The Feudist

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875657559
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis The Feudist by : Daniel Herman

Download or read book The Feudist written by Daniel Herman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Views Bronze Award for Historical Fiction Reader Views Western Mountain Regional Award Winner Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Second Place, Western Fiction, 2021 The SPR Book Awards, Finalist 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards, Western Fiction, Finalist 2021 American Book Fest's Best Book Awards, Western Fiction, Finalist 2021 The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War is both a traditional Western—tense, authentic, fast-paced—and an anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest range war in US history, Arizona’s 1880s Pleasant Valley War. The narrator—a small-time rancher named Ben Holcomb who reflects back on his adolescent experiences—begins the story as a stockboy in Globe City, Arizona. Bored with his job, he agrees to become an apprentice cowboy. His journey to his employer’s ranch leads him into a smoldering range war. Over the next year, he rides with a charismatic trickster; a Texas “colonel” and his idealist daughter; a polygamous Mormon elder with a teenaged wife; and a winsome, mixed-race cowboy who is deeply embroiled in the feud. Though Ben tries to stay out of the quarreling, he finds himself embroiled as he stumbles through passionate love, devastating loss, and moral uncertainty. Herman’s attention to historical forces, his spare style, his self-deprecating narrator, and his authentic characters give the novel a verisimilitude that transcends the genre Western and far surpasses Zane Grey’s 1922 romance about the Pleasant Valley War, To the Last Man.

The Feudist

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Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875657479
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Feudist written by Daniel Herman and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War is both a traditional Western--tense, authentic, fast-paced--and an anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest range war in US history, Arizona's 1880s Pleasant Valley War. The narrator--a small-time rancher named Ben Holcomb who reflects back on his adolescent experiences--begins the story as a stockboy in Globe City, Arizona. Bored with his job, he agrees to become an apprentice cowboy. His journey to his employer's ranch leads him into a smoldering range war. Over the next year, he rides with a charismatic trickster; a Texas "colonel" and his idealist daughter; a polygamous Mormon elder with a teenaged wife; and a winsome, mixed-race cowboy who is deeply embroiled in the feud. Though Ben tries to stay out of the quarreling, he finds himself embroiled as he stumbles through passionate love, devastating loss, and moral uncertainty. Herman's attention to historical forces, his spare style, his self-deprecating narrator, and his authentic characters give the novel a verisimilitude that transcends the genre Western and far surpasses Zane Grey's 1922 romance about the Pleasant Valley War, To the Last Man.

The Johnson-Sims Feud

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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412906
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis The Johnson-Sims Feud by : Bill O'Neal

Download or read book The Johnson-Sims Feud written by Bill O'Neal and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Johnson & Sims families were pioneer ranchers, settling in the same region--Lampasas & Burnet counties--in the dangerous years before the Civil War. After the War, Billy & Nannie Johnson & Dave & Laura Sims establish large ranches in adjoining counties in West Texas. At the turn of the century the two families united in a marriage of 14-year-old Gladys Johnson & 21-year-old Ed Sims. Several years later a nasty divorce ensued due in part to Gladys willfulness & Ed's drinking. More trouble followed over custody of their two children & Gladys took matters into her own hands.....

The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628731559
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Book Synopsis The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told by : Stephen Brennan

Download or read book The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told written by Stephen Brennan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hearty collection of stories, each of which captures a different aspect of what it means to be a cowboy. Some invoke the danger and drama, some the pride, and others the sheer fun of it all. Get to know what the cowboy life was really like and be caught up in thrilling adventures in a lawless land. The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told fits right in to a long and solid tradition of American fascination with the Wild West. By bringing a variety of heralded names in cowboy literature together in one place, Brennan guarantees there will be a story for everyone in this collection. Authors include Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frederic Remington, and Charles M. Russell. Part of the well-established The Best Stories series, each of which is selectively edited and hand-crafted to include only the best stories from the best writers of the genre.

Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252007
Total Pages : 617 pages
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Book Synopsis Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by : Harry M. Claudill

Download or read book Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area written by Harry M. Claudill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feud

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469609711
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Feud by : Altina L. Waller

Download or read book Feud written by Altina L. Waller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore and legend. Ironically, the extraordinary endurance of the myth that has grown up around the Hatfields and McCoys has obscured the consideration of the feud as a serious historical event. In this study, Altina Waller tells the real story of the Hatfields and McCoys and the Tug Valley of West Virginia and Kentucky, placing the feud in the context of community and regional change in the era of industrialization. Waller argues that the legendary feud was not an outgrowth of an inherently violent mountain culture but rather one manifestation of a contest for social and economic control between local people and outside industrial capitalists -- the Hatfields were defending community autonomy while the McCoys were allied with the forces of industrial capitalism. Profiling the colorful feudists "Devil Anse" Hatfield, "Old Ranel" McCoy, "Bad" Frank Phillips, and the ill-fated lovers Roseanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield, Waller illustrates how Appalachians both shaped and responded to the new economic and social order.

The Western Christian Advocate

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1700 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Sizing Up Uncle Sam

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis Sizing Up Uncle Sam by : George Fitch

Download or read book Sizing Up Uncle Sam written by George Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Field Illustrated

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book The Field Illustrated written by A. H. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926995
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915 by : Stephen A. West

Download or read book From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915 written by Stephen A. West and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, Stephen A. West revises understandings of the American South by offering a new perspective on two iconic figures in the region's social landscape. "Yeoman," a term of praise for the small landowning farmer, was commonly used during the antebellum era but ultimately eclipsed by "redneck," an epithet that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. In popular use, each served less as a precise class label than as a means to celebrate or denigrate the moral and civic worth of broad groups of white men. Viewing these richly evocative figures as ideological inventions rather than sociological realities, West examines the divisions they obscured and the conflicts that gave them such force. The setting for this impressively detailed study is the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina, the sort of upcountry region typically associated with the white "plain folk." West shows how the yeoman ideal played a vital role in proslavery discourse before the Civil War but poorly captured the realities of life, with important implications for how historians understand the politics of slavery and the drive for secession. After the Civil War, the South Carolina upcountry was convulsed by the economic transformations and political conflicts out of which the redneck was born. West reinterprets key developments in the history of the New South--such as the politics of lynching and the phenomenon of the "Southern demagogue"--and uncovers the historical roots of a stereotype that continues to loom large in popular understandings of the American South. Drawing together periods and topics often treated separately, West combines economic, social, and political history in an original and compelling account.

John Ringo, King of the Cowboys

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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412434
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis John Ringo, King of the Cowboys by : David D. Johnson

Download or read book John Ringo, King of the Cowboys written by David D. Johnson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War in Texas began as a war over range rights, but it swiftly deteriorated into blood vengeance and spiraled out of control as the body count rose. In this charnel house Ringo gained a reputation as a dangerous gunfighter and man killer. He was proclaimed throughout the state as a daring leader, a desperate man, and a champion of the feud. Following incarceration for his role in the feud, Ringo was elected as a lawman in Mason County, the epicenter of the feud’s origin. The reputation he earned in Texas, further inflated by his willingness to shoot it out with Victorio’s raiders during a deadly confrontation in New Mexico, preceded him to Tombstone in territorial Arizona. Ringo became immersed in the area’s partisan politics and factionalized violence. A champion of the largely Democratic ranchers, Ringo would become known as a leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys. He ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, finally being part of the posse that hounded these fugitives from Arizona. In the end, Ringo died mysteriously in the Arizona desert, his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, wrongly claimed by a few. Initially published in 1996, John Ringo has been updated to a second edition with much new information researched and uncovered by David Johnson and other Ringo researchers.

The Literary Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Literary Digest by : Edward Jewitt Wheeler

Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
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Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Outlook

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Total Pages : 770 pages
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Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: