Pardner of the Wind
Title | Pardner of the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Howard Thorp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Cowboys |
ISBN | 9780803258754 |
Story of the Southwestern Cowboy
Title | Story of the Southwestern Cowboy PDF eBook |
Author | N. Howard Thorp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Cowboys and Gangsters
Title | Cowboys and Gangsters PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel K. Dolan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442246707 |
Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed “Wild West” of the Prohibition-era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues’ gallery of sixgun-packing western gunfighters and lawmen. Told through the lens of the accounts of a handful of Texas Rangers and Federal Agents, this book covers a unique and action-packed era in American history. It’s a story that connects the horse and saddle days of the Old West, with the high-octane decade of the Roaring Twenties.
Sixshooters and Sagebrush
Title | Sixshooters and Sagebrush PDF eBook |
Author | Rowland W. Rider |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
South by Southwest
Title | South by Southwest PDF eBook |
Author | Johnny D. Boggs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2015-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1510700420 |
From a Spur Award-winning author comes a thrilling tale of faked deaths, runaway slaves, and revenge amid the Civil War. The only way to escape the purgatory that is the Florence Stockade is to die, so on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan dies. Corporal Favour and Private Gardenhire, the only two soldiers of the 16th Wisconsin healthy enough to tote Zeb’s wasted-away ninety pounds, wrap him in a dirty, stinking, and damp blanket, and carry him to the Dead House. It was typhoid pneumonia that got him, the soldiers told the Confederate guards. Zeb is buried in the prisoners’ cemetery, but the grave is shallow and it’s likely that the hogs rooting around will soon be sinking their teeth into his rotting flesh. Then, young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, sees the shadowy figure of a hand clawing through the muddy dirt over that grave, like it’s reaching to pull anybody nearby into the deepest part of Hades. Ebenezer’s first impulse is to scream, to warn the soldiers in the Stockade of what is happening, but nothing comes out of his throat. Zeb Hogan has a mission far beyond escaping from the Stockade. He has sworn an oath to other prisoners to pursue the traitorous Sergeant Ben DeVere, who traded blue for gray and is now a Confederate in Vicksburg, and kill him. The problem for Zeb is that he knows nothing of the surrounding country and is likely to be intercepted. Ebenezer, despite being a runaway slave and no less vulnerable to capture, does know the country. Perhaps they can join forces to get where each wants to go . . . Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Cowboy Fisherman, Hunter
Title | Cowboy Fisherman, Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Larry C. Mersfelder |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258130893 |
Cowboys of the Americas
Title | Cowboys of the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Slatta |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300056716 |
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.