Das zweite Spiel verschlagt Cedric in den Wilden Westen, in das Jahr 1865, hinein in die staubigen Straen von Abilene, wo Gesetzlosigkeit, Blut und Rache das tagliche Leben bestimmen.
The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
THE COMPLETE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES features the five novels of James Fenimore Cooper's beloved Leatherstocking series, which follow the adventures of Natty Bumppo.
When he is forced to kill a man after a deadly attack, Buck Duane begins a life on the run while trying to clear his name, and his fortunes are changed by a beautiful woman and a Texas Ranger who offers to pardon him for a price.
Ken Ward encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had never seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive it takes the breath away in the Grand Canyon.
Herein is embodied my tribute to the American men who gave themselves to the service in the great war, and my sleepless and eternal gratitude for what they did for me.
This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of deep canons and giant pines.
He came to the Belilounds ranch, no one knew from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gunfighter that they called him "Hell Bent" Wade.
Texas was a huge wide place full of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians -- all of them blended together into a single state.
The story describes the recent uprising along the border, and ends with the finding of the gold which two prospectors had willed to the girl who is the story's heroine.
In dieser Anthologie finden sich neben Erzählungen, die die Abenteuer Old Shatterhands und Winnetous – angelehnt an den vertrauten Stil Karl Mays – weitererspinnen, auch Geschichten mit neuen Sichtweisen und behutsamen Erweiterungen des Karl-May-Kosmos, jedoch ohne dabei das Flair von Karl Mays Mythos zu zerstören.
