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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... door. Another man, pistol drawn, jumped from his horse to the steps of the locomotive. The engineer and the fireman dutifully raised their hands. Four remaining gang members, spurring their horses hard, charged up and down the track bed ...
... door or get blown to hell!” The guards, much like the passengers, were unwilling to die for the Kansas Pacific. The door quickly slid open and they tossed their pistols onto the ground. Three of the robbers dismounted and scrambled ...
... door of the lead coach. A murmur swept through the passengers. The two men were instantly recognizable, their faces plastered on wanted dodgers from Iowa to Texas. Jesse and Frank James stood at the front of the car, brandishing cocked ...
... door and followed him out. Some moments later the gang mounted their horses and rode north from the railroad tracks. A smothered sun cloaked them in silty twilight. The passengers watched them in stunned silence. Then, as though a ...
... doors, where a quarter bought a slug of whiskey or a trip around the dance floor. The music blared amidst a swirl of jangling spurs and painted women. “Regular circus, ain't it?” the porter said, leading them past hitch racks lined with ...
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 |