Book Display Archive
November 25, 2006
Western Stories -- Historical Fiction -- Civil War.
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The Buckskin Line |
Buffalo Gordon |
Cannons of the Comstock |
The Tinner |
The Buckskin Line
Kelton, Elmer. (1999). The buckskin line (1st ed.). New York: Forge.
Named Corp Keywords
Texas Rangers -- History -- Fiction.
Geographic Keywords
Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Summary
A novel on the early days of the Texas Rangers when they were merely groups of low-paid cowboys, without badges, protecting ranches from Indians. The hero, Rusty Shannon, runs into a band of Indians which killed his family when he was a child.
-- Review from http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org
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Buffalo Gordon
Lewis, Sinclair J. P. (2001). Buffalo Gordon: the extraordinary life and times of Nate Gordon from Louisiana slave to Buffalo soldier (1st ed.). New York: Forge.
Descriptor Keywords
African American soldiers -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction.
Named Corp Keywords
United States. Army. Cavalry -- African American troops -- Fiction.
United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th -- Fiction.
Geographic Keywords
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Summary
The first novel in an ambitious new series, Buffalo Gordon is a fictional history of the West as seen through the eyes of runaway slave Nate Gordon. He has returned to Louisiana as Sergeant Major Nate Gordon of the Tenth United States Cavalry. His task is to recruit for the second U.S. colored cavalry, the Ninth Negro. Three years have passed since Nate left Louisiana and his life as a slave. The war is now over, and it is clear that the South has paid a heavy toll. Nate's former home is in ruins.
Where opulence and order once ruled, poverty, corruption, and crime now thrive. Resentful and disgruntled white Southerners want nothing to do with Nate and his stripes. Racist Union officers and noncoms only make his task more difficult. Nate struggles to quell dissent from the ranks and keep outside forces at bay as the Ninth Cavalry moves from the docks of Louisiana to the wide open West.
-- From the Publisher.
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Cannons of the Comstock
Thoene, Brock & Thoene, Bodie. (1992). Cannons of the comstock. Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers.
Descriptor Keywords
Frontier and pioneer life -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Fiction.
Geographic Keywords
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction.
Summary
California during the Civil War was neither as remote nor as uninvolved as may be thought. Because of rebel sympathizers stealing Union gold for the South, Tom Dawson's brother had already been killed in the mountains of Shadow Ridge, leaving behind a family and ranch in Tom's care. But was more at stake than anyone knew then? Book #5 in The Saga of the Sierras Series.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com
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The Tinner
Scott, Randall. (2004). The tinner. [Martinsville, Ind.]: Bookman Pub.
Descriptor Keywords
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Geographic Keywords
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Texas -- Fiction.
Summary
A fictional story of a young boy, Hoak Sawbuck, who at an early age joins the Union Navy in pursuit of adventure. Nearly killed and left for dead, a Confederate tinner, John Geupel, saves his life at the Battle of Galveston Bay in the American Civil War. When the battle reaches Galveston Island, a vast treasure of gold is unearthed, but it also unleashes a pirate’s curse. Hoak and John survive the war and go their separate ways. Then, a man is murdered in Palo Pinto, Texas - and by cruse or fate, the evidence points to Hoak. -- Review from http://www.amazon.com
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