Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action, speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.' Readers who like Max Brand and Zane Grey will enjoy this western novel from William Macleod Raine. Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border is about Lieutenant Bucky O'Connor, who works with Sheriff 'Bear Trap' Collins to catch train robbers.

Wide-ranging, representative sampling of myths and legends collected from a diversity of tribes contains nearly 100 stories of heroes, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, tales borrowed from the Europeans, and even biblical subjects. Includes "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" (Seneca), "The Star Husband" (Ojibwa), "The Bear-Woman" (Blackfoot), "Cinderella" (Zuñi), "Making the Princess Laugh" (Micmac), "Crossing the Red Sea" (Cheyenne),...

This Misery of Boots is a 1907 political tract by H. G. Wells advocating socialism. Published by the Fabian Society, This Misery of Boots is the expansion of a 1905 essay with the same name. Its five chapters condemn private property in land and means of production and calls for their expropriation by the state "not for profit, but for service.

-- The River of Doubt "Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West." -James Bradley, author of -- A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won-a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his...