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The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot. Vol. I (The Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout and Oudinot. #1)
By Pickle Partners Publishing, Arthur Bell, Général de Brigade, Baron Louis-François Lejeune, Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice. 2011
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reflowing text for an ebook reader. Amongst the many memoirs of the Napoleonic period, there are a number that stand out not just for their historical value, but also for their actual written style; however, in this sense Lejeune stands alone. He was by nature an artist and is still famous as a noted painter of scenes of battles, most of which he witnessed. As such his scenes are like his paintings, filled with evocative detail. The narrative in Vol. I runs from his earliest recollections of a chance encounter with Marie Antoinette to his joining the republican movement and a battalion of national volunteers. As the consulate dawns, we find him as an aide-de-camp with the army of reserve in 1800 and fought at the battle of Marengo. He was present at the battles of Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Landshut, Eckmühl, Aspern-Essling and Wagram. A substantial part of this volume revolves around the vicious and protracted second siege of Saragossa, which even in the Peninsular War stands out for the courage and fierceness of both sides. His treatment of the siege and the forces engaged is the best of its genre by some distance. Lejeune was witness to some of the great events of the Napoleonic period, and moved with the grace of a courtier through them, his eye catches the human actors in his pen portraits beautifully. Highly Recommended. Includes Linked TOC Text taken from book published by Longmans, Green and Co, London 1897 Author: Général de Brigade Baron Louis Franc ois Lejeune, (1775-1848;) Translator: Mrs Arthur Bell [D'Anvers, N.],( ????-1933 ) Foreword: Major-General Maurice, John Frederick, Sir, 1841-1912 Annotations - Pickle Partners PublishingThe Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
By Paul Radin. 2017
Sam Blowsnake (S.B.) was a member of the Winnebago tribe. In this autobiography, translated into English by Dr. Paul Radin,…
Crashing Thunder describes the life, ways, acculturation, and the peyote cult of his people. He tells about his brother-in-law the shaman, adolescence, initiation into the Medicine Dance, marriage and sexual proximity, entry into the white man’s world, traveling with a circus, alcoholism, desire to count coup, the ensuing murder of a Pottawattomie, trial and jail, and his release on a technicality.The Great Understander: True Life Story of the Last Wells Fargo Shotgun Express Messengers
By Oliver Roberts De La Fontaine. 2017
This is the true life story of Oliver Roberts de La Fontaine, who was the last of the Wells Fargo…
Shotgun express messengers. Taken from his notes and journals, the book tells of his days in the early West as a rancher, miner, saloon keeper, gambler, and lawman, including his adventures of coming into contact with stage robbers and other lawless persons in California and Nevada. Later in life, Roberts de la Fontaine came to “The Walter Method,” referring to its promulgator—and compiler of this book—William W. Walter as the “Great Understander.”“In arranging and compiling this true-life story, especial care has been taken to preserve the original wording of the narrative. No attempt has been made to embellish, enlarge or exaggerate the many thrilling experiences related by Mr. de La Fontaine. On the contrary, it is known to me that many of the experiences were far more dangerous and thrilling than explained in the diary, but Mr. de La Fontaine was as modest and good as he was brave and fearless.”A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water
By Carl Peters Benedict. 2017
Still wet behind the ears in 1894, Carl Benedict was “crazy to get away and work on the range.” In…
the summer, he hooked up with a big outfit called the Figure 8 to round up cattle in the Texas Panhandle. Out of that experience came this book, published fifty years later, about what it was really like to be a cowboy in some ornery country checkered by canyons and gyp water springs.A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water is all the more engaging for being unpretentious. During daily drives, the Kid learns how to ride, rope, brand, and hobble cattle and horses. The cowboys who teach him are not stereotyped or romanticized. Life on the range is too immediate and real to require Hollywood heroics. But every day brings drama: blockbuster fights of fierce wild bulls, treacherous river crossings with thousands of cattle in the water at once. Some nights bring thunderstorms and stampedes. And through it all those “cattle, horses, and also men who were not physically fit and healthy soon died or disappeared.”“One of the best books ever written on the Texas range.”—William S. Reese, Six Score: The 120 Best Books on the Range Cattle Industry.“Intelligence, [a] sense of humor, rightness of heart, observant sympathy for nature, and gentle sensitiveness [are] manifest throughout A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water.”—J. Frank Dobie.Whispering Range
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
When ranchers of Sundown formed a vigilante group to stamp out rustling, owner of the D Slash outfit, Dave Denver,…
refused to join. He wanted the rustling stopped as much as anyone, but there was no real evidence pointing to the Redmain gang. Besides, Denver hated mob rule. But when Denver’s best friend was killed in an outlaw trap, he led the D Slash to a war that ended up in Sundown where Denver and his men, Colts flaming in their fists, smashed Redmain’s attempt to burn and sack the entire town.Ernest Haycox, considered the dean among authors of Western fiction, also wrote Long Storm, Sundown Jim and The Wild Bunch.Trail Smoke
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
THE ECHOES OF A BULLET IN THE NIGHT MEANT BUCK SURRATT MUST KILL OR BE KILLED…FIGHT TO THE FINISHThey dropped…
their gun belts to fight it out another way. Buck Surratt knew his adversary had the strength of a rock-crusher. There was immense power in those ropy shoulder muscles, the girth of his neck, those thick wrists and fists, giving his arms the look of heavy-knobbed clubs. And yet Surratt goaded him, and so Bill Head threw himself across the room toward him. Surratt’s mind told him he had made another mistake. Head slammed terrifically into him and threw him against the wall. His skull struck the boards, his brain roared. Head’s fists were like axes chopping into his temples, driving daylight and memory out of him. Strength left his legs entirely, and thus blinded and stunned and momentarily helpless, he reached for Head’s waist and caught it to weather the storm…But that wasn’t to be the end of it…THE STRANGE WAYS OF A MAN’S LIFE always caught up with him, Buck Surratt realized, after he had crossed the desert to find ease and rest, there in the green forests of a new mountain world. But the ancient pattern of trouble was already cast upon even these hills, and he was once again trapped in the deadly pattern...At the start they told him he would have to work for Bill Head or go to jail. Or leave town—if he could, alive.The whole thing was going to lead him deeper and deeper into a perilous situation. And Judith Cameron, the girl with yellow hair who dressed in Levi’s, what part would she play in the curious setup?The famed Western novelist, whose over forty books have sold millions of copies in paperback—with many turned into highly popular films and adapted for TV.Rim of the Desert
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
THE LAW OF LEAD IN THE WESTThe Broken Bit boys shot Sheriff Ben Borders after the nesters and law-abiders had…
re-elected him. Old Ben lay dying on the courthouse steps with Jim Keene looking down at him.“You stayin’?” said Ben.“I’ll be staying,” said Jim.“Well, when you get to the other side of the hill—remember this, son—the only thing you’ll find there is just what you brought with you.”Jim Keene had ridden a thousand miles to get to Cloud Valley and away from trouble. He was a strong man and a fighting man, but he always took sides. He couldn’t help fighting for the underdog. And when he got to Cloud Valley he found that he couldn’t run away from himself.With the sheriff dead, there was no law. So Jim Keene dealt himself in on the fight—on the side of the weak—and shot his way to justice…Man in the Saddle
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
A master storyteller in the great tradition of Zane Grey and Louis L’AmourMAN IN THE SADDLE—He fought his way back…
from hell—alone!The combine drove Owen Merritt from his land, branding him a coward and a killer while forcing him into hiding. But they had made one drastic, fatal mistake: they had forgotten to kill him!HIGH TRAILS AND FAST HORSESIt was the gray first-dawn, and Owen Merritt was off the trail, halted on the edge of timber. Ahead of him stood the cabin where the Skull outfit’s chuck-wagon crew still slept. He dropped from the saddle and drew his rifle from its boot.There would be five or six men in the cabin and in another fifteen minutes they would be stirring. Merritt steadied his rifle against the side of a small pine, knowing what he had to do. When he pulled the trigger of the Winchester he said goodbye to the flat country. It would be high trails and fast horses, beans and bacon over a quick campfire, and fade away.He took aim on the high corner of the cabin window and let go.BOUGH COUNTRY-BLOODTHIRSTY MENThe combine was too big for Owen Merritt—too powerful and too ruthless. They drove him off his land. They branded him coward and killer. Then they shamed him before the only woman he ever wanted. So he went into hiding. The only thing was that he couldn’t get rid of the disgrace that lodged in his gut. Or the hunger for the vast cattle lands he had lost. With no choice Owen Merritt went back, because those scum had made one drastic mistake: they forgot to kill him!ERNEST HAYCOX IS ONE OF THE GIANTS IN THE WESTERN GENRE, RANKING WITH BESTSELLING AUTHORS LOUIS L’AMOUR AND ZANE GREY.Long Storm
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
HIS FAMOUS NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR—THE BLOODY STRUGGLE FOR THE RICHES OF THE WILD NORTHWEST AND THE DESPERATE FIGHT…
OF A MAN AND WOMAN TO HOLD IT FOR THE UNION.IN THE CIVIL WAR the Copperheads almost took over the state of Oregon. Big Adam Musick, river-boat pilot, went out to stop them.He caught Ringrose, the Copperhead leader, holed up in a dark warehouse beside the flooding river.“I came to get you, Ringrose,” Musick said.“God damn you!” Ringrose shouted. The floor jumped as his gun went off, and Musick felt the heat of the bullet. Then he tackled Ringrose around the knees and they went crashing together down the flimsy stairway into the waist-deep water.Musick was on top of his enemy, choking him, holding him under to drown. Ringrose was everything he hated. Then he remembered. This wasn’t just his fight. This was his country’s war and Ringrose should hang for a traitor, not die by one man’s hand.“LONG STORM—HAYCOX AT HIS BEST!”—The New York Times“The Old Frontier, the rough-and-ready life of the times—the historical novel at its best!”—BOSTON HERALDTHROUGH THE LONG STORM OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE FOUR SAVAGE YEARS THAT SPLIT THE UNION, THE RICH NORTHWEST WAS A DEFENSELESS PRIZE FOR EITHER NORTH OR SOUTHPortland, Oregon, was a town with five thousand inhabitants and fifty-five saloons, high-toned hotels and brothels, gaudy girl-shows and a fancy residential section, plank sidewalks and mud streets.Every day more gold prospectors poured into town, and with them came guns and secret agents from the Confederacy, supplies from the Copperheads who were determined to turn Oregon into a slave state. Only one man, Adam Musick, tough riverboat captain, saw the danger to the Union cause...Ernest Haycox, all-time great writer of the Old West, gives us this big, full-bodied novel, crammed with action and people...Mamma’s Boarding House
By John D. Fitzgerald. 2017
Mamma always had a way of treating everyone as a member of her own family, of giving warmth and comfort…
and love to people who had known little but loneliness and misfortune. And in the rugged Utah town of Adenville in the early years of this century, there were many who needed her compassion and generosity. So when Papa died and her own children were grown, it was natural for Mamma to open her home to others.Among her boarders were Sarah Martin, angular and tight-lipped, a schoolteacher who took to smoking cigars to win the man she loved...Alonzo Strang, a retired sea captain whose last heroic voyage was in a rowboat...the fastidious faro dealer, Floyd Thompson, who started going to church again so that he could stay at Mamma’s dining table...Mr. Hackett, Papa’s successor as editor of the Advocate, a bachelor so solitary he had almost forgotten how to live with others...and Judge Gibson, competing against the memory of a dead man for Mamma’s love.Continuing his family reminiscences from the best-selling Papa Married a Mormon, John D. Fitzgerald presents a spirited picture of a frontier community. Adenville was a town where a gunfighter shot out his last battle strapped to a lamppost...where the townspeople singing Rock of Ages saved a man from being lynched...where a red-headed artist won his sweetheart in a mad chase across the Utah desert...and where honest conniving staved off an Indian raid.There are moments of suspense as the townspeople rescue a child from his deranged grandfather...moments of hilarity as a pig named Beatrice the Beautiful plays the part of Cupid...moments of terror as a vicious bully menaces the entire town...and many scenes of warm and affectionate family life in Mamma’s boarding house.A poignant, humorous and exciting saga, illuminated by Mamma’s radiant generosity and tolerance, Mamma’s Boarding House is a worthy successor to the highly-praised Papa Married a Mormon.Bugles in the Afternoon
By Ernest Haycox. 2003
WAR DRUMS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER1875—throbbing war drums and distant signal fires told of deadly danger. The Sioux were gathering,…
moving in...That year Kern Shafter joined the sun-scorched Seventh Cavalry, a proud and bitter regiment led by an officer named Custer. That year Shafter met a woman he had to have—and a man he had to kill!Here is Ernest Haycox at his best, with an unforgettable drama of violence and high courage during the battle for the Western plains.A BLOOD-MADDENED INDIAN HORDE…A REGIMENT OF DOOMED MEN…TWO MEN SWORN TO HATED…and the woman they wanted…Here are the brawling, hard-bitten cavalrymen, the pounding excitement and raging passions of frontier men and their women. Here is silent kern Shafter’s fiery story, an epic of the plains told by the great Ernest Haycox.War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, Vol. II (War Memoirs of David Lloyd George #2)
By David Lloyd George. 2017
A personal account of World War I events, as told from the perspective of David Lloyd George, former Chancellor of…
the Exchequer (1908-1915), Minister of Munitions (1915-1916), Secretary of State of War (1916) and, towards war end, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1916-1922).“Mr. Lloyd George’s War Memoirs constitute a record of unfading historic interest….No one who wishes to be well informed about the Great War should fail to study them.”—Rt. Hon. Winston S. ChurchillSaddles East: Horseback Over the Old Oregon Trail
By Chaplain John W. Beard. 2017
Saddles East: Horseback Over the Old Oregon Trail, a book by the WWI ‘fighting chaplain,’ John W. Beard, was first…
published in 1949. It is an informal narrative of a horseback ride in modern times over the famous covered-wagon route of the pioneers. For countless ages the Red Man knew this trail. In the fullness of time the trapper, the mountain man, the fur trader found it and lived their life among its reaches. The seeker after gold hastened over it. The priest with the cross and the missionary with his Bible made it beautiful with their message of life and peace. The hardy pioneer and he eager emigrant traveled it into the land of their dreams. The pony express rider flashed his phantom; the Overland Stage rumbled by. The soldier built his forts. Who knows even a little of the story of the old trail and does not wish to know it all? Who has ever traveled over any part of the old trail and does not long to travel over all of it, even to its very end? Who has ever heard the story of wagons west, who does not want to take Saddles East and ride into the sunrise, as the pioneers rode into the sunset?They Die But Once: The Story of a Tejano
By James B. O’Neil. 2017
Here is an utterly new departure in biography of the Old West. Writing in the hangered, hard-boiled style made famous…
by Hemingway and O’Hara, James B. O’Neil has succeeded in transferring the color and idiom of the wild and roaring days of the West to the printed page. They Die But Once is authentic biography—the life story of Jeff Ake, last of the Western gunfighters and vaqueros—yet because of the facility with which the author has translated the spirit of the period into language attuned to the twentieth century, the story moves with all the breathtaking speed of a current gangster thriller. O’Neil discards all the saccharine sentimentality that has clouded the real West of the seventies and presents Jeff Ake’s story in the sharp, biting understatement of contemporary prose.With the reek of a Texan prison camp in his nostrils, Jeff Ake rode, rampant unreconstruction in his heart, away from the looted Federal Treasury in Austin, with three hundred of Price’s army, into Mexico, where he joined Porfirio Diaz’s bodyguard. Back he came, with horse-trappings of human Comanche-hide and six-guns blazing, to enter the bloody range wars. Hell-bent-for-leather, he rode up and down the range, while pistols barked their staccato tale of sudden death.In They Die But Once, you will find the reason why Pat Barrett died; the sad tale of the bullet of Billy the Kid; the true cause of John Wesley Hardin’s capture. Bill Longley, Jim Gillett, John Ringo, Kit Carson, Jesse and Frank James, General Custer, Gene Rhodes and Roy Bean (“The Law West of the Pecos”) live and fight and love and die in the thrill-studded pages of They Die But Once. You who have read and not quite believed Clarence Mulford and William Patterson White, hear and know: What they told is only what they dared tell, Jeff Ake tells even more—and can prove a lot of it!Why the North Star Stands Still, and other Indian Legends
By William R. Palmer. 2017
No one knows how old the charming legends in this unusual book really are. By word of mouth they have…
been handed down from generation to generation among the Pahute Indians, one of the most ancient and primitive tribes on this continent, who settled centuries ago in what is now the state of Utah.In the main, the legends tell of the origin of all living things—which to the Indian includes the trees, the flowers and grass, the wind, the water, the moving clouds that suddenly darken into storm over the mountains, as well as man and the animals of this earth. They also tell why living things behave as they do.Here, for example, is the Pahute version of why the sun rises cautiously, why the coyote looks up when he howls, how the beaver lost the hair on his tail, how the flowers got their colors, and of many more interesting phenomena. In language of great beauty and simplicity the stories explain how the Pahute gods, Tobats and his younger brother Shinob, created the earth and ruled all its inhabitants.The author, William R. Palmer, who was taken into the tribe as a token of gratitude for his work in securing better living conditions for the dwindling number of Pahutes in Utah today, listened to the legends as they are still related around Pahute campfires. At last (and only after his Indian brothers were certain he would not misinterpret them) he obtained their permission to translate the stories into English and so to make a book of them.Here then is a rare collection in which young and old alike are sure to find hours of enjoyment. This book makes a significant contribution to that all-too-scant segment of our literature—the folk tales of the first Americans.For this and other historical contributions Dr. Palmer was given the highest recognition of an honorary doctorate degree by Utah State University.California Indian Folklore
By Frank F. Latta. 2017
California Indian Folklore, which was first published in 1936, is a fascinating book, well written, and full of interesting first…
hand lore of California’s Yokuts Indians. It is because Frank Latta was able to interview the last of the old tribal leaders that this book exists. Latta’s expertise in gaining information from the Yokuts has enabled us to preserve, in writing, some of their heritage.California Indian Folklore is a valuable resource on the life of the Yokuts of the San Joaquin Valley. The Yokuts, overall, were a happy people who made admirable use of the natural resources that surrounded them. It would make excellent first person quotes for exhibits or school study, even at the elementary level. The reader who has an interest in early California native ways will enjoy this historic volume.Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier
By J. Evetts Haley. 2017
This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region…
drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley’s unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian, from San Antonio and Austin to the border of New Mexico.It could have been written only by a man familiar by personal acquaintance with the location of every water hole and spring, the exploration of every trail from Coronado’s to the Overland Mail, the great cattle drives of the seventies and eighties, the establishment of every military post, and the shifting Indian policies of the United States from the annexation of Texas to the final retirement of the Comanches to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Haley has an intimate knowledge of hundreds of salty characters who played their picturesque roles in transforming the land from nature to civilization.Haley possesses all this equipment—gained from intensive study, personal experience, and thoughtful reflection—for writing a vivid story. Five previous books and unnumbered articles on phases of the region contribute to the facility with which he tells this stirring tale and account of its comprehensiveness. It is no less than a history of West Texas in its heroic age.Alder Gulch
By Ernest Haycox. 2017
BLAZIN’ JUSTICEVirginia City, Montana. Gold fever struck hard in 1863, with miners pannin’ for nuggets up and down the length…
of nearby Alder Gulch. But a gang of guntoughs was ridin’ them roughshod. With the law lookin’ the other way, the sidewinders dealt out hot lead for a man shippin’ his poke or even carryin’ gold dust for his grubstake.Jeff Pierce had been on the hard dodge since Portland, until he staked his claim at Alder Gulch. As a favor, he carried another miner’s poke through the forty miles of danger to Bannack, only to find that the scummy gunhawks had filled the old-timer with buckshot. Now the varmints had Pierce as a marked man. The gang was fixin’ for a showdown, but they’d be a mite less cocky if they knew the charge he was up for—murder!“Ernest Haycox is a master and ALDER GULCH is one of his best.”—Dallas Times HeraldAnnie Oakley: Woman at Arms, A Biography
By Courtney Riley Cooper. 2017
Not long ago, Annie Oakley died, and bequeathed to the famous comedian, Fred Stone, her diaries and personal papers. Adding…
to personal knowledge, Courtney Ryley Cooper, well-known author and friend of Buffalo Bill, has written a splendid biography.It is a true American epic—the story of a pioneer, who as a little girl was forced to forage with her gun in order that her family might not starve, and who eventually became, with Buffalo Bill, internationally famous as a trick marksman, the idol of youth and the darling of royalty.Rough and Tumble: An Autobiography of a West Texas Judge
By William Paul Moss. 2017
This is the autobiography of West Texas judge William Paul Moss, which was first published in 1954, and predominantly explores…
his youthful adventures on his ranches in Texas and New Mexico, where he loved to raise cattle and hunt. Judge Moss describes his life as having consisted of three parts: cattle, law, and oil. In describing his job as a judge, he portrays himself as a conscientious lawyer and judge and proclaims his love for his adopted city and state, observing that “the judge passes upon all questions of law, subject to the right of appeal to the appellate courts.” His jurisdiction included both civil and criminal matters. Though not required by law he would appoint lawyers for those who could not afford them. Moss believed that a judge should try “to make his courthouse into a temple of justice” and he believed this involved keeping his mind “on the spirit of the law rather than its technicalities.” He observed: “A country judge is, in many respects, like a country lawyer. He has to know a little bit about everything. There are times when he may not even know much about the law.”