Big Men, Big Country
Author: Paul Robert Walker
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780606181686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nine stories are featured, followed by information detailing the origins of each tale.
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Big Country, Big Men
Big Country, Big Men
The Big Ranch Country
Author: J. W. Williams
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.
The Big Country
Author: Quinton Peeples
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1643377426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gritty Western standoff between a cop and a murderer.
The Big Country
The Big Country
Author: Donald Hamilton
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780440108481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Jim McKay buys the Crazy M ranch, he finds himself caught between two rival ranchers who want the land for themselves
War Party
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2005-08-30
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 055390017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . . Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight—a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold—knowing that someone wanted him dead. . . . Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure on the frontier. But when the chips were down, she was the only one who could save her husband's life. . . . In these marvelous stories of the West, Louis L'Amour tells of travelers, gunfighters, homesteaders, and adventurers: men and women making hard and sudden choices and fighting battles that could cut a person's life short—or open up a bold new future on the American frontier.
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Author: Keir Martin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0857458736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.
The Big Country
