The Cherokee tribe under the leadership of the visionary chieftain John Ridge struggles to cope with the vast influx of American settlers into what was once their homeland, an invasion that leads to a devastating war that culminates in the infamous Trail of Tears. Original.

Oblivion's Altar:: A Novel of Courage

Literature & Fiction

Wilkinson, David Marion

United States

NAL Trade

One Ranger: A Memoir: Library Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Jackson, H. Joaquin

Professionals & Academics

Blackstone Pub

When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. He was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movie Extreme Prejudice, and he even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin--a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace--one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what is was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson's incredible, dramatic story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state.

One Ranger: A Memior

Blackstone Audiobooks

One Ranger: A Memoir

Business & Money

Orphaned at an early age and cheated out of his rightful inheritance, a young man seeks his fortune in a Texas settlement. He eventually courts and marries the daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher, joining their powerful family despite his being an anglo. But when a Comanche warrior swears vengeance against both the Mexican and white settlers for crimes against his people, a clash of cultures begins. And two men will wage war to see that their culture survives. Praise for Not Between Brothers: "[A] well-crafted, gripping first novel...Wilkinson is a gifted storyteller who brings Texas history to life with a tale rich and adventure and high emotions."-- Publishers Weekly This is simply thie best historical novel about Texas published in more than a decade."-- Review of Texas Books (Editor's Choice)

Not Between Brothers: An Epic Novel of Texas

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Boaz Pub

Remy Fuqua and Kills White Bear stalk each other across the Texas prairie against the backdrop of the battle for Texan independence

WILKINSON, DAVID

Contemporary

The Cherokee tribe under the leadership of the visionary chieftain John Ridge struggles to cope with the vast influx of American settlers into what was once their homeland, an invasion that leads to a devastating war that culminates in the infamous Trailof Tears.

Oblivion'S Altar (Thorndike Press Large Print Western)

Thorndike Press

Kah-nung-da-tla-geh-the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge-was born with one foot in each of the two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors, the great Cherokee Nation, who once settled across the lower plains, their culture flourishing, their position secure. But the arrival of the white man changed life as the Ridge knew it forever, ushering in a new world of forced change, war, death, and misery. It was the Ridge's visionary leadership that led the Cherokee into the future as one nation-with a culture at once unique and adaptable to the white man's. But as the white tide continued to flood the plains, the Ridge's judgment would be questioned, tested, and ultimately flung aside in favor of war-and his contribution to the survival of the Cherokee Nation forgotten on the infamous Trail of Tears. Until now . . .

Oblivion's Altar

Goldminds Publishing

Jesse Reverchon is desperate to fix things. A ruptured marriage and a slumping literary reputation compel Jesse to a leap of faith. He transplants his corporate wife, Rebecca, and snarky adolescent son, Travis, to the far reaches of West Texas-the mythic Big Bend. Jesse's attempts to acclimate from urban sophistication to Alpine, Texas yield mixed and often comic results as his turbulent personality clashes with the cantankerous, wind-blown eccentrics rooted to the stark, desert mountains as stubbornly as its scrub mesquite. While Rebecca invests herself into a challenging remodel of the ramshackle family home with the same ambition that built her investment capital firm, Jesse shirks small town contractors and his stalling novel to coach his son's little league baseball team, which consists mostly of alienated, fatherless boys. The obsessive commitment he makes to any project leads to conflict with parents, rival coaches, and most every cowboy he encounters, but especially with the local baseball commissioner, the fiery, free-spirited artist and bar owner, Luz Reyes. Her temperament reflects the daily thunderstorms that drown out the team's much-needed practices until even Jesse realizes he's finally met his match-unless he considers his long-suffering wife. Rebecca expects a return on her investments, and her biggest stake is in her novelist husband's dimming career, which is not paying off and she's rapidly running out of patience. Tension builds as the "clouds like cathedrals" mass each day over the mountains. As Jesse's hopes blanche beneath the glaring sun and shearing winds of the Chihuahuan Desert, he is also haunted by a family curse-the howling "black dog" that once preyed upon his ruined father. Isolated, confused, frustrated, and now in total fear, Jesse stumbles back into more self-destructive patterns. His personal life crumbles like the basalt bluffs that tower around him, plunging him headlong toward devastating tragedy and loss in the all-or-nothing battle for redemption in a wild and harsh landscape where the mountains are thieves.

Where the Mountains are Thieves

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Oblivion's Altar:: A Novel of Courage

One Ranger: A Memoir: Library Edition

One Ranger: A Memior

One Ranger: A Memoir

One Ranger: A Memoir

Not Between Brothers: An Epic Novel of Texas

Not Between Brothers: An Epic Novel of Texas

Oblivion'S Altar (Thorndike Press Large Print Western)

Oblivion's Altar

Where the Mountains are Thieves