Bred of the Desert (Esprios Classics)

Bred of the Desert (Esprios Classics) PDF

Author: Marcus Horton

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2019-10-02

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780464339793

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"It was high noon in the desert, but there was no dazzling sunlight. Over the earth hung a twilight, a yellow-pink softness that flushed across the sky like the approach of a shadow, covering everything yet concealing nothing, creeping steadily onward, yet seemingly still, until, pressing low over the earth, it took on changing color, from pink to gray, from gray to black-gloom that precedes tropical showers. Then the wind came-a breeze rising as it were from the hot earth-forcing the Spanish dagger to dipping acknowledgment, sending dust-devils swirling across the slow curves of the desert-and then the storm burst in all its might. For this was a storm-a sand-storm of the Southwest."

Bred of the Desert

Bred of the Desert PDF

Author: Charles M. Horton

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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The story opens as a massive sand storm blows across the American desert near the Rio Grande. Caught in its path are Felipe, a Mexican, and his team of horses pulling a lumber cart back from a successful day's selling. His horses will not speed up, so the enraged Felipe has to take temporary shelter by one of the cart's wheels. As the storm passes he sees that one of his horses, a mare, is lying down.....

Bred of the Desert

Bred of the Desert PDF

Author: Marcus Horton

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781505484786

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"[...]outcome of the affair in the trail. He had heard of such things, though never had he believed them possible. Yet he found himself troubled with insistent reminder that Franke had suggested this whole thing. Then suddenly he was gripped in another unwelcome thought. Could it be possible that this scheming hombre, awaking at a time when he himself was soundest asleep, had gone out into the trail on tiptoe for advance information? It was possible. Why not? But that was not the point exactly. The point was, had he done it? Had this buzzard circled[...]".

Bred of the Desert a Horse and a Romance

Bred of the Desert a Horse and a Romance PDF

Author: Marcus Horton

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781518635847

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

The Desert and the Sown (Esprios Classics)

The Desert and the Sown (Esprios Classics) PDF

Author: Mary Hallock Foote

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781034281153

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Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. As a student Mary Hallock Foote befriended American artist Helena de Kay Gilder. The two maintained a very close friendship throughout their lives, shared a lengthy correspondence via letter, and used each other for critiquing their work. Mary Hallock Foote also benefitted from Gilder's husband Richard Watson Gilder, who commissioned her art while he was an editor for Scribner's Monthly. It was through the Gilders that Mary Hallock Foote was also introduced to a circle of fellow artists including, Mary L. Stone, Mary Birney, Maria Oakey, and several popular writers.

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