Bøger af Jason Manning

1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer-tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man-rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. On the way he picks up a job shepherding Delgado McKinn, a young man with more courage than common sense, back to his wealthy father. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. The Taos Revolt throws the capital of Santa Fe into turmoil. Governor Charley Bent and others are murdered. And Turley's Mill is slated to become a tomb for the mountain men gathered there.Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders, his friend Delgado among them, surrounded by an angry mob bent on spilling their blood. Nine men standing against hundreds.Maybe they would die, but not like rats in a trap. They would die like men-mountain men.THE THIRD EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE HUGH FALCONER SERIES, FOLLOWING FALCONER'S LAW AND PROMISED LAND, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY FRONTIER NOVELS.

"A FRONTIER HERO FIRES THE OPENING SALVO OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION... Drummed out of West Point, Christopher Groves goes home to Kentucky in disgrace, only to walk right into a feud with the murderous Vickers brothers. Now wanted by the law, Christopher heads for Texas, where American emigrants are chafing under the yoke of Mexican rule and are poised to fight for their independence. Flintlock Jones is an old man now, but Christopher is kin and he won't let his grandson make the long and perilous trek alone. Together, the two men get more action that they'd bargained for, running afoul of kidnappers, river pirates and bounty hunters. But that's nothing compared to the full-blown war that erupts between Texicans and their Mexican overlords, a war in which the legendary Flintlock Jones strikes one last blow for liberty"--

The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward.Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian territory, and into a California of wealth, women, and wine-and Mexicans who aren't fond of interlopers.The journey was an ordeal. Now Falconer and his brigade of hardcases have to survive in a hostile new land. Among them is the callow youth named Eben Nall, who was seeking adventure and found much more-a courage he didn't know he had, and a beautiful young Mexican woman he needed more than breath itself.THE FIRST NOVEL IN A NEW TRILOGY OF EPIC MOUNTAIN MAN TALES BY THE AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND BATTLE OF THE TETON BASIN.

A Novel of the Early FrontierA sweeping saga of a family caught up in an epic struggle between empires, with the fate of North America hanging in the balance, written by the bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including High Country, Mountain Renegade, and The War Lovers.With a flintlock rifle and a dream, Abel Cutter blazed a trail into the wild Allegheny forests to establish a settlement for others who wanted only to be left alone to grow their crops and raise their families-a place called Cutter's Reach. But France and England, with their Indian allies, are girding for war to secure their claim to America's first frontier, and Cutter's Reach turns out to be of strategic importance to both.Reunited with his son, raised as a Tuscarora Indian, and his daughter, now wed to a British lieutenant, Cutter and his followers are willing to fight to live in peace. But the vengeful son of a man Cutter killed years ago takes advantage of the rising war fever to unleash an army of bloodthirsty Hurons and Canadian trappers determined to kill every man, woman and child at Cutter's Reach.

Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority.