Four Dead Horses

Author : K. T. Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646030664

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Four Dead Horses by K. T. Sparks Pdf

On May 1, 1982, eighteen-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan--the first of four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded small town of Pierre, Michigan, onto the open ranges of Elko, Nevada, and into the open arms, or at least open mics, of the cowboy poets who gather there to perform. Along the way, he nurtures a dying mother, who insists the only thing wrong with her is tennis elbow; corrals a demented father, who believes he's Father Christmas; assists the dissolute local newspaper editor; and serves stints as horse rustler and pet mortician. For thirty years, Martin searches for an escape route to the West, to poetry, and to his first love, the cowgirl Ginger, but never manages to get much farther than the city limits of his Midwestern hometown--that is, until a world famous cow horse dies while touring through Pierre, and Martin is tapped to transport its remains to the funeral at the 32nd Annual Elko Cowboy Poetry Confluence.

Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566894142

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A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson Pdf

A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won’t stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. Praise for Brian Evenson: "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe."—Jonathan Lethem "One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working today." The Believer "There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." —George Saunders “Brian Evenson is one of the few who will still be read a hundred years from now: either by our grandchildren, or by the machines who have killed our grandchildren.” —Hobart, “An interview with Brian Evenson” "Packed with enough atrocities to give Thomas Harris pause. . . . Not many writers have the imagination or the audacity to transform what looks like salvation into an utterly original outpost of hell." —Bookforum “Evenson’s writing is something to be read in short intervals, like a good tea that you want to savor to the last drop.” —Twin Cities Geek Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice" Brian Evenson has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and is the World Fantasy Award and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel, and one of Time Out New York's top books.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Author : Bruce McCandless III
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626348646

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In the Land of Dead Horses by Bruce McCandless III Pdf

The Dead Have No Love for the Living In the Land of Dead Horses tells the story of Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot’s pursuit of and confrontation with a resurrected horror from another age—a manifestation of the Mayan god of darkness, unearthed from its subterranean crypt in the wastelands of the Chihuahuan Desert and set loose on an unsuspecting world. Lightfoot, a hard-drinking Texas Ranger, is aided by an aging silver miner named Ernesto Zavala and his grandson Antonio, a rangy firebrand who longs to free his people from the rule of Porfirio Diaz’s corrupt Mexican government. Together, these unlikely heroes face off against a sinister German academic, a trio of religious fanatics who wants to restore the glory of the Mayan empire, and a horror from the depths of history that grows stronger with each setting sun. ​Join Jewel Lightfoot in what Kirkus Reviews calls "a paranormal whodunit that offers a gripping battle between good and evil." But be careful: Not everyone who rides out of Austin in the fall of 1908 is going to make it back alive.

Author : Faith Hunter,K.M. Laney,Andrea Mullen,Kendra Leigh Speedling,Jason M. Hough,Julie Pitzel,Shaun Avery,Christie Golden,Leah Cutter,Aliette de Bodard,Andrew Dunlop,Ville Merilainen,Amanda Kespohl,Mack Moyer,A. Merc Rustad,Fran Wilde,Kathryn McBride,Andrija Popovic,Jim C. Hines,Stephen Blackmoore,Kiya Nicoll
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940709178

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The Death of All Things by Faith Hunter,K.M. Laney,Andrea Mullen,Kendra Leigh Speedling,Jason M. Hough,Julie Pitzel,Shaun Avery,Christie Golden,Leah Cutter,Aliette de Bodard,Andrew Dunlop,Ville Merilainen,Amanda Kespohl,Mack Moyer,A. Merc Rustad,Fran Wilde,Kathryn McBride,Andrija Popovic,Jim C. Hines,Stephen Blackmoore,Kiya Nicoll Pdf

Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade. No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins. Or does it? Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-one writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death. Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys—of the afterlife, and the potential pitfalls of immortality... Featuring stories from: K. M. Laney, Andrea Mullen, Faith Hunter, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Jason M. Hough, Julie Pitzel, Shaun Avery, Christie Golden, Leah Cutter, Aliette de Bodard, Andrew Dunlop, A. Merc Rustad, Ville Meriläinen, Amanda Kespohl, Mack Moyer, Fran Wilde, Kathryn McBride, Andrija Popovic, Jim C. Hines, Stephen Blackmoore, and Kiya Nicoll.

Author : Michael T Foy,Brian Barton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752472720

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The Easter Rising by Michael T Foy,Brian Barton Pdf

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin. The intention of their leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, was to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent thirty-two county Irish republic. For a week battle raged in the Irish capital until the Rising collapsed. The rebel leaders were executed soon afterwards, though in death their ideals quickly triumphed.lluminating every aspect of that fateful Easter week, The Easter Rising is based on an impressive range of original sources. It has been fully revised, expanded and updated in the light of a wealth of new material and extensive use has been made of almost 2,000 witness statements that the Bureau of Military History in Dublin gathered from participants in the Rising. The result is a vivid depiction of the personalities and actions not just of the leaders on both sides but the rank and file and civilians as well. The book brings the reader closer to the events of 1916 than has previously been possible and provides an exceptional account of a city at war.

Author : Andre Malraux
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679725749

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Man's Fate by Andre Malraux Pdf

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled. Translated from the French by Haakon M. Chevalier

Author : Vermont. State Board of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Public health
ISBN : UOM:39015069433863

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Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Vermont ... by Vermont. State Board of Health Pdf

Vols. for 1896/97- include also 41st- (1st- biennial) report relating to the registry and returns of births, marriages, deaths and divorces in the state of Vermont, 1897-

Author : Stephen Snelling
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473847309

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The Wooden Horse of Gallipoli by Stephen Snelling Pdf

The initial Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula began on 25 April 1915. Many of those who went ashore at V Beach near Cape Helles did so from the SS River Clyde. In the first full-length study devoted entirely to River Clyde and the men who sailed in her, the author reveals a remarkable tale of human endeavor told in the words of the men who were there: from the naval captain whose brainchild it was, to the teenage midshipmen who risked their lives to rescue the operation from disaster; from the infantrymen who braved a storm of fire to the staff officers who led the assault that finally secured the beachhead; from the armored car machine-gunners whose covering fire saved hundreds of men marooned on the shore, to the navys own infantrymen who ventured out into the bullet-swept waters to succor the wounded.The Wooden Horse of Gallipoli tells the story of how this collier became an icon of the First World War, its stranded bulk synonymous with one of the most extraordinary exploits of a campaign doomed to failure.

Author : Major Michael L. Hedegaard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782896470

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Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds And The Saint Patrick’s Day Celebration On Powder River; by Major Michael L. Hedegaard Pdf

The Battle of Powder River occurred on 17 March 1876 in southeastern Montana. Historians and researchers have consistently overlooked the importance of this battle on the outcome of the Great Sioux War of 1876. Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds set out to destroy the Indian camp established by the combined Cheyenne and Oglala Sioux in order to push the Indians back to the reservations and allow miners to enter the Black Hills to mine gold. Reynolds failed to accomplish this mission. The intelligence from his Indian scouts was flawed. Logistically, the soldiers were not fed, clothed, armed, or supplied for actions against the Indian tribes during the winter months. There was no written doctrine for the soldiers to follow. Tactically, Crook was delinquent because of the overconfidence in his force against the Indians. Crook failed to support Reynolds with troops, ammunition, logistics, and supplies. The outcome of this battle contributed to the defeats of Crook at the Rosebud and Custer at Little Big Horn because it caused the Indians to form a massive nation for self-preservation. Historians estimate that Crook faced more than 1,500 warriors at the Rosebud and Custer faced more than 2,500 braves at the Little Big Horn.

Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476629162

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Voices from the Easter Rising by Joseph McKenna Pdf

 For a week in April 1916, 2,000 Irish Volunteers rose up in armed rebellion against the British Empire in a bid to establish an independent Irish state. Tracing the establishment of the various organizations involved, this account of the Easter Rising provides a day to day narrative by those who took part, along with personal accounts of the trial, the execution of the rebel leaders and the imprisonment of the surviving Volunteers. Atrocities and murders that took place on both sides are described in detail based on coroners’ reports.

Author : Violet McNeal
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627310932

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Four White Horses and a Brass Band by Violet McNeal Pdf

Violet McNeal ran away from her family’s rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine “doctor” Will Archimbauld who hooked her on opium and promises of fame and fortune. Violet soon learned to become Princess Lotus Blossom and was the best pitchman, nostrum seller, and conwoman to roam the west in a torch-lit wagon. Four White Horses and a Brass Band is Violet’s story of life on the road with the medicine show and reveal the secrets of conman’s trade. Sick and nearly dead with addiction by age 30, she submits to the tortures of withdrawal and the “cure” to create a new life. First published in 1947, the Feral House edition features an extensive afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers. Also included are a glossary of the grifter’s cant and samples of scripts used by Violet and other infamous “doctors”.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Donkeys
ISBN : LOC:00143462274

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Protection of Wild Horses and Burros on Public Lands by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045395600

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Protection of Wild Horses and Burros on Public Lands by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : Frederick Burnaby
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781602063419

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On Horseback Through Asia Minor by Frederick Burnaby Pdf

First published in 1878, this is the story of Frederick Burnaby's harrowing thousand-mile winter journey from Constantinople to eastern Turkey. War between Turkey and Russia threatened, and Burnaby was on a mission to discover whether the Turks could resist a potential thrust toward Constantinople by the Russian Empire. This entertaining account, a bestseller of its time, will appeal to armchair travelers, military history buffs, and anyone interested in the history of this fascinating and tumultuous region. British soldier and writer FREDERICK BURNABY (1842-1885) was a member of the Royal Horse Guards, and in 1882, he became the first balloonist to cross the English Channel alone. Three years later, he died from a spear wound sustained in battle in the Sudan. He also wrote A Ride to Khiva (1876).