They looked impressive in their red tunics, but the members of the fledgling North West Mounted Police had little experience as they departed from Fort Garry in 1874 on a mission to bring order to the lawless territories west of the Red...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:
- Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:
The far-ranging officers of the BC Provincial Police covered an area larger than California, Oregon, and Washington combined. In Yukon, a force of nineteen Mounties were charged with upholding the law across all of Arctic Canada. Set in...
- Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:
Gold rush fever in the 1860s brought thousands of miners to the new territories of British Columbia and the Yukon armed with rifles, revolvers, and bowie knives. Among them were thugs and outlaws lured by the promise of easy riches....
- Auteur:Conwell, KentSommaire:
Jake Slade and his partner, Three-Fingers Bent, arrive in a small Texas town with plans to start up a stagecoach way station. But when Bent is accused of murder, Slade's got to find the real culprit before his friend's day in the...
- Auteur:GREY, ZaneSommaire:
A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians, and Lewis Wetzel (known by the Indians as Death Wind) with his partner Jonathan Zane set out in pursuit, with little hope of survival.
- Auteur:GREY, ZaneSommaire:
"He'd rope the devil and tie him down-if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of Buffalo Jones, one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion...
- Auteur:Rivers, FrancineSommaire:
She's new to this lawless mining town. He's one of its most prominent citizens. Neither wants much to do with the other. At first. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas,...
- Auteur:Martel, SuzanneSommaire:
Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award. Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler...
- Auteur:SCHAEFER, JackSommaire:
After his parents died, young Ben Hammon came to western Colorado where his uncle Scott was a small-town lawman. Ben had much to learn, especially about the Kean family. A classic short novel and six great tales of the Old West from the...
- Auteur:Cameron, AnneSommaire:
Anne, a fourteen-year-old runaway, befriends a prostitute and together they cross the Canadian frontier in search of a home.
- Auteur:Lunn, Janet Louise SwobodaSommaire:
"The third novel in the trio that began with 'The Root Cellar' and 'Shadow in Hawthorn Bay.' This is the unforgettable tale of a young girl who escapes to Canada during the American Revolutionary War, who will...
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
JOHNSTONE'S AMERICA. THE GOLD STANDARD. From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes a blazing new saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen ... THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Translated from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta. The letters provide first-hand accounts of the preparations to immigrate...
- Auteur:Walker, JamesSommaire:
Zach Cobb is haunted by bitter Civil War memories, but his fighting experience makes him a formidable Wells Fargo agent. When a series of payroll holdups rocks the Mojave Desert, Zach follows a trail deep into the criminal underworld....
- Auteur:Ritter, John H.Sommaire:
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion...
- Auteur:Anderson, Frank W.Sommaire:
Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a gruelling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for...
- Auteur:Weir, IanSommaire:
The return of the western - with a definite Canadian twist. The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend. The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy. In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother...
- Auteur:Jennings, JohnSommaire:
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel...
- Auteur:Mulford, Clarence E.Sommaire:
Hopalong Cassidy is an iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, but immortalized in a series of films starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in the print novels, Cassidy was remade...
- Auteur:Laut, Agnes C., French, DianaSommaire:
Agnes C. Laut’s The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed...