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Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
589 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired to track down a brutal Mexican bandit, bounty hunter Woodrow Call is accompanied by an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, Hat Creek outfit member Pea Eye Parker, and Parker's wife, Lorena.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the bloody massacres that marked -- and marred -- the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the massacres at Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, Indians killing Americans, and, in one case, Mormons slaughtering a party...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the Cherokee nation not long after the Civil War tells the story of Zeke Proctor who is in trouble with the law after shooting his mistress and of Ned Christie who escapes to the Ozark Mountains after being unjustly accused of committing several murders.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One thing I’ve always liked about Hollywood is its zip, or speed. The whole industry depends to some extent on talent spotting. The hundreds of agents, studio executives, and producers who roam the streets of the city of Los Angeles let very little in the way of talent slip by." In this final installment of the memoir trilogy that includes Books and Literary Life, Larry McMurtry, "the master of the show-stopping anecdote" (O: The Oprah Magazine)...
6) Custer
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry crafts works synonymous with the grandeur and beauty of the American West. Here McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little Bighorn, Custer forged a legacy- still very much alive today- as one of the West's most enduring historical figures....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions...
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