Wayne D Overholser
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
218 p.
Language
English
Description
Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p.
Language
English
Description
From a three-time Spur Award-winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man.
Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000 is stolen.
Mark heads out onto the empty plain where he encounters Bronco Curtis, a man who knows what he wants, and Curtis befriends the young orphan. When Curtis...
10) Sun on the wall
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
11) The trouble kid
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
185 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
184 p.
Language
English
Description
It was while Neal Clark was in the gunsmith's shop that the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank. Neal rushed out of the shop with his rifle, took aim, and fired, repeatedly, killing Buck Shelly and his son Luke Shelly. He may also have wounded Ed Shelly, a teenage boy, who was holding the horses. Ed Shelly made good his escape, but was believed to be mortally wounded. That's what Neal thought until he received a letter from Ed Shelly, declaring...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
164 p.
Language
English
Description
A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town.
Angel's Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. But the boom was long ago, and now the town is a whisper of what it once was. Mark Girard was a young boy when he witnessed firsthand what happened to a town when all of its residents vanished. It was a simple, quiet life that Mark had chosen to lead, and he and his closest friends much...