Mary Dove
Title | Mary Dove PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Gilmore Rushing |
Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780896725034 |
Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would--she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear. In remorse, she tends to the wounded stranger, and what follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a love story that weaves universal and timeless themes. The mother who died before Mary Dove could know her was African-American. And so completely has Mary Dove's father sheltered her that she cannot begin to comprehend what society would so cruelly teach her. Archetypal in their blamelessness and in how deeply they must suffer for their love, Mary Dove and her cowboy, "Red" Christopher Columbus Jones, are so thoroughly West Texan that they prove Rushing's mastery of character and place. "Get away," she said "Now I ain't gonna hurt you," he said, "and I don't want to know nothing about you that you don't want to tell." He came a step closer. "Stop right now," she said, "or I'll shoot." "You wouldn't," he said. He was so nearly right. She believed what he said--or nearly. But she had been afraid so long. And wasn't it a law of God to do what your father said? She trembled, looking into his smiling blue eyes. It would have been easier if he had been preparing to pounce, like the panther, or striking, like the snake. The rifle barrel dropped, a little. "I knew you wouldn't," he said, taking another step towards her. "I have to," she said, and with a terrible struggle to hold the gun steady, she fired.
Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1792-1815
Title | Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1792-1815 PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Marler |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Cabarrus County (N.C.) |
ISBN | 0806352337 |
This new book is a systematic presentation of all known information on Cabarrus County, North Carolina families from its inception until the end of the War of 1812. The author extracted her findings from the 1790 Mecklenburg County census, the 1800 Cabarrus census, court records, Mecklenburg County deed records, marriage records, wills, and newspaper obituaries. In all, the volume identifies 2,000 early families in Cabarrus County and perhaps five times as many persons overall.
A Comment Upon Part of the Fifth Journey of Antoninus Through Britain
Title | A Comment Upon Part of the Fifth Journey of Antoninus Through Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Kennet Gibson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1819 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Maryland and Virginia Colonials
Title | Maryland and Virginia Colonials PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon J. Doliante |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 1316 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Maryland |
ISBN | 0806312939 |
The Property Lawyer
Title | The Property Lawyer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | Conveyancing |
ISBN |
Jane Gilmore Rushing
Title | Jane Gilmore Rushing PDF eBook |
Author | Lou Halsell Rodenberger |
Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780896725935 |
"Study of the writing life, works, impact, and landscape of a West Texas writer. Though Rushing considered herself a regionalist, her seven novels of the Texas Rolling Plains, published between 1963 and 1984, enjoyed a wide national audience"--Provided by publisher.
Nicholas of Lyra
Title | Nicholas of Lyra PDF eBook |
Author | Philip D. W. Krey |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004112957 |
The first modern study of Nicholas of Lyra, immensely influential fourteenth-century Franciscan biblical commentator. Fifteen essays on his masterpiece, the "Postillae super totam Bibliam," illuminate the remarkable achievement of this key thinker, from his knowledge of Hebrew to political ideas.