The Gunsmith's Daughter
The Gunsmith's Daughter

Author: Margaret Sweatman

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781773102399

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1971. Lilac Welsh lives an isolated life with her parents at Rough Rock on the Winnipeg River. Her father, Kal, stern and controlling, has built his wealth by designing powerful guns and ammunition. He's on the cusp of producing a .50 calibre assault rifle that can shoot down an airplane with a single bullet, when a young stranger named Gavin appears at their door, wanting to meet him before enlisting for the war in Vietnam. Gavin's arrival sparks an emotional explosion in Lilac's home and inspires her to begin her own life as a journalist, reporting on the war that's making her family rich. The Gunsmith's Daughter is both a coming-of-age story and an allegorical novel about Canada-US relations. Psychologically and politically astute, and gorgeously written, Margaret Sweatman's portrait of a brilliant gunsmith and his eighteen-year-old daughter tells an engrossing story of ruthless ambition, and one young woman's journey toward independence.

The Complete Short Stories of William Dean Howells: 40+ Tales & Children's Stories (Illustrated)
The Complete Short Stories of William Dean Howells: 40+ Tales & Children's Stories (Illustrated)

Author: William Dean Howells

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2015-12-19

Total Pages: 1013

ISBN-13: 8026848888

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Short Stories of William Dean Howells: 40+ Tales & Children's Stories (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. Table of Contents: Introduction WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS by Charles Dudley Warner Short Stories Christmas Every Day Turkeys Turning the Tables The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express The Pumpkin Glory Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly Adventures in a Boy's Town Life in a Boy's Town Games and Pastimes Glimpses of the Larger World The Last of a Boy's Town A Sleep and a Forgetting The Eidolons of Brooks Alford A Memory that Worked Overtime A Case of Metaphantasmia Editha Braybridge's Offer The Chick of the Easter Egg A Daughter of the Storage A Presentiment Captain Dunlevy's Last Trip The Return to Favor Somebody's Mother The Face at the Window An Experience The Boarders Breakfast is My Best Meal The Mother-Bird The Amigo Black Cross Farm The Critical Bookstore A Feast of Reason City and Country in the Fall Table Talk The Escapade of a Grandfather Self-Sacrifice A Fearful Responsibility At the Sign of the Savage Tonelli's Marriage Buying a Horse Reminiscences and Autobiography A Boy's Town Years of My Youth

The Chanteuse from the East
The Chanteuse from the East

Author: J.R. Roberts

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published:

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 164540952X

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Clarice DuPont is a famous songstress from the east whose manager convinces her it’s time to go west. She does have second thoughts, however, which prompts him to find an escort/bodyguard for her. He decides to ask Clint Adams who finds the request different enough to consider. He comes to New York to meet the manager and Clarice and so begins an interesting trek east, beginning in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, and across the Mississippi. Clint’s talents as both escort and bodyguard are tested and it soon becomes apparent that someone with bad intentions is following them.

Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love

Author: J.R. Roberts

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published:

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1645401790

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In Labyrinth, Texas, Rick Hartman comes to Clint’s hotel, interrupts Clint while he’s with a woman, to tell him there’s a man at Rick’s saloon claiming to be Clint‘s brother. Does Clint Adams have a brother? And, if he does, is this him? Some of the Gunsmith’s family past comes to light, but while the question of whether or not this is his brother is not yet resolved, the man is killed. Clint must not only discover who killed him, but what the man’s true identity might have been.

The Gunsmith's Trade
The Gunsmith's Trade

Author: James B. Whisker

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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This is a history of gunsmithing in America. Although the English guild system regulated the trade in the Mother Country, Americans, as usual, preferred freedom to regulation. This book examines the gunsmithing trade in relation to the militia; apprenticeships; labour; tools and equipment; the Frontier gunsmith; and traitors, criminals, and deserters.

The Gunsmith in Colonial Virginia
The Gunsmith in Colonial Virginia

Author: Harold B. Gill

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780879350086

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The importance of gunsmithing in Virginia during the colonial period is clear. Gunsmiths were found nearly everywhere: in port towns along the coast, in settled inland areas, and - probably the busiest ones - on the frontier. As with most craftsmen, many of these men remain obscure. They left little trace and the records reveal their names only incidentally. With the revolutionary war, gunsmiths of unusual ability appeared.