Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West--the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West.
Heroes Without Glory
Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West--the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West--the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West.
Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words
Author: Larry Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for valor in combat. Exclusive interviews with these twenty-four men—firsthand accounts of battlefield sacrifice from the greatest generation to Vietnam, along with before-and-after stories—form the core of this classic work. The recipients, as portrayed here, represent a cross-section as diverse as America itself—officers and enlisted men; African Americans, Hispanics, and Caucasians; men who went on to become famous (Daniel Inouye, James Stockdale, Bob Kerrey) and others who returned proudly to small towns. Beyond Glory, in the voices of these heroes, is a testament to the courage of the American nation.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor. This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for valor in combat. Exclusive interviews with these twenty-four men—firsthand accounts of battlefield sacrifice from the greatest generation to Vietnam, along with before-and-after stories—form the core of this classic work. The recipients, as portrayed here, represent a cross-section as diverse as America itself—officers and enlisted men; African Americans, Hispanics, and Caucasians; men who went on to become famous (Daniel Inouye, James Stockdale, Bob Kerrey) and others who returned proudly to small towns. Beyond Glory, in the voices of these heroes, is a testament to the courage of the American nation.
For the Glory
Author: Mark Ryan
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 9781906779252
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
- The true story of Babe Slater and Rudy Scholz, opposites in nature, who led their country to Olympic glory in the sport of Rugby - A story of friendship, the scars of war and the joy of winning on the sports field - Two men with one goal in mind - to win
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 9781906779252
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
- The true story of Babe Slater and Rudy Scholz, opposites in nature, who led their country to Olympic glory in the sport of Rugby - A story of friendship, the scars of war and the joy of winning on the sports field - Two men with one goal in mind - to win
Before the Glory
Author: Billy Staples
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757306268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Recounts the true childhood stories and lessons of some of baseball's greatest players, including Gary Carter, Ralph Kiner, Ferguson Jenkins, and Tony Gwynn.
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757306268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Recounts the true childhood stories and lessons of some of baseball's greatest players, including Gary Carter, Ralph Kiner, Ferguson Jenkins, and Tony Gwynn.
Terra Nostra
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466840153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1183
Book Description
Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of art. Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, "the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say."
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466840153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1183
Book Description
Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of art. Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, "the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say."
Company of Cowards
Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This classic novel of courage and redemption introduces Jared Heath. Heath, a captain in the Union army, is stripped of rank and court-martialed for cowardice after refusing to march his men into a suicide mission. Yet he has a chance to regain his honor when he is charged with leading Company Q, a unit of misfit officers also disgraced and charged with cowardice. If Heath can make them an effective fighting force, there is a possibility that all of them will be redeemed and pardoned. Will this unit of outcasts prevail and succeed when given the opportunity to show their courage, or will they find defeat deep in Comanche country?
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This classic novel of courage and redemption introduces Jared Heath. Heath, a captain in the Union army, is stripped of rank and court-martialed for cowardice after refusing to march his men into a suicide mission. Yet he has a chance to regain his honor when he is charged with leading Company Q, a unit of misfit officers also disgraced and charged with cowardice. If Heath can make them an effective fighting force, there is a possibility that all of them will be redeemed and pardoned. Will this unit of outcasts prevail and succeed when given the opportunity to show their courage, or will they find defeat deep in Comanche country?
The Big Range
Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Schaefer shares the individual stories of seven people--rancher, sheepherder, homesteader, town settler, soldier, miner, and cowboy--in this collection. He tells the tales as they can only be told: in the open spaces of the Old West. In these memorable narratives Schaefer depicts the unique conflicts of settler life and captures the spirit of the resolute, willful, determined, and broken characters found on the Western frontier.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Schaefer shares the individual stories of seven people--rancher, sheepherder, homesteader, town settler, soldier, miner, and cowboy--in this collection. He tells the tales as they can only be told: in the open spaces of the Old West. In these memorable narratives Schaefer depicts the unique conflicts of settler life and captures the spirit of the resolute, willful, determined, and broken characters found on the Western frontier.
The Kean Land and Other Stories
Author: Jack Schaefer
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American West. The featured novella, “The Kean Land,” tells the story of young Ben Hammon as he arrives in western Colorado after the death of his parents to live with his small-town lawman uncle. The drama unfolds as Ben learns the ways of the land and the people who live there—including the Kean family. As “progress” pursues there is a dramatic price the Keans and others must pay to keep their land in this once hostile territory. How much blood must those who love the land pay in order to stay?
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American West. The featured novella, “The Kean Land,” tells the story of young Ben Hammon as he arrives in western Colorado after the death of his parents to live with his small-town lawman uncle. The drama unfolds as Ben learns the ways of the land and the people who live there—including the Kean family. As “progress” pursues there is a dramatic price the Keans and others must pay to keep their land in this once hostile territory. How much blood must those who love the land pay in order to stay?
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather
Author: Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486400358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486400358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Lawmen of the Old West
Author: Del Cain
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461625599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage. Others used their positions as cover for their criminal activities. The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. Some of them did good work enforcing the law when that was their job. Others had equally successful careers on the other side of the law. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461625599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage. Others used their positions as cover for their criminal activities. The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. Some of them did good work enforcing the law when that was their job. Others had equally successful careers on the other side of the law. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.