Resultados para "The Odyssey" en Oeste americano

Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle - the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming’s Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief. Then, after helping rescue US soldiers captured by Crow Indians in the Rocky Mountains, Jack hears the familiar bell-like report of his Ghost Rifle.

Bear Rollins was the epitome of mountain men, a lethal machine of destruction! He stood four inches over six feet and weighed two hundred and forty pounds, a veritable giant of a man. The one skill that set him totally apart from his peers was his uncanny marksmanship with his constant companion, a Sharps fifty caliber buffalo gun. But the capable mountain man will need all his skills and prowess as he is hunted by some of the most ruthless killers in the old west!

An action-packed western in the true classic tradition by new author Will Hinton. With one pull of the trigger, Dan Kade had purged the Metzal Valley of a rogue and ruthless lawman, But in the process, he had condemned himself to a life on the run…And life on the run, always being hunted, was to prove a very lonely condition.

The Twin Forks crew is back with their most exciting and dangerous adventure of all in the third story of the Rocky Mountain Odyssey series. Dan Kade has married Allison, the love of his life and they have their first child. His three best friends Bear Rollins, Red Elk, and Five Ponies have become his partners on the beautiful Twin Forks Ranch. All is well. Life is good. Or is it? Don t get too comfortable in the wild, wild west, because danger is always at hand. Unbeknownst to Dan and his friends, their deadliest enemy is back

In late fall of 1892, outlaw Eddie Mole gallops down the main street of Jericho Springs, Kansas, where he robs and shoots dead the freighter Barney Kreider. Some urge Barney's son Ulysses (“Euly”) to take revenge, but Euly is a Mennonite and Mennonites don't seek revenge. Instead, Euly plots how to make his fortune with the aid of his half-Osage sister, Kate, and his friend Johnny, an Osage farmhand. The three make a plan to sell goods and livestock to the settlers converging on Caldwell, Kansas, for the land run going on in the Cherokee Outlet.

The story of the cowboy has been much romanticized and made part of a mythology about the American West. Earl’s Own Dakota Odyssey is an update on that myth. What is the actual nitty-gritty of life for a typical ranch hand? The work is hard, without job security, health benefits or retirement accounts. When you get old, no one wants you. That’s the down side. The upside is you live in a world that’s real, surrounded by the day-to-day beauty of God’s creation, called the Great Plains.