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Author : Jon Tuska
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0688147836
A collection of twenty-eight tales of the Old West includes stories by such classic Western writers as Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Alan LeMay
Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611390629
In his early forties, Richard Wheeler had never given a thought to writing fiction. By his early seventies, he had written sixty novels. And these were being published while he was climbing the masts of a sinking ship. This late-in-life novelist didn’t tackle high literature, but the sweaty world of genre fiction, where the publishers’ advances barely paid the rent. He wrote western fiction, and when that genre began to ship water, he leapt over to historical novels, and finally biographical novels, where he found himself in an odd literary corner, without competition. This is a memoir of literary struggle, of agents and editors, of jackets and publicity and book tours. This is also a story about the astonishing help he received along the way from friends, best-selling novelists, agents, editors, and publishers. Writing may be a lonely profession, but Wheeler discovered that the world of genre fiction writers is populated with caring and wise colleagues. Here, Wheeler evokes his early struggles, which somehow prepared him for a life as a successful novelist. He discusses shattered dreams and sudden joys. And running through his narrative is his passion to write about the West in new ways. RICHARD S. WHEELER is the author of sixty novels of the West, the winner of five Spur Awards, and the recipient of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West. Many of his novels are now in trade paperback editions from Sunstone Press.
Author : Jon Tuska
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803294344
The Northwestern story emerged full-blown from the pen of Jack London, and his ?The League of the Old Men? is a fitting introduction to these rigorous action tales, in which the inhospitable climate strips away civilized veneer and individuals must live or die by their cunning, instinct, and sometimes ruthlessness. The bond between man and dog and the character flaws revealed under the stresses of extreme isolation are just two of the classic themes explored in these works. The collection comes to a fitting climax of a century?s worth of development with a new story by Tim Champlin, commissioned for this volume. Most of these stories were originally published in magazines and were heavily edited to meet space and style concerns. Stories of the Far North restores each work to its original form, uncut and as each author intended.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538506479
From the master of Western storytelling comes a collection of six action-packed tales sure to please Louis L'Amour's legion of fans. In "Trap of Gold," Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead when he finds his first color in a crumbling granite upthrust. The granite is slashed with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the granite upthrust is unstable, and taking out the quartz might just bring the whole thing tumbling down. In "Keep Travelin', Rider," Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle's G Bar ranch. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker who never carried a gun. His advice to Tack is to make tracks-but Tack has other plans. In "Big Medicine," old Billy Dunbar has discovered the best gold-bearing gravel he's seen in a year-but a small band of Apaches may ruin his day. If they notice him, he'll need a good plan to get out alive. In "Trail to Pie Town," Dusty Barron rides at full gallop out of town. Behind him a man lies bleeding on the floor of a saloon. Dan Hickman had called him yellow and gone for a gun, but Dan was a mite slow. The dead man has relatives in the area, and now it looks like Dusty is going to be facing a clan war. In "McQueen of the Tumbling K," Ward McQueen is foreman at the Tumbling K Ranch. He finds traces of a man, apparently wounded, who has sought shelter in the hinterlands of the ranch but is unable to locate him. When McQueen rides into town, he is shot down and left for dead. But the gunmen made a critical mistake, because McQueen is not dead-and he's looking to get even. In "Dutchman's Flat," it all seemed a simple matter to the six men in the posse. A squatter named Lock gunned down Johnny Webb, and once they catch him, there isn't going to be a trial. But as the posse heads out after him, it becomes clear that Lock knows the desert better than they do, and he knows how to pick them off one by one.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632200389
Louis L’Amour brings the Wild West back to life in three unstoppable adventures! “Mistakes Can Kill You” is the story of Johnny O’Day. Half-dead from pneumonia and on the brink of giving up, he was taken in as a boy and nursed back to health by a young couple. Growing up, Johnny harbored nothing but resentment and jealousy of their biological son, Sam. But now Sam is in big trouble, and it seems that Johnny may be the only person who can come between his half brother and a pair of gunmen. Ross Haney is “The Rider of Ruby Hills.” At twenty-seven, he’s broke, armed, and ready to settle down. But when a feud breaks out between the owners of two of the biggest spreads in Ruby Hills, it looks like the fair town is on the brink of destruction. Ross was a loner at first, but now he’s got allies and a plan . . . In the title story, Krag Moran is a rider who becomes involved in a range war among ranchers and nesters. The town is divided, and by the time shots are fired and the body count starts to rise, Krag will have a lot of explaining to do to the wrong people. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : John G. Cawelti
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0879727853
To this structural analysis he adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cherry Wilson
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781470861704
Centuries ago the Picture Rocks were painted by a tribe of Arizona Indians that since have vanished, leaving behind the powerful figures on the virtually inaccessible cliff walls. For many years the Picture Rocks basin has sheltered the Jore family from the law. The basin also shelters a fabulous palomino stallion called Black Wing. The Jores have left him to run free with the wild herd, but Race Coulter has a different plan. He has convinced a young kid named Rene Rand to help him steal Black Wing. But when Rand is befriended by the Jores after a serious illness, he learns lessons that will change the direction of his life.
Author : John Jakes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312869851
Presents western stories by both legendary and contemporary authors of the genre, such as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Loren Estleman, Marcia Muller, and Bill Pronzini.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022290980
Author : Jack London,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,O. Henry,Zane Grey,Max Brand,Bret Harte,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783967993738
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between the years of 1860 and 1900. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a mythic vision of the plains and deserts of the American West. Critics August Nemo brings seven short stories specially selected with the best of Western's courage and adventure: - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte - All Gold Canyon by Jack London - On the Divide by Willa Cather - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane - The Caballero's Way by O. Henry - The Great Slave by Zane Grey - Wine in the Desert by Max Brand For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015002942739
Author : Jon Tuska
Publisher : Five Star (ME)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : 0786238054
It was the great gold rush to Alaska that began in 1897 that gave birth to the North-Western story. These stories, each by a master of North-Western fiction, span a century. Many of the authors' names are immediately recognizable: Jack London, Robert Service, Rex Beach, James Oliver Curwood, and Max Brand(R) . Many of their stories have been filmed as motion pictures multiple times. Many of these stories appeared in magazines and for their publication here have been restored to their original lengths and texts, as their authors intended. Jon Tuska is the editor of several anthologies of Western stories, including "The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury, The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories," and "The First Five Star Western Corral." He has been editing a series of short novels published by Five Star titled "Stories of the Golden West." He lives in Oregon.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106015874404
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015082964548
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author : T. T. Flynn
Publisher : Leisure Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0843951214
Three short novels tell of a boy raised by the outlaw who made him an orphan, a widowed rancher who turns his ranch over to his son-in-law to run, and a man hired to work as a guard at a gold mine.