Douglas C. Jones, Sr., was born at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 12. He is the seventh of thirteen children born to Roberta and John H. Jones, Sr. Douglas attended school in Forest Park, Georgia, at W.A. Fountain High School. He graduated in 1965. He served four years in the U.S. Navy. He has been married to his lovely wife Joyce, for thirty-nine years. They have a son, Doug Jr., who is forty-one years old. They have a granddaughter, Natiah, who is seventeen, and a grandson, Donovan, who is six years old.
George Armstrong Custer, the golden-boy of the 7th Cavalry, is miraculously found alive among the hundreds of dead soldiers. Then, as a stunned nation looks on, he is put on trial for disobeying orders. While the prosecutor shows Custer as a murderous grandstander, reckless with the lives of his men, the public wants desperately to believe that their hero made a simple mistake. Finally, it's Custer's turn to reveal what really happened that sweltering day along the Little Bighorn.
“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.”—The New York Times Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful, traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessed hangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to the courtroom, Winding Stair is a classic historical novel that brings to vivid life a bygone era.
Arkansas native Douglas C. Jones (1924-1998) ranks right up there with Larry McMurtry, A.B. Guthrie, and Ron Hansen. Author of nineteen historical Westerns, including The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Arrest Sitting Bull, and Elkhorn Tavern, Jones was a three-time recipient of the Golden Spur Award, and in 1993, he received the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution and Achievement from the Western Writers of America. His final novel, Sometimes there Were Heroes, originally published in 2000 and now in paperback, is the riveting tale of the brave and driven men and women of early Texas, told against the color backdrop of Bexar, the tiny Spanish mission that would later become San Antonio. As witnessed through the unforgettable characters of the "Mexican Gringo" Paco Salazar, a German immigrant named Sophie, and the young Oscar Schiller, this history is made rich with intrigue, danger, murder and love as disparate cultures clash and bond on the American frontier. Tonkawa Indians and Bavarian settlers, Mexicans and Texicans, Comanches and Angelos all mingle memorably in this riveting drama. Here are Sam Houston and Santa Ana, the Alamo, the founding of the Republic of Texas, the Texas Rangers, the forty-Niner Gold Rush, and the Civil War, all seamlessly woven into a suspenseful and colorful tale. The author's own pencil and charcoal drawings further enliven the novel. From prologue to epilogue, this is a suspenseful book that will be hard to put aside until it is finished.
In 1865, Roman Hasford sets off to make his own way in the world. His journey of self-discovery occurs at the time of the building of American railroads, the settling of Kansas and the Western territories, and the conflict with the Plains Indians.
An alternative historical novel considers the life of George Armstrong Custer if he had lived beyond his 7th Cavalry battles and places him on trial, where he is called upon to explain what really happened at Little Bighorn. Reprint.
“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The New York Times Book Review From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle. Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst battlegrounds in the West.
“One of the best Civil War novels I have read.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom From Chickamauga to Spotsylvania, from Gettysburg to Appomattox, The Barefoot Brigade is an unforgettable Civil War novel about the brotherhood of soldiers. War has ripped Martin Hasford’s nation apart, and like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his family and his sense of duty. Leaving his wife and children behind to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Hasford embarks on a path from which he may never return—and on which he meets men as embattled as himself: the Fawley brothers, young backwoodsmen running from the; Beverly Cass, a son of plantation privilege; Guthrie Scaggs, a judge turned army officer; Sidney Dinsmore, a no-account drunk; and Liverpool Morgan, a Welsh gambler. Together these men form a tight niche in the Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, trudging from the Ozark foothills, headed east into one cataclysmic battle after another, determined to beat back the Yankees and end the war. A testament to a special breed of American, The Barefoot Brigade is a work of undeniable and lasting power.
After the War Between the States, Roman Hasford headed West to carve out his own piece of the new frontier. He had suffered the untold indignities of war and was eager to seek adventure. Along the way, he helped to get a glimpse of the Indian Nations, and delve deep into the well of the American pioneer spirit. Douglas C. Jones is the author of Elkhorn Tavern (HarperPaperbacks, 1/96), to which Roman Hasford is the sequel; This Savage Race (HarperPaperbacks, 7/94), and Season of Yellow Leaf (HarperPaperbacks, 3/95). He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The author of The Search For Temperance Moon delivers an absorbing and masterful novel of the American West. Spurred by the dream of land ownership, Boone Fawley and his family head to rugged Arkansas in 1808. Their fight for survival in a wilderness filled with Indians begins an enthralling adventure that spans three generations.
Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and fiction, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer tells us what might have happened at that trial as it brings to life the most exciting period in the history of the American West. About the Author Douglas C. Jones served in the U.S. Army until his retirement in 1968. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin.
Eben Pay, a semiretired lawyer, comes to Weedy Rough to defend his grandson when he is accused of robbing its only bank and leaving two citizens slain in the early 1930's.
Roman Hasford, isolated in bitter grandeur after he hires a professional killer to exact revenge, must deny any legitimate continuation of his proud family.
When former marshal Oscar Schiller investigates the violent slaying of Temperance Moon, the legendary female outlaw, he rides straight into a web of jealousy, blackmail, and deceit." --Amazon.com.
Preeminent Western Writer Douglas C. Jones has long been regarded as writing at the top of his genre. Three-time recipient of the Golden Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel, Jones never fails to deliver a rollicking tale, rich with the texture of the American frontier.In his new book, Jones takes us back to the year 1907, just as summer is beginning to settle on western Arkansas. Seven-year-old Jay Bird Joey Schwartz, resident orphan of the Fort Smith bordello, has taken to spending his evenings in the National Cemetery, listening to the frogs and eating stolen pie. But when he sees a fairy prince napping between the graves, and when the murdered body of one of Fort Smith's most powerful citizens is discovered by the cemetery caretaker, Joey quickly becomes the sole witness.Crusty investigator Oscar Schiller, a former Deputy U.S. Marshall, finds it odd that the sheriff's office is so quick to close the case. His search for answers will introduce him to one of the strangest torture techniques he's ever seen.
A multigenerational epic traces the journey of a Scottish family to the frontier of the New World, where they are swept up in the drive for independence and marry into Native American culture
All of inquiry is a mental process from the known to the unknown within the realm of possibility. This process uses the three faculties of perception, conception, and abstraction, all fueled by information. These faculties have corollaries in Science and Philosophy of Religion. It is the thesis of this book that if these faculties are intelligible and reliability in Science, there is no reason to reject them when used in other fields of inquiry. C. Douglas Jones Apologist, Ratio Christi Ph.D. studies, Marquette University M.A., Philosophy, Western Kentucky University B.A., History, Bible, Philosophy, Belhaven College
In western Arkansas in 1907, seven-year-old Jay Bird Joey Schwartz hides out in the National Cemetery and becomes the only witness to the murder of one of Fort Smith's most prominent citizens.
Color illustration on front cover of four superimposed vignettes: man in white shirt, brown pants and boots standing next to Native American woman wearing decorated dress; ship in water; locomotive; three tipis.
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