Jason Manning
Author
Series
Texas volume 1
Language
English
Description
"It was the worst nightmare come true for the fledgling Republic of Texas. The scattered Comanche bands have united into a mighty fighting force under a single great warrior chief and are sweeping over the vast Texas plains, avenging a massacre at the hands of the whites with a campaign of pure carnage. Sam Houston led Texans in the fight for independence from Mexico. Now he needs the assistance of the one man who has a chance of turning back the...
2) Texas bound
Author
Series
Texas volume 2
Language
English
Description
"They were men with nothing to live for - until they joine dthe fight for freedom. At a mission called the Alamo, Santa Anna's army wins a brutal victory-in a massacre that became a call to arms around the country. Brave men answered the call-Kentuckians and Cajuns, New Englanders and Tennesseans, all coming to the brawling land called Texas that was fighting for its independence from Mexico. Four men from Alabama, recruits in the volunteer Red Rovers,...
Author
Series
Falconer's volume 3
Language
English
Description
1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer - tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man - rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders surrounded by an angry mob bent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With the battle for Texas independence fought and won, and the Union being torn apart by civil war, a new threat has arisen on the border between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. John Henry McAllen hoped his fighting days were over. But when the corrupt sheriff of Brownsville is gunned down by a Mexican ex-soldier, Sam Houston - now the Texas governor - declares martial law. Yet another war is about to erupt, and McAllen's son Gideon is taken captive....
Author
Series
Falconer volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward. Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian...
Author
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the death of his wife, long-time fugitive Gordon Hawkes ventures away from his Rocky Mountain refuge to protect his beloved daughter, Grace, and her new husband as they take up a new post in hostile Cheyenne country.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Legendary mountain man Gordon Hawkes has fought hard for his independence from the "civilized" world, but when the U.S. government sends the Sioux to attack his adoptive tribe, the Crow, and Hawkes is captured in the raid, he faces the greatest challenge to his freedom yet.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Gordon Hawkes has spent the past decade living in the mountain wilderness with his wife and son. But now their seclusion from "civilization" is coming to an end as hundreds of settlers trek through the virgin territory seeking land of their own.
15) Promised land
Author
Series
Falconer volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary mountain man Hugh Falconer loved the high country, where he lived in splendid isolation. But when he has to save a wagon train of pioneers from slaughter at the hands of a half-breed killer and a marauding Pawnee war party, everything changes. The first blizzards of winter are sweeping down from the north as Falconer leads the people he has promised to protect-and a woman he can't help but want-into a secluded mountain valley to survive...
Author
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and "safe spaces,"...