Barnum And Bullets

Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645407416

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Barnum and Bullets by J.R. Roberts Pdf

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT BARNUM AND BULLETS Special Giant Edition Manhattan may have the greatest show on earth, but New York's never seen a performer like the Gunsmith! Clint Adams was heartbroken, but not over a woman. He was suffering because he'd had to put his horse, Duke, out to pasture. So where better to get it off his mind and have a little fun than New York City? But the Gunsmith's reputation precedes him and it's no time at all before he's roped into a job as P. T. Barnum's personal bodyguard. It seems somebody's out to get the circus king, but things may not be as simple as they look. There's also the matter of separating the master showman's humbugs and hoodwinks from the cold hard truth. In the end, Barnum has the Gunsmith so spun around he can't tell if he's drawing a bead on a wannabe killer or about to shoot himself in the foot...

Author : J. R. Roberts
Publisher : Jove
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515129089

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Barnum and Bullets by J. R. Roberts Pdf

Clint Adams is off to New York City, where his reputation leads him into a job as P.T. Barnum's personal bodyguard. Someone is out to get the circus king. But Barnum has the Gunsmith so spun around he can't tell if he's drawing a bead on a wannabe killer or about to shoot himself in the foot.

Author : Roberts, JR.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1310995494

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Barnum and Bullets by Roberts, JR. Pdf

Clint Adams was heartbroken, but not over a woman. He was suffering because he had to put his horse, Duke, out to pasture. So where better to get it off his mind and have a little fun than New York City?But the Gunsmith's reputation precedes him and it's no time at all before he is roped into a job as P.T. Barnum's personal bodyguard.It seems everybody's out to get the circus king but things may not be as simple as they look. There's also the matter of separating the master showman's humbugs and hoodwinks from the hard truth.In the end, Barnum has the Gunsmith so spun around he can't tell if he's drawing a bead on a would-be killer or about to shoot himself in the foot ...

Author : Michael F. McWilliams
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781634179348

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Peoushi by Michael F. McWilliams Pdf

Peoushi, the Long Hair, Custer. That was what Native Americans called him. His story comes from the annals of the West. Not the exaggerated heroism and madness that it would become in Hollywood, but a man doing the work he chose. A professional soldier. And to do the work required the material at hand, men of the Seventh United States Cavalry; men from many nations, speaking different languages and fighting beneath a common flag. With their leader, George Armstrong Custer, Peoushi, they found the fight at a place called Little Big Horn.

Author : Irwin Shaw
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480408111

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Short Stories by Irwin Shaw Pdf

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in these pages—maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher’s soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Irwin Shaw
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 2522 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504047203

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Collected Fiction by Irwin Shaw Pdf

Three acclaimed novels plus collected short fiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rich Man, Poor Man. The Young Lions: Irwin Shaw’s New York Times–bestselling debut is widely considered one of the four great World War II novels, along with From Here to Eternity, The Naked and the Dead, and The Caine Mutiny. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, this “masterpiece” is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of three ordinary soldiers: a Nazi sergeant, a Jewish American infantryman, and an idealistic urbanite from New York City (TheBoston Globe). Bread Upon the Waters: No good deed goes unpunished? The Strands are a happy family, though not without their financial struggles. When their daughter helps a mugging victim by bringing him home, he turns out to be a Wall Street lawyer whose gratitude is as boundless as his bank account. But with each successive “reward,” the Strand family moves farther away from the wealth of happiness they already possessed. Short Stories: Five Decades: Shaw’s prolific output of short stories appeared regularly in the pages of the New Yorker and Esquire for over half a century. These sixty-three stories include such iconic works as “The Eighty-Yard Run” and “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.” The Troubled Air: Five employees of Clement Archer’s popular radio show are accused Communists. He will have to fire them to keep his show on the air. But it’s not a simple choice—whatever Archer decides, he won’t be able to keep his hands clean, in Shaw’s provocative classic about courage and morality at the height of McCarthyism.

Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433085728107

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Barnum's Own Story for the Boys and Girls of America by Phineas Taylor Barnum Pdf

Author : Michael Malone
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402253973

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Dingley Falls by Michael Malone Pdf

Praise for Dingley Falls "Witty, intelligent, deeply felt, and vividly narrated." -New York Times Book Review "A wonderous achievement. Malone's novel is as lusty, whimsical, tragic- even as bizarre-as life itself. It is a triumph of the highest order." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Dingley Falls is a wonderful novel, impressive in every way and constantly entertaining. Everything in this book sparkles and rings true." -Chicago Tribune "If not the Great American Novel...Dingley Falls is surely the Great American Comedy. The two may just be synonymous." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A lovable, sprawling, old-fashioned kind of novel, full of energy and gems of characterization." -Washington Post Book World "In Dingley Falls, Malone has produced a remarkable work of fiction...He combines humor, compassion, and literate writing with a storytelling ability that is rare in contemporary fiction." -Houston Chronicle One day your small town is quietly its normal self, humming along in comforting consistency. And then-all of a sudden-strange lights are coming from the forest. Not to mention the odd rash of hate mail popping up. And in all honesty, what is with these odd pairings of couples suddenly coming together? Welcome to Dingley Falls, where the only thing certain is that life will never be the same. Spend a week in Dingley Falls, and once you've visited, it will be a place you'll never forget. From New York Times bestselling author Michael Malone, Dingley Falls is a triumph of rollicking joy and masterful storytelling.

Author : Bluford Adams
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816626316

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E Pluribus Barnum by Bluford Adams Pdf

The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective. Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence us today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, Adams demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American Museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theater are examined, as well as the later circuses. Adams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S. society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism, immigration, and capitalism, and considers his career as a crucial moment in the on-going struggle over the politics of U.S. commercial entertainments.

Author : Brian Salter
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444142228

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Great PR: Bullet Guides by Brian Salter Pdf

What's in this book? Open this book and you will... - Improve communication - Foster development - Establish goals - Encourage success Learn how to be a mentor: - Understanding mentoring - The mentoring process - Successful mentoring relationships - Skills for successful mentors and mentees - Common pitfalls - The benefits of mentoring - Advice about giving advice - Bringing it to a successful close Sample page spread: What are Bullet Guides? The answers you need - now. Clear and concise guides in a portable format. Information is displayed in an easy-to-read layout with helpful images and tables. Bullet Guides include all you need to know about a subject in a nutshell. Get right to the point without wading through loads of unnecessary information.

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806159034

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Regular Army O! by Douglas C. McChristian Pdf

“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers—drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs—to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier. After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them. In actions involving American Indians between 1866 and 1891, 875 of these soldiers were killed, mainly in minor skirmishes, while many more died of disease, accident, or effects of the natural environment. What induced these men to enlist for five years and to embrace the grim prospect of combat is one of the enduring questions this book explores. Going well beyond Don Rickey Jr.’s classic work Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (1963), McChristian plumbs the regulars’ accounts for frank descriptions of their training to be soldiers; their daily routines, including what they ate, how they kept clean, and what they did for amusement; the reasons a disproportionate number occasionally deserted, while black soldiers did so only rarely; how the men prepared for field service; and how the majority who survived mustered out. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making.

Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101190111

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The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick Pdf

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new information to his subject, as well as his characteristic literary flair, Philbrick details the collision between two American icons- George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull-that both parties wished to avoid, and brilliantly explains how the battle that ensued has been shaped and reshaped by national myth.

Author : Laura Browder
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807860601

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Slippery Characters by Laura Browder Pdf

In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

Author : Harold Wallace Ross,William Shawn,Tina Brown,David Remnick,Katharine Sergeant Angell White,Rea Irvin,Roger Angell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Literature
ISBN : CUB:U183015770319

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The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,William Shawn,Tina Brown,David Remnick,Katharine Sergeant Angell White,Rea Irvin,Roger Angell Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754068354418

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.