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602) Rising fire
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the Jensen family sends a new generation out into the world, they always keep the homefires burning - and rifles loaded - just in case they bring trouble back with them. Smoke Jensen's daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta. Denny met the seductive Sicilian on her trip to Europe - and...
603) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
40th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
604) The Frisco Kid
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber and the two cut a pratfall-filled path across the wild west.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a historic horse-stealing adventure, A Thousand Dead Horses dramatizes the violence and perils of the Old West. Young Daniel Boone Trewick flees a violent dispute in Missouri and joins a freighting outfit to Santa Fe. He meets mountain man Thomas L. 'Pegleg' Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Juan Medina, a young vaquero on a California rancho, framed for a crime and in jail, is pressed into...
610) Son of the Old West: the odyssey of Charlie Siringo: cowboy, detective, writer of the wild frontier
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 347 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative "beeves" business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north...
612) Cowboys & longhorns
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A former New York City magazine editor describes the radical change in her life after she met a young bull rider while on assignment covering a rodeo and impulsively gave up her city life for a more authentic rural life.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"American Endurance : The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West depicts nine cowboys as they race thousands of miles across the American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show next to the fair"--
615) The ones who hit the hardest: the Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the fight for America's soul
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the decade when the Pittsburgh Steelers rose from a lackluster franchise to four-time Super Bowl champions, citing the team's efforts to revitalize its economically challenged city while assessing key contributors and the rivalry with the Dallas Cowboys.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Oklahoma paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 850 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources -- fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures and Washington leaders -- to show how the racialist theory of Anglo-Saxon ascendance and superiority (embodied in Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West), rather...
617) Ramrod
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Connie Dickason has inherited a sheep ranch from her ex-husband and is determined to run the ranch with the help of her new Ramrod, Dave Nash, and his crew of locals who oppose powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey. Ivey and Connie's father are opposed to Connie running the ranch, and the resulting bloody range war is much to the dismay of Dave, who wants to resolve Connie's problems with Ivey legally.
Publisher
National Film Preservation Foundation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (596 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 pages : ill. ; 20 cm)
Language
English
Description
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii....
Author
Series
Blood for justice volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
317 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Continuation of the epic tale of former Texas rangers who bury a friend in the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove and then drive cattle to their home in the lush ranch country of Montana.
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