Book Description
Twenty-five true tales of a still-wild West from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century.
Author : Erin H. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0762758139
Twenty-five true tales of a still-wild West from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century.
Author : Devon A. Mihesuah
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806160675
Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious accounts of “Ned” Christie’s life. Now, in a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon A. Mihesuah offers a far more accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived. In 1887 Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples was shot and killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals in the vicinity at the time could have committed the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie evaded capture for five years. His life ended when a posse dynamited his home—knowing he was inside—and shot him as he emerged from the burning building. The posse took Christie’s body to Fort Smith, where it lay for three days on display for photographers and gawkers. Nede’s family suffered as well. His teenage cousin Arch Wolfe was sentenced to prison and ultimately perished in the Canton Asylum for “insane” Indians—a travesty that, Mihesuah shows, may even surpass the injustice of Nede’s fate. Placing Christie’s story within the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American political and social conditions, Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. Yet the author admits that for all this information, we may never know the full story, because Christie’s own voice is largely missing from the written record. In addition, she spotlights our fascination with villains and martyrs, murder and mayhem, and our dangerous tendency to glorify the “Old West.” More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the making of an American myth.
Author : Frank Chester Robertson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Cassidy, Hopalong (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Hopalong Cassidy--the toughest hombre that ever came west of the Pecos--returns to aim his six-guns at the dirtiest gang of cut-throats he ever faced in his long and violent career.
Author : Frank C. ROBERTSON
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN : 9780002477154
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786036478
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century From America's most popular, bestselling Western writer, each novel in this brilliant new series follows the trail of a different gun--each gun with its own fiery story to tell. On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. But while the prized Winchester is wandering the West--aimed, fired, battered and bartered--Deputy U.S. Marshal Jimmy Mann is hunting for the outlaw who robbed the train in Texas. The only clue he has is this prized and highly coveted weapon. What stands in his way are storms, Indians, thieves, a lot of bloody deaths--and a merciless desperado just waiting to kill the lawman on his trail...
Author : Roy Wayne
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Cattle stealing
ISBN : 9780803484405
Author : J. D. Hardin
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425115428
Color illustration on front cover of four men in a saloon, one holding a rifle in his proper right hand standing in the doorway, one smoking a cigarette and one looking at a glass in his proper right hand.
Author : Luke Short
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Melissa Lenhardt
Publisher : Redhook
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316435333
"An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West . . . and that's exactly what Melissa Lenhardt delivers in her unapologetically badass western, Heresy." - New York Times "Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the narrative of the Outlaw Western genre; where wit, wisdom and wiles could mean the difference between life and death, and where the fellowship of women bested every challenge." -- Kathleen Kent Margaret Parker and Hattie LaCour never intended to turn outlaw. After being run off their ranch by a greedy cattleman, their family is left destitute. As women alone they have few choices: marriage, lying on their backs for money, or holding a gun. For Margaret and Hattie the choice is simple. With their small makeshift family, the gang pulls off a series of heists across the West. Though the newspapers refuse to give the female gang credit, their exploits don't go unnoticed. Pinkertons are on their trail, a rival male gang is determined to destroy them, and secrets among the group threaten to tear them apart. Now, Margaret and Hattie must find a way to protect their family, finish one last job, and avoid the hangman's noose. "Readers who relish an unusual narrative structure will enjoy this unique take on the traditional western." -- Booklist