Thunder In The West

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806168043

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Thunder in the West by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West. Billy the Kid—born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney—emerges from these pages in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion, and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. As we move from his peripatetic early years through the wild West to his fatal involvement in the Lincoln County Wars, we see the impressionable boy give way to the conflicted young man and, finally, to the opportunistic and often amoral outlaw who was out for himself, for revenge, and for whatever he could steal along the way. Against this deftly drawn portrait, Etulain considers the stories and myths spawned by Billy’s life and death. Beginning with the dime novels featuring Billy the Kid, even during his lifetime, and ranging across the myriad newspaper accounts, novels, and movies that alternately celebrated his outlaw life and condemned his exploits, Etulain offers a uniquely informed view of the changing interpretations that have shaped and reshaped the reputation of this enduring icon of the Old West. In his portrayal, Billy the Kid lives on, not as a cut-throat desperado or a young charmer but as both—hero and villain, myth and man, fully realized in this twenty-first-century interpretation.

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307387677

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Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

Author : Lon Savage
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971429

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Thunder In the Mountains by Lon Savage Pdf

The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death. Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners’ rebellion into open warfare. Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.

Author : Lynn WESTLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:8804131

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Thunder to the West by Lynn WESTLAND Pdf

Author : John Ralph Hamilton,John Calvin Batchelor
Publisher : Stewart Tabori & Chang
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1556700067

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Thunder in the Dust by John Ralph Hamilton,John Calvin Batchelor Pdf

Photographs show cowboys and Indians, actors, stuntmen, and film crews in scenes from the making of Western movies

Author : Lee Gramling
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1561640808

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Thunder on the St. Johns by Lee Gramling Pdf

The vast unsettled lands of Florida in the 1850s are a magnet drawing men and women from all backgrounds toward the promise of fresh beginnings. Most of them are honest, hard-working citizens. But there is another element, as on any frontier: the violent, the greedy, the power-hungry. Will the honest homesteaders prevail over those who would destroy their dreams even before they can begin to build?

Author : Rosanne Bittner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402267666

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Thunder on the Plains by Rosanne Bittner Pdf

With more than 7 million books in print, RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award winning and USA Today Bestselling author Rosanne Bittner pens a historical Western romance filled with dangerous cowboys, capable heroines, and an epic love story that sweeps across the Old West. IN A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Sunny Landers wants a big life-as big and free as the untamed land that stretches before her. Land she will help her father conquer to achieve his dream of a transcontinental railroad. She won't let a cold, creaky wagon, murderous bandits or stampeding buffalo stand in her way. She wants it all-including Colt Travis. ALL THE ODDS WERE AGAINST THEM Like the land of his birth, half Cherokee Colt Travis is wild, hard, and dangerous. He is a drifter, a wilderness scout with no land and no prospects hired by the Landers family to guide their wagon train. He knows Sunny is out of his league and her father would never approve, but beneath the endless starlit sky, anything seems possible... Praise for Bestselling Historical Western Romances by Rosanne Bittner: "A hero to set feminine hearts aflutter...western romance readers will thoroughly enjoy this." -Library Journal "Fans of such authors as Jodi Thomas and Georgina Gentry will enjoy Bittner's thrilling tale of crime and love in the Old West."-Booklist Online "One of the most powerful voices in western romance."-RT Book Reviews

Author : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393634181

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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein Pdf

“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.

Author : Lewy Olfson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : OCLC:12075205

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Thunder in the West by Lewy Olfson Pdf

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780375412691

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Thunder from the East by Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn Pdf

An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise—a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia.

Author : Karen Kay
Publisher : PK&J Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Blue Thunder and the Flower by Karen Kay Pdf

He rescued her from danger. Then she stole his heart. Working as a trick rider for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Blue Thunder of the Lakota Nation joins forces with two Assiniboine warriors in their mission to stop a hidden enemy who means to destroy the American Indian people. As a child, he’d witnessed the massacre of his friends and family, including the girl, Sweet Flower, whom he'd vowed to marry. The loss has left him with a burning ache and a prejudice against the white man. So how can he fall for a woman like Marci Fox? Something terrible happened to Marci when she was a child; something that keeps her from remembering her early life. She jumps at the chance to travel from England to New York with her friends working with the Wild West show. But a last minute hitch means the only way to get there is to pretend she’s married to Blue Thunder. Her attraction to him is deep, yet something stands in the way of true happiness—the ghosts from his past and his commitment to a mission that could get him killed. But soon, Blue Thunder and his friends must discover who the true enemy is and stop his evil plans before he can harm more of their people. Could uncovering the treachery get Blue Thunder killed? And, even if he survives the threat, can Blue Thunder and Marci overcome their past and discover the sweet flower of true love? Warning: A sensuous romance that might stir one's heart to look for, discover and ignite a soul-stirring, forever love.

Author : Jerdine Nolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152060065

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Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen Pdf

Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong, thank you very kindly--and boy, does she ever But when a whirling storm on a riotous rampage threatens, has Rose finally met her match?

Author : Vincent O. Carter
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781586422233

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Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter Pdf

Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community.

Author : Charles West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 1410440869

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Thunder Over Lolo Pass by Charles West Pdf

Roberta Morris goes to the McCloud brothers seeking help in finding her missing uncle. They are happy to oblige a lady who's all alone. But she's not alone. Frank Burdette and his gang are hot on her trail--and they know more than Roberta is letting on to the McClouds. Original.

Author : Tochi Onyebuchi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780448493954

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Crown of Thunder by Tochi Onyebuchi Pdf

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down. Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. Innocent civilians flee to refugee camps as Karima's dark magic continues to descend on the city. Taj must return, but first he needs a plan. With Arzu's help, Taj and Aliya make it to the village of her ancestors, home of the tastahlik--sin-eaters with Taj's same ability to both battle and call forth sins. As Taj comes to terms with his new magic, he realizes there are two very different groups of tastahlik--one using their powers for good, the other for more selfish ends. Aliya is struggling with her own unique capabilities. She's immersed in her work to uncover the secret to Karima's magic, but her health begins to mysteriously deteriorate. With the help of a local western mage, Aliya uncovers her true destiny--a future she's not sure she wants. As Taj and Aliya explore their feelings for each other and Arzu connects with her homeland, the local westerners begin to question Taj's true identity. Karima is on his heels, sending dark warnings to the little village where he's hiding. Taj will have to go back and face her before she sends her most deadly weapon--Taj's former best friend, Bo.