Author: Madeleine Carroll
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477135545
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Francis Steinway and his mother head west to help Grandpa with the family ranch while Dad is deployed for a year of military service. Dad has asked him to be the man of the family, but Francis is faced with the new challenges of living in the West. Its nothing like the city life hes always known. Grandpa insists on calling him Frank, a tougher name for a tough land. Frank discovers just how tough the land can be as he learns to ride a horse and face the difficulties of ranch life. When he learns that something mysterious is killing Grandpas cattle, Frank sets out to uncover the truth. He soon finds himself being blamed for many mishaps around the ranch. Can he clear his name and find out whats killing the cattle?
The Dead Cattle Ranch Mystery
Author: Madeleine Carroll
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477135545
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Francis Steinway and his mother head west to help Grandpa with the family ranch while Dad is deployed for a year of military service. Dad has asked him to be the man of the family, but Francis is faced with the new challenges of living in the West. Its nothing like the city life hes always known. Grandpa insists on calling him Frank, a tougher name for a tough land. Frank discovers just how tough the land can be as he learns to ride a horse and face the difficulties of ranch life. When he learns that something mysterious is killing Grandpas cattle, Frank sets out to uncover the truth. He soon finds himself being blamed for many mishaps around the ranch. Can he clear his name and find out whats killing the cattle?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477135545
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Francis Steinway and his mother head west to help Grandpa with the family ranch while Dad is deployed for a year of military service. Dad has asked him to be the man of the family, but Francis is faced with the new challenges of living in the West. Its nothing like the city life hes always known. Grandpa insists on calling him Frank, a tougher name for a tough land. Frank discovers just how tough the land can be as he learns to ride a horse and face the difficulties of ranch life. When he learns that something mysterious is killing Grandpas cattle, Frank sets out to uncover the truth. He soon finds himself being blamed for many mishaps around the ranch. Can he clear his name and find out whats killing the cattle?
Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
Author: Steve Glassman
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879728465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879728465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.
PHANTOM MUSTANG
Author: Carroll J. Stephens in memoriam with Harold L. Stephens
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636301800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
PHANTOM MUSTANG by Carroll J. Stephens in memoriam with Harold L. Stephens __________________________________
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636301800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
PHANTOM MUSTANG by Carroll J. Stephens in memoriam with Harold L. Stephens __________________________________
Serials and Series
Author: Buck Rainey
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604487
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604487
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Within Our Gates
Author: Alan Gevinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Catalogue
Author: Montgomery Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 2019)
Author: Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476637520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476637520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.
Wink of an Eye
Author: Lynn Chandler Willis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466855517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Lynn Chandler Willis' Wink of an Eye is a strong addition to a long list of The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) Competition winners that includes Steve Hamilton and Michael Koryta. On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father was murdered after he went inquiring after the disappearance of several teenage girls, all undocumented immigrants. Against his better judgment, Gypsy agrees to snoop around to see what he can find. Between dealing with his now married high school sweetheart, a sexy reporter, and hostile police officers, Gypsy has his work cut out for him.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466855517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Lynn Chandler Willis' Wink of an Eye is a strong addition to a long list of The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) Competition winners that includes Steve Hamilton and Michael Koryta. On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father was murdered after he went inquiring after the disappearance of several teenage girls, all undocumented immigrants. Against his better judgment, Gypsy agrees to snoop around to see what he can find. Between dealing with his now married high school sweetheart, a sexy reporter, and hostile police officers, Gypsy has his work cut out for him.
Farm Journal and Country Gentleman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description