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Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A natural storyteller, author Jane Candia Coleman offers nine stories about the many physical and psychological borders of people's lives. Among them, "Sandhill Cranes" tells of the long and perilous journeys of the children who were sent west on orphan trains in the late 1800s. The title story is comprised of many journeys and a multitude of crossings, including Pancho Villa's raid on New Mexico -- an act of unprecedented daring by a most unusual...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Although the stories are about people, it's how the Western landscape shaped them through its magnificence, its harshness, and its justice. Contents: The silence of snow--The renegade trail--Aunt Addy and the cattle rustler--The Paseo--Simply Amy--China doll--Sunflower--Holy water--For two dollars--Learning the names of things--Country music.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The stories of two women of the Old West: Big Nose Kate, the love of Doc Holliday's life; and Viola Howell, an eighteen-year-old who goes to meet New Mexico's governor to plead the case of John Slaughter, accused cattle rustler.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Here is a magnificent human drama based on the memories of one who lived it, filled with facts history books omitted. Orphaned at an early age, Allie and her brothers and sisters were parceled out to foster families. She eventually moved in with her married sister, who was operating a boarding house. It was there that Allie met Virgil Earp who was working for a stage line. They were married without benefit of clergy and so began a life of itinerant...
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
This popular national seller recounts the amazing life of one of the Old West's most famous and courageous women. Katherine Horony, also known as "Big Nose Kate," her love and devotion to John Henry "Doc" Holliday, D, D.S., a colorful icon of the wild and dangerous times in Tombstone, Arizona of the 1880's. Re-live Kate's life as only the gifted Ms. Jane Candia Coleman could possibly portray; who has been called "America's Chekov." Also, experience...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Horace and Augusta went to the mining camps of Colorado, worked hard, and became very rich by serving the miners with food, postal services, supplies, and politics. It was then, after twenty years of hard work and unity, Augusta was renounced as an embarrassment by a man who had or could buy anything in the world.
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