Little Girl Gone/Disavowed in Wyoming


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Little Girl Gone - Amanda Stevens Nothing matters more to her...when a child's life is at stake. Special Agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a 28-year-old cold case -- her twin sister's abduction. Working with her former partner Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt, and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first...until now. Disavowed In Wyoming - Juno Rushdan He'll put his own life on any line, if it means keeping her away from the danger stalking him. Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain -- and the people -- are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer -- the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters.




Disavowed in Wyoming


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He'll put his own life on any line If it means keeping her away from the danger stalking him Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain—and the people—are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer—the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Fugitive Heroes: Topaz Unit series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Rogue Christmas Operation Book 2: Alaskan Christmas Escape Book 3: Disavowed in Wyoming Book 4: An Operative's Last Stand




Disavowed in Wyoming


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He’ll put his own life on any line, if it means keeping her away from the danger stalking him. Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain — and the people — are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer — the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters. Mills & Boon Intrigue — Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.




Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim


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Excerpt from Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls A fierce gust of wind and rain struck the windows, and Jessie, on her way to the breakfast table, dish in hand, paused to listen. Raining again I she exclaimed, setting the dish down emphatically. It seems to me that it has rained every day this spring. When it hasn't poured here in the valley, it has more than made up for it in the mountains. You are more than half right, father said, drawing his chair up to the table. Is break fast ready, dear? I am going to work in the mines to-day, and I'm in something of a hurry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Intrigue Box Set Jan 2022/Pursued by the Sheriff/Disappearance at Dakota Ridge/Little Girl Gone/Disavowed in Wyoming/Cowboy in the Crossh


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Mills & Boon Intrigue — Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Pursued By The Sheriff - Delores Fossen The bullet that rips through Sheriff Jace Castillo’s body stalls his investigation. But being nursed back to health by the shooter’s sister is his biggest complication yet. Linnea Martell has always been — and still is — off limits. Even if close quarters and undeniable attraction tempts at more. And the danger only intensifies when Linnea gets caught in the line of fire… Disappearance At Dakota Ridge - Cindi Myers When Lauren Baker’s sister-in-law and niece go missing, she immediately has a suspect in mind and heads to Eagle Mountain to find them. Turning to Deputy Shane Ellis for help, she quickly learns there’s not much they can do without evidence of a crime. Then another woman seen with her family is found dead and Lauren is terrified her greatest fears will be realised. As their pursuit becomes even more urgent, passion flares between the two searchers desperate for answers… Little Girl Gone - Amanda Stevens Special Agent Thea Lamb returns to her hometown to search for a child whose disappearance echoes a 28-year-old cold case — her twin sister’s abduction. Working with her former partner Jake Stillwell, Thea must overcome the pain, doubt, and guilt that have tormented her for years and denied her a meaningful relationship. For both Thea and Jake, the job always came first…until now. Disavowed In Wyoming - Juno Rushdan Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain — and the people — are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer — the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters. Cowboy In The Crosshairs - Nicole Helm After attempting to expose corruption in the highest ranks of the military and being unceremoniously discharged, ex-Navy SEAL Nate Averly becomes an assassin’s next target. When Nate flees to his brother’s Montana ranch, North Star agent and tech expert Elsie Rogers must protect him and uncover the threat before more lives are lost. But they’re up against a cunning adversary — and a cover-up that’s bigger and deadlier than they ever imagined… Chasing The Violet Killer - R. Barri Flowers Traumatised after witnessing her relative’s murder live on video chat, Secret Service agent Naomi Lincoln makes the long trip home for the funeral. Years ago she left boyfriend Dylan Hester brokenhearted, but now she must work with the handsome detective to investigate a string of murders and bring the criminal to justice. Putting aside the attraction that never went away will be difficult enough. But capturing the elusive Violet Killer, especially once he sets his sights on Naomi, will be the greatest challenge of their professional — and personal — lives.




Tom Horn in Life and Legend


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Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career. Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated. To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Horn’s own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. Ball’s study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.




Mining Coal and Undermining Gender


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Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin—the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer a rich and surprising view of the working “families” that miners construct. In this picture, gender roles are not nearly as straightforward—or as straitened—as stereotypes suggest. Gender is far from the primary concern of coworkers in crews. Far more important, Rolston finds, is protecting the safety of the entire crew and finding a way to treat each other well despite the stresses of their jobs. These miners share the burden of rotating shift work—continually switching between twelve-hour day and night shifts—which deprives them of the daily rhythms of a typical home, from morning breakfasts to bedtime stories. Rolston identifies the mine workers’ response to these shared challenges as a new sort of constructed kinship that both challenges and reproduces gender roles in their everyday working and family lives. Crews’ expectations for coworkers to treat one another like family and to adopt an “agricultural” work ethic tend to minimize gender differences. And yet, these differences remain tenacious in the equation of masculinity with technical expertise, and of femininity with household responsibilities. For Rolston, such lingering areas of inequality highlight the importance of structural constraints that flout a common impulse among men and women to neutralize the significance of gender, at home and in the workplace. At a time when the Appalachian region continues to dominate discussion of mining culture, this book provides a very different and unexpected view—of how miners live and work together, and of how their lives and work reconfigure ideas of gender and kinship.




The First Migrants


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The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one Nicodemus descendant, they found "a place they could experience real freedom," though in a racist society that freedom could never be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader communities and the several themes that characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders' descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom--and their greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.