The Wild OnesSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 07/01/2002 - 277 páginas In the 1870s the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought Plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep. |
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... Abilene just seems like the end of the earth. I feel as though we've been . . . banished.” “Nonsense,” Fontaine gently admonished her. “We will take Abilene by storm, and our notices will have New York clamoring for our return. You mark ...
... Abilene, Kansas, the major railhead for shipping Texas cattle. Whatever was to be learned of their destination was to be found in the pages of the Police Gazette. Abilene was reported to be the wildest town in the Wild West. Today ...
... Abilene, for all her father's cheery bluster, hardly seemed to her a grand adventure. The middle of nowhere sounded a bit more like it. She, too, wished for New York. The train hurtled through the hamlet of Sweet Springs. Coupled to the ...
... Abilene's nothing like that.” Lillian turned to her father. “Oh, Papa, you were wonderful!” “Yes,” Fontaine agreed. “I surprised myself.” Twilight slowly faded to dusk. Fontaine stared off at the shelterbelt of woods where the riders ...
... delayed reaction, he sank down into his seat. Yet he thought he would remember Frank James with fondness. It had been the finest performance of his life. (HMPTER! ABILENE WAS situated along a dogleg of the Smoky IO MATT BRAUN.
Índice
CHAPTER 14 | 141 |
CHAPTER 15 | 153 |
CHAPTER 16 | 165 |
CHAPTER 17 | 177 |
CHAPTER 18 | 189 |
CHAPTER 19 | 201 |
CHAPTER 20 | 213 |
CHAPTER 21 | 225 |
CHAPTER 9 | 85 |
CHAPTER 10 | 97 |
CHAPTER 11 | 107 |
CHAPTER 12 | 119 |
CHAPTER 13 | 129 |
CHAPTER 22 | 237 |
CHAPTER 23 | 249 |
CHAPTER 24 | 261 |
Epilogue | 273 |