Kansas Weapon Wolves
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780451214751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFargo fights off a pack of flatland marauders!
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When the Wolf Came
Author: Mary Jane Warde
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1610755308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas, they had no way to escape a conflict not of their choosing--and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war in the Indian Territory involved almost every resident, killed many civilians as well as soldiers, left the country stripped and devastated, and cost Indian nations millions of acres of land. Using a solid foundation of both published and unpublished sources, including the records of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek nations, Mary Jane Warde details how the coming of the war set off a wave of migration into neighboring Kansas, the Red River Valley, and Texas. She describes how Indian Territory troops in Unionist regiments or as Confederate allies battled enemies--some from their own nations--in the territory and in neighboring Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. And she shows how post-war land cessions forced by the federal government on Indian nations formerly allied with the Confederacy allowed the removal of still more tribes to the Indian Territory, leaving millions of acres open for homesteads, railroads, and development in at least ten states. Enhanced by maps and photographs from the Oklahoma Historical Society's photographic archives, When the Wolf Came will be welcomed by both general readers and scholars interested in the signal public events that marked that tumultuous era and the consequences for the territory's tens of thousands of native peoples.
Because It Is So Beautiful
Author: Robert Leonard Reid
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1619029766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein–Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn’t think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collection, Reid distinguishes himself from many science–based nature writers, using the natural world as a springboard for speculations and musings on the numinous and the sacred, injustice, homelessness, the treatment of Native Peoples in the United States, and what pushes mountaineers to climb. Ranging in their settings from eastern New Mexico to northern Alaska, Reid’s essays illustrate his belief that the American West is worth celebrating and caring for. Taking its title from an affecting speech given by renowned author Barry Lopez, Because It Is So Beautiful is a response to desperate questions surrounding America’s wildlands. Lopez’s words resonated with the young mountaineer–musician–mathematician Robert Leonard Reid, who was struggling to understand his relationship to the world, to find his vision as a writer. What he learned on that long–ago evening is knit throughout the nineteen pieces in the collection, which include essays from Reid’s previous books Arctic Circle, Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, and America, New Mexico; three essays that appear here in print for the first time; as well as revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Touchstone, The Progressive, and elsewhere.
The Trailsman #283
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-05-03
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1101165855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFargo crosses calibers with a mining murderer… With a reputation like his, Skye Fargo knows that trouble doesn’t need a map to find him. So when he’s hired to blaze a trail through the mountains to a fresh gold strike, he’s not too surprised when a pair of bushwhackers tries to shoot him out of his saddle. The ambushers’ trail leads Fargo to Denver City, where he ends up caught in an escalating war between the local miners looking to make a life for themselves – and a claim-jumping businessman who doesn’t take no for an answer. And before the Trailsman is through, he’s going to sift a motherlode of lead from a river of blood…
Literary Afterlife
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 078645721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an encyclopedic work, arranged by broad categories and then by original authors, of literary pastiches in which fictional characters have reappeared in new works after the deaths of the authors that created them. It includes book series that have continued under a deceased writer's real or pen name, undisguised offshoots issued under the new writer's name, posthumous collaborations in which a deceased author's unfinished manuscript is completed by another writer, unauthorized pastiches, and "biographies" of literary characters. The authors and works are entered under the following categories: Action and Adventure, Classics (18th Century and Earlier), Classics (19th Century), Classics (20th Century), Crime and Mystery, Espionage, Fantasy and Horror, Humor, Juveniles (19th Century), Juveniles (20th Century), Poets, Pulps, Romances, Science Fiction and Westerns. Each original author entry includes a short biography, a list of original works, and information on the pastiches based on the author's characters.
Old Times' Sake
Author: James Reasoner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1605430110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trailsman #281
Author: Jon Sharpe
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1101167025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSkye Fargo fights fire with fire! When Skye Fargo stops in the tiny town of Chico Springs, New Mexico, the last thing he expects is to be run out of town in a blaze of fire and bullets, with every gun in the territory out to hang him for arson and murder. And his troubles are only beginning. Seems there’s a madman on the loose, leaving a trail of charred bodies in his wake. But this madman is getting paid for his savage killing spree—and his employers want him to keep doing his job…while letting Fargo take the blame! Now, the Trailsman must clear his name, uncover a sinister plot to do him in, and take on a twisted killer who lives for the pleasure of delivering fiery pain…
The Great American Wolf
Author: Bruce Hampton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-11-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780805055283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than 300 years, the wolf was North America's most reviled beast, pursued to the brink of extinction throughout the United States. Then, within the last half-century, public opinion changed and the wolf became the symbol of the wilderness, tolerated and even desired over much of its former range. insert. 2 maps.
Wolf
Author: Garry Marvin
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1861899807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans. Indigenous hunting societies originally respected the wolf as a fellow hunter, but with the domestication of animals the wolf became regarded as an enemy due to its attacks on livestock. Wolves, as a result, developed a reputation as creatures of evil. In children’s literature, they were depicted as the intruder from the wild who preys on the innocent. And in popular culture, the wolf became the creature that evil humans can transform into—the dreaded werewolf. Fear of this enigmatic creature, Marvin shows, led to an attempt to eradicate it as a species. However, with the development of scientific understanding of wolves and their place in ecological systems and the growth of popular environmentalism, the wolf has been rethought and reimagined. The wolf now has a legion of new supporters who regard it as a charismatic creature of the newly valued wild and wilderness. Marvin investigates the latest scientific understanding of the wolf, as well as its place in literature, history, and folklore, offering insights into our changing attitudes towards wolves.
The Old Gray Wolf
Author: James D. Doss
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781250034731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColorado rancher and investigator Charlie Moon accidentally kills a purse snatcher with ties to the mob. With an assassin on his way, the FBI close behind, and a new P.I. bringing up the rear, Doss adds a raucous story to his wild and witty western mystery series.
