DescriptionThe Wild West offers an introduction to WordTheatre's comprehensive survey of the literature inspired by the West. This vital genre has, for the past 150 years, shown us who we are by reflecting the struggles of individuals facing a lawless frontie…
DescriptionWhen General William T. Sherman commissions Ezra Justice to form a secret band of cavaliers who will help end the war between the North and South, his order may impact the West as well. Justice gathers a pro-Union posse of diverse multinationals second to none in their fighting abilities. There is Nathaniel York, an African-American; Reginald Bonesteel, a British sharpshooter; Harry Whitecloud, a soft-spoken Indian warrior and medicine man; Shaun O'Banyon, a strapping Irishman who'd fight an entire army himself; and the Hawkins twins, Gypsy-blooded brothers who do a bang-up job with explosives. From dusty canyon shootouts against Confederates to the horrors faced aboard the doomed steamship Sultana, these dynamic men shine as good-hearted heroes who need each other just as much as many others need them.
DescriptionA Man Called Trent opens on nester Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent", an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter.
DescriptionNot since the publication of his own beloved classic Lonesome Dove has there been a novel like this one, another big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry. Telegraph Days is at once a major work of literature and a c…
