Joshua MacAllisterthe mountain man's mountain mantakes on the challenge of teaching a twenty-year-old adventurer how to survive in the inhospitable Rocky Mountains. Joshua's long time enemy, Reginald Bevy, accuses him of stealing his client. Reginald Bevy had lost an ear to Josh in a drunken, barroom brawl, and is not a forgiving man. They come in contact with a Grizzly Bear that decapitates one of their horses, and continues to follow them on their journey through the Rockies. They are attacked by hostile Indians, barely survive a massive avalanche and are constantly harassed by three aggressive wolves
In Working Cowboy, Margot Liberty and Barry Head present the oral history of Ray Holmes, a Wyoming cowboy born in 1911. Holmes has spent his life on horseback, herding cattle and doing other work with livestock. Since the time he rode his first horse, Holmes wanted nothing more than to be a cowboy--though his father insisted he would never make a living at it. The determination that started him on his dream has stayed with him throughout his life. Holmes remains a quiet man, averse to bragging but is candid and strongly opinionated. Practical chapters, such as “Some Talk about Cowboys” and “Some Talk about Calves and Calving,” alternate with chapters describing Holmes’s colorful life, including his coping with the blizzard of 1959, listening to the very first radio in the neighborhood, and sleeping with potatoes to keep them from freezing.
There was something very strange going on in the High Desert of Southern California, and it was a thing that no one living had ever before witnessed. At first, Zachary Magary and Ben Eagle were getting only glimpses of a large, darting figure, but as time passed, this peculiar oddity became more and more brazen; and though not recognizable to either of these placer miners, Ben Eagle, the Indian among them, remembered stories from his youth having to do with an ancient, blood sucking creature of Indian mythology. Zachary Magary was handsome, bold and daring, and at age forty showed no signs of slowing down. He was a big man, and his rowdy adventures in local bars, as well as his antics involving the opposite sex, were notorious. He had only one true friend in the world, and that was Ben Eagle, an ageless, Mojave Indian with a warrior heritage. Ben Eagle was a short, stout, powerful man that lived in a luxurious mobile home on his gold claim in the Mojave, high desert of Southern California. He had befriended Zachary when he was but a child, riding his dirt bike all over Bens once serine desert. Ben decided it would be better to befriend this pain in the butt, then just silencing him the way that had entered his mind.
Jedadiah Bodine entered Santa Fe, New Mexico looking for trouble, which seemed to have become his stock in trade. His actual goal was to save a cattle ranch for two lady owners, one of which was an old friend of his mother and father. Jeds dad always seemed to send his son out to troubleshoot the familys problems. Jed was joined in this adventure by a big Mexican almost as mean as he was, the town drunk and a beautiful lady of the evening. His first meeting with Knobby, the local saloon owner, and Crusty the owner of the largest spread in the territory, did not go at all well. After a vicious fistfight and several gun battles, all that was left was to save the ranch; not simple matter
Matthew Brennan was a big man, more suited to wrestling bears than sitting a horse. He lived in a valley they called Paradise, with his young, beautiful, dark-haired, fiery wife of Spanish and Irish descent and their young son. High mountains, with only one entrance, surrounded the valley, and that entrance was a small cave with a natural hot springs that supplied the valley with water. Water ran in two directions from the cave, one small stream flowed to the outside world while the other flowed down the center of the first valley to the lake situated against the mountains, where the second leg of the valley branched north. The single entrance cave was guarded by Bitty, an old mans best friend and possibly the largest female grizzly bear in existence. You didnt come calling on the Brennans. As a matter of fact, the entrance to the valley was a well-guarded secret, shared only by the few residents that occupied this paradise. One of those residents was a Cheyenne war chief with an Indian name no one could pronounce. But the literal translation in English would have been Rogue, and that was the handle Brennan hung on his good friend. Brennan had discovered the beautiful valley quite by accident. While wounded and running from those who had shot him, his Appaloosa horse Sob had stumbled through a blizzard to deposit his rider on the soft sand floor of a warm cave, somewhere in Northwestern Colorado. Matthew Brennan was found there by Val, the old self-appointed guardian of the valley, and nursed back to health.
Jeremiah Culhane had made his living always, as a gunfighter. Through what some might consider questionable means, he had now become a landowner. Cully wanted desperately to put away his guns, raise a family and live out his life in peace and contentment. It was not meant to be.
Hunter Littlejohn was five foot three inches tall, one hundred ten pounds and ablaze with curiosity and the desire for adventure. Her ambitions as well as her disposition were well suited to her flaming red hair. She had a small, upturned nose, sprinkled with freckles and the lilywhite complexion of one of those unique creatures described as a true redhead. Her eyes were emerald green and her lips were full and sensuous, but the set of her jaw usually kept suitors at bay. However, with her shapely legs, full breasts and tiny waist, no man could ignore her, and all would require at least a second look. She treated these admirers with distain, and still they dreamed about her in their most secret fantasies. This was not the case with Nicholas Kane. Hunter couldn’t for the life of her figure out how to handle this tall, handsome and purely ornery mountain man. Kane was as ruthless and dangerous as he was handsome. She wanted to go west to look for her fiancé, and her best friend Quincy had told her Kane was the only man for the job. Her problem was that Kane refused to take her. At their first meeting, they instinctively hated each other. Eventually she kidnapped Kane, and in the company of her best friend, several muleskinners and two soiled doves from a local saloon, they left Chicago and headed for the Nevada goldfields...
All David Helm wanted in life was adventure. Finding gold and treasure was his dream. His dream turned into a nightmare. With his best friend, the ex cop Daniel OBrien, an accumulation of idiots and an ancient treasure map, they all boarded Davids plane for a trip to the Amazon. A plane crash into the canopy of the rainforest 140 feet from the ground was a whole lot more adventure than David Helm had bargained for. The Amazon jungle was filled with little brown men with blowguns and poison darts, all dedicated to the demise of David and his group of investors, environmentalists and stowaways; with a couple of young lady gold diggers thrown in for good measure. Davids job was simple: Find the gold, defeat the headhunters, stay alive and find a way out of the rainforest and home. To accomplish all this he would have to rely on his many abilities and experiences from his military service in Vietnam, which to hear his friend Daniel OBrien tell it, were vast indeed
A young Texas gunman with time on his hands finds himself in the Nevada high country accompanied by a Bronco Shoshoni Indian. By necessity, they hastily depart Reno in search of their fortune in a notorious gold camp. In the process, they battle hostile Utes, only to discover that Indian fighting is less life threatening than town taming. He falls in love with a strong-willed beauty, and the adventure begins.
Very few who didnt know their family backgrounds could tell these southern youngsters apart, and indeed, their coincidental similarities were almost frightening. Both had lost their mother at birth, and this after both women had successfully delivered three older boys. In 1855, they were both fifteen years old, dark complexioned, with rich brown curly locks. Both were big for their age, and each had been doing mans work since they were ten. Their features were even similar: large nose, generous lips, wide-set blue eyes, and strong, protruding chin. Although both of these boys shared a genius for getting into mischief, neither of them was dominant. When one had an idea, the other just naturally went for it. They lived for their shared competition, and one would win as often as the other would. Their only bone of contention, and again based on sharing, was their professed love for the same girl. When they grew up, it was a different matter entirely. They went in completely different ways. One turned good. One turned evil.
While riding his dirt-bike in the high desert of Southern California, Remington Savage, an athletic intellectual, encounters two extraterrestrial beings. They have, for thousands years, been monitoring activities on Earth along with another planet, which is also populated by humans. The stickman and the spaceship have been paying particular attention to Ramington for his rare gift of mental telepathy, in dire need of his talant for their own survial.
Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged is volume three in the NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY (NACSBT) series for pastors, advanced Bible students, and other deeply committed laypersons. Author Barry E. Horner writes to persuade readers concerning the divine validity of the Jew today (based on Romans 11:28), as well as the nation of Israel and the land of Palestine, in the midst of this much debated issue within Christendom at various levels. He examines the Bible's consistent pro-Judaic direction, namely a Judeo-centric eschatology that is a unifying feature throughout Scripture. Not sensationalist like many other writings on this constantly debated topic, Future Israel is instead notably exegetical and theological in its argumentation. Users will find this an excellent extension of the long-respected NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY.
When scientist Jim Marshal disappears from work, leaving only a mysterious letter saying that his research assistant Deidre will know what has happened, Deidre and Jim's distraught wife Beryl try to find where he has gone. Their search flings them across space and into the power of sinister aliens - a beam that can transport them to another planet. These powerful aliens have collected people from Earth, and are studying them, putting them through strange experiments. Is it just scientific curiosity, or are there darker designs behind it? And, stranded on an alien planet, is there anything Deidre, Beryl and Jim can do? GAMMA PRODUCT is one of Denis Hughes' works under his many pseudonyms. It has been out of print in the UK for decades and is now available for the first time as an eBook!
Diana and Jane had their glamorous European road trip all planned out: shopping in Paris, then down along the Spanish coast for sun and sea. A strange road takes them through twists and turns until they black out. When they wake, they're on a strange island, with no way off and no sign of how they got there. This strange bubble out of time has no seasons, no day or night, and is populated by a small collection of people. They are cared for - or ruled over - by the mysterious 'Master'. They're in paradise. But they're not allowed to leave... OMINOUS FOLLY is one of Denis Hughes' works under his many pseudonyms. It has been out of print in the UK for decades and is now available for the first time as an eBook!
Jonas Ward was over six feet tall, extremely powerful and ruggedly handsome. He was quick and deadly with any form of weapon, and even had more than a passable knowledge of swordplay. He had by necessity grown up hard and mean. His only soft spots were for children, horses and beautiful women. Jonas had crossed hostile deserts and fought with the fierce Mojave Indians before his sixteenth birthday, and since, had found little in this world to make a man happy. Years before he had left his younger brother in California to be raised by an arrogant but wealthy grandfather. After stealing ten of this patriarch's blooded horses, Jonas went out into the world to make his fortune. He was returning now to meet with his kid brother at a place they had agreed upon several years earlier; as to whether or not the boy would remember, he could only speculate. But while riding a train, Jonas met up with a band of potential train robbers with a near idiot in charge, and after thrashing one of their group for molesting a young woman, he had been chosen as their new leader. He accepted reluctantly, but only after seeing the gangs' young and beautiful sister, along with a magnificent stallion that was a gift to him from the man he had beaten. Although Jonas was now willing to take charge, still nothing would keep him from the rendezvous with his now grown younger brother. The eventual meeting with the younger Ward was fraught with calamity, as Jonas was forced to shoot off a man's ear, making of him a deadly enemy; an enemy that pursues them relentlessly, and is soon to become a murderer and a rapist, while gathering a gang of outlaws as murderous as himself. They were forced to fight Apache as well as Yaqui Indians. They had friendly as well as unfriendly encounters with the Mexican Army, and were ultimately astonished by the appearance of those that resided in the forbidden valley...
“Like his songs, Davies’s book is alternately poignant, funny, and bawdy . . . indispensable for Kinks fans and recommended for anyone interested in 1960s pop music.” —Library Journal This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography is ingeniously styled as a biography, written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called “the Corporation” to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of the Kinks and one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. The Kinks frontman reveals his life and times to the young writer, often seemingly passing his stories directly into the writer’s consciousness. Carnaby Street, Top of the Pops, the Cavern Club, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and other fixtures of the times fade in and out of this compelling narrative. Part autobiography, part social history, part psychological thriller, this elusive and daring book exposes rock stardom as the heaven, hell, and purgatory it is. “In an age when everybody’s in show business and writes a lousy book about it, Ray Davies is to be honored for not doing the usual thing. We would expect no less of him.” —Rolling Stone “A major addition to pop-culture literature.” —Booklist
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