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El paso : a novel / by Groom, Winston,1944-author.;
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923; Frontier and pioneer life; Kidnapping; Outlaws;
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The outlander / by Adamson, Gil,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Bloodhounds track ninteen-year-old Mary Boulton through the trees. Half mad and tracked by two vengeful brothers, she is forced to move ever deeper into the wilderness and away from civilization. Along the way, she meets an unforgettable collection of rogues, guardian angels, and eccentrics, and confronts her troubling prospects for redemption.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life; Widows; Women murderers;
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The schoolhouse / by Foran, Jill.;
Looks at the history of schools and education in Canada.LSC
Subjects: Schools; Education; Frontier and pioneer life;
© c2012., Weigl Educational Publishers,
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When all hell broke loose / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Two legends of the American West, Preacher and MacCallister have always fought for justice. Even when all parties were guilty. When all hope was lost. And when all the killing started...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life; Mountain life;
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Shooting iron / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Escaped prisoners; Frontier and pioneer life; Gunfighters; Outlaws; Sheriffs;
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One way to Boot Hill / by O'Hara, Max,author.;
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Brigands and robbers; Detectives; Frontier and pioneer life; Outlaws;
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Hell's half-acre : the untold story of the Benders, a serial killer family on the American frontier / by Jonusas, Susan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took place became known as 'Hells Half-Acre.' When it emerged that a family of four known as the Benders had been accused of the slayings, the case was catapulted to infamy. The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders--one among thousands who were relocating further west looking for land and opportunity after the Civil War--were capable of operating 'a human slaughter pen' appalled and fascinated the nation. But who the Benders really were, why they committed such a vicious killing spree, and what became of them when they fled from the law is a mystery that has remains unsolved to this day--not that there aren't some convincing theories. Part gothic western, part literary whodunnit, and part immersive study of postbellum America, Hell's Half-Acre sheds new light on one of the most notorious cases in our nation's history while holding a torch to a society under the strain of rapid change and moral disarray. Susan Jonasus draws on extensive original archival material, and introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, including the despairing families of the victims as well as the fugitives that helped the murderers escape. Hell's Half-Acre is not simply a book about a mass murder. It is a journey into the turbulent heart of nineteenth century America, a place where modernity stalks across the landscape, violently displacing existing populations and wearily building new ones. It is a world where folklore can quickly become fact, and an entire family of criminals can slip right through a community's fingers, only to reappear at the most unexpected of times"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Bender family.; Frontier and pioneer life.; Serial murderers;
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I want to die in my boots : a novel / by Appleton, Natalie,author.;
I Want to Die in My Boots is the untold story of Belle Jane, the woman who ran one of Canada's largest cattle thieving rings in the 1920s, who brilliantly broke every taboo, took the names of five different husbands, and nearly followed the tragic end of her great hero, the outlaw queen Belle Starr. Dark and daring, meticulously researched and mostly true, I Want to Die in My Boots is a lyrical, unconventional literary novel that gives voice to the unheard in a long-forgotten world. After leaving Montana for a third husband and the ranch she'd always wanted, Belle settles in Saskatchewan, before spending her final years in Penticton, reading tarot cards for strangers. Written a century after her arrest, this fictional tribute to Belle Jane, an unsung hero in Canada's west, is inventive yet thoughtful, a work of Prairie literary fiction that takes an edgy twist to history. I Want to Die in My Boots will appeal to readers of Annie Proulx, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Maggie O'Farrell, and to viewers of Yellowstone and The Power of the Dog.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Belle, Jane; Cattle stealing; Ranchers; Frontier and pioneer life; Women outlaws;
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Shadow of the hangman / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Subjects: Western stories.; O'Briens (Fictitious character); Families; Pioneers;
© 2012., Pinnacle,
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The killing season / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Subjects: Western stories.; O'Briens (Fictitious character); Families; Pioneers;
© 2014., Pinnacle,
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