As proprietors of the growing D&T Cattle Company, veteran cowboys Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin finally have a business of their own. Unfortunately, the cattle market has seen better days and the D&T's finances are drying up -- leaving Casey and Eli no choice but to procure cash by any means necessary. Before long, the two bank robbers are the most wanted men in the west. Dogged by U.S. Marshals and Texas Rangers, the old cowboys slip away time after...

As a lightning fast gunslinger, Lemon Kid is a specialist at playing the (cow)boy hero role. Although he grew up idolizing Melon Kid, one of the toughest outlaw bandits on the American frontier, Lemon's innate sense of justice eventually wins out over his boyhood desire to emulate his anti-hero and leads him away from a life of crime. A celebrated sharpshooter and hero during the American Civil War, Lemon eventually finds himself pressed into service...

You are not a true comrade. After finding himself unable to keep up with the hellish fighting on the front lines of the war against the demon lord's army, Red is finally kicked out of the Hero's party. Ashamed of his inadequacy, he moves to a distant frontier region where nobody would know his face or past. However, once he gets over the funk of having to leave his adventuring days behind, he's actually excited to begin a quiet life as an apothecary...

"In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history. Abraham Lincoln was White, born impoverished on a frontier farm. Frederick Douglass was Black, a child of slavery who had risked his life escaping to freedom in the North. Neither man had a formal education, and neither had had an easy...

10 Page Free Sample A legend even in his own time. This classic tale is based on the true story of a kindhearted woodsman who planted thousands of apple seeds from Pennsylvania to Indiana. The real Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman in a small village in Massachusetts. When he was a young man, he set off for the western frontier and along the way collected bags of apple seeds from cider mills. As John Chapman's apple orchards grew in number,...

"A rousing, suspenseful debut novel--True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can--based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history. Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of...

An adventurous diplomat's "engrossing and often darkly humorous" memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions...

An American frontier hero! Davy Crockett wasn't just a frontier survivalist and expert hunter, he was also a soldier and an American Congressman. While alive, Davy inspired the adventurous spirit, not only of American patriots, but people around the world. His legend and inspiration has lived on for over a century and a half. Classics Illustrated presents the true biography of Davy Crockett. Learn how this young run-away survived alone in the wilderness...

"From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE...