Western United States

This is a collection of tales of the California Gold Rush era by the Western author, Bret Harte. It's a mix of local color, drama, and humor. Several film versions of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" have been made, and John Payne and Ronald Reagan starred in an adaptation of "Tennessee's Partner" in 1955. The spaghetti Western Four of the Apocalypse is based on "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp".

An Emmy Award-winning producer and the host of more than a dozen TV series, Jeff Corwin has spent his life working for the conservation of endangered species. Corwin’s Junior Explorer series shows kids that there are natural worlds of wonder all over the planet. In this adventure, Lucy, Benjamin, and Gabe go camping in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico—and there they find breathtaking sights that they’ll never forget.

San Francisco’s history precedes its name by several thousands of years. Though Europeans had settled in other parts of California much earlier, it wasn’t until 1769 that they stumbled upon the bay area. When the Spanish first arrived, they were floored by its natural beauty, which had been carefully maintained by its longtime residents, the Ohlone Indians.

Brokenhearted after losing the only woman he ever loved to another man, Reverend Joshua Holmes returns to England. Thirty years later, he is summoned to Willow Creek, Arizona. His rival has died, and his deathbed request is for Josh to marry Amanda and keep her safe from harm. But he fears she will not accept his steadfast love.

Dies ist Paul Austers sehr persönliche Abrechnung mit der Vergottung des Waffentragens in der amerikanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft. Er erzählt davon zunächst in biografischen Vignetten, beginnend bei den Spielzeugcolts der Kindheit und den Western im Fernsehen. Es folgen die ersten Einschläge im näheren Umfeld, der von der Großmutter erschossene Großvater - lange Zeit ein Familiengeheimnis, von dem Auster nur durch Zufall erfuhr.

Years ago, I left Clarkstown with a sourpuss on my face and better hopes for the future. But what I ended up with was extra baggage, in more ways than one, and even more reasons to leave. Now that I’m home, I’m not sure if Austin Walters looks at me with pity, hatred…or something else, as most of the townsfolk do. But when he figures out the real reason why I left, he looks at me in a different light. Even more importantly, he realizes more of what I need now that I’m back. And now I seem to look at him and everyone else differently, thanks to him.

The year is 1815. One October night in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia, Yip Tolroy is born, the cord snaked around his fragile neck, his skin a deathly white. As his mother still lies in the blood-slicked sheets and Yip takes his first gulps of air, his father disappears without trace. By the time Yip reaches his 15th year, he has not spoken a word—he is mute, friendless, an outcast. But his life is about to change irrevocably.

Mike Pence is an American politician who has been serving as the fiftieth governor of Indiana since January 2013. He is currently the vice president-elect of the United States and will take office in January 2017, entering history as the forty-eighth vice president of the United States. In 2008, Esquire magazine included Pence on its list of the ten best members of the Congress, after Pence had positioned himself among conservatives as an ideologue with strong principles. He was considered a viable Republican candidate for the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012. In September 2010, ...

When her society matron mother presents Caroline with a one-night stand date a week before her wedding, she's appalled. Even worse, the encounter will take place at the fantasy ranch resort operated by her high school lover, Javier Alvarado. Although determined to remain faithful to her fiancé, she's tempted and intrigued to see her first love again. It's not like she has to sleep with him. But one look and kiss later, she yearns for the man she walked away from so long ago.

Frontier Law follows the exploits of Texas Ranger Frank Sirocco when he rides into San Ysidro to investigate the murder of two colleagues. Up against a deadly band of killers, gunfighters and renegades, Sirocco will need all of his wits and guns to survive this one. Fortunately, help arrived from unexpected sources.

Tesoro Español.... encontrado? Russell Bricklin "Bric" Wahl es el tipo de persona que cada vecino de Cayo Hueso conoce y cada turista quiere ser. Relajado, bronceado y muy cómodo con sigo mismo, es el típico isleño que se sienta junto a ti en Schooner Wharf y te deja que le compres una cerveza. Bric es un ex-Navy Seal, oriundo de Cayo Hueso, cazador de tesoros como profesión y ha estado buscando una fortuna en oro y plata en los Cayos de la Florida toda su vida.

In 1836, John McGregor, a Scottish and Seminole half-breed, kills a white man in Florida. The crime is worse, when the man turns out to be an army sergeant. Self-defense is no excuse. McGregor is angry - angry with God, the maker and taker of breath, and angry with the red man as well as the white. Among the Indians, this rage earns him the name "One Who Gives No Chance".

The Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.