THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOY KILLER, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, ACE OF THE FAST-GUN CROWD....MURDERER OF FORTY MEN.... LIVING AND DYING WESTERN STYLE was paced by the fast-gun gentry, and John Wesley Hardin was the most prominent pace-setter among them. No gun in Texas was so deadly; no gunfighter so young. And yet many said he was a smart, friendly man, fighting on the side of Right...against the cruel and corrupt Carpetbaggers who overran his beloved Lone Star State... Hardin, criminal or saint, was fearless...and fast. He survived the blazing guns of other killers, countless Ranger roundups, the bloody Taylor-Sutton Feud, lynching parties and stalks by Pinkerton detectives. He outwitted his guards at the prison in Huntsville who tried to break him via the inhuman and ingenious “Water-house Torture.” He even survived his own reputation....In middle-age John Wesley Hardin became a lawyer and was admitted to the Texas Bar. But could he survive his own nature’s dark side?
A double portion of the Old West the way only powerful author Lee Floren can depict it. In Guns of Montana, Judge Lemanuel Bates is ready to blaze a bloody trail of justice to keep an innocent man from being framed for murder. Callahan Rides Alone: A Texas Ranger yearns to hang up his six-shooters and ends up being the target of rustlers.
In Trail to High Pine, Dab Jones and the men of the Double J refuse to lose another inch of their ranch to landgrubbing sodbusters, and the battle lines are drawn. West of the Barbwire has Ric Nelson leading local farmers against a power-mad cattle baron who has hired professional gunmen to run them off their land.
An exploration of ways of looking in Renaissance Florence, where works of art were part of a complex process of social exchange Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture, is no less intriguing for its dynamic political, economic, and social life. In this book Patricia Lee Rubin crosses the boundaries of all these areas to arrive at an original and comprehensive view of the place of images in Florentine society. The author asks an array of questions: Why were works of art made? Who were the artists who made them, and who commissioned them? How did they look, and how were they looked at? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the contexts in which works of art were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Rubin seeks out the meeting places of meaning in churches, in palaces, in piazzas--places of exchange where identities were taken on and transformed, often with the mediation of images. She concentrates on questions of vision and visuality, on "seeing and being seen." With a blend of exceptional illustrations; close analyses of sacred and secular paintings by artists including Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, and Botticelli; and wide-ranging bibliographic essays, the book shines new light on fifteenth-century Florence, a special place that made beauty one of its defining features.
Walt Gallatin, the young owner of the coveted Spur S Ranch, will never be safe in his hometown unless someone breaks the spirit of Big Val Marcus. marcus is the town menace intent on possessing Spur S and ambushing Walt every chance he gets - even at Walt's favorite watering hole, in plain view of thier fellow townsfolks!
Low-down, land-grabbin' sodbusters are fencing in the lush grazing country, and that makes the ranchers madder than a bee-stung bull. When they swear they'll kill the farmers, they haven't counted on young Cal Rutherford, a man with a will of steel and a shooting iron in each hand. He's ready to right some wrongs--Western style--or go down with guns blazing.
This book contains two novels wrote by Lee Floren. The first one The Bushwackers-- Civil War veteran Cal Sherman came to Mad Horse Basin looking for a place to settle down in peace and quiet. Instead, he found apassel of trouble with cattleman Mel Powers and his blood-thirsty enforcers; the second story-- Ride the wild Country-- Dee Bowden had worked hard to build up a spread, but now he found himself accused of bushwacking his girl's father and stealing $40,000.
For the first time ever, Leisure Books presents two of Floren's pistol-hot novels together in one volume--a $7.00 value for only $4.50. In Broomtail Basin, a hanging judge spells trouble for the vermin in Broomtail Basin. In Trail to Gunsmoke, a young vet tries to curb a raging cattle fever and almost gets killed in the process.
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