Big Men, Big Country

Big Men, Big Country
Author: Paul Robert Walker
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9780613243599

A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786220038

The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland

The Big Ranch Country

The Big Ranch Country
Author: J. W. Williams
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.

The Big Country

The Big Country
Author: Quinton Peeples
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1643377426

A gritty Western standoff between a cop and a murderer.

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Author: Keir Martin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857458736

In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

War Party

War Party
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 055390017X

Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . . Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight—a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold—knowing that someone wanted him dead. . . . Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure on the frontier. But when the chips were down, she was the only one who could save her husband's life. . . . In these marvelous stories of the West, Louis L'Amour tells of travelers, gunfighters, homesteaders, and adventurers: men and women making hard and sudden choices and fighting battles that could cut a person's life short—or open up a bold new future on the American frontier.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307390535

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

The Big Country

The Big Country
Author: Donald Hamilton
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1958
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780440108481

When Jim McKay buys the Crazy M ranch, he finds himself caught between two rival ranchers who want the land for themselves