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Salomy Jane [en] (1898)
Harte Description: When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. |
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Durchs wilde Kurdistan [de] (1892)
May Description: Bei den allseits verachteten "Teufelsanbetern" wird Kara Ben Nemsi mit seinen Begleitern freundlich aufgenommen. Amad el Ghandur, der Sohn von Scheik Mohammed Emin, ihrem Gastfreund aus dem ersten ... |
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Winnetou 4 [de] (1910)
May Description: Der Schriftsteller Karl May erhält in Radebeul Post aus Amerika und bricht daraufhin mit seiner Frau, dem Herzle, zu seiner letzten Reise dorthin auf. Seinem Blutsbruder Winnetou soll ein Denkmal g... |
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Winnetou 3 [de] (1893)
May Description: Old Shatterhand trifft in der Savanne den berühmten Westmann Sans-Ear. Nachdem Sans-Ear vier feindliche Komantschen besiegt hat, reiten beide zusammen weiter und verhindern einen Zugüberfall. Bei d... |
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The Untamed [en] (1919)
Brand Description: Brand's career as an author of Westerns began with this tale set in an otherworldly Wild West, which first appeared as a serial in All-Story magazine and was soon transformed into a film starring T... |
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Riders of the Silences [en] (1919)
Brand Description: The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled t... |
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Winnetou 2 [de] (1893)
May Description: In diesem Band, der als wahre Reiseerzählung betrachtet werden kann, führt es den Ich-Erzähler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Zunächst verfolgen er und Winnetou noch den Mörder Sante... |
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The Rangeland Avenger [en] (1922)
Brand Description: And maybe I ain't. Sinclair brushed the entire argument away into a thin mist of smoke. "Now, look here, Cold Feet, I'm about to go to sleep, and when I sleep, I sure sleep sound, taking it by and ... |
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Winnetou 1 [de] (1893)
May Description: Der Ich-Erzähler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser für die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr träge und trunksüchtig sind, muss er ... |
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The Night Horseman [en] (1920)
Brand |
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The La Chance Mine Mystery [en] (1920)
Jones |
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Gunman's Reckoning [en] (1921)
Brand Description: "It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy. Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky... |
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Bull Hunter [en] (1924)
Brand Description: Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared run afoul of the mighty ... |
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Black Jack [en] (1922)
Brand Description: The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that b... |
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Alcatraz [en] (1922)
Brand Description: A classic western from one of the masters of the genre. |
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Astoria [en] (1835)
Irving Description: Astoria by Washington Irving examines the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur trade with a look at John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trade company. |
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My Ántonia [en] (1918)
Cather Description: My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My Ántonia — pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "Ántonia" — is the final book of... |
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The Song of the Lark [en] (1915)
Cather |
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O Pioneers! [en] (1913)
Cather Description: The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over t... |
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The Young Forester [en] (1910)
Grey |