Thorne Douglas

Rancho Bravo 4: Night Riders (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

His name was Elias Whitton. Once a slave, he was now a partner in the Rancho Bravo. A man respected, even feared. Part Comanche himself, Elias had pledged guns and supplies to the Indians to help them through the winter. But the Rancho Bravo wagon train loaded with the promised goods was a thousand miles away, perhaps lost or destroyed by looters. When Elias suggested they give the Comanches their guns the others said it was madness, that the Indians would kill them all; but Whitton swore it was their only chance - little knowing that two vicious killers in the territory, Plumb and Devlin, had the power to dash their last remaining shred of hope.
ABOUT THE SERIES
They were an odd mixture: a rancher whose ranch was about to be taken from him by Yankee carpetbaggers ... a former slave ... a Confederate officer who'd lost his right hand ... and a Yankee captain who'd sooner join them that fight them. Together Henry Gannon, Elias Whitton, Loosh Calhoon and Philip Killraine were going to drive four thousand head of wild longhorns smack into the heart of Comanche country and establish the biggest and best ranch in the entire west ... Rancho Bravo!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Piccadilly
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311962836
• Artikelnr.: 51392043

Autorenporträt

Thorne Douglas was the pseudonym for Benjamin Leopold Haas born in Charlotte , North Carolina in 1926. In his entry for CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, Ben told us he inherited his love of books from his German-born father, who would bid on hundreds of books at unclaimed freight auctions during the Depression. His imagination was also fired by the stories of the Civil War and Reconstruction told by his Grandmother, who had lived through both. "My father was a pioneer operator of motion picture theatres", Ben wrote. "So I had free access to every theatre in Charlotte and saw countless films growing up, hooked on the lore of our own South and the Old West." A family friend, a black man named Ike who lived in a cabin in the woods, took him hunting and taught him to love and respect the guns that were the tools of that trade. All of these influences seeing the world like a story from a good book or movie, heartfelt tales of the Civil War and the West, a love of weapons register strongly in Ben's own books. Dreaming about being a writer, 18-year-old Ben sold a story to a Western pulp magazine. He dropped out of college to support his family. He was self-educated. And then he was drafted, and sent to the Philippines. Ben served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1946. Returning home, Ben went to work, married a Southern belle named Douglas Thornton Taylor from Raleigh in 1950, lived in Charlotte and in Sumter in South Carolina , and then made Raleigh his home in 1959. Ben and his wife had three sons, Joel, Michael and John. Ben held various jobs until 1961, when he was working for a steel company. He had submitted a manuscript to Beacon Books, and an offer for more came just as he was laid off at the steel company. He became a full-time writer for the rest of his life. Ben wrote every day, every night. "I tried to write 5000 words or more everyday, scrupulous in maintaining authenticity", Ben said. His son Joel later recalled, "My Mom learned to go to sleep to the sound of a typewriter".