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The long rifle (Classics of the Fur Trade Ser.)
Par Stewart Edward White. 1990
Young Andy Burnett of Kentucky leaves his abusive stepfather's farm, takes his grandfather's prized long rifle--a gift from Daniel Boone--and…
heads west. Andy becomes a fur-trading mountain man, befriends the Blackfoot Indians, and watches civilization take over the frontier. 1932An obituary for Major Reno
Par Richard S. Wheeler. 2004
1889. Dying of cancer, Marcus Reno--the man held responsible for Custer's 1876 defeat at the Little Bighorn--grants an interview to…
New York Herald correspondent Joseph Richler in hopes of restoring his honor. Reno's story of treachery, scapegoating, and lost love unfolds alongside his own version of the infamous battle. 2004Trumpet on the land: the Sibley scout, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the battle of Slim Buttes and Crook's "horse-meat march" - the aftermath of the Custer Massacre (Plainsmen #10)
Par Terry C. Johnston, Terry C Johnston. 1995
In 1876, after Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn, the army is hunting down Sioux warriors. Scout Seamus Donegan…
accompanies the column headed across Montana, finally confronting Chief American Horse at Slim Buttes. Sequel to Reap the Whirlwind (DB 55478). Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1995Shadow Country
Par Peter Matthiessen. 2008
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines…
the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. His son Lucius investigates the killing which has come to obsess him. In this bold new rendering of the Watson trilogy Matthiessen has deepened the insights and motivations of his characters, consolidating his fictional masterwork into a poetic, compelling novel of a monumental scope and ambition, with breathtaking accomplishment.Shadow Country
Par Peter Matthiessen. 2008
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines…
the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. His son Lucius investigates the killing which has come to obsess him. In this bold new rendering of the Watson trilogy Matthiessen has deepened the insights and motivations of his characters, consolidating his fictional masterwork into a poetic, compelling novel of a monumental scope and ambition, with breathtaking accomplishment.