LIBROS DEL AUTOR: patrick dearen

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  • Grizzly Moon
    Patrick Dearen
    Spur Award-Winning AuthorWINNER OF THE ELMER KELTON AWARDFor nineteen years, Wash Baker has been haunted by firing into the night at what he thought was a grizzly, only to kill his young son and narrowly miss a second boy, Trey. Now, in 1899, confirmed tracks of grizzly-a species of bear unknown in Texas-have been found at a Davis Mountains camp meeting attended by Wash and his...
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    12,64 €

  • The End of Nowhere
    Patrick Dearen
    2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARDIt’s 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the sm...
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    12,64 €

  • Starflight to Eternity
    Patrick Dearen
    Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick DearenSTARFLIGHT TO ETERNITY(a.k.a. Starflight to Faroul)'I held the secret of creation in my hands, but I lost it and can never have it again!'Starflight to Eternity, a wizened old man named Kasterfayette has returned from deep space, bearing a strange tale of the planet Faroul. This legendary world is said to be a place where time began and e...
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    12,71 €

  • The Illegal Man
    Patrick Dearen
    Spur Award-Winning Author A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this revised edition of the acclaimed novel explores a Mexican national’s desperate attempt to provide for his family. Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a 'coyote' to smuggle him across the Rio Grande, a river that separates no...
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    13,77 €

  • Saddling Up Anyway
    Patrick Dearen
    Every time a cowhand dug his boot into the stirrup, he knew that this ride could carry him to trail's end. In real stories told by genuine cowboys, this book captures the everyday perils of the "flinty hoofs and devil horns of an outlaw steer, the crush of a half-ton of fury in the guise of a saddle horse, the snap of a rope pulled taut enough to sever digits. Threats took ...
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    14,91 €

  • A Cowboy of the Pecos
    Patrick Dearen
    In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as “the cowboy’s paradise.” And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as “the most expert cowboys in the world.” A Cowboy of the Pecos vividly revealstells the story of the Pecos cowboy from the first Goodnight-Loving cattle drive to the 1920s. These meticulously researched ...
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    14,62 €

  • Perseverance
    Patrick Dearen
    It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels or in a sea of emptiness. Their fate seemed certain-until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train bound for a dying relative on the Texas Gulf...
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    20,08 €

  • When the Sky Rained Dust
    Patrick Dearen
    Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families’ farms in Central Texas in 1934. It’s the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland.Wi...
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    13,22 €

  • The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos
    Patrick Dearen
    The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there’s a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it.Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos ...
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    7,71 €

  • Halff of Texas
    Patrick Dearen
    Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild western country waiting to be tamed. Throughout his life, he was at ease whether dining with a U.S. President at a plush metropolitan banquet or squatting across a campfire from a dirt-streaked cowboy in some forsaken cow camp.Imm...
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    17,33 €

  • Last of The Old-Time Cowboys
    Patrick Dearen
    Working cowboys live on as genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history. In the 1980s historian/ author Patrick Dearen went looking for the last of these fading icons.The trail took him to dozens of one-time cowhands in their 80s, 90s, and even 100s whose aged eyes lit up and voices seemed young again as they spoke of their experiences on the trail. From...
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    17,52 €