The U.P. Trail
Title | The U.P. Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Zane Grey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
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The U.P. Trail
Title | The U.P. Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Zane Grey |
Publisher | 1st World Publishing |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2004-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781595405456 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
The Last Trail
Title | The Last Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Zane Grey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Fort Henry (W. Va.) |
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"A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians, and Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane set out in pursuit, with little hope of survival."--Amazon.com
Up the Trail
Title | Up the Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Lehman |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2018-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421425912 |
How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero? Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.
Journeys North
Title | Journeys North PDF eBook |
Author | Barney Scout Mann |
Publisher | Mountaineers Books |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2020-08-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1680513222 |
2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.
TRAIL DRIVER
Title | TRAIL DRIVER PDF eBook |
Author | ZANE GREY. |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1667627600 |
Stardust Trail
Title | Stardust Trail PDF eBook |
Author | J. R. Sanders |
Publisher | Historia |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781947915503 |
Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run: find an alcoholic screenwriter whose absence is stalling production on Republic Pictures' latest Western. But when the missing rummy turns up dead, and Nate learns that somebody's going to lethal lengths to keep Stardust Trail from being made, his simple case becomes far more complex, and deadly. He finds himself traveling in unfamiliar territory: the world of B-movie cowboys, and the lines between the "reel" West and the real West begin to blur as Nate wrangles a twisted case of murder and sabotage pointing back nearly forty years to a bloody, real-life "Wild West" crime.