Collected from the pages of Lariat magazine, these 22 classic tales feature all the beloved subjects and iconsstagecoaches, gold rush towns, and whiskey barsthat represent the romance and excitement of America s frontier. Authors such as Zane Grey ( The Great Slave ), Max Brand ( Lawman s Heart ), Luke Short ( Brand of Justice ), and Will Henry ( The Streets of Laredo ) vividly depict the gunslingers, compadres, sheriffs, Indians, and riders of the purple sage that populate this always fascinating world." View More...
On February 25, 1837, a small casket was inscribed with the names of three men. Nearly a year after the devastating Battle of the Alamo, the ashes of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barrett Travis were combined for posterity. But just as that casket probably doesn't hold the ashes of any of the three, time and myth has largely obscured the true story of their lives. William C. Davis separates truth from fiction in Three Roads to the Alamo. In many ways, the three men symbolized the types of people who pushed European migration west of the Mississippi. Crockett was an explorer who cons... View More...
This Mosaic portrayal of its author's native Lebanon besieged by civil war . . . expands into a generalized examination of chaos and despair suffered by families everywhere . . . . -Kirkus Reviews View More...
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial Brides for Indians program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.... View More...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her r... View More...
An American Library Association Notable Book John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over the next fifteen years, he composed of his sojourn on America's western frontier a paean to the ways in which a man might bluff death--and attain a measure of immortality. In Bucking the Tiger, Bruce Olds uses a pan-dimensional, genre-blurring collage of original poems, reconstituted news accounts, adulterated epigraphs, song lyrics and photographs, simulated ... View More...
Called "brilliant" by "The New York Times Book Review," this is a shocking and bitterly funny look at the dark side of Vietnam unknown to those back home, but all too familiar to every American in country. The subject of extraordinary critical acclaim, this wonderfully descriptive novel by the author of "Going Native" brings us Vietnam from the point of view of a soldier very personally affected by the horrors of jungle war. Spec. 4 James Griffin may have left Vietnam, but Vietnam will never leave him. And although the war changed him from a boy into a living kaleidoscope of terror, he nonethe... View More...
This exciting volume features "new "short novels by: Stephen CoontsRalph PetersHarold CoyleHarold RobbinsR. J. PineiroDavid HagbergJim DeDeliceJames CobbBarrett TillmanDean Ing A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, "Victory "brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. Here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II and truly made the world safe for democracy, in thrilling stories of war as it was really fought. An exciting sequel to Stephen Coonts's bestselling "Combat, V... View More...
