Author: Oliver Strange
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9350097028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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From outlaw to lawman ...When Jim Green took on the job of Marshal in the aptly named town of Lawless, he had no idea just how tough a job it was until he discovered there was a man pirating around the town on a black stallion and calling himself ‘Sudden.’ Jim Green wanted to meet this Sudden personally over six-guns. Because Jim Green happened to be the real Sudden....
Author: Oliver Strange
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552117951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Author: Oliver Strange
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 935009701X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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The second book in the chronology has James Green finding a mission in life..and confronting men whose mission in life is to exterminate him. Sudden.
Author: Nicolas P. Suzor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481221
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Because social media and technology companies rule the Internet, only a digital constitution can protect our rights online.
Author: Oliver Strange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Author: O. STRANGE
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553253247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck. But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and keep themselves out of jail? With the local marshal already suspicious of Riley, the Coburn gang will have to plan well and move fast. But that shouldn’t be a problem. Their reputation was built by doing just that.
Author: Oliver Strange
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9350096951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The making of the legendary outlaw ... from Texas to Kansas, his deadly guns sought a legacy of vengeance.
Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1429998431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling. A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw–and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end . . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
