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(0)Gregory Lalire
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Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"In 1913 Woodrow Russell Hart relates how at age fifteen in 1863 he came with older brother Rufus from Washington, D.C., to the violent goldfields of what would become Montana Territory. Woodie discovers in the boomtowns of Virginia City, Bannack, and Hell Gate that the territory is overrun with road agents looking to get rich quick and vigilantes wanting to stop them cold using makeshift gallows. Woodie must deal with romantic rejections, trying...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised in the Daniel's Den, a bordello in Boonesborough, Kentucky, "bastard" Zach McCall never knew his mother and only sees his whiskey-drummer father, Fat Jack McCall, occasionally. Reluctantly, Zach serves the South during the Civil War and meets younger half brother Little Jack in Louisville. After the war the illegitimate McCall befriends Jasper Washington, an educated, former bear-wrestling black man intent on reuniting with his pal...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
625 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe line completes its tracks to Dodge City in 1872, Maryland native Harry Hannum heads to the new "buffalo town" to start over. Robert Wright, one of the town founders and owner of a prosperous general store, hires him as a clerk, and Harry is determined to keep that job no matter what. What happens next is that a forty-two-year-old oddball named Wyatt Matters comes into his life. Mr. Matters takes Harry under...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
411 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The early 19th-century trappers who traipse through the Rockies in search of beaver pelts are called mountain men-all but one, whose unique tale is told here by her daughter, Bathsheba Hex, in 1901. In 1819, Kentucky-born Bet Hex ventures up the Missouri River with a fur-trading expedition. Captured first by Arapahos and then by Pawnees, she is rescued by a French voyageur. After his death, she sets out alone to make her home in the wilderness. The...