Escape From Hangtown

Author : Larry D. Sweazy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101634898
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Hangtown written by Larry D. Sweazy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Lucas Fume Western from the Spur Award-winning author of Vengeance at Sundown, no man is truly free until he puts his past—and his enemies—to rest. Lucas Fume has been exonerated of the murder charge that put him in prison seven years ago. But he isn’t free yet. Not while his friend, former slave Zeke Henry, remains a fugitive wrongly accused of assaulting Senator Barlow’s daughter, Celia. Lucas wouldn’t have his freedom or wealth—let alone his life—if it weren’t for Zeke. And he knows that the only way to clear his friend’s name is to prove the identity of Celia’s true attacker: Senator Barlow himself. Now Lucas has a plan to take on the powerful Senator—and his son John, aka Lanford Grips—once and for all. The only question is whether it will lead to freedom or the end of a noose.

Author : Larry D. Sweazy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425269337
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape from Hangtown written by Larry D. Sweazy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Lucas Fume Western from the Spur Award-winning author of Vengeance at Sundown, no man is truly free until he puts his past--and his enemies--to rest. Lucas Fume has been exonerated of the murder charge that put him in prison seven years ago. But he isn't free yet. Not while his friend, former slave Zeke Henry, remains a fugitive wrongly accused of assaulting Senator Barlow's daughter, Celia. Lucas wouldn't have his freedom or wealth--let alone his life--if it weren't for Zeke. And he knows that the only way to clear his friend's name is to prove the identity of Celia's true attacker: Senator Barlow himself. Now Lucas has a plan to take on the powerful Senator--and his son John, aka Lanford Grips--once and for all. The only question is whether it will lead to freedom or the end of a noose.

Author : Virginia Vna Druten
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452033447
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hangtown written by Virginia Vna Druten and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Bartlett runs away from her abusive husband, and finds herself in the gold-mining town of Old Dry Diggings. It is 1851, the height of the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada. She faces the unfamiliar challenges of making her way in a male-dominated society, establishing herself as a school teacher, meeting exotic strangers, and finding possible romance. This delicate balancing act is threatened when her husband comes to town. She must elude discovery.

Author : Paul Lederer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480488410
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hangtown written by Paul Lederer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a deserted western town, two drifters fight to stay alive The place is called Hangtown, and it’s as dead as a man with a noose cinched ‘round his neck. Josh Banks and Wage Carson rode here in search of work, but they found the settlement dried up and blown away—the silver mine empty and the population gone with it. Josh wants to take what supplies they can and move on out into the desert, but Wage has a grander idea. The town has been abandoned, and that makes it theirs to own. He elects Josh mayor, appoints himself sheriff, and the town is alive again. Welcome to Hangtown—population: 2. When a troop of painted ladies rides into their empty town, Wage’s plan starts to look pretty clever. But soldiers and gunmen follow close behind, and this two-man hamlet becomes the flashpoint for bloody conflict. Hangtown will be dead again soon, and if Wage and Josh don’t move quickly, it will take them with it.

Author : Cort Martin
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 162815053X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangtown Harlots written by Cort Martin and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : TOM LEFTWICH
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312663278
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DON'T SHOOT ! IT'S ME written by TOM LEFTWICH and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fictionalized true to life adventures as seen in Arizona Territory in the 1850 to 1880 era where Indian warfare and pillaging Raiders were common.These tales all involve realistic events that have been written in a manner to provide an enjoyable short story for the commuter or an interesting lunch break. Violence, during this period in American history was common place and has been included as necessary to provide realism.Authentic practices for training horses and gunmanship techniques are included in some stories. It's my desire to provide the reader with an interesting and satisfying story that is both entertaining and educational. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Author : Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674276140
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We the Miners written by Andrea G. McDowell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of state authority, Gold Rush miners crafted effective government by the people—but not for all the people. Gold Rush California was a frontier on steroids: 1,500 miles from the nearest state, it had a constantly fluctuating population and no formal government. A hundred thousand single men came to the new territory from every corner of the nation with the sole aim of striking it rich and then returning home. The circumstances were ripe for chaos, but as Andrea McDowell shows, this new frontier was not nearly as wild as one would presume. Miners turned out to be experts at self-government, bringing about a flowering of American-style democracy—with all its promises and deficiencies. The Americans in California organized and ran meetings with an efficiency and attention to detail that amazed foreign observers. Hundreds of strangers met to adopt mining codes, decide claim disputes, run large-scale mining projects, and resist the dominance of companies financed by outside capital. Most notably, they held criminal trials on their own authority. But, mirroring the societies back east from which they came, frontiersmen drew the boundaries of their legal regime in racial terms. The ruling majority expelled foreign miners from the diggings and allowed their countrymen to massacre the local Native Americans. And as the new state of California consolidated, miners refused to surrender their self-endowed authority to make rules and execute criminals, presaging the don’t-tread-on-me attitudes of much of the contemporary American west. In We the Miners, Gold Rush California offers a well-documented test case of democratic self-government, illustrating how frontiersmen used meetings and the rules of parliamentary procedure to take the place of the state.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613739982
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capture of Black Bart written by Norman H. Finkelstein and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Bart was not the Old West's only stagecoach robber, but he was the most famous. To many people, he was a folk hero: a robber who didn't threaten or harm passengers. He was a bandit with a sense of humor who wrote poetry. In robbing at least 28 Wells Fargo stagecoaches across Northern California between 1875 and 1883, he never fired a shot or injured anyone. His gun, it turned out, was never loaded. Newspaper stories about the poet robber's exploits and about Jim Hume, the unyielding chief detective of Wells Fargo, became popular reading throughout the West. Black Bart seemed to enjoy the chase. During one robbery the driver told him, "They'll catch you one of these days." Bart answered, "Perhaps, but in the meantime, give my regards to J. B. Hume, will you?" For eight years, each new robbery—and each new story—made Hume even more determined to track him down.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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