Author: Max Brand
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Languages : en
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Author: Lynette Eason
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369716175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Their search for a fugitive makes them both targets. Out horseback riding, Dr. Katherine Gilroy accidentally stumbles into a deadly shoot-out and comes to US marshal Dominic O’Ryan’s aid. Now with Dominic injured and under her care, she’s determined to help him find her brother—the fugitive he believes murdered his partner. While Katherine’s sure her brother isn’t guilty, someone’s dead set on killing her and Dominic…and finding the truth is their one shot at survival. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

Author: Max Brand
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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The Mountain Fugitive by Max Brand is the tale of Lee Porfilo, who is suddenly being framed for the crimes of two wealthy and powerful ranchers. Can Porfilo prove himself innocent, or will his life be paved in blood for the rest of his days? Excerpt: "I was not born upon Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, nor upon Thursday, or Saturday, I presume, because the blessings of those days are mixed; but I came into this world upon a Sunday. I was the only child of a butcher in the town of Mendez, in Arizona. His name was Leon Porfilo, and I was given the same appellation."

Author: Ann Voss Peterson
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 222

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THE DEADLIEST OF SECRETSRancher Sarah Trask's brother was gunned down while searching for a valuable secret. Now the dirty sheriff who wanted him dead thinks Sarah has all the answers, and she has no choice but disappear into the wilderness to evade the law. Sarah is used to taking care of herself, but this time her life isn't the only one on the line, and the only one she is willing to trust is her unborn baby's father... a man unaware he is about to become a dad.THE HIGHEST OF STAKESWilderness guide Eric Lander walked away from Sarah before things got too serious... or so he thought. But when she's threatened, he risks everything to rush to her aid. And when he discovers there is another life at stake-that of their unborn child-serious doesn't begin to describe the fury of a man protecting his own.In a race up sheer cliffs, down rugged canyons, and into the middle of a rodeo, Sarah and Eric unravel a mystery that could save them... or destroy everything and everyone they hold dear. ROCKY MOUNTAIN THRILLERS are fast-paced novels with a dangerous edge. Each stand-alone story is set in the brutal and beautiful Rocky Mountains and contains intrigue, romance, and break-neck action. Read them all!

Author: Jean Jacques PORCHAT
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Emily Catherine Pierson
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Published one year after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, before Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared serialized in The National Era. Jamie Parker tells of slave insurrections and the right of the enslaved to escape. This book has been described as the first anti-slavery novel by a female abolitionist.

Author: Walter William Skeat
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807104545
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren—each began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University who attracted national attention with their publication of The Fugitive magazine in the early 1920s and the celebrated essays in I’ll Take My Stand. Collectively known as the Fugitives (or Agrarians as they were later called) they became ardent and influential participants in the regionalist-proletarian literary controversies of the Depression decades. Each of the four poets was personally concerned with the connection between their creative work and the social realities around them. In The Wary Fugitives Louis Rubin masterfully explores and illustrates the relationships between their poetry, novels, and literary criticism, and their work as social critics. He conducts, in the process, a revealing and provocative inquiry into the connection between American history and the twentieth-century South.

Author: Thomas Byerly
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Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: David G. Smith
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823263975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania—a border region of a border state with a complicated history of slavery, antislavery activism, and unequal freedom. During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through the region, where they faced both significant opportunities and substantial risks. While the hundreds of fugitives traveling through south central Pennsylvania (defined as Adams, Franklin, and Cumberland counties) during this period were aided by an effective Underground Railroad, they also faced slave catchers and informers. “Underground” work such as helping fugitive slaves appealed to border antislavery activists who shied away from agitating for immediate abolition in a region with social, economic, and kinship ties to the South. And, as early antislavery protests met fierce resistance, area activists adopted a less confrontational approach, employing the more traditional political tools of the petition and legal action. Smith traces the victories of antislavery activists in south central Pennsylvania, including the achievement of a strong personal liberty law and the aggressive prosecution of kidnappers who seized innocent African Americans as fugitives. He also documents how their success provoked Southern retaliation and the passage of a strengthened Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. The Civil War then intensified the debate over fugitive slaves, as hundreds of escaping slaves, called “contrabands,” sought safety in the area, and scores were recaptured by the Confederate army during the Gettysburg campaign. On the Edge of Freedom explores in captivating detail the fugitive slave issue through fifty years of sectional conflict, war, and reconstruction in south central Pennsylvania and provocatively questions what was gained by the activists’ pragmatic approach of emphasizing fugitive slaves over immediate abolition and full equality. Smith argues that after the war, social and demographic changes in southern Pennsylvania worked against African Americans’ achieving equal opportunity, and although local literature portrayed this area as a vanguard of the Underground Railroad, African Americans still lived “on the edge of freedom.” By the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was rallying near the Gettysburg battlefield, and south central Pennsylvania became, in some ways, as segregated as the Jim Crow South. The fugitive slave issue, by reinforcing images of dependency, may have actually worked against the achievement of lasting social change.