Comstock Phantoms 2nd Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comstock Phantoms 2nd Edition write by . This book was released on 2003-10-01. Comstock Phantoms 2nd Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Comstock Phantoms
Comstock Phantoms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comstock Phantoms write by Brian David Bruns. This book was released on 2003-10-06. Comstock Phantoms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America's Largest Historical Monument is also its most haunted. The Old West lives on in Virginia City, NV. Literally. This collection of ghostly encounters contains detailed histories to amplify the setting, as well as facts and trivia. Also included are the author's hilarious ghost-hunting mishaps.
Monumental Lies
Monumental Lies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monumental Lies write by Ronald M. James. This book was released on 2023-09-19. Monumental Lies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West. Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explore how legends and traditions emerged during the first decades following the “Rush to Washoe,” which transformed the Nevada Territory after in 1859. During this Wild West period, there was widespread celebration of deceit, manifesting in tall tales, burlesque lies, practical jokes, and journalistic hoaxes. Humor was central, and practitioners easily found themselves scorned if they failed to be adequately funny. The tens of thousands of people who came to the West, attracted by gold and silver mining, brought distinct cultural legacies. The interaction of diverse perspectives, even while new stories and traditions coalesced, was a complex process. Author Ronald M. James addresses how the fluidity of the region affected new expressions of folklore as they took root. The wildly popular Mark Twain is often a go-to source for collections of early tall tales of this region, but his interaction with local traditions was specific and narrow. More importantly, William Wright—publishing as Dan De Quille—arose as a key collector of legends, a counterpart of early European folklorists. With a bedrock understanding of what unfolded in the nineteenth century, James considers how these early stories helped shaped the culture of the Wild West.
Bogeyman
Bogeyman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bogeyman write by Gayle Wilson. This book was released on 2012-10-15. Bogeyman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A year after the death of her husband, Blythe Wyndham moves with her four-year-old daughter, Maddie, back to the small town where she grew up. But soon after they move in to their new home, strange things begin to happen. Maddie has disturbingly intense nightmares—so intense that Blythe fears one night she may not be able to awaken her daughter. A psychologist explains that Maddie's dreams are simply the result of her father's death, but Blythe knows something else is wrong. Because she's also heard the ghostly tapping at her daughter's window…. Convinced the house is haunted, Blythe researches the town's history and discovers that a little girl had been brutally murdered in the area twenty-five years ago. Could there be some connection between this dead child and Maddie? With the help of Sheriff Cade Jackson, Blythe tries to separate past horrors from present dangers and struggles to distinguish the real from the imagined. But someone is clearly determined to keep a secret—and will kill again to do so.
Phantom Warriors
Phantom Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phantom Warriors write by Gary Linderer. This book was released on 2008-12-10. Phantom Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines. Ranging from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta to excursions— authorized and unauthorized—into Cambodia, these gripping accounts begin when the call first went out for covert U.S. long-range reconnaissance patrols in late 1965, continue through the battles of Tet, and go all the way up to the final, tortured pullout. These are LRRP, LRP, and Ranger units at their finest, under the most desperate circumstances: one team surrounded by the enemy with no choice but to break out of the trap—or die, another caught in an ambush of horrific proportions. When recon missions suddenly became contact missions, when grenades started flying and AK-47s were smoking, each man’s life was instantly on the line—and only his skills and the grit of his teammates could prevent certain death. These highly trained warriors were among the best America had to offer, and they gave their best, no matter how high the price. . . .
