Search:

Results 51 to 60 of 69 | « previous |

Guns of the greenhorn / by Mayo, Matthew P.; Compton, Ralph.;
Young dandy Fletcher J. Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the east comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Murder; Brothels;

Shot to hell : a Ralph Compton western / by Lowry, Jackson.; Compton, Ralph.;
One terrible day, fifteen-year-old Leif Gunnarson comes home to find his family home on fire and a gruesome scene inside: his parents are tied up, on the brink of death among the hellish flames, and his sister is nowhere to be found. His father can barely gasp a name: Simkins. And with that, Leif has his life's mission--to track down Luther Simkins, notorious outlaw and gang leader, and find his sister.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Sisters; Missing persons; Outlaws; Western stories;

The Magnificent Seven. by Sturges, John,film director.; Bronson, Charles,actor.; McQueen, Steve,actor.; Brynner, Yul,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Yul BrynnerOriginally produced by MGM in 1960.Spectacular gun battles and epic heroes make "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" a legend among westerns. When Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his band of outlaws terrorize a poor Mexican village, the locals hire Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) and six other gunfighters to defend them. With time running out before Calvera's next raid, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for battle and help them find the courage to take back their town...or die trying! James Coburn, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson also star.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Western films.; Motion Pictures.; Motion pictures.;

Blood on the prairie : a Ralph Compton western / by Healey, Tony.; Compton, Ralph.;
Twenty years ago, Sherman Knowles was notorious as a fearsome shootist with an itchy trigger finger and a hot temper. Now he resides in peaceful Elam Hollow, his gunslinging days far behind him. He hasn't fired a weapon in over a decade and is happy for that to be the end of the matter. Then he receives a visit from his brother's widow, asking for his help in finding his kidnapped niece, and Sherman is left with no choice but to pick up his guns once more and head out into the wilderness to rescue her before it's too late. But you cannot escape the past, and Sherman soon finds the ghosts of yesterday waiting for him on the bleak, unforgiving prairie...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Kidnapping;

Dalton's justice : a Ralph Compton western / by Stowers, Carlton.; Compton, Ralph.;
It's been ten years since the worst day of Ben Dalton's life. After four grinding years of war, the Confederate veteran returned to his hometown of Aberdeen, Texas, to find that Mandy, the girl he loved, had run off with his best friend, John Rawlings. Dalton recovered from the loss and spent the next decade settling down to life as the town's marshal. That quiet life is shattered with the arrival of one stunning telegram. Mandy begs her old friend to come to Fort Worth, where her lawyer husband has been arrested for murder. Without a second's hesitation, Dalton heads to the big city, where he will discover that the forces who want Rawlings convicted won't hesitate to commit a second murder to silence a visiting lawman.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Marshals;

A quiet, little town / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
It starts with an unusual request: "On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women." No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare to what's waiting for them at Fredericksburg. In this quiet little town, every man, woman, and monk will reveal their true colors. Green for greed. Yellow for cowardice. Black for pure unadulterated evil. Which leaves Red-gunning for his life...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Stagecoaches; Murderers;

Wolf Stockburn, railroad detective / by O'Hara, Max.;
The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay... Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman who dresses like a gentleman but shoots like a cowboy, Stockburn learned his craft from a legendary gunfighter--and honed his skills as a Pony Express rider through hostile Indian country. Now the veteran Wells Fargo's detective will ride the rails from coast to coast. Make sure the train and its passengers reach their destination safely. And take down the Devil's Horde--one by one, bullet by bullet--the devil be damned...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Outlaws; Western stories;

The wrong side of the law : a Ralph Compton western / by Randisi, Robert J.; Compton, Ralph.;
A bandit who takes the identity of a dead lawman finds that the best place to hide is in plain sight. Jake Polk is a wanted man. He's spent years on the wrong side of the law staying one step ahead of the marshals. His most recent stage robbery ends with a posse hot on his trail. He's opened up just enough room to take a breather when he stumbles upon something astonishing. It's the body of a man resting peacefully next to a burned-out campfire. It's clear the man died in his sleep of natural causes. This is the chance Jake has been waiting for. According to a letter in the man's saddlebag, he's Marshall Owen Dent, on his way to the town of Riverbend to take over as the local lawman. Jake switches identities to avoid the posse, but what starts out as a quick means of escape may have deeper consequences when Jake considers making the change permanent.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Impostors and imposture;

Safe [videorecording] / by Burke, Robert John.; Burke, Robert(Robert John); Chan, Catherine.; Hong, James.; Mount, Anson,1973-; Sarandon, Chris.; Statham, Jason,1967-; Yakin, Boaz.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; IM Global (Firm);
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh ; cinematography, Stefan Czapsky ; edited by Frédéric Thoraval.Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke, James Hong, Anson Mount, Chris Sarandon.When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Ciphers; Feature films.; Gangsters; Mafia; Mafiosi;
© c2012., IM Global ; Distributed by Alliance Films,

The great state of West Florida : a novel / by Wascom, Kent,1986-author.;
"It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed rebellion to carve their own state from the swamp and sugar-sand of the coast. That family might have been his too--if his mother and a crew of vigilantes hadn't tried to kill them all back when he was a baby. Rally lives in the shadow of guilt and in fear of the only other survivors: his uncle Rodney, now a professional gunfighter on the app DU3L, where would-be shooters square off in armed combat, and his mysterious cousin Destiny, whereabouts unknown, whose own violence brought the massacre to a screeching end. When the Woolsacks' legacy is co-opted by Troy Yarbrough, a far-right politician leading a movement to turn the Florida panhandle into a white Christian ethnostate, Rodney bursts into Rally's life, taking him on a journey into the wild heart of West Florida, where they join forces with a woman known only as the Governor--part prophet, part machine, with her own blazing vision for West Florida. Soon Rally will learn what West Florida means to the Woolsacks, and the lengths to which they will go to protect it, all while he falls for the machine-gun-toting, ATV-riding girl next door. An explosive, genre-redefining take on family, violence, and the costs of preserving a legacy in a sun-soaked world of megachurch magnates, suburban guerillas, and robotic warriors, The Great State of West Florida is also the tender coming-of-age story of a young man caught in the wheels of something bigger than he knows"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Satirical fiction.; Novels.; Families; Generational trauma; Political violence; Teenage boys; Teenagers; White nationalism;

Results 51 to 60 of 69 | « previous |