The Wylder Cat and The Pinkerton Agent
Title | The Wylder Cat and The Pinkerton Agent PDF eBook |
Author | April Hollingworth |
Publisher | The Wild Rose Press Inc |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2023-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1509246312 |
Pinkerton Agent George McIntyre has come to Wylder to track down a thief known only as The Cat. Allie Murphy, a jaguar shifter is the cat in question and will do anything to avoid being caught. She is not an ordinary thief and has her reasons for stealing from Walter Freeman, the man who hired George. The problem is no matter where she goes he seems to be one step ahead of her. George finds Allie fascinating and is determined to get closer to her. Just as he realizes that this assignment is more complex than he imagined, danger rides into town and Allie and George will have to trust each other if they’re going to have a chance of surviving.
Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot
Title | Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Mynett |
Publisher | Caitlin Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-03-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781773860503 |
Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot throws new light on the extensive manhunt for an accused murderer in northern British Columbia in the early 1900s. After a double murder in 1906, Gitxsan trapper and storekeeper Simon Gunanoot fled into the wilderness with his family. Despite lack of proof, the police pursued Gunanoot for nearly three years, sending search parties and police operatives into the wilds of northern BC. The hunt was covered by numerous newspapers at the time, describing a melodramatic cat-and-mouse chase--a not-entirely-accurate account. Frustrated by Gunanoot's ability to evade capture, the Attorney General of BC asked Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in Seattle to assist in the pursuit. In May 1909, two Pinkerton's operatives disguised as prospectors were sent to Hazelton, BC, to find and apprehend Gunanoot. From 1909-1910, they delivered regular reports to Pinkerton's office in Seattle detailing their progress. Many of these confidential reports, written around campfires on the treks in the wilderness, provided a vivid picture of life in the frontier town, relations of the settlers and prospectors, and of the conflicting loyalties and tensions in both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. One of the most famous fugitives in BC history, Gunanoot's story has taken on the status of legend. Pinkerton's and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot is a fascinating tale of turn-of-the-century crime-solving techniques, rural politics and backwoods survival, based on never-before published, firsthand accounts of the two undercover operatives.
The Silver Shooter
Title | The Silver Shooter PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Lindsey |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2020-11-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250623456 |
Erin Lindsey's third historical mystery The Silver Shooter follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a monster and searches for treasure in the wilds of the Dakota Territory. It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own. She's the proud owner of a lovely little home near Washington Square, where she lives with her mother and friend Pietro, and she's making a name for herself as a Pinkerton agent with a specialty in things . . . otherworldly. She and her partner Thomas are working together better than ever, and mostly managing to push aside romantic feelings for one another. Mostly. Things are almost too good to be true—so Rose is hardly surprised when Theodore Roosevelt descends on them like a storm cloud, hiring them for a mysterious job out west. A series of strange occurrences in the Badlands surrounding his ranch has Roosevelt convinced something supernatural is afoot. It began with livestock disappearing from the range, their bodies later discovered torn apart by something monstrously powerful. Now people are dying, too. Meanwhile, a successful prospector has gone missing, and rumors about his lost stash of gold have attracted treasure hunters from far and wide – but they keep disappearing, too. To top it all off, this past winter, a mysterious weather phenomenon devastated the land, leaving the locals hungry, broke, and looking for someone to blame. With tensions mounting and the body count rising, Roosevelt fears a single spark will be all it takes to set the Badlands aflame. It’s up to Rose and Thomas to get to the bottom of it, but they’re against the clock and an unknown enemy, and the west will prove wilder than they could possibly imagine...
Murders on the Skeena
Title | Murders on the Skeena PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Mynett |
Publisher | Caitlin Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781773860671 |
Part history, part true crime, Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914 contains the true accounts of murders, crimes, and scandals--some of which remain unsolved to this day--in small-town northern British Columbia. With a focus on the victims as much as the cases themselves, award-winning author Geoff Mynett relates untold stories of BC's deadly history while providing both the natural and social history of the region. Hazelton, situated where the Bulkley River joins the Skeena River, was one of the most important sites in the interior of northern BC from 1870-1913. The gold rush, the arrival of the telegraph, and the ability for steam boats to journey upriver increased outside interest in the region. As new modes of transport were built, more non-Indigenous people arrived, and as colonial law and governance increased, so did tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. One such case was that of the murder of Amos "Charley" Youmans in 1884--the escalation of a clash between the laws and customs of the Gitxsan and those of the encroaching traders and settlers. Mynett also recounts the stories of the so-called Skeena River Uprising of 1888, a bank robbery shoot-out, and a deadly dispute between two prospectors. Peeling back historical, social, political, and geographical layers, Murders on the Skeena draws almost exclusively from documents from the time to reveal the fascinating secrets and surprising consequences of these captivating true crime tales.
To Catch a Thief
Title | To Catch a Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Cox |
Publisher | Barbour Publishing |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781586609726 |
Female Pinkerton Agents nab their men in four interwoven novellas.
Happy Trails
Title | Happy Trails PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Kazanjian |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0762795581 |
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and and Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." Now, in this new book, the Rogers family shares their memories of Roy, Dale, and Trigger, along with their other sidekicks and more than a hundred never before seen, behind the scenes photographs.
The Bulletin
Title | The Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Lumber trade |
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