Follow John King, as he transforms himself from an honors law student at the University of Texas in Austin into a bounty hunter. This was necessary in order to track down and punish the four men who brutally murdered his parents, and gang raped and beat his younger sister, reducing her to a vegetative state. He searches all over Texas and Mexico until he catches up with the killers and the ex law partner of his father, who stole the family fortune.
Sam Clay ( formerly Samuel Samuelson Jr.) is banished from his fathers Paris, Kentucky tobacco farm because of holding opposite views on slavery. After he discloses his intention to enlist in the Union Army, his obstinate, opinionated father sends him away, telling him, he would be shot if he returned. With a horse and rifle borrowed from a sympathetic neighbor, he rides to Cincinnati, Ohio and enlists in an Infantry Regiment. With his Regiment he marches to Virginia and fights in several battles, before he is wounded and discharged. Following his discharge, he returns to Cincinnati, and finds a job as a guard on a wagon train bound for Natchez Mississippi. During this long, and adventure filled journey, he becomes friends with a Confederate Soldier, Cody Travis, who has escaped from a prisoner of war camp. When they arrive in Natchez, Sam accepts Codys invitation to accompany him to his home in Marfa, Texas. After all, he had no other place to go. In Marfa he finds work, first as a quicksilver guard, and later, as a mail rider. FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER BOOKS BY GOSSETT GO TO www.westernadventurenovels.com
Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of a Catholic Priest, her husbands former boss, friends from church, and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband, the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live their own exciting lives.
Billy Smith is abandoned by his mother and loses his father in an accjdrnt on the railroad but with the help from friends he begins working for the railroad and advances from telegrapher to yerminal trainmaster before joining a newly found friend in the oil drilling business.
An enigmatic man, known only as Oak, lives at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. He offers to find anyone, anywhere, for a fee. Follow his exploits as he looks for missing Confederate war veterans, cattle rustlers, errant husbands, and kidnapped young girls. Then go to Houston with Oak as he attempts the most important search as he seeks the love of his life.
Billy Smith is abandoned by his mother and loses his father in an accjdrnt on the railroad but with the help from friends he begins working for the railroad and advances from telegrapher to yerminal trainmaster before joining a newly found friend in the oil drilling business.
Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of a Catholic Priest, her husbands former boss, friends from church, and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband, the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live their own exciting lives.
This book is about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of two men, who struggle to overcome crimes, or alleged crimes, committed as teenagers. Follow them as they attempt to lead productive lives, putting aside mistakes made while teen agers. Do they succeed in these arduous tasks? You decide as you follow the twists and turns in their adventure filed lives.
Sam Clay ( formerly Samuel Samuelson Jr.) is banished from his fathers Paris, Kentucky tobacco farm because of holding opposite views on slavery. After he discloses his intention to enlist in the Union Army, his obstinate, opinionated father sends him away, telling him, he would be shot if he returned. With a horse and rifle borrowed from a sympathetic neighbor, he rides to Cincinnati, Ohio and enlists in an Infantry Regiment. With his Regiment he marches to Virginia and fights in several battles, before he is wounded and discharged. Following his discharge, he returns to Cincinnati, and finds a job as a guard on a wagon train bound for Natchez Mississippi. During this long, and adventure filled journey, he becomes friends with a Confederate Soldier, Cody Travis, who has escaped from a prisoner of war camp. When they arrive in Natchez, Sam accepts Codys invitation to accompany him to his home in Marfa, Texas. After all, he had no other place to go. In Marfa he finds work, first as a quicksilver guard, and later, as a mail rider. FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER BOOKS BY GOSSETT GO TO www.westernadventurenovels.com
Follow two Texas brothers who are separated by the Civil War and take completely different paths in life. Billy becomes a soldier in the Confedereate army and Jimmy transforms himself from farmer to a rporter for the Austin American Statesman newspaper. While one brother is fighting th e war, the other brother is reporting on the war and covering battles all over Texas, and even participates in one of them. Learn how their love for each other endures and is instrumental in their ironic reuniting.
An enigmatic man, known only as Oak, lives at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. He offers to find anyone, anywhere, for a fee. Follow his exploits as he looks for missing Confederate war veterans, cattle rustlers, errant husbands, and kidnapped young girls. Then go to Houston with Oak as he attempts the most important search as he seeks the love of his life.
Ride with Buck Jones, as he is transformed from an Oklahoma farm boy who is orphaned when a tornado destroys the farm, and kills his parents. Follow him as he is raised by his aunt and uncle in San Antonio, Texas. Now a man, he joins his uncle as a deputy sheriff and meets his partner and friend, Jose. They become known as dos pistoleros.
A thoroughly researched account of weapons innovation and industrialization in South Carolina during the Civil War and the man who made it happen. A year after seceding from the Union, South Carolina and the Confederate States government faced the daunting challenge of equipping soldiers with weapons, ammunition, and other military implements during the American Civil War. In The Best Gun in the World, Robert S. Seigler explains how South Carolina created its own armory and then enlisted the help of a weapons technology inventor to meet the demand. Seigler mined state and federal factory records, national and state archives, and US patents for detailed information on weapons production, the salaries and status of free and enslaved employees, and other financial records to reveal an interesting, distinctive story of technological innovation and industrialization in South Carolina. George Woodward Morse, originally from New Hampshire, was a machinist and firearms innovator, who settled in Louisiana in the 1840s. He invented a reliable breechloading firearm in the mid-1850s to replace muzzleloaders that were ubiquitous throughout the world. Essential to the successful operation of any breechloader was its ammunition, and Morse perfected the first metallic, center-fire, pre-primed cartridge, his most notable contribution to the development of modern firearms. The US War Department tested Morse rifles and cartridges prior to the beginning of the Civil War and contracted with the inventor to produce the weapons at Harpers Ferry Armory. However, when the war began, Morse, a slave-holding plantation owner, determined that he could sell more of his guns in the South. The South Carolina State Military Works originally designed to cast cannon, produced Morse’s carbine and modified muskets, brass cartridges, cartridge boxes, and other military accoutrements. The armory ultimately produced only about 1,350 Morse firearms. For the next twenty years, Morse sought to regain his legacy as the inventor of the center-fire brass cartridges that are today standard ammunition for military and sporting firearms. “Does justice to one of the greatest stories in American firearms history. If George Woodward Morse had not sided with the Confederacy, his name might be as famous today as Colt or Winchester.” —Gordon L. Jones, Atlanta History Center “Excellent and well-researched.” —Patrick McCawley, South Carolina Department of Archives and History “For connoisseurs and scholars of military history (especially Civil War), history of technology, or Southern/South Carolina history, this is a must-read and reference volume pertaining to a previously little-known aspect of the nineteenth century that had a far-reaching impact in the manner wars would be fought by soldiers decades later.” —Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston
Environmental forensics is emerging and evolving into a recognized scientific discipline with numerous applications, especially regarding chlorinated solvents. This unique book provides the reader with a concise compilation of information regarding the use of environmental forensic techniques for age dating and identification of the source of a chlorinated solvent release. Concentrating on the five commonly encountered chlorinated solvents (perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and CFC-113), forensic opportunities applicable to each are presented including the use of stabilizers, manufacturing impurities, surrogate chemicals and physical measurements and degradation products as diagnostic indicators. Detailed historical chronology of the applications of the solvents and specific chapters devoted to dry cleaning and vapor degreasing equipment are included as are generic forensic approaches. Forming a basis for further ideas in the evolution of environmental forensic techniques, Chlorinated Solvents will be an indispensable reference tool for researchers, regulators and analysts in the field.
On February 19, 1945, seven battalions of U.S. Marines landed on the eastern beaches of Iwo Jima. On the southernmost flank, in the shadows of Suribachi, the First Battalion, 28th Marines, stormed ashore into the bloodiest and most renowned of all battles fought by the U.S. Marine Corps. Thirty-six days later, the Marines overran the "Bloody Gorge" and dislodged the last enemy holdouts. The battle was over, but at great cost: 225 of the First Battalion's men died on Iwo Jima. Based on official reports and personal accounts, this is a day-by-day history of the First Battalion, 28th Marines, on Iwo Jima. Each chapter presents an overview of that day's combat and other relevant events, and also contains the text of that day's official regimental and battalion narratives. The text is complemented by a chronology and transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945.
This is a self-contained introduction to the theory of information and coding. It can be used either for self-study or as the basis for a course at either the graduate or ,undergraduate level. The text includes dozens of worked examples and several hundred problems for solution.
Follow John King, as he transforms himself from an honors law student at the University of Texas in Austin into a bounty hunter. This was necessary in order to track down and punish the four men who brutally murdered his parents, and gang raped and beat his younger sister, reducing her to a vegetative state. He searches all over Texas and Mexico until he catches up with the killers and the ex law partner of his father, who stole the family fortune.
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