Bitter Trail

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466818705

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Bitter Trail by Elmer Kelton Pdf

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise? The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army. And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more serious matters to contend with: His wagons are attacked, his cotton bales are burned, he is captured and tortured by bandidos in league with Union sympathizers, and he is betrayed by his best friend--his former partner and brother of the woman he loves! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Anthony Wallace
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429934271

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The Long, Bitter Trail by Anthony Wallace Pdf

An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250306333

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Bitter Trail and Barbed Wire by Elmer Kelton Pdf

At one low price, two complete novels by Elmer Kelton “one of the greatest and most gifted of Western writers.” (Historical Novel Society) Bitter Trail Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he’s ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend—his former partner and brother of the woman he loves. Barbed Wire Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red-painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land-hungry thugs. This fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school, open-range baron of the huge R Cross spread. Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Monahan—and neither side takes prisoners. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441063640

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Bitter Trail by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Author : Kira Gale
Publisher : River Junction Press LLC
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel guides
ISBN : 9780964931527

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Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America by Kira Gale Pdf

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Cotton farmers
ISBN : 0613287606

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Bitter Trail by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Wagon train leader Frio Wheeler is hired to haul cotton from Texas into Mexico, but soon he becomes caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War.

Author : Jay Hill Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0709187556

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The Bitter Trail by Jay Hill Potter Pdf

Author : LeeAnna Keith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199885893

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The Colfax Massacre by LeeAnna Keith Pdf

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality. LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre is the first full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the fateful encounter, during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered, and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South. Keith also recounts the heroic attempts by U.S. Attorney J.R. Beckwith to bring the killers to justice and the many legal issues raised by the massacre. In 1875, disregarding the poignant testimony of 300 witnesses, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in U.S. v. Cruikshank to overturn a lower court conviction of eight conspirators. This decision virtually nullified the Ku Klux Klan Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871--which had made federal offenses of a variety of acts to intimidate voters and officeholders--and cleared the way for the Jim Crow era. If there was a single historical moment that effectively killed Reconstruction and erased the gains blacks had made since the civil war, it was the day of the Colfax Massacre. LeeAnna Keith gives readers both a gripping narrative account of that portentous day and a nuanced historical analysis of its far-reaching repercussions.

Author : Jeremi Suri
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093908

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The Impossible Presidency by Jeremi Suri Pdf

A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics In The Impossible Presidency, celebrated historian Jeremi Suri charts the rise and fall of the American presidency, from the limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers to its current status as the most powerful job in the world. He argues that the presidency is a victim of its own success-the vastness of the job makes it almost impossible to fulfill the expectations placed upon it. As managers of the world's largest economy and military, contemporary presidents must react to a truly globalized world in a twenty-four-hour news cycle. There is little room left for bold vision. Suri traces America's disenchantment with our recent presidents to the inevitable mismatch between presidential promises and the structural limitations of the office. A masterful reassessment of presidential history, this book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand America's fraught political climate.

Author : Songho Ha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317313755

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The Rise and Fall of the American System by Songho Ha Pdf

The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study explores the rise and fall of the system between its inception in 1790 and the Panic of 1837.

Author : Erle Russell
Publisher : Magna Golden West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 184262881X

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Bitter Trail by Erle Russell Pdf

To the bleak-faced Lee Kells, Lordville was just another town to examine briefly, before continuing along the bitter trail in search of his father's murderer. The lynching of old Ezra Kells, nearly eleven years previously had Lee ever since that day, searching for Frank Shards, the main instigator of the crime. As a result of a chance meeting in Hide City, Kells returns to Lordville, half convinced that Frank Shane, of the Arrow spread, is the Frank Shards he seeks. The showdown is finally reached in a crashing symphony of gunfire, and "just retribution" is dealt out to the slayer of Ezra Kells.

Author : Alejandro Gac Artigas
Publisher : Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1930879288

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Off to Catch the Sun by Alejandro Gac Artigas Pdf

Twelve autobiographical short stories and thirteen poems unveiling different layers of emotion and adventure.

Author : Hugh Lloyd
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667601441

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The Hermit of Gordon's Creek by Hugh Lloyd Pdf

While visiting friends, Hal Keen stumbles on to a mystery involving an old man and a letter. First of the 10-book Hal Keen Mysteries series.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,Thomas William Symons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Columbia River Valley
ISBN : UIUC:30112113410911

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Report of an Examination of the Upper Columbia River and the Territory in Its Vicinity in September and October 1881 by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,Thomas William Symons Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547860

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf