Amos, Jacob and Riley discovered that a crime syndicate from the East was using the Army as a cover for a cattle stealing operation. Cattle and horses were missing from the TIC Ranch. Amos didn't want to be an undercover horse thief, even though it might help him catch Doc Middleton, the notorious outlaw. But he wanted to get close to the men who had tried to kill Patches Johanson. "Before he could do that there was the little matter of the mysterious disappearance of cattle on Laramie Peak. Amos had never known anything about Jacque Laramie but he was about to find out more than anyone else knew"--Back cover..
Marshall was just ahead. Taylor called out. “Stop.” He held up the pistol. “Stop I said you stupid fool.” Marshall kept running. Taylor fired a shot. He missed. Taylor kept after him and rode right up to him. He tried to grab his shirt, ...
Author John L. Moore serves up a miscellany of fascinating depictions of obscure but authentic people and situations in this non-fiction book about the Pennsylvania Frontier between 1743 and 1778.
" "One can't go wrong with this work. It's the kind of tale one might read aloud to one's children out in the woods at evenings while huddled around a campfire." Thomas J. Brucia, Houston, Texas, bibliophile, outdoorsman and book reviewer.
Erastus “ Deaf ” , 58 , 105 , 124 , 209 , 232-37 Smith Co. , Tex . , 87 Smith , G. B. , 184 , 285 Smith , Governor Henry , 52 , 69 , 86 Smith , James " Camel Back " , 144 , 146 Smith , Gen. James , 142 , 154 , 155 , 173 , 174 , 186-89 ...
FRONTIER WAR for AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WILLIAM R. NESTER “ The frontier war for their nation's independence is little known to most Americans , " writes historian William R. Nester . The American Revolution is commonly associated with ...
The preachers present were McKendree, Gwinn, Goddard, Travis, and Walker. ... His appearance led the great Dr. Bangs, of New York, to mentally to exclaim, "I wonder what awkward backwoodsman they have put in the pulpit this morning, ...
Contains three classic westerns by the beloved master of the genre--Riders of the Purple Sage, The Lone Star Ranger, and The Rainbow Trail.
Three great books from the acclaimed master of the American Western novel. Contents: The Man of the Forest The Light of the Western Stars The Last of the Plainsmen
Zane Grey. » FOREWORD It was inevitable that in my efforts to write.
Zane Grey. yellow , and there fringing the brow of another with gleaming gold , and lower down reflecting the sunlight with brilliant red and purple . The valley seemed filled with a delicate haze , almost like smoke .