Making Of America Books
First in the new series -- The Making of America. — The Indians called in Kan-Ta-Ke ("Beautiful Meadow") but to the pioneers who made their way to Kentucky over the Wilderness Road in the 1770's it was "The Dark and Bloody Ground" where American patriots still fought for their lives against redcoats and their savage allies thirteen years after the British surrender. Among these brave venturers were: Joe Floyd: At 20, a giant of a man, fleeing the terrible consequences of his own strength, searching for a new life and love... Two-Hearts: A "white Indian," captive of the Shawnee since childhood, torn between two worlds, honor-bound to war against the man she loves... Margaret Floyd: Gallant and beautiful, she fought side-by-side with her men against the wilderness--living in terror of the forbidden passion that raged within... Wo-Kan: Treacherous sub-chief of the Shawnee, sworn to have Two-Hearts in his tent--and Joe Floyd's scalp on his belt... Bold, passionate men and women....Wilderness Seekers.
It was the largest wagon train ever to leave Independence, and it was in trouble before it had traveled ten miles Westward. The chief scout chosen to guide the train was an inexperienced stripling and the leader was a fool. Among the diverse people aboard the Conestoga wagons were: a cold-blooded murderer, a 14-year-old wanton, an aristocratic lady with a stolen treasure, a mulatto with a secret white lover -- and one wily and powerful man who had sworn the wagons would never get through.
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Paperback is a fictional account of the making of the Transcontinental Railroad.
"America's purchase of Alaska from Russia, called "Seward's Folly" after the Secretary of State who masterminded the negotiations, drew a raging army of speculators, thieves, dreamers, prostitutes and gamblers, when word came of a gold strike in the Klondike. Among them was the tall, muscular young man who gave his name as Bryan Mathews, whom the Eskimo women called "the Man-God." Baroness Irina Feodorovna and her equally spectacular daughter, Milla, wanted Mathews for entirely different reasons. Milla saw him as the love of her life. Irina saw him as a key - not only to unlock the pent-up passions of her magnificent body, but as a key through which she could control and rule the secret riches of this frozen kingdom called Alaska."
Three generations of men and women grapple with the dangers and destiny of the Eldorado of the Far West.
In the 1800s the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers were the great roadway that bore men and women westward in search of wealth, glory, a new life. The path was turbulent, dangerous, often deadly.The people who traveled it were there were heroes, heroines, murderers and betrayers. Among these were two young and lovely women, Georgia and Clarissa and two men of mystery, Eaton and Casey. Their private destinies were profoundly entwined with America's Westward thrust.For this volume, "Lee Davis Willoughby" is actually author Greg Hunt.
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Some spine creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a piece of tape on top, spine edge and a crease along that edge. Front inside page has an initial and "running man" stamp. Back cover page has some creasing and a small tear on top edge, bottom left corner has a small crease. Dated 1st printing, March 1981. Very intact and no other marks other than stated. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!
Dell/Bryans #03628, 1981. Stated First Printing in VG+ condition. Toning to the page margins. 1" diagonal crease at the lower left corner of the rear wrapper. Cover by Greg Theakston. Lou Cameron writing as Lee Davis Willoughby. The Making of America #15.
"In the chaos that followed the Civil War, a turbulent tide of men and women surged across the Mississippi to escape the unspeakable horrors of a broken and humiliated South. Some chose to cast their lot in the sprawling raucus mining town of Virginia City. Among them was the beautiful half-breed, Yvonne Beaunais and her daughter Tangaree. Yvonne's burning ambition was to provide her daughter with the education that would open up the tantalizing new world of medicine that had been denied her. Together they administered their healing herbal remedies to the sick and dying. Together they defied the threats of Matthew Lassiter, who ran Virginia City like a fiefdom. And together they fought against heavy odds to improve the quality of living in a brutal frontier town - and sought their own private fulfillment in love and life."
On a journey West following the Civil War Birdwell Jacobs gallantly fights Indians and meets and falls in love with the beautiful Jody Robb
"In the turbulent years of the nineteenth century, men and women came to Hawaii as settlers from mainland America, some bringing Bibles, some bringing bullets. They found an exotic world, ripe for salvation--and ravishment. Among the newcomers was the rugged Yankee sea captain, Lorrin O'Lee. Caught between the lure of a sensual American heiress and the excessive love of a native princess, he was swept into a whirlwind of intrigue and violence that would forever change the face of the land whose most abandoned sinners called Paradise."
# 19 in the bestselling series, THE MAKING OF AMERICA. On both sides of the border in the 1840's, there were proud, passionate men and women willing to sacrifice their bodies and souls for the things they believed in. Among these bold, often reckless people was Joel Falconer, a young Texas fire-eater who joins an expedition aiming to conquer New Mexico and break through to Santa Fe. When he finds his young bride brutalized and slain be a mystery man named El Diablo, he embarks on a crusade of revenge that changes for all time the face of the West.
Fierce and reckless men, Proud and passionate women-- These were The Boomers In the year 1853, in primal Washington Territory, two pioneer logging camps were carved out of the remote and trackless wilderness. There, men and women alike were caught up in a struggle of titans... RANDALL: a big man who dreamed big dreams, while haunted by a dark secret from his Boston past... YORK: driven by demonic inner fires, and a lust to build an empire by fair means or foul... BERYL: a blonde temptress with a will of iron, and one all-consuming passion... MELANIE: destiny's daughter--in her veins mingled the blood of savages and kings...
John Faust, huge and powerful, a sometime bareknuckle prize-fighter, ready to mortgage his soul for the black gold locked beneath the hardscrabble Texas soil - ready to destroy his own son for the one woman that could never be his. Brom Torgeson, deadly as a rattlesnake, he struck it rich early in the game, but nothing would satisfy him until he has brought his sworn enemy, John Faust, to his knees - with the cruelest weapon ever fashioned by mortal man. Bryna Torgeson, elusive and beautiful, she ruled these mighty men, giving her body to the son and her promise to the father - but always holding back the one thing more precious than the black treasure that drove men mad with desire.
The animosity between Roger Bernard and Antoine Rolande over Rosalie Despres starts a long and bitter rivalry between the two families
On their journey into destiny there were heroes, heroines -- and breakers of the last taboo...From the moment in 1846 when the Donner-Reed wagon train set out from Springfield, Illinois, the men, women and children of the party suffered from a plague of bad luck. There was illness, inept leadership and bitter feuding.By the time they reached a certain storm-battered mountain pass in the high Sierras, all the ingredients of horrifying tragedy were in place. There were heroes, such as the patriarch, George Donner, and the bold young mountainman, thornbird. There were heroines, such as tiny, spirited Tamsen Donner and the bewitching Liza Williams. But there was also among them a madman, a murderer -- and those accursed ones who, when disaster, starvation and death struck, would break the last human taboo.
Sons and daughters of the aristocracy of old New Orleans, they fought and loved in a world waiting to destroy them.
Two men, who settled illegally in the Oklahoma Territory, fight to keep from losing their land when the area is officially opened to settlers
A LAND WITHOUT LAW Some called it "justice," others called it "murder," but in the wild territory that was California in 1849, vigilante law was the only law there was. At the height of gold rush fever, two beautiful young women, Katie and Abbie Larkin, struggle to forge a happy life for themselves in this roughest frontier of the West - a land as rich in peril as it is in promise. As California begins to swarm with homeless dreamers and n'er-do-wells, vigilantes - some good men and some evil - join together to battle the forces of chaos in this land without law. Two of these men, Isaac Davis and Albion Jordan, become rivals for the love of Abbie Larkin, and find themselves caught up in a revolutionary bloodbath - a towering conflict that will forever change the face of the Far West. For this volume, "Lee Davis Willoughby" is actually author Ward Damio.
"1860: The Pony Express ran on the sweat and blood of headstrong young trailblazers. Fighting hostile Indians and greedy white man alike, the Express Riders forged a perilous trail as they carried the U.S. Mail through the untamed wilderness from Missouri to California."
An action adventure novel set in Tennessee.
Montana in the 1880' a wild, lawless land with men and women to match. Big Ben Foster, the only Harvard-bred horse wrangler west of the Missouri, arrived in Montana driving a string of horses for delivery to the U.S. Cavalry and found himself in a mountain of trouble. First, there was the dude with the spectacles they called Four Eyes, a Harvard classmate of Ben's also known as Teddy Roosevelt, whose boundless energy and faith in mankind was leading him into a trap set by a cabal of evil men headed by a mystery man named Mike Dwyer. Then there was bull-neck Charlie Bowen, drawing Ben Foster into a bloody conflict that was none of his affair. And finally, there was Cindy, the tomboy who hid her cloud of red hair under a Stetson, wilder and more untameable that the wildest mustang Ben Foster had ever tangled with.
THE PASSION, THE PROMISE -- AND THE PERIL Lovely spirited Beth Lowell scorned New York high society when in 1846, she jilted a fabulously wealthy bachelor in favor of one Michael Porter, a charming adventurer bound for the wilderness of California. Defying the will of her family, the blonde beauty with the flashing, green eyes joined the man she loved on his trek to the Far West. The journey held both pleasure and sorrow for Beth. There was the joy of motherhood, but also great personal loss. In Antelope Valley, Baja, she found her fate closely intertwined with that of Rancho Cielo and the part-Anglo, part Mexican Porter clan. There was the proud matriarch, Luz, whose authority was not to be questioned; there was the raven-haired temptress, Carmen, whose flery, sensuous beauty no man could resist; and there was Michael's mysterious half-brother, Joe Porter, with whom Beth was to become deeply involved. These and others, some good and some evil, would lead Beth Lowell to her rendezvous with a unique destiny: the discovery of a closely guarded, century-old secret that alone could keep Rancho Cielo in the hands of the proud Porter family.
Thirty-fourth novel in the bestselling series "The Making of America".
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Iron men, wooden ships and a fiery young woman -- all driven toward a turbulent destiny.
As copper fever raged in Montana, a cowboy and a big-city lawyer discovered a fortune -- and a red-headed beauty beyond compare.
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Independence, Mo., 1832: Two Mystery Women Join a Band of Trail Blazers Headed Westward into Danger... A large party of trappers and adventurers led by Captain Ben Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, and guided by the legendary frontiersman Joe Walker, left Independence in search of a new way West. Well-supplied, their venture was full of promise-but strangely dogged by conflict and bad luck. Young Gabe McCain, who had the only maps of the unknown land beyond, ran afoul of the arrogant Drummond Stewart, a wealthy easterner who'd helped to finance the journey-and found himself locked in a fierce blood-feud with a dangerous renegade named Ned Tankard. When the party was joined by a mysterious white woman and her beautiful half-Indian daughter, the stage was set for calamity, as the warring Bonneville wagon train headed into the hostile, uncharted West.
Mysteriously called home from abroad by his family, Clay Monroe begins work with Harvel Packer, a wealthy speculator, and eventually learns the truth about his family's past
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A rough-and-ready clan, they fought as they loved -- passionately -- to protect their people and their hard-won land.
After Billy the Kid and Mark Halloran rescue what’s left of the Nesbitt family from an Apache attack in the New Mexico Territory, the fate of the young daughter and the teen-age boy are sealed. Tessa’s attracted to Mark and Ezra suffers a severe cause of hero-worship over Billy, wanting to be just like him. Soon all of them are involved in the cruelest range war in the history of the West--the bloody Lincoln County war. How can Tessa protect her brother from trailing after Billy? And how can she be drawn to a man who is on the opposite side of this range war? Note: Lee Davis Willoughby was a pseudonym used to write the American historical fiction multi-author series 'The Making of America'. Jane Toombs was one of several authors who wrote for the series under the pseud.
