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Ever since he returned to the people of his father, Touch the Sky's blood enemies have been trying--and failing--to send him to the Land of the Ghosts. But now, the knife-throwing Comanche renegade Big Tree has gone too far.
Author : Judd Cole
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780843942699
Ever since he returned to the people of his father, Touch the Sky's blood enemies have been trying--and failing--to send him to the Land of the Ghosts. But now, the knife-throwing Comanche renegade Big Tree has gone too far.
Author : Deanne Stillman
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781568588636
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary Winner of the LA Press Club Award for Best General Nonfiction On a scorching summer day, Donald Kueck-a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization-gunned down beloved deputy sheriff Stephen Sorensen when he approached his trailer. As the sound of rifle fire echoed across the Mojave, Kueck vanished. In Desert Reckoning, Deanne Stillman recounts a tragic tale, delving into the hidden history of Los Angeles County and tracing the paths of two men on a collision course that could only end in the modern Wild West.
Author : Akhter Ahsen
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780913412268
Author : Harry W. Lawton
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Paiute Indians
ISBN :
Author : Deanne Stillman
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568586914
North of Los Angeles - the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive - lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert. Known as the Antelope Valley, it's a terrain of savage dignity, a vast amphitheatre of startling wonders that put on a show as the megalopolis burrows northward into the region's last frontier. Ranchers, cowboys, dreamers, dropouts, bikers, hikers, and felons have settled here - those who have chosen solitude over the trappings of contemporary life or simply have nowhere else to go. But in recent years their lives have been encroached upon by the creeping spread of subdivisions, funded by the once easy money of subprime America. McMansions - many empty now - gradually replaced Joshua trees; the desert - America's escape hatch - began to vanish as it became home to a latter-day exodus of pilgrims. It is against the backdrop of these two competing visions of land and space that Donald Kueck - a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization - took his last stand, gunning down beloved deputy sheriff Steven Sorensen when he approached his trailer at high noon on a scorching summer day. As the sound of rifle fire echoed across the Mojave, Kueck took off into the desert he knew so well, kicking off the biggest manhunt in modern California history until he was finally killed in a Wagnerian firestorm under a full moon as nuns at a nearby convent watched and prayed. This manhunt was the subject of a widely praised article by Deanne Stillman, first published in Rolling Stone, a finalist for a PEN Center USA journalism award, and included in the anthology Best American Crime Writing 2006. In Desert Reckoning she continues her desert beat and uses Kueck's story as a point of departure to further explore our relationship to place and the wars that are playing out on our homeland. In addition, Stillman also delves into the hidden history of Los Angeles County, and traces the paths of two men on a collision course that could only end in the modern Wild West. Why did a brilliant, self-taught rocket scientist who just wanted to be left alone go off the rails when a cop showed up? What role did the California prison system play in this drama? What happens to people when the American dream is stripped away? And what is it like for the men who are sworn to protect and serve?
Author : Dan Schultz
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1250023424
Evoking Krakauer's Into the Wild, Dan Schultz tells the extraordinary true story of desperado survivalists, a brutal murder, and vigilante justice set against the harsh backdrop of the Colorado wilderness On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than seventy-five local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of swat teams, U.S. Army Special Forces, and more than five hundred officers from across the country. Dead Run is the first in-depth account of this sensational case, replete with overbearing local sheriffs, Native American trackers, posses on horseback, suspicion of vigilante justice and police cover-ups, and the blunders of the nation's most exalted crime-fighters pursuing outlaws into territory in which only they could survive.
Author : Edward Joseph Beverly
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Western stories
ISBN : 0865346038
"Chasing the Sun" is a guide to Western fiction with more than 1,350 entries, including 59 reviews of the author's personal favorites, organized around theme.
Author : Robb White
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307791440
"An exciting novel of suspense, based on a fight to the finish between an honest and courageous young man and a cynical business tycoon who believes that anything can be had for a price."--Horn Book. An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers Award, A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, New York Public Library--Books for the Teen Age.
Author : James A. Sandos
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806128436
Recounts the events of what has been called the West's last famous manhunt--the tracking and killing of a Paiute-Chemeheuvi Indian, Willie Boy--drawing on previously untapped sources to detail the native side of the story.
Author : Andrew Gillespie
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1473813530
Forming part of the Royal Artillery's historical series, Desert Fire is the Battery Commander of O Battery (The Rockett Troop), 2nd Field Regiment RA's gripping description of the Gulf War. His first-hand account brings to life the power and destructive force of modern massed artillery and is a fitting tribute to all members of the Royal Regiment who played such a vital role in the desert campaign. Shows detailed plans and maps of events first time around in the Gulf.