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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
For freed slave Honey Boutrille, "justice" is a word that no longer bears any weight. After he saves the life of a prostitute by shooting her white, would-be killer, the price on Honey's head sends him on the run. As he narrowly escapes scrape after scrape, he learns to keep one eye in front of him and one eye on his back. In California, "Twice" Emmerson begins a crime spree. His inflated pride and deadly temper make him a threat to anyone who crosses...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young, upper-class New Yorker who gets into trouble in the Civil War draft riots and flees west. On the frontier he meets gamblers, Indians, outlaws and mountain men, and has run-ins with such famous characters as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickok. Twenty years later he returns, only to take off again, this time to write cowboy songs for the movie industry in Hollywood.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
This is a novel of American history and its journey from wild frontier into the twentieth century. Two witnesses to this turbulent evolution tell their stories. One is an ancient Spanish alchemist searching for the philosopher's stone from his hut in the New Mexico desert. He devotes his long life to hunting for the secrets of the old gods. But will they give him the answers to his quest for meaning? The other is the fabled Pat Garrett, the man who...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Inheriting a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, he immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hanging six convicted felons at one time. For the next two decades, his stern and implacable justice brought law and order to the West . . . and made him plenty of enemies. As the sole law on the untamed frontier,...
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