This widely regarded classic represents a volume of biographies of numerous master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy, and Tom Horn. Himself a Westerner familiar with the feel of pistol and rifle, Cunningham knew firsthand several of the Texas gunfighters featured in his book, the product of more than 35 years of research, interviews, and writing.
A native of Texas, Eugene Cunningham lived and breathed its colorful history. He had friends who were Texas Rangers during some of the momentous events of the late 19th century. Like many of his stories, the nine tales collected here are based on those experiences. "Beginner's Luck" tells how young Stephen Ware became a Texas Ranger by single-handedly running down Black Alec Rawles' gang, saving a herd of prize thoroughbreds and rescuing Myra Swayn, the daughter of the herd's owner. Through eight more adventures Ware proves time and again that he had the qualities needed to be a Texas Ranger.
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time." Following the worldwide reception of their document, the authors have expanded their themes into Seeing Judaism Anew. The essays in this volume offer a conceptual framework by which Christians can rethink their understanding of the church's relationship to Judaism and show how essential it is that Christians represent Judaism accurately, not only as a matter of justice for the Jewish people, but also for the integrity of Christian faith. By linking New Testament scholarship to the Shoah, Christian liturgical life, and developments in the church, this volume addresses the important questions at the heart of Christian identity, such as: Are only Christians saved? Why did Jesus die? Why is Israel so important to Jews, and what should we think about the conflict in the Middle East? How is Christianity complicit in the Holocaust? What is important about Jesus being a Jew?
The town of Mesquite looked very much the same to Lance Craig: same houses, same men, same gunshots. But it's some homecoming: his father's been murdered and the family's C Br ranch is on its way to going under, taking the dark and lovely Lucy with it. It seems the only change is the new sheriff, a man by the name of Ull Varner who shoots like he enjoys it. A man who knew the thief who was bleeding the ranch of cattle as well as how Lance's father had died.
Con Cameron wasn''t looking for trouble, but he seemed to find it everywhere he went. Then he met the bea utiful Janet Lowe. With a smooth draw and blazing guns, he s et out to prove to her that he was just a stray, not a reneg ade.
It looked like Denver Jones was going to end his young life on the end of a Texas rope. Arrested for robbing the local bank and slitting the throat of its cashier, his guilt seems certain when three men deliver him from jail and a train is robbed the next day. The sheriff, who hates Jones for personal reasons, takes an armed, lynch-minded posse into the hills - and the only man in Texas who will stand by the fugitive is a Ranger named Shelley Raines who is not convinced that Jones was involved in either robbery. In the furious gunslinging showdown, that one Ranger turns out to be an army!"--
For ten years Lace Morrow had been running from a crime he had been convicted for - a crime he did not commit - and his closest friend had dogged his trail, a man obsessed in a way Lace could not understand. But suddenly, Lace got tired of being hounded. He had run long enough and as much as he hated to do it, he knew there was only one way to stop the man who was hunting him down. So he buckled on his guns and rode back to the place where it all began - and threw in his lot with the thieves and killers of Lost Souls Valley.
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