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Spanish bit saga volume 3
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In the hopes of finding his missing son who, according to rumors, is alive and well living with a tribe of Native Americans, Don Pedro Garcia and his lieutenant, Ramon Cabeza, embark on a relentless quest across the Great Plains, unaware that the missing man is now a chief among the Elk-dog band.
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Clásicos de literatura del Oeste para observar la transformación del sueño americano.
El sueño pastoral americano se ha transformado en un crudo sueño de poder y riqueza. ¿Cómo ha sucedido?
El progreso y las tecnologías transformaron nuestra sociedad.
Estos autores clásicos muestran el impacto de la llegada del ferrocarril (Frank Norris). La aparición de una mujer en medio del Oeste (Stehen Crane). La muerte por congelación de un hombre...
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Becky receives a visitor from a place she never even knew existed, and it has a dramatic effect on her life. The Washington DC police pursue Peter Wilson, as do Greek bakery owners who do not like the idea of Becky's new pie factory. Both receive some justice they never dreamed of. Tension builds as Becky contemplates the government's plan to build the transcontinental railroad.
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Orphaned at an early age, eleven-year-old Carrie Camden gets adopted and comes to the Rocky Mountains in 1829, where she is once again orphaned by an Indian attack. She is assigned to mountain man Garrett Carter for her care.
Wise beyond her years and tough as nails, the devious "bad kid" makes an indelible impression on Jake, Right Hand, Fat, Dan, and the other mountain men. The poor Choteau brothers become the object of her wrath, and pay a never...
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Basking in the golden warmth from their pit fire, Spirit Bear and his pregnant wife, Kaitlin, share a lazy morning together. It was spring, and a nasty storm was rolling in. It was a perfect time for staying inside and sharing.Kaitlin, still fairly new to the Oglala Sioux people's ways, was curious about her husband's past. Should their child be born a boy, Kaitlin wanted to know what it will be like for their son to grow up in the shadow of his father,...
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Romane:
Die Ansiedler an den Quellen des Susquehanna
Die Steppe oder die Prärie
Der rote Freibeuter
Satanstoe, oder die Familie Littlepage
Die Wassernixe oder der Streicher durch die Meere
Der letzte Mohikaner
Der Bravo
Der Pfadfinder
Die Grenzbewohner oder Die Beweinte von Wish-Ton-Wish
Der Wildtöter
Die Monikins
Ravensnest oder die Rothhäute
Der Spion-Eine Geschichte des neutralen Bodens
Die Steppe oder Die Prärie
Der Kettenträger oder...
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Black Eagle, joins Conquering Bear and his wife, Running Water, a blind white woman, leaving the reservation behind, in search of the old way of life before the white man controlled the land.
In the Black Hill lands of the Sioux they search for an old woman, who they are told might have the power to restore Running Water's sight.
Many adventures follow often with tragic results as Black Eagle moves across the land, finally joining a circus where he...
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There are things out there that you haven't dreamed of!
Things like back-from-the-dead mountain men, green ghost rock spirits, carrion stallions, time-traveling mad scientists and zombified buffalo. And, that's just for starters.
This is a bone-chilling romp through a Buffalo Bill fun house. A wild west horror novella that starts at a gallop and gathers momentum faster than a herd of stampeding avalanches.
I guarantee that you will NEVER look at...
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Arizona 1846Nantan, a young Apache warrior, is building a name for himself by leading raids against Mexican ranches to impress his war chief, and the chief's lovely daughter.But there is one thing he and all other Apaches fear-a ruthless band of Mexican scalp hunters who slaughter entire villages.Nantan and his friends have sworn to fight back, but they are inexperienced, and led by a war chief driven mad with a thirst for revenge. Can they track...
15) Simiakia
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It was not whimsy that had brought him together with this red horse to run this race. It was the justice of time.
Raised without hope or pride in his heritage to what promises to be a short life of crime, alcohol, and drugs, Nez Perce teenager Al George gets an unexpected second chance.
A heist gone wrong ends up with Al working on probation at the very Idaho ranch he and his "friends" tried to rob, owned by Celia Bolt, who left her own rich-but-dysfunctional...
16) Fools Gold
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Captain Emmett "Brass Stars" Fulton CSA thought the mission easy, head to New Orleans and steal the yankee payroll. Then keep it for himself. Simple. But Emmett finds his steps dogged by The Indian he failed to kill, the Confederate army for murder, the Federals for the gold, and just about everyone else for the reward! Now Emmett must escape north dragging along a load of trouble and somehow still keep his neck out of the noose and the gold in his...
17) Mission Bandits
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"Dios vaya contigo." God go with you.What was Rebekah thinking, riding straight into the guns of murdering bandits? But she couldn't back out.The Mexican army, a town marshal, and the Sancho Guerra gang are facing off when Doctor Rebekah LaRoche and her new friend, Jimmy, arrive in Zapata, New Mexico Territory. The bandits are holding hostages at Hope Academy, a school for girls located in an old mission outside of town, and Rebekah feels compelled...
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A “plain-spoken, deep-thinking Montana cattle inspector” takes on a serial killer in DC (The New York Times Book Review).
With misgivings, cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré has left his hometown of Toussaint, Montana, for big-city Washington, DC, where the Métis Indian fiddler has agreed to play his people’s music for a Smithsonian festival. But like the frightened...
With misgivings, cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré has left his hometown of Toussaint, Montana, for big-city Washington, DC, where the Métis Indian fiddler has agreed to play his people’s music for a Smithsonian festival. But like the frightened...
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Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases--until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma. But...
20) Notches
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“[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans” (Booklist).
The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes. It’s not long before Gabriel Du Pré, Métis Indian cattle...
The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness to be devoured by coyotes. It’s not long before Gabriel Du Pré, Métis Indian cattle...
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