Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow 
Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow 

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

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Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1628159081

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Sometimes fate rides a man down a violent road… Jake Horn was a healer—until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A GOOD MAN IN A BAD TOWN Aptly named, the town of Sweet Sorrow, within the Dakota territories, is the kind of place that draws all manner of mis­fits, drunks, gamblers, and dreamers—a perfect town for Jake Horn to get lost in. But a strange plague of madness, brutality, and murder seems to run rampant here—and a slippery Texan named Roy Bean is pressuring Jake to bring a much-needed sanity to the lawless outpost. But accepting the job of Marshal could be the last humani­tarian act Jake ever performs. Because thunder is rumbling on the horizon—and a famous bounty hunter from Bismarck is rolling in on the evening stage, determined to collect the substantial reward being offered for bringing the fugitive Jake Horn in stone-cold dead.

The Girl With the Flamenco Tattoo
The Girl With the Flamenco Tattoo

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

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Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13:

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A Montana Mystery She is only known as the girl with the Flamenco Tattoo, and she is very dead. Who is she, where'd she come from, and how did she end up fully clothed on the shore of a mountain lake? Such are the questions that a small town sheriff with higher aspirations must try and solve when he has no experience whatsoever with murder or anything close to it. And yet if his political dreams are to be realized, he must solve the crime that has a ripple effect on a whole lot of locals. As with any town, large or small, there are people with dark secrets including everything from a coroner with a former drug habit, to a cop who once shot a girl, and a wife's dalliances and the town's most powerful man who would like the whole investigation to go away. "...a rollicking ride, a mix of mystery and murder. Bill Brooks has a gift for narrative and his unique phraseology won't go unnoticed. This is a gripping story, suspenseful and utterly engaging.' —Readers' Favorite

Sweet Sorrow
Sweet Sorrow

Author: David Nicholls

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0358248361

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On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, Charlie Lewis can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. At sixteen he was failing his classes, and looking after his depressed father. If he thought about the future at all, it was with dread. Then Fran Fisher burst into his life. In order to spend time with Fran, Charlie became a different person: he joined the Company. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer. Now Charlie can't go the altar without coming to terms with his relationship with Fran, his friends, and his former self. -- adapted from jacket

Dakota Lawman: The Big Gundown
Dakota Lawman: The Big Gundown

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0061741191

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THE DAY OF JUSTICE IS AT HAND A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow—and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand is bringing his demons home. As a doctor and a sheriff, Jake's witnessed death in all its dark guises—and he recognizes a murder when he sees one. But asking too many questions of the wrong people is asking for trouble, and suddenly expert killers are gathering with their sights on a lawman who's got a need to see justice done. The big gundown is coming, as relentlessly as the winter snow whipping across the prairie. And there's nowhere for a good man to hide when five shooters blinded by hate won't leave Sweet Sorrow until he's dead.

Professionals in Western Film and Fiction
Professionals in Western Film and Fiction

Author: Kenneth E. Hall

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0786497297

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 In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors, engineers and journalists have been given far less representation, usually appearing as background characters in most films and fiction. In Westerns about the 1910 Mexican Revolution, however, civil professionals also feature prominently in the narrative, often as members of the intelligentsia--an important force in Mexican politics. This book compares the roles of civil professionals in most American Westerns to those in films on the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Included are studies on the Santiago Toole novels by Richard Wheeler, Strange Lady in Town with Greer Garson and La sombra del Caudillo by Martin Luis Guzman.

Dust on the Wind
Dust on the Wind

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

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Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1645400158

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IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE JUSTICE… AND SOMETHING LIKE REVENGE. GUNMAN They came to the frontier to escape their pasts and build their future. They came as cowhands, gamblers, homesteaders, and whores. Among them were those who would kill for pleasure or a price—and those, like Quint McCannon, who hunted killers down. LAWMAN It was a long, hard ride from Deadwood to Cheyenne, and when McCannon arrived, he was greeted by the worst news a man could hear: his best friend and partner had been murdered. Now, McCannon—a man who knows violence, friendship, and the empty places in between is heading on a trail across the frontier in search of a maddog killer. DEAD MAN Forced to choose between a good woman in Nebraska and the obsession that's eating away at his soul, McCannon shares his journey with a curious-minded Texan named Jake True, a lovesick whore named Sugar Brown, and a host of misfits, tale tellers, fugitives and gunslingers, from Roy Bean to an actor named Cody. For McCannon, it's a journey through the madness and glory of the West—to one moment with a gun...

Deadwood
Deadwood

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

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Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1645401669

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A town that would become a legend… DEADWOOD It was a town that defined the frontier. Miners brought gold to it. Outlaws killed to rule it. Lawmen risked their lives to defend it. And women bartered their bodies to survive in it. DEADWOOD It was a place that brought out the darkness in men's souls. Nobody knew that better than Quint McCannon, who rode into Deadwood one sunny afternoon. But nothing prepared him for what lay ahead in that lawless town in the Black Hills of South Dakota. DEADWOOD It was home to violence and evil...where the elusive killer of three prostitutes still roamed free...and where Quint McCannon was about to discover more than he ever wanted to know about murder, treachery, love—and death. Written by a master storyteller, peopled by such real-life characters as Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, DEADWOOD is a vivid, startling chapter in the history of the great American frontier—the unforgettable story of a man, a town and the people who made the West.

Bill Doolin: American Outlaw
Bill Doolin: American Outlaw

Author: Bill Brooks

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

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Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1645401987

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Bill Doolin was perhaps the last great American outlaw of the nineteenth century. Once part of the Doolin-Dalton gang, he rode and robbed in the wild Indian Territory that would become Oklahoma. The Daltons were eventually shot to ribbons in their failed attempt to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. But Doolin went on to form a new gang that included notables such as Bitter Creek Newcomb, Black Face Charlie Pierce, a remaining Dalton brother, and the Rose of the Cimarron, Rose Dunn, sister of the notorious Dunn Brothers. Pursuing the gang was a tenacious group of U.S. marshals led by the famed Bill Tilghman. Doolin was considered something of a Robin Hood to the locals—everybody but those he robbed and killed. The marshals were determined to end his reign of terror no matter how long it took. The country, after all, was heading into a new century, and outlaws like Doolin no longer had a place in the West.