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Spirit Gun of the West

The Story of Doc W. F. Carve

By: Raymond W. Thorp

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Spirit Gun of the West

The Story of Doc W. F. Carve

By: Raymond W. Thorp

First published in 1957, this is the complete, fascinated biography of "Doc" William Frank Carver, a legend of the American West. Even the expansive sub-title shows that there is no limit to the talents of Doc Carver—“Plainsman, Trapper, Buffalo Hunter, Medicine Chief Of The Santee Sioux, World's Champion Marksman, And Originator Of The American Wild West Show.” Doc’s life began in the era of American pioneering to the West. As a youth he lived with the Santee Sioux, from the plains of Illinois and the forests of Minnesota he graduated to the beautiful prairies of Nebraska where he became supreme as a horseback-riding buffalo hunter, and came to count among his close friends the mountain men and plainsmen of whom James B. Hickok, John Y. Nelson, Texas Jack, and the boastful “Buffalo Bill,” were but a few. To California, at thirty-five years of age, was Carver’s next move. Here he discovered in his reading of sporting magazines that men were making fortunes by shooting—men who were not good shots! His innate confidence assured him that he was the best shot in the world, and he began the work of proving to the world that he was not only the best marksman, but that he was to become one of the world’s outstanding showmen.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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183974314X

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9781839743146

Crow Killer, New Edition

The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp, Jr.,Robert Bunker

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The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp, Jr.,Robert Bunker

The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. As the story goes, one morning in 1847 Johnson returned to his Rocky Mountain trapper's cabin to find the remains of his murdered Indian wife and her unborn child. He vowed vengeance against an entire Indian tribe. Crow Killer tells of that one-man, decades-long war to avenge his beloved. Whether seen as a realistic glimpse of a long ago, fierce frontier world, or as a mythic retelling of the many tales spun around and by Johnson, Crow Killer is unforgettable. This new edition, redesigned for the first time, features an introduction by western frontier expert Nathan E. Bender and a glossary of Indian tribes.

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207

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Indiana University Press

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0253021227

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9780253021229

Crow Killer

The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker

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The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker

The saga of the famed mountain man and Indian-hater. The film Jeremiah Johnson was based on this work.

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Indiana University Press

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025311425X

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9780253114259

Crow Killer

The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker

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The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

By: Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker

First Midland Book edition 1983"--Copyright page.

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174

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0253020832

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9780253020833

The Raymond Chandler Papers

Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

By: Raymond Chandler

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The Raymond Chandler Papers

Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

By: Raymond Chandler

These papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Phillip Marlowe, revealing aspects of the artist's powerful personality and broad intellectual curiosity. "For the Chandler fan, "The Raymond Chandler Papers" ... is a treasure-trove."--David Lehman, The "New York Times Book Review

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Grove Press

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0802139469

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9780802139467

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