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10143) The richest hill on earth
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Capitalism comes to the American West--and the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestle each other and Montana's fledgling government for control of the "richest hill on earth"--Cover.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19th century...
10146) Wagon train west
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1864 two former mountain men are hired to guide a wagon train to Fort Carson. When a large Dakota war party attacks, the guides will have to use every skill they possess if anyone is to survive.
10147) An eye for an eye
Author
Series
Tales of Zebadiah Creed volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lower Missouri River, late summer 1835. Two brothers, fur trappers Zebadiah and Jonathan Creed, are bushwhacked. Jonathan is murdered. Zeb, left for dead, is found by a Quaker doctor and his daughter. They nurse him back to health and insist he stay with them. But the appeal of a peaceful life can't quell Zeb's burning desire for revenge. Zebadiah Creed spins an exciting tale that leads readers by steamboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hager's fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in what's left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From two-time Spur Award-winning author Jim R. Woolard, a lyrical, violent, visceral Civil War epic filled with vivid historical details, gripping adventure, and raw human drama... Set in the final months of the American Civil War, this powerhouse of a novel from award-winning author and master historian Jim R. Woolard follows a young man's harrowing journey from Confederate captive to Union prisoner to unchained force of vengeance. Autumn, 1864....
10152) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Jake Paynter volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train...
10154) Ol' Slantface
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Dillon and Jenny Child's father joins the Confederacy and leaves them alone Dillon must find a way to protect his sister, Jenny, and himself from slave trader Lucifer Deal who Dillon calls Ol' Slantface.
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 17
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal Fisher. Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to buy his own ranch. All he needs now is a wife. In tiny Prairie Fire, Kansas, he meets the perfect woman, his childhood love Josette Dubois. But she is under the thumb of her...
10156) The velvet hours
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother's treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she'll ever return"--
10159) Summer warpath
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Three men--a scout, a soldier, and a reporter--will have their lives changed forever after they join General Crook's expeditionary force in the 1876 campaign against the Cheyenne and Sioux"--
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