"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, for example, go down swinging Ol' Betsy, defending the ramparts of the Alamo--or was he captured? Who is buried in Jesse James's grave? Was the man Pat Garrett shot that night really Billy the Kid? How did Black Bart, "the gentleman bandit," disappear? Did Sacajawea, the famous "Bird Woman" who scouted for Lewis and Clark, die twice? The possibilities unfold as Walker brings together little-known facts and the elusive...
"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest p...
John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite Western fiction.
To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L'Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the...
John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles
With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.
With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old...
Part one of the #1 New York Times bestselling North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that inspired the classic television miniseries North and South--with over five million copies sold -An entertaining...authentic dramatization of American history.---The New York Times From master storyteller John Jakes comes the epic story of two families--the Hazards and the Mains. Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country on the brink of a bloody conflict that will irrevocably...
Part one of the #1 New York Times bestselling North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that inspired the classic television miniseries
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Jakes presents part two of the epic North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that inspired the classic television miniseries North and South--with over five million copies sold
"Massive, lusty, highly readable...A graphic, fast-paced amalgam of good, evil, love, lust, war, violence, and Americana."--The Washington Post Book World From the first shots at Fort Sumter, the Hazards and the Mains are divided against each other--and themselves. Some will experience the horrors of war on the front lines on...
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Jakes presents part two of the epic North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that inspire...
The exhilarating conclusion of #1 New York Times bestselling author John Jakes' epic North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that inspired the classic television miniseries North and South--with over five million copies sold
The Civil War has ended, but the Hazards and Mains have yet to face their greatest struggles. Even as the embers of old hatreds continue to burn in the heart of a nation torn apart by war, a new future in the West awaits a new generation of Americans seeking a life of their own--and a place to call home. Filled with all of the vivid...
The exhilarating conclusion of #1 New York Times bestselling author John Jakes' epic North and South Trilogy--the Civil War saga that ins...
Philip Kent fights for the future of his adopted country and of his own wife and son, as British oppression leads America further into Revolutionary War. Includes a new Introduction by Jakes.
Philip Kent fights for the future of his adopted country and of his own wife and son, as British oppression leads America further into Revolutionary W...
The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western frontier. This repackaged edition includes a new Introduction by the author. Reissue.
The third installment of Jakes's classic story of the Kent family finds Abraham Kent seeking to build a new life on the Western frontier. This repacka...
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was--the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today. Revised reissue.
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was--the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fo...
Sklaven des 21. Jahrhunderts... Sie sind Menschenaffen: Schimpansen, Orang-Utans und Gorillas. Sie stammen aus Zuchtanstalten, in denen ihre Intelligenz planmäßig angehoben wurde.
Sklaven des 21. Jahrhunderts... Sie sind Menschenaffen: Schimpansen, Orang-Utans und Gorillas. Sie stammen aus Zuchtanstalten, in denen ihre Intel...
