Bøger af Bill Wright

Eli and Curly Bill are back for an all-new adventure! After nearly escaping an angry tribe of Indians, the boys return to Dustbowl only to discover that the bandit Horseshoe has been captured and One Arm Jack and Rattlesnake are holding them responsible. To enact their revenge, the bandits have sent a telegram out to their long-lost brother Scorpion, a seven-foot, three-hundred-pound giant of a man, who is more than happy to take the challenge. Meanwhile, Eli and Curly Bill follow the gold rush out to California, where they build a supply cabin. Things come to a head on a stormy night in the mountains, when a mysterious stranger arrives at their cabin, with a wooden casket on his dogsled! It gets more complicated as the bandit brothers show up for the night, and it becomes obvious that someone within the cabin is taking the others out, one by one. Join Eli and Curly Bill, the outrageous Miner Mike and his mule Sal, in an edge-of-your-seat thriller sure to keep you guessing until the very end.

In 2006, Texas businessman, historian, and photographer Bill Wright was encouraged - though not officially invited - by the US Department of State to teach a class in digital photography to young Afghans in Kabul. This book records Wright's experiences and celebrates the creativity he saw flourish at the heart of a war zone.

Anecdotes about Maggie Smith abound, but Bill Wright's The Whole Damn Cheese is the first book devoted entirely to the woman whose life in Big Bend country has become the stuff of legend. For more than twenty years Maggie Smith served folks on both sides of the border as doctor, lawyer, midwife, herbalist, banker, self-appointed justice of the peace, and coroner.

The lonely chimneys of Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County have given many visitors silent testimony to the travails of settlers when the area was on the very western frontier of Texas. In Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Bill Wright traces the history of the fort''s founding in the mid-nineteenth century. Along the way, Wright introduces the instrumental people who had vital roles in the fort''s founding, abandonment, and throughout its various incarnations from the 1850s onward..