Love Lessons from the Old West - 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 Love Lessons from the Old West write by Chris Enss. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Love Lessons from the Old West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Calamity Jane’s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson—and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild Bill Hickok and learn about the last love letter he sent before being dealt the dead man’s hand. Learn the story behind the charming performer Lotta Crabtree’s heartaches. And discover the tale of the dashing Kit Carson and his beautiful bride. This collection features the lessons learned by and from the antics of the women who shaped the West.
Women in the Western
Women in the Western - 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 Women in the Western write by Matheson Sue Matheson. This book was released on 2020-07-31. Women in the Western available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.
The Lady and the Mountain Man
The Lady and the Mountain Man - 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 The Lady and the Mountain Man write by Chris Enss. This book was released on 2021-08-01. The Lady and the Mountain Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs** The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together. Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected. This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
Standoff at High Noon
Standoff at High Noon - 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 Standoff at High Noon write by Bill Markley. This book was released on 2021-10-22. Standoff at High Noon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Standoff at High Noon, the sequel to Old West Showdown, coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controversial stories from the Old West. Through their opposing viewpoints, learn more about notorious figures and infamous events, including the controversial death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; the life and death of Sacagawea who assisted Lewis and Clark on their Corps of Discovery Expedition; the tragic fate of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada; the assassination of Wild Bill Hickok; Arizona’s Lost Dutchman Mine; and the controversy over Butch Cassidy’s death in South America. No matter whose side you are on, there’s always something new to discover about the mythic Old West.
Forced Into Marriage (a historical western romance in the old west)
Forced Into Marriage (a historical western romance in the old west) - 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 Forced Into Marriage (a historical western romance in the old west) write by Ruth Ann Nordin. This book was released on . Forced Into Marriage (a historical western romance in the old west) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A broken-hearted divorcee. A pregnant survivor. Can they turn an unwanted marriage… into love? Wyoming, 1866. Brandon Herman wants to drink away his heartache. Divorced, disgraced, and out of work, the last thing he wants to do is marry again. When he’s strong-armed into marrying a Crow Indian woman, he only thinks of running away… until he learns his bride-to-be is nine months pregnant… Lokni doesn’t trust her pale-skinned husband. After all, his kind raided her tribe, killed her loved ones, and stole her freedom. If it weren’t for the contractions, she would've already left her intoxicated groom. But until the baby is born, Lokni must bide her time and plan her escape… As the unlikely couple embarks across the untamed West, Brandon’s support helps their friendship to blossom. They start to realize that it’s more than the baby that draws them together. But on the trail to a brighter future, not everybody they meet is interested in their happily ever after… Forced into Marriage is a historical western romance set in a more realistic Wild West. If you like spirited characters, journeys of exploration, and the healing power of family, then you’ll love Ruth Ann Nordin’s stirring tale.
