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Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
by William Macleod RainepubOne. info present you this new edition. The young woman who was giving the last touches to the very effective picture framed in her long looking-glass nodded almost imperceptibly.
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane GreyNow, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey's best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it. When in the early 1900s Zane Grey took his manuscript to two publishing companies, they rejected it because of the theme of Mormon polygamy, fearing it would offend their readers and subscribers. Then Grey made a special plea to Frederick Duneka, who was vice-president of Harper & Bros. and who had been Mark Twain's editor at that company. Duneka and his wife read the novel and liked it but feared it would offend some readers. Harper & Bros. agreed to publish a changed version of the novel and purchased both the book and magazine-serial rights. Given the task of executing the necessary editorial changes, a senior editor of the company made changes in tone, diction, and style as well as content. The novel first appeared in nineteen installments in the monthly magazine Field & Stream from January 1912 to July 1913. Blackstone Audio here presents the original, uncensored, unABR novel Riders of the Purple Sage, obtained through the Golden West Literary Agency with the cooperation of Zane Grey's son, Loren Grey, and the Ohio State Historical Society. In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her foreman as a dangerous 'outsider'. Lassiter vows to help them. But when the ranch is attacked by horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a mysterious masked rider, he realizes that they're up against something bigger, and more brutal, than the land itself.
Lin McLean
by Owen WisterIn the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed upon her ranges by prosperous thousands, young Lin McLean awaked early one morning in cow camp, and lay staring out of his blankets upon the world. He would be twenty-two this week. He was the youngest cow-puncher in camp. But because he could break wild horses, he was earning more dollars a month than any man there, except one. The cook was a more indispensable person. None save the cook was up, so far, this morning. Lin's brother punchers slept about him on the ground, some motionless, some shifting their prone heads to burrow deeper from the increasing day. The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books. "What's the matter with some variety?" muttered the boy in his blankets. The long range of the mountains lifted clear in the air. They slanted from the purple folds and furrows of the pines that richly cloaked them, upward into rock and grassy bareness until they broke remotely into bright peaks, and filmed into the distant lavender of the north and the south. On their western side the streams ran into Snake or into Green River, and so at length met the Pacific. On this side, Wind River flowed forth from them, descending out of the Lake of the Painted Meadows. A mere trout-brook it was up there at the top of the divide, with easy riffles and stepping-stones in many places; but down here, outside the mountains, it was become a streaming avenue, a broadening course, impetuous between its two tall green walls of cottonwood-trees. And so it wound away like a vast green ribbon across the lilac-gray sage-brush and the yellow, vanishing plains.
The Crusade of the Excelsior
by Bret HarteExcerpt: . . . CHAPTER XI. THE CAPTAIN FOLLOWS HIS SHIP. When Padre Esteban had finished reading the document he laid it down and fixed his eyes on the young man. Hurlstone met his look with a glance of impatient disdain. "What have you to say to this?" asked the ecclesiastic, a little impressed by his manner. "That as far as it concerns myself it is a farrago of absurdity. If I were the person described there, why should I have sought you with what you call a lie of 'sentimental passion, ' when I could have claimed protection openly with my SISTER PATRIOT," he added, with a bitter laugh. "Because you did not know THEN the sympathy of the people nor the decision of the Council," said the priest. "But I know it NOW, and I refuse to accept it. " "You refuse
REVISE Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History the American West Revision Guide and Workbook (PDF)
by Rob BircherOur revision resources are the smart choice for those revising for Edexcel GCSE (9–1) The American West, c1835–c1895. This book will help you to: • Organise your revision with the one-topic-per-page format • Speed up your revision with summary notes in short, memorable chunks • Track your revision progress with at-a-glance check boxes • Check your understanding with worked examples • Develop your exam technique with exam-style practice questions and full answers.
ASE Teaching Secondary Physics (2nd Edition) (PDF)
by David SangProduced in association with the ASE, the series provides new ideas and promotes best practice to enhance teaching skills, supporting everyone from NQTs to experienced science teachers. - Provide tips on how to pitch your lessons to build on students' previous knowledge. - Suggest teaching sequences with activities to cover the basic science and to develop the students' understanding of the topic. - Offer guidance on students' misconceptions, common problems with individual activities and safety issues. - Include examples that relate science to everyday contexts and provide new ideas for experienced teachers. - Recommend ways of using ICT in the classroom effectively. This books draw on the experience of a wide range of teachers and those involved in science education. It has been produced as part of the Association for Science Education's commitment to supporting science teachers by disseminating best practice and new ideas to enhance teaching.
The Call of the Wild
by Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild was published in 1903 and set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. The main character is a dog named Buck, stolen from his home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in the Yukon. The novel charts Buck's transformation from domestication to a state of animalistic instinct.This short novel has been adapted for the screen and television on numerous occasions.
The Call of the Wild
by Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild was published in 1903 and set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. The main character is a dog named Buck, stolen from his home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in the Yukon. The novel charts Buck's transformation from domestication to a state of animalistic instinct. This short novel has been adapted for the screen and television on numerous occasions.
The Call of the Wild
by Jack LondonBuck is a domesticated dog living with his loving family when he is stolen and sold off into the brutal life of an Alaskan sled dog, where must quickly learn how to survive in his new, wild life.
The Prairie (The\john Harvard Library #140)
by James Fenimore Cooper Domhnall Martin MitchellIn The Prairie (1827), Cooper's most celebrated literary work, Natty Bumppo, now aged, is reduced to making a living by trapping. As his journey from Atlantic to Pacific nears its end in a vast uninhabited grassland that Cooper consistently imagines as an ocean of the interior, nothing less than the future identity of America is at stake.
Country
by Danielle SteelLife can take you anywhere if you seize the day . . .Stephanie Adam's life has just changed in an instant. After years of an unhappy marriage, and three kids grown, her husband passes away suddenly. Despite her grief and regrets, she can begin to think about what might come next for her. Returning from a weekend away, Stephanie finds herself on the road to Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and new adventures. A friendly stranger turns out to be country music megastar Chase Taylor, and he is only too happy to sweep Stephanie up on his travels. From Vegas to Nashbille, a brand new world opens up to her. Should she return to her empty house, or take a risk with someone new? Danielle Steel is famous for her inspirational stories about family, love and life. Her novels will be enjoyed by readers of Penny Vincenzi, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.
True Grit: Young Readers Edition (Perennial Bestsellers Series)
by Charles PortisThere is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
Blood on Mcallister
by Matt ChisholmThis was one gunfight it looked like nobody was going to win...Rem McAllister had been in plenty of tough corners in the course of his violent career. But this was one of the toughest. He stood facing the town's local gun-wizard and his pals, revolver in hand. He reckoned he could take him on and win - hell, he'd licked better men in his time. But what made this particular shoot-out so special was the fact that an assassin was waiting to put a bullet through McAllister and his opponent. And McAllister knew it-knew, too, that he was going to need all his courage, speed and skill to get out of this situation alive...Matt Chisholm, master of authentic Western excitement, has written a real McAllister adventure that's a non-stop breathtaking crazy saga of violence and mayhem from beginning to end!
Tough to Kill
by Matt ChisholmMarkham ruled the land-with money and with guns. He also had two beautiful daughters and a sister. To these McAllister and his two henchmen were drawn like bees to a honeypot. To get Markham off their backs and the girls into their arms, they had to fight. And they fought with every weapon they knew of-guile, guns and fists. Matt Chisholm gives you another rioting, rampaging, full-blooded Western.
Kill McAllister
by Matt ChisholmWhen Grotton's boys bushwhacked the herd, they had one grim order: leave no witnesses alive. For justice was rough on the untamed plains of Kansas, and cattle-stealing was a hanging charge. But two men survived the massacre. Rem McAllister was one of them, and seeing his fellow cowpokes die had turned him into a ruthless killing-machine. So as soon as the rustlers realized he was alive and on the loose, another order went out: Kill McAllister - before he kills all of us!
McAllister Fights
by Matt ChisholmRem McAllister, toughest living legend of the Old West, was caught. Caught between his loyalty to the Indians and his loyalty to the Army. He found himself walking a tightrope-and if he fell, death was waiting below on both sides... Another gunsmoke-filled Rem McAllister adventure
McAllister Justice
by Matt ChisholmMcAllister, wild and tough as the land that bred him, was hunting a man who owed him a life. He trailed him from the dusty Mexican border to the wide plains of Nebraska. If he had to, he'd hunt him for another year - and another after that. He'd keep after him until he finally tracked him down. And killed him. Another McAllister adventure with all the controlled violence of a frontier. 45 from master Western-writer Matt Chisholm.
McAllister Makes War
by Matt ChisholmVengeance Was What McAllister Wanted...Vengeance -for his friend, shot down right in front of his eyes. Vengeance -against the toughest, cruellest, all-fired meanest operator the West had ever seen, a man who took what he wanted just whenever he wanted it. Gold, other men's lives, control of a whole damn; town, he grabbed it all.Rem McAllister set out to avenge his friend and clean up the town. All he had to fight with were his two fists, his gun -and his courage. But these were weapons McAllister knew how to handle better than any man around...
McAllister Rides
by Matt ChisholmRancher Bourn was/ a big man; big, rough - arid rich. He was offering five hundred dollars to the man who could get back his pretty-young wife, kidnapped. by Comanche braves in a raid. If saving Mrs Bourn from a fate worse than deaith was worth that much money, McAllister was crazy enough to ride straight into Comanche Country, and kidnap her right back. It wasn't his fault that, when it came to it, Mrs Bourn didn't want to return. to her big, rough rancher . . .
Dracula's America: A Wargame (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorIt is 1875, and Count Dracula is President of the United States of America.In the wake of the Civil War, with the country struggling to regain its balance, Dracula seized power. The Count's thralls assassinated President Lincoln and his entire administration in a single night and, in the ensuing chaos, their master made his move. Dominating the Senate, he declared himself President-for-Life, and now rules the Union with fear and an iron fist. His vampiric progeny, the Coven of the Red Hand, infest every strata of society, and enforce Dracula's will with ruthless efficiency.Drawn by the shadows gathering across the nation, secretive cults and evil creatures emerge from their lairs to thrive in the darkness of the new regime. Fleeing from the oppression and menace of the East, hordes of pioneers head to the West, hoping for a new life.Dracula's greed, however, knows no bounds, and his reach is long…Dracula's America: Shadows of the West is a skirmish game of gothic horror set in an alternate Old West. Secret wars rage across the country – from bustling boom-towns to the most remote wilderness – as cults and secret societies fight for power and survival. Players will throw their support behind one of these factions, and will lead a Posse in fast-paced, cinematic battles for dominance and survival.
Dracula's America: Hunting Grounds (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorThis supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player.- Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the Shadow Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers.- The Hunting Grounds: Scenarios and encounters that focus on this mythical realm and the power and threats found within it.- Territory: Build and develop your headquarters, and exploit the benefits it offers, but beware your enemies taking the fight to your home turf.- Outlaws, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters: New campaign options, allowing you to turn to a life of crime, bring in wanted fugitives, or sell your gun to the highest bidder.- New Monsters: The denizens of the Hunting Grounds, in all their terrifying glory.- New Hired Guns: There's all kinds of folk willing to sell their skills, and these new Hired Guns offer a range of tactical options... if you can afford them.- New Gear: Bring a Gatling Gun to a knife fight, or find out why you were always warned about misusing brimstone chalk and vials of ectoplasm.- New Skills: Riding and Leadership skills give you new combat options and help your posse stay in the fight.
Dracula's America: Forbidden Power (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorSince Dracula's rise to power a shadow has swept across the nation, but nowhere is it darker than in the Deep South. Throughout the plantations, swamps, and cities, rumours abound of grotesque rituals, hooded figures, and bizarre creatures. Most terrifying of all, however, are the whispers of ancient magic – unspeakable arcane rituals and occult powers that can lead those who wield them towards mystical supremacy… or reduce them to gibbering wrecks. This new supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West introduces two new factions: the corrupt cultists of the Church of Dagon and the Salem Sisterhood, occult practitioners whose history dates back to the early Colonies. New stealth rules allow for all manner of sneaky and underhanded tactics, while expanded rules for arcane powers offer glory but could cost you your sanity. Alongside these are a host of new scenarios, Hired Guns, monsters, skills, and gear to challenge or assist those who dare venture into the Deep South of Dracula's America.
Dracula's America: A Wargame (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorIt is 1875, and Count Dracula is President of the United States of America.In the wake of the Civil War, with the country struggling to regain its balance, Dracula seized power. The Count's thralls assassinated President Lincoln and his entire administration in a single night and, in the ensuing chaos, their master made his move. Dominating the Senate, he declared himself President-for-Life, and now rules the Union with fear and an iron fist. His vampiric progeny, the Coven of the Red Hand, infest every strata of society, and enforce Dracula's will with ruthless efficiency.Drawn by the shadows gathering across the nation, secretive cults and evil creatures emerge from their lairs to thrive in the darkness of the new regime. Fleeing from the oppression and menace of the East, hordes of pioneers head to the West, hoping for a new life.Dracula's greed, however, knows no bounds, and his reach is long…Dracula's America: Shadows of the West is a skirmish game of gothic horror set in an alternate Old West. Secret wars rage across the country – from bustling boom-towns to the most remote wilderness – as cults and secret societies fight for power and survival. Players will throw their support behind one of these factions, and will lead a Posse in fast-paced, cinematic battles for dominance and survival.
Dracula's America: Hunting Grounds (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorThis supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player.- Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the Shadow Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers.- The Hunting Grounds: Scenarios and encounters that focus on this mythical realm and the power and threats found within it.- Territory: Build and develop your headquarters, and exploit the benefits it offers, but beware your enemies taking the fight to your home turf.- Outlaws, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters: New campaign options, allowing you to turn to a life of crime, bring in wanted fugitives, or sell your gun to the highest bidder.- New Monsters: The denizens of the Hunting Grounds, in all their terrifying glory.- New Hired Guns: There's all kinds of folk willing to sell their skills, and these new Hired Guns offer a range of tactical options... if you can afford them.- New Gear: Bring a Gatling Gun to a knife fight, or find out why you were always warned about misusing brimstone chalk and vials of ectoplasm.- New Skills: Riding and Leadership skills give you new combat options and help your posse stay in the fight.
Dracula's America: Forbidden Power (Dracula's America)
by Jonathan Haythornthwaite Ru-MorSince Dracula's rise to power a shadow has swept across the nation, but nowhere is it darker than in the Deep South. Throughout the plantations, swamps, and cities, rumours abound of grotesque rituals, hooded figures, and bizarre creatures. Most terrifying of all, however, are the whispers of ancient magic – unspeakable arcane rituals and occult powers that can lead those who wield them towards mystical supremacy… or reduce them to gibbering wrecks. This new supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West introduces two new factions: the corrupt cultists of the Church of Dagon and the Salem Sisterhood, occult practitioners whose history dates back to the early Colonies. New stealth rules allow for all manner of sneaky and underhanded tactics, while expanded rules for arcane powers offer glory but could cost you your sanity. Alongside these are a host of new scenarios, Hired Guns, monsters, skills, and gear to challenge or assist those who dare venture into the Deep South of Dracula's America.