A creator of pulp novels follows a lead to the wild west border town of El Paso where he encounters Henry Putnam, the last surviving person with knowledge to a long-past killing.
Summary, Analysis & Review of Paulette Jiles's News of the World by InstareadPreview:News of the World by Paulette Jiles is the story of an unlikely friendship between an old man, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, and a 10-year-old girl, Johanna Leonberger, who was rescued from the Kiowa Indians.
Peek Tillman has grown up in the Florida backcountry and knows that as he does his job of herding cattle to market across the big prairie to the east of the Gulfs Charlotte Harbor, he has to be on the lookout for wild beasts and poisonous reptilesas well as predators of the human variety.
John Thomas MacKenzie would much prefer to spend his remaining years just tending his garden at his estate in Spanish Florida, surrounded by his two tall sons and his lovely daughter Rebecca (whom all but her father call Becky).
Lemuel brought home news of a tract of government land known as Soapweed Plains, on the north rim of the Mohave Desert, with enticing reports of rich mineral belts in the adjacent mountain ranges.
John Lee Johnson in the Valley of the Sun is part of a series pitting John Lee Johnson, the powerfully strong and talented gunman against his nemesis, former Brigadier-General Frank McGrew, a very wealthy steel and railroad magnate.
When a freak snowstorm (White-Out) threatens the existence of THE TANGLED ROSE, the perfect frontier ranch of Butch and Dolly Weaver, and takes the life of their son, Patrick, despair drives Butch to search for the fabled gold mine of his dead father, leaving his family destitute.
This exciting sequel to "e;Where Columbines Grow"e; follows the MacKenzie Family as they learn to face the challenges of prejudice and crime, discovering forgiveness, and thriving in love.
It takes a lot to change a peace loving, God fearing, rancher from a devoted father and husband into a Hunter of men, but sometimes though no fault of his own, this role is forced up on a man who for most of his life has not wished anything bad to happen to anyone.
Sam Balinger was raised on a Texas cattle ranch, but his love of 'mechanical things' drove him to work in a gun shop that specialized in fabricating small gun parts.
Like his other publications, this book follows a story line that ranges from the early years, the lawman or bounty hunting years, finding a soulmate, and settling down after they hang-up their guns.
This is the 9th book in this series depicting life on the western front, after railroads and inside plumbing but before the automobile and the industrial revolution.
Cowboys, Outlaws, and Family, A Western Adventure brings to life the stories of the characters in her first book Second Chance, A Western Adventure; the Preston family and their bunkhouse crew.
The Sioux StruggleWhen the gold-struck Northwest was opened up to settlement, westward expansion progressed from a trickle to a flood, devastating everythingand everyonein its path.
While reading the novel Just Away, you will be totally captivated while following the ninety-five-year life of a successful industrialist as he experiences all that life has to offer.
