Sheriff Clint Wilson of Comanche County, known for his peerless gunmanship and feared and admired by rivals, must face the ultimate battle with the bottle.
Mad Dog Duke Malone has scores to settle, and when he breaks out of a Texas prison, a lot of people stand a good chance of dying. Chief among them is Sheriff Colby Tucker who arrested Malone in the first place. And when Malone guns down Tucker's son, Tucker sets out on a vengeance trail.
Marshall Will Hardin, otherwise known as Cougar, tracks a gang of renegade buffalo hunters who have robbed him of his family and have kidnapped the woman he loves.
Russ James goes to the aid of a fatally wounded U.S. marshal, who with his last tortured breath begs Russ to carry out his orders to protect the beautiful young widow.
Color illustration on front cover of street scene with man, his face in shadow wearing sheriffs badge light shining on his body from inside saloon doors. In background people standing in street and lights of buildings shine through night.
Sheriff London thinks he has things under control when he arrests the head of the Van Horn gang who stole a federal payroll, but the rest of the clan rebel by killing the son of a local Crow chief, and kidnapping London's wife, forcing him to decide between the woman he loves and the law he is supposed to uphold.
From the creators of Wagons West and Stagecoach--the saga of one man's quest to protect his family from the hazards of the untamed frontier. In this edition, Long Shadow (hero from The Badge #13: Outcast) is now the marshal of Cheyenne Crossing, and he must stop a ruthless rancher who murders to get what he wants.
Though slowed but far from stopped by age, Sheriff Will Iron can still draw a gun or track a man like nobody else in all of Wyoming. He'll need both of those skills when he takes to the mountains in pursuit of a cold-blooded murderer he once considered a friend. But landing his quarry won't end the bloodshed. For a gang of outlaws with vengeance in thier hearts and sporting on their minds have begun a manhunt of their own. The arena is endless miles of treacherous terrain. The game is to make lawman Will Iron run for his life.
Marshal Will Iron accepts the position of town marshal of Powder River, Wyoming, to rid the town of its lawless elements--including his father and his brothers
Eric Reno sought to write about the lives lived throughout a life. Structuring his memoir similar to how one experiences French Impressionist paintings, nose to canvas dazzles the eye with riotous colors, but upon retreat, shapes and shadows emerge. The painting’s beauty increases with changed distance and angles, generating different emotions while seeing multiple stories. In a similar experiential metaphor, his memoir tells life-defining stories and shares insights of people met, places lived, decisions made, and both tragedies and joyous experiences. Eric participated in many historical events of the latter20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. A year after high school graduation he was an Air Force intelligence analyst in the United Kingdom monitoring Cold War events that included the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and the beginning of the Viet Nam conflict. His three years in the UK prepared him to become the first college graduate in his family and fostered his late-in-life desire to become an educator. Famous encounters included: football player Brian Piccolo, holding the first-ever World Champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers in the palm of his hand, a week in awe of Maya Angelou, a semester mesmerized by novelist Harry Crews, an attitude-changing phone call with poet Judith Ortiz Cofer, a delightful afternoon encounter with Carmen McRae, a evening in the company of Dave Brubeck and family, dinner with and advice from Julian Bond, and a career-saving year of encouragement from Elizabeth Snead. Book Review: “The writing style . . is beautifully lyrical. In some places, the writing is stop-in-tracks insightful . . . . As ever, there is some truly beautiful writing in the ACCIDENTAL EDUCATOR, of genuine depth and insight . . . . Moreover, for a memoir in this form, there is great poignancy and tenderness to the writing in moments.” -- Jon Curzon, The WRITING Consultancy
This book deals with the life of Major Marcus A. Reno, who was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1880, and the subsequent effort by his relatives and other Civil War buffs to reopen his case and restore him to his rank.
Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, the book argues that waste management helps our possessions and dwellings to last by removing the transient materials they shed and sending them elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class aspirations, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize the removal of waste out of sight that many take for granted. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates how the landfills we create remake us in turn, often behind our backs and beneath our notice.
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