Bøger af Doug Hocking

An anthology of short fiction and short non-fiction. Showdown at Echo Amphitheatre is an historical fiction concerning an event in Kit Carson's life. In Can We Still Collect the Bounty gunfighter Clay Allison is embarrassed. What do you do when the government won't permit any law enforcement? Find out in the Marshal of Arizona. Wind Wagon Thomas sails all the way to New Mexico in Pirates of the Llano Estacado. A soldier who fought in the bloody battle of Cieneguilla writes home in Letter from Fort Burgwin. In the Power of Fox and Snake an Apache poses as a Spanish Grandee and becomes a riverboat gambler. Seven men escape from advancing Confederate forces at Mesilla in a stolen stagecoach only to encounter Cochise. In the Lady was a Gunfighter a girl raised by Indians is taught to be a lady by a gambling courtesan. Penitent Child is a Christmas story.

In the tradition of Louis L'Amour, a love story. A strong, lonely man hiding from enemies while seeking his fortune encounters an inaccessible, fairy-beautiful woman-child in a land beset by outlaws where there is no law but the gun. Encounter the wonderful, real people who populated 1850s Arizona - Captain Ewell, Sylvester Mowry, Great Western, Charles Poston, Tevis, Mose Carson, and Palatine Robinson - as the former dragoon battles Mexican bandits, Apaches and outlaws with wits and brawn.

In 1861, war between the U.S. and the hostile Chiricahua Apaches seemed inevitable. When a young boy was kidnapped, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Apache leader Cochise-an act some blamed for setting the smoldering conflict ablaze. This book analyzes that legend, versus what really happened, within the historical context of the Indian Wars.

In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson¿s actions¿and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilläs victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.

In 1861, war between the U.S. and the hostile Chiricahua Apaches seemed inevitable. When a young boy was kidnapped, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Apache leader Cochise-an act some blamed for setting the smoldering conflict ablaze. This book analyzes that legend, versus what really happened, within the historical context of the Indian Wars.

This book tells the true story of a man who headed West drawn by the lure of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858; made a life for himself over a decade as he scouted for the army, prospected, became a business man; then learned the Apache language and rode alone into Cochise's camp in order to negotiate peaceful passage for his stagecoach company.