Beth’s gonna prove ’em wrong. Even if she has to fight a dragon to do it. It won’t be easy to prove her worth while working as a hotel chambermaid in Golden City, Colorado. The famous battle that defeated the giants was fought thirteen years ago. The trolls remain confined east of the Mississippi. No one’s spotted a harpy since 1875. But Beth trained with the legends: the ghost of Calamity Jane gave her the gun, Wild Bill Hickok taught her to shoot. And at sixteen, she’s ready to make a name of her own. So, when strange assailants murder a visiting Arapaho shaman, Beth straps on her Colt .45. Without waiting for help, she must find the killers, defeat their dragon, and prevent the destruction of the West.
