Slocum and the Timber King

Slocum and the Timber King

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780425131381

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Christian Nye vows to be rich, and in timber-rich Seattle, only hardworking loggers stand between Nye and his goals. Nye doesn't realize Slocum will side with the lumberjacks. And Slocum knows the one language Nye understands fluently: hot lead and blazing guns.


Slocum and the Sharpshooter

Slocum and the Sharpshooter

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780425133033

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Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed images: two figures embracing in front of a church, a woman firing a rifle, standing between two men, and a larger image of a man's face.


Slocum and the Bushwhackers

Slocum and the Bushwhackers

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780425134016

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Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: man wearing western hat and red bandana holding a rifle in his proper left hand; bare-chested man wearing blue pants embracing a woman wearing a pink dress; two men in a rocky outcropping shooting at each other.


Slocum's War

Slocum's War

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780425132739

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John Slocum is hot on the trail of a low-down, hard case who's making a killing robbing railroad workers--and whose aim is to join up with a murdering gang of outlaws. But Lady Luck turns her back on Slocum. When his horse breaks a leg, he finds himself caught in a firestorm of hot lead.


Slocum and the River Chase

Slocum and the River Chase

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780425132142

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The bounty hunters are crawling out of the woodwork -- as Slocum fights to save a general's life.


Slocum and the Railroad Baron

Slocum and the Railroad Baron

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780425131879

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It's a rough ride for Slocum when he's caught in the cross fire of two rival railway gangs.


Slocum 314: Slocum and the Deadwood Deal

Slocum 314: Slocum and the Deadwood Deal

Author: Jake Logan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-03-29

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1101166630

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They’ve got the wrong man. But Slocum’s sure as hell got the right woman… When John Slocum rides through Bender’s Gap, a local posse thinks they’ve found their man. Some lowdown smooth talker has cuckolded more than a few of the town’s husbands—and, unfortunately for Slocum, he’s the spittin’ image of the small-town Casanova… To save his hide, Slocum takes off on a mission of mercy. A stranger has written a letter, begging for his help. And Slocum’s luck turns when “J. Steward” turns out to be a woman in need—of Slocum’s tender loving care…


Concise Major 21st-Century Writers

Concise Major 21st-Century Writers

Author: Tracey L. Matthews

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 9780787675448

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Presents alphabetized profiles of approximately seven hundred authors commonly studied in high school and college English courses, describing their lives and careers, listing their works, and providing mailing addresses.


A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World

A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World

Author: Stan Grayson

Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0884485501

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The product of years of research, A Man for All Oceans is the most comprehensive biography of Slocum ever published, and the first written by a small-boat sailor. Author/historian Grayson uncovered previously unknown original source materials to shed new light on one of history’s greatest sailors while answering questions that have been asked ever since the publication of Sailing Alone. In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum’s book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum’s Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum’s uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor’s perspective to Slocum’s solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau’s Walden and shows that Slocum’s simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today’s emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum’s world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.