books about: gunfighters     books:       Showdown (The Last Gunfighter)2 reviews William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2002 Darn good book This book moves along at a brisk pace. It's fun and there's lots of gunplay, cowboys, bad guys and women folk. There's lots of humor, even in the heat of battle. It appeared that the author didn't want to end the book. He was probably having too much fun. There could have been a few more chapters, but it also could have ended after Frank and townfolk completed the big shootout. By all means ...             The Last Gunfighter: Rescue: Rescue (The Last Gunfighter)1 review William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2003 The Last Gunfighter: Rescue This is the 7th in the Gunfighter series, which follows Frank Morgan in his quest for a peaceful retirement which continues to elude him. In this story, he is in California, where he initially is mistaken for another man, a notorious outlaw. That man, Val Dooley, was the basis for the previous story, Imposter. I have been hooked on Johnstone's writing since first encountering the series, which ...             Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840-190013 reviews Joseph G. Rosa University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 The Old West--the way it really was. This is the best book I've ever found that extensively shows what the Old West of the Gunfighter was really like.Rosa has done a supurb job of defining all aspects of this intriguing period,roughly from 1840 till the end of the century. Rosa covers all the Gunfighters whose names and faces who have become legends. He also shows us many of the less known and less written about. He has included ...             Manhunt: (The Last Gunfighter) William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2004 Business is booming in Chirichua Junction, on the edge of a great northern river basin. Buyt with cattlemen lined up against sheep men, the land has turned into a war zone, and the town constable is a dirty as they come. Fresh from a violent confrontation with a fellow manhunter, Frank Morgan is called to Chirichua Junction by his old Civil War commander - and arrives just as an angry rancher is taking the law into this own hands. Suddenly, good ...             Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier3 reviews Roger D. McGrath University of California Press, 1987 "GOODBYE GOD, WE'RE GOING TO BODIE" Just a few days ago, I received my latest copy of THE NEW AMERICAN magazine and found an excellent article in it by Roger D. McGrath titled, "MAKING OUR SCHOOLS SAFE." This edition of the fine current events periodical was inspired by the terrible Virginia Tech campus shooting. McGrath wrote, "For several decades now, I have said that every 'gun control' law should be titled a 'Criminal ...             Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America4 reviews Richard Slotkin University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 Brilliant Examination of pop culture as history Winner of countless praise, Gunfighter Nation changed the way we view almost all aspects of American history. It is a well-crafted critical work that articulates earlier French theories of common mythologies and their influences on history but frames them in purely American terms. Viewing the fictional works of Zane Gray, James Fenimore Cooper, the historical work of Teddy Roosevelt and ...             Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters6 reviews Bill O'Neal University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 Possibly the best book in my extensive Western library This book is fascinating because it separates truth from fiction. All documented gunfights of the old west are included here (as of the book's writing), & all gunfights that are undocumented are excluded. It's as simple as that. I don't buy the author's premise that if it was a real gunfight, it must have been documented at the time (wouldn't most killers have wanted to keep their killings a ...             Last Gunfighter: Slaughter (Last Gunfighter) William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2009             Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, The West's Most Elusive Legend Dan Rottenberg Westholme Publishing, 2008 In 1859, as the US was nearing civil war, Washington's only link with California - America's richest state - was a stagecoach line between Missouri and the Pacific. Plagued by attacks from outlaws and Indians, the stagecoach company enlisted the help of a former wagon train captain.Over the next three years, Jack Slade became a legend, driving away the outlaws, bandits, and Indians to keep the US Mail running. His celebrity grew even more when ...             Last Gunfighter: Hell Town (The Last Gunfighter)2 reviews William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2007 Good Reading My son lives on these books. At least it keeps him reading. I'm for anything that encourages someone to read, but if they enjoy it along the way it is even better. I'm know Mr. Johnstone has died but I'm glad his family is finishing and publishing his manuscripts.             Imposter (The Last Gunfighter)1 review William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2002 Mistaken identity. The book starts off as Frank Morgan getting jailed because of a look alike that is an outlaw. He breaks out of jail and starts looking for the lookalike outlaw. He rides into the town of Chance to resupply and to verify his identity. He is told the lookalike has been raiding towns in the area and takes the job of deputy of Chance. He gets into a confrontation with a rancher from the area and ...             The Gunfighters1 review Paul Trachtman Time Life Value, 2004 A WELL DONE KEEPSAKE BOOK If one has any love for the old west this is a real treasure. To begin with the outside looks like finest hand tooled leather. The inside cover pages look like old parchment. It contains such things as photo copies of reward posters, old badges, wonderful oil painting copies, actual historical pictures of the outlaws and lawmen, diagrams of gun battles, and beautiful detailed pictures of their ...             Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (Doctor Who, No 101)3 reviews Donald Cotton W.H. Allen, 1986 Doctor Caligari When a toothache forces the Doctor to stop on Earth and look for a dentist he gets much more than a simple check up. In a case of mistaken identity he finds himself the target of the vengeance seeking Clanton brothers. The Doctor's companions in this one are Dodo and Steven. The setting is the American west back in the 1870's. The story is told by Doc Holliday on his deathbed and represents ...             The Forbidden (The Last Gunfighter)5 reviews William W. Johnstone Pinnacle, 2001 "You picked the wrong side in this fight." When it comes to Westerns this one is excellent.Johnstone has that special knack of being able to tell it like it is, at the same time as being able to tell it like it was.Once you get into the story,and that takes only about 2 pages, it is hard to put down.I don't know what it is,but Johnstone breaks up this story of 240 pages unto 32 chapters.That approach results in him having to keep ...             Gunfighters: The Outlaws and Their Weapons2 reviews Thunder Bay Press, 2005 A vivid history surpasses competitors for content and color. Its price tag represents a bargain for a book well over four hundred pages in length and packed with vintage black and white and some color photos throughout. Any collection strong in Western history and culture will want to include GUNFIGHTERS: THE OUTLAWS AND THEIR WEAPONS: it packs in history surveying the age of the Western cowboy, his equipment, and politics of the times. Chapters survey ...             The Guns of the Gunfighters: Lawmen, Outlaws & Hollywood Cowboys5 reviews Doc O'Meara Krause Publications, 2003 A wealth of hidden gun lore The Guns Of The Gunfighters: Lawmen, Outlaws & Hollywood Cowboys by firearms historian and expert Doc O'Meara, is a meticulous and detailed survey of the weaponry carried by some of the most famous (and infamous) gunmen of the Wild West and the silver screen, including Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Roy Rogers, and many, many more. Black-and-white photographs, extensive attention to detail, and a ...             Crusader!: Last of the Gunfighters (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)4 reviews Paul T. Gillcrist, John H. Glenn Schiffer Publishing, 1995 I Cannot Recommend This Book Highly Enough This is a fantastic collection of pilot's stories dealing with the "Last of the Gunfighters" the Vought F-8 Crusader. Rear Admiral Paul T Gillcrist has 2000 hours of Crusader time and his impressive knowledge and affection for the aircraft is very apparent throughout. The first part of the book arms the reader with background knowledge of early jet carrier operations as well as the story of ...             The Last Gunfighter: Killing Ground (The Last Gunfighter)6 reviews William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone P Mass Paper, 2008 Gunfighter great book-I have most of them. Only improvement that I would like is for the books be numbered in order that they are written so you know what the next book is.. Capt Keith             The Assassin3 reviews Rye James iUniverse, Inc., 2007 Fun read I decided to get this based on some reviews I've seen here and elsewhere and I am glad I did. The Assassin is a story that reads very quickly, which I like. I thought the ending of the book was very good, when it's revealed who hired him, it was a twist that I did not see coming. I did feel that James could have expanded on a few things in the book with character interactions that I thought maybe ...             The Life and Death of a Gunfighter, Book 1, Part One: The Saga of Clay Allison/Gentlemen Gunfighter Clay Allison 1st Books Library, 2002 The Saga of Clay Allison, a Gentleman Gunfighter that never killed a man that didn't disserve it. After the Civil War Clay went west to find his fortune. Clay wound up on the cattle drive to hell with Goodnight and Loving and a string of dead men in his wake.              search for books 1840-1900, allison, assassin, aviation, century, cowboys, crusader, elusive, encyclopedia, forbidden, frontier, gentlemen, gunfighter, gunfighters, highwaymen, history, hollywood, imposter, killing, manhunt, military, outlaws, schiffer, showdown, slaughter, twentieth, twentieth-century, vigilantes, violence, weapons books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: The Recorder: 4 Centuries of Recorder Music we recommend Gunfighter leave a comment home  impressum - about us