Sons Of Texas And The Raiders Sons Of Texas

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250760524

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Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas offers two classic novels of the Old West for one low price, by renowned Western writer Elmer Kelton. It’s 1816. Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson’s campaigns who’s thirsting for action, leads his two sons and a band of backwoodsmen to Spanish-held Texas on a campaign to hunt wild horses. Their plan is to sell the mustangs back in Tennessee, but tragedy strikes when a bloody skirmish leaves Mordecai dead, and brothers Michael and Andrew are forced to fend for themselves. Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas follow the lives and adventures of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston. From stealing horses to falling in love to being dogged by the ruthless Spanish officer who killed their father, Michael and Andrew endure enough trials and tribulations to fill the whole of Texas. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958059

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The Raiders: Sons of Texas by Elmer Kelton Pdf

In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters a Spanish patrol determined to repel all American invaders. After a bloody skirmish leaves their father dead, Michael and Andrew find their way back to their Tennessee farm. Five years later, after the Spanish government in Mexico City has agreed to permit 300 American families to settle in Texas, the Lewis brothers have their opportunity to re-enter Texas. They ride to the frontier town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, where Michael falls in love with Marie Villaret, daughter of a wealthy French landowner, then cross the Sabine to find Stephen F. Austin, a Missouri entrepreneur in charge of the new American colony. But the Lewises are considered interlopers and horse thieves and are dogged by a patrol led by the same ruthless Spanish officer who killed their father five years before. Sons of Texas is the first volume in a trilogy that follows the lives and adventures of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765348977

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Sons of Texas by Elmer Kelton Pdf

In 1816 veteran fighter Mordecai Lewis leaves his family to make a foray into Spanish-held Texas for wild mustangs.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765310228

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Sons of Texas by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Mordecai Lewis and his sons Michael and Andrew ride into the Spanish province of Texas to hunt wild horses, planning to sell the animals back home in the Tennessee canebrakes. The expedition proves fatal for Mordecai and leaves the Lewis boys in peril on both sides of the border: with a murderous Spanish officer in Texas and a blood vendetta with the Blackwood clan, a neighboring Tennessee family.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Tom Early
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036855251

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Sons of Texas by Tom Early Pdf

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765394026

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The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton Pdf

The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer Kelton The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of “progress,” Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams of has become part of the past. He must find a new path to happiness—one that may require a great sacrifice. The Smiling Country It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway’s freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are even creeping in to remote Alpine in the “smiling country” of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey’s regrets over his lost love, schoolteacher Spring Renfro haunt him as he sees the loneliness that awaits him. The Smiling Country is filled with humor, love, and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great, free, open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new, technological era. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Geoffrey Wawro
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093922

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Sons of Freedom by Geoffrey Wawro Pdf

The "stirring," definitive history of America's decisive role in winning World War I (Wall Street Journal). The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But as Geoffrey Wawro shows in Sons of Freedom, the French and British were on the verge of collapse in 1918, and would have lost the war without the Doughboys. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, described the Allied victory as a "miracle" -- but it was a distinctly American miracle. In Sons of Freedom, prize-winning historian Geoffrey Wawro weaves together in thrilling detail the battles, strategic deliberations, and dreadful human cost of the American war effort. A major revision of the history of World War I, Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the United States as the greatest of the great powers.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429932455

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The Pumpkin Rollers by Elmer Kelton Pdf

In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry. And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence and death from outlaw Jarrett Longacre, a man who will plague his life at every turn. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429978392

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Dark Thicket by Elmer Kelton Pdf

One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest Western writers of all time by the Western Writers of America. Dark Thicket is one of his many classic tales of the history of his home state of Texas. Young Owen Danforth rides home to Texas as a wounded Confederate soldier, at a time when his home state is as savagely divided as his nation. As a grievously wounded America staggers toward the inevitable end of the Civil War, secessionist "home guards" and staunch Union loyalists fight their own bloody battles on a more local scale. For Owen, sick to death of fighting and yearning for peace and recuperation, his homecoming is bittersweet. And when his blood ties force him to choose a side in an unwinnable conflict, Owen begins to wonder if he will ever see peace in Texas again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466889330

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Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Two complete novels from Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition Buffalo Wagons For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson.... Cloudy in the West In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin-Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466859791

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Shotgun and Six Bits a Day by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Two thrilling Westerns from the legendary bestselling author Elmer Kelton, Shotgun and Six Bits a Day Shotgun Rancher Blair Bishop of Two Forks, Texas, has too many enemies...and they're closing in. Macy Modock, whom Bishop sent to prison ten years ago, returns to Two Forks looking for vengeance. Cowman Clarence Cass conspires with Modock to ruin his rival even though Cass's daughter and Bishop's son are in love. The black-hearted duo lay claim to untitled lands where Bishop grazes his cattle—a plan that leads to a deadly confrontation in which two men will die. Six Bits a Day To keep his conservative brother from getting married and starting life as a farmer, Hewey Calloway convinces Walter to join him on a mission for Boss Tarpley, driving 600 head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos. The journey is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless character is determined to sabotage the cattle drive. When the drivers reach the Pecos they find Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his brother Walter have to get the herd safely across Jessup's land—but how? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962520

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Barbed Wire by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south 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. Monahan's 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. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug 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 : Forge Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250245717

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Hanging Judge and Bowie's Mine by Elmer Kelton Pdf

Hanging Judge and Bowie's Mine offers two classic novels of the Old West for one low price, by renowned Western writer Elmer Kelton. Hanging Judge Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal--a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to justice. When Justin's boss hangs a controversial criminal, Justin must defend himself against an army of friends and relatives, desperate for revenge. Bowie’s Mine Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Tom Early,Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:97818328

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Sons of Texas by Tom Early,Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) Pdf