H. H. Lomax never intended to accompany Jesse James on his first bank robbery, but that was less dangerous than staying with Ma James and her frying pan. By then, though, young Lomax had survived everything Union soldiers and Confederate partisans could throw at him and his family during the Civil War in northwest Arkansas.
With his sixth sense-humor-the resourceful Lomax recounts his Civil War adventures, ranging from his first encounter with nemesis Jesse James to his first love. Along the way he finds a fortune, buries a brother, confronts the meanest bushwhacker in Arkansas and survives on his wits with a little help from an abandoned Army mule.
Conveying his narrative with both wit and poignancy, Lomax offers a fresh perspective on the legend of Jesse James and the dark days of the Civil War and its aftermath in the Ozarks. Things might have turned out differently, if only Jesse had listened to Lomax. At least that’s what the rascal Lomax says as one of the greatest storytellers-or most accomplished liars-of the Old West.
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H.H. Lomax never claimed to have won the West, but he sure made it fun through his intriguing memoirs of offbeat encounters with many of the frontier’s most enduring heroes and scoundrels. Starting with Billy the Kid, Lomax knocks some of the Old West’s biggest legends out of the saddle with both his wit and his wits, providing a hilarious romp over new trails through familiar territory. After a murky incident involving the killing of a Colorado lawyer, Lomax rides into New Mexico Territory in 1877 astride his mule Flash and soon finds himself roped into a band of rustlers until Billy the Kid drafts Lomax as the first member of his own gang. Though their trails soon part, Lomax and the Kid cross paths time and again as each in his own way navigates the corruption and violence of the Lincoln County War. Each survives until they both take a liking to the same hot-tempered señorita. At least that’s how Lomax tells the story! Whether you believe him or not, Lomax is sure to entertain anyone who takes up his trail of calamity and hilarity as he stumbles across some of the biggest names of the Old West.
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A white buffalo held sacred by the Comanches tells of her struggle to help ensure the survival of her kind in Texas.
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Old Blue, Texas’ most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a mysterious old manuscript was discovered by Preston Lewis. Now Lewis shares the manuscript, Blue’s “autobiography,” with readers for the first time. In this story, we learn that a few great specimens like Old Blue built the cattle empire. As Blue puts it, “The cowboys who rode with me claim they did all the work. They’re wrong.” With Old Blue, Spur Award-winner Preston Lewis launches a new series. Also available, the second Animal Legends book – “Blanca is My Name: Or How I Saved the Buffalo on the Texas Plains.“
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A gripping story from the acclaimed People of the Plains saga — fascinating tales of the frontier told in all their shame and glory.
It is 1859. In Santa Fe, Army Captain Jean Benoit cannot escape the dark rumors of war filling Fort Marcy’s dusty air. The Louisiana-born soldier must soon decide: remain loyal to the Union Army or join with the Confederates of his native South. But before he can choose, Benoit is drawn into a battle far closer to home, a bloody conflict in which a beloved friend’s life hangs in the balance.
Traveling across the New Mexico Territory, Benoit’s trusted colleague, army surgeon Jason Dobbs, gets caught in a furious sandstorm. Blown off the trail into Comanche country, Dobbs is taken prisoner and tortured. Determined to save his friend, Benoit must ride hell-bent into danger setting aside the painful choice that awaits him …if he survives.
Read by J.R. Horne. J.R. Horne is a distinguished stage and screen performer.
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Captain Jean Benoit must beat out a group of bounty hunters to capture the Apache warriors who have attacked the wife of a U.S. senator in the New Mexico Territory before her husband arrives to raise hell. Original.
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Rubio Portillo, a Mexican living in San Antonio in 1835, joins the fight against the Mexican government for the independence of Texas, despite the disapproval of his own people. Original.
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If H.H. Lomax is to be believed, his toothache started the chain of events leading to the most infamous gunfight in all of the Old West. On top of that, he claims to have fired the first shot in the Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral. Whether rustling cats or tending bar, Lomax had a talent for making more enemies than friends. By the time of the shootout everyone–from the Earps to the Clantons and from Johnny Ringo to his own lawyer–is out to get him, and even Tombstone residents who don’t have a grudge with Lomax are placing bets on where he’ll get shot when all the scores are finally settled.
What Lomax lacks in luck, he offsets with pluck and even if he shades the truth here and there, he does so with a wry perspective that offers an insightful and humorous take on the people and events behind the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. When all the shooting finally stops, Lomax has only his malicious cat Satan for a friend, but at least he is able to ride out of Tombstone alive, unlike so many of the other players in the O.K. Corral saga. You can take Lomax’s word on it! Or can you?
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When Blake Corley’s luck turned colder than a Colorado winter, he knew he must leave Silverton to survive, even if it was the dead of winter. Agreeing to freight back to Durango the coffins of two dead payroll guards killed in a robbery, Corley takes with him a prostitute named Penny and a black laborer named Moses. What they don’t know is they are carrying more than just bodies—the actual haul from the fatal robbery. If Blake is to survive, he and his passengers must beat the frigid weather and outwit the robbers who take out after them to recover their ill-gotten gains. The race from Silverton to safety in Durango will require Blake’s wits and bravery as well as all the bullets he can find.
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