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An Obituary for Major Reno

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429940336
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book An Obituary for Major Reno written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Marcus Reno is a controversal figure, a man accused of being responsible for the worst disaster ever to befall the army of the United States. He had been one of George Armstrong Custer's senior officers when Custer and over 200 men in his command were annihilated by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors above the Little Big Horn River in Montana Territory. While declared by his superiors innocent of wrong-doing in the terrible battle, Marcus Reno's honor -the most precious word in his vocabulary - was blackened in the press and by his fellow officers and other Custer idolators. For thirteen years Reno has lived with this stain on his reputation. Now, with time running out, suffering from painful cancer, Reno wants his honor restored. He arranges to give a final newspaper interview to New York Herald correspondent Joseph Richler. Richler, captivated by this officer and gentleman, promises the dying Major that he will write the whole story of Reno's conduct in battle and its aftermath. Richler learns that Reno was tortured by the death of his beloved wife, hell-bent toward self-destruction by alcohol, and plagued by a peculiar dual personality -- decisive and in control on the battlefield, yet unable to win the respect of his fellow officers. In An Obituary for Major Reno, Richard S. Wheeler, a master of the biographical novel, provides a brilliant reconstruction of the Custer battle and Marcus Reno's subsequent courts martial for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," and brings to life a beleaguered man and his search to restore his lost honor.

An Obituary for Major Reno

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780765346353
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book An Obituary for Major Reno written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Reno is a pariah, a controversial figure accused of being responsible for the worst disaster ever to befall the army of the United States. Thirteen years past, he was one of George Armstrong Custer’s senior officers when Custer and over 200 men in his command were annihilated by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors above the Little Big Horn River in Montana Territory.Now, in the spring of 1889, Major Reno is dying and wants to tell the real story of the Custer battle and wants his honor–the most precious word in his vocabulary--restored. Richard S. Wheeler, a master of the biographical novel, provides a brilliant reconstruction of the Custer battle and Marcus Reno’s subsequent courts martial for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," and brings to life a tortured man searching for peace and respect.

Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn

Author : Mike O'Keefe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188146
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn written by Mike O'Keefe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled. Drawing on years of research, Michael O’Keefe has compiled entries for roughly 3,000 books and 7,000 articles and pamphlets. Covering both nonfiction and fiction (but not juvenile literature), the bibliography focuses on events beginning with Custer’s tenure at West Point during the 1850s and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Included within this span are Custer’s experiences in the Civil War and in Texas, the 1873 Yellowstone and 1874 Black Hills expeditions, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, and the Seventh Cavalry’s pursuit of the Nez Perces in 1877. The literature on Custer, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the Seventh Cavalry touches the entire American saga of exploration, conflict, and settlement in the West, including virtually all Plains Indian tribes, the frontier army, railroading, mining, and trading. Hence this bibliography will be a valuable resource for a broad audience of historians, librarians, collectors, and Custer enthusiasts.

Reno and Apsaalooka Survive Custer

Author : Ottie W. Reno
Publisher : Associated University Presses
ISBN 13 : 9780845348628
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Reno and Apsaalooka Survive Custer written by Ottie W. Reno and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the life of Major Marcus A. Reno, who was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1880, and the subsequent effort by his relatives and other Civil War buffs to reopen his case and restore him to his rank.

Chasing the Sun

Author : Edward Joseph Beverly
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865346038
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Sun written by Edward Joseph Beverly and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chasing the Sun" is a guide to Western fiction with more than 1,350 entries, including 59 reviews of the author's personal favorites, organized around theme.

An Accidental Novelist

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611390621
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book An Accidental Novelist written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his early forties, Richard Wheeler had never given a thought to writing fiction. By his early seventies, he had written sixty novels. And these were being published while he was climbing the masts of a sinking ship. This late-in-life novelist didn’t tackle high literature, but the sweaty world of genre fiction, where the publishers’ advances barely paid the rent. He wrote western fiction, and when that genre began to ship water, he leapt over to historical novels, and finally biographical novels, where he found himself in an odd literary corner, without competition. This is a memoir of literary struggle, of agents and editors, of jackets and publicity and book tours. This is also a story about the astonishing help he received along the way from friends, best-selling novelists, agents, editors, and publishers. Writing may be a lonely profession, but Wheeler discovered that the world of genre fiction writers is populated with caring and wise colleagues. Here, Wheeler evokes his early struggles, which somehow prepared him for a life as a successful novelist. He discusses shattered dreams and sudden joys. And running through his narrative is his passion to write about the West in new ways. RICHARD S. WHEELER is the author of sixty novels of the West, the winner of five Spur Awards, and the recipient of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West. Many of his novels are now in trade paperback editions from Sunstone Press.

Stone Song

Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765314970
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Stone Song written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse was set aside by his powerful vision of Rider, the spiritual expression of his future greatness, and by the passion and grief of his overwhelming love for a woman. It was only in battle that his heart could find rest. As his world crumbled, Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakota—and to beat the US Army on its own terms. He lived, and died, his own man.

The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer

Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146685197X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer written by Thom Hatch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those plains hundreds of miles from even a whisper of civilization has been obscured by intrigue and deception starting with the very first shots fired. Custer's death and the defeat of the 7th Calvary by the Sioux was a shock to a nation that had come to believe that its westward expansion was a matter of destiny. While the first reports defended Custer, many have come to judge him by this single event, leveling claims of racism, disobedience, and incompetence. These false claims unjustly color Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and fall far short of encompassing his service to his country. By reexamining the facts and putting Custer within the context of his time and his career as a soldier, Hatch's The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer reveals the untold and controversial truth of what really happened in the valley of the Little Bighorn, making it the definitive history of Custer's last stand. This history of charging cavalry, desperate defenses, and malicious intrigue finally sets the record straight for one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures.

Going Home and Downriver

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765391651
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Going Home and Downriver written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going home: Barnaby Skye is a "free trapper" in the Rockies. With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric botanist named Alistair Nutmeg, and a stray dog, Skye makes his way west to begin the long journey home to England. Fighting Mexican bandits and Pacific coast Indians along the way, battling thirst and hunger, Skye learns where home really is and what honor really means. / Downriver: At the trapper's rendezvous in Wyoming, in 1838, Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, is offered an opportunity to become a post trader in his Crow Indian wife's homeland. He begins the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job and undergoes a lesson in survival on a Missouri River steamboat.

Dark Passage

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466828684
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Dark Passage written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman--whom he calls "Victoria"--to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria--unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet--succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war chief of the Crow People. But when Victoria is abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her across the border into Canada, where he is still wanted for deserting his ship at Fort Vancouver four years ago. But the Bloods are a deadly force, and Skye must face his fiercest battle ever to win her freedom and her heart. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Deliverance

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 081256684X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Deliverance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Bent's Fort, Barnaby Sky and his wife agree to rescue Cheyenne children kidnapped by the Utes, with the help of one Colonel Childress and his spider monkey.

North Star

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429992662
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book North Star written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a season for all things. . . For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's younger wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains - a tide that leaves no good place for a veteran borders man with two Indian wives and a mixed-blood son. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Wind River

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765359360
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Wind River written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye agrees to act as a scout and translator for the U.S. Army at a meeting of the tribal chiefs, but his mission is threatened by an army officer's outrageous threats.

Virgin River

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429992654
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Virgin River written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixteenth novel in Richard S. Wheeler's long-running series about Barnaby Skye, the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness, along with his wives and his ugly, cantankerous horse, Jawbone. In Virgin River, the famed mountain man and his two wives, Victoria of the Crows and Mary of the Shoshones, take a party of tubercular young people to the southwestern desert where they hope to be healed. Their destination is the Virgin River, where the mild, dry climate offers a cure. This time, Skye and his wives must cope with rival guides and cross Utah at the time of heightened tensions between the federal government and the Latter-Day Saints. Skye soon discovers that other wagon companies on the trail fear the sick and blame them for every ill that overtakes their own companies. Taking a party of sick people along the California trail requires every bit of skill and courage that Skye and his wives can muster. And hovering over the trip is the looming catastrophe of war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The First Dance

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765361745
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The First Dance written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as a civilian translator for the army in late-nineteenth century Montana, Dirk, the son of Barnaby Skye, is perplexed by his wife's disappearance after their wedding ceremony and accompanies the Métis people during their painful relocation to Canada.

Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466828528
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, hiding from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and the British Navy--he follows the Columbia River inland toward a fate he never anticipated. In a trapping brigade, Skye falls in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick and in the fabled Rocky Mountains finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Richest Hill on Earth

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765328168
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book The Richest Hill on Earth written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating historical novel, Wheeler--winner of the Owen Wister Award and five Spur Awards--turns his storyteller's eye to a pivotal battle of capitalism in the American West, when the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestled with each other for control of the richest hill on Earth, as well as Montana's fledgling government.