Bøger af Kurt James

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kansas is the-family! Growing up, I spent my summers on my grandparent's farm south east of Alamota, Kansas. I loved to hear my grandpa Dale (Pappy) Patton and other relatives spin their tales of yesteryear and the days of old. I was quiet as a creep-mouse as I listened to the tales, of hardships, tornadoes, drought, hail, cowboys, Indians, farming, ranching, and of course the other BS that old men tell. It was an extraordinary time, even magical, listening to those tales of adventure. Those tales and tall-tales had the power to pull me into a realm of dust, danger, and dreams. As I got older, I had inherited this flare for the telling of a story, tall-tale, and poetry. I had learned the art of storytelling from some of the best that the world has never heard of. I love Kansas, and all that it has to offer. The folks that live there are gritty, hardworking, and rough, and tough as they come. The state and those that call it home are throwbacks to a simpler, and much better time.Kansas has a rich and adventurous history. The pioneers, farmers, ranchers, oilmen, cowboys, outlaws, lawmen, explorers, and homesteaders, headed west to live a free life and find their fortunes in a land that most had never seen before. Dotted across the Kansas plains and flowing wheat fields, you will find their abandoned homes, decaying to the extreme weather or vanishing in the face of a more advanced civilization. You will also find their graves in overgrown cemeteries that cannot even come close to tell their stories of how they lived and died. The stories of these brave men and women, are fast disappearing across Kansas's dusty vistas, and forever skies, of yesteryear.This book is a tribute to those that I have never known, but yet still admire their courage, strength, and their free will to go live their life in the wilderness, looking for a better life. This book is something I have been working on for years. Having lived in Colorado, South Dakota, and spending every summer growing up on my grandparents farm in Lane County, Kansas; its history has always held my interest. The tales of Kansas have always fascinated me, and as I got older, I wanted to write fictional historical novels that weave the genuine history of Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, and Wyoming throughout the stories. I take pride in the research that I do for each of my novels and adventure stories. Within the pages of this book you will discover the history of Kansas I find the most interesting, if you are from Kansas or will visit Kansas this book will give you some interesting tidbits of some destinations you may want to explore before it is all gone.

The Tartarus Variant - 2019 saw the spread of the Coronavirus across the world. In time, the Coronavirus mutated into a different variant. Then, variants such as Delta, Omicron, and 12 other variants, quickly engulfed the planet. In 2031, the Tartarus Variant became dominant. Humanity was on the brink of extinction because of the collapse of the world's infrastructure. This is a one-man, one dog, and one horse's story of survival. Then the story becomes something more when Dixon Mateo rescues a girl named Alba Jesse from a pack of wild dogs.

Kurt James known as the 'Colorado Storyteller' over the years has complied a vast knowledge of his native state. In the beginning he used these historical and fun facts to be weaved into his fictional adventure stories of the Rocky Mountain frontier bringing authenticity to his novels. Recently Kurt James fan base has been asking for him to make available his research in book form so they can even learn more about Colorado. This book is the effort of many years of study, investigation, and exploring the Rocky Mountains, ghost towns, and long forgotten cemeteries. Kurt James has also held countless interviews with many of those quoted within these pages. Many of the photographs and artwork used in this book are Kurt James originals. This book is the companion of any writer that needs information about Colorado for their writing needs. It is also Kurt's hope that those that love the tales of yesteryear will use this book as part of the research for their day trips or vacations to the ghost towns and haunts mentioned in the book.

All Trent Laneetee wanted to do was support his family. Laneetee moonshine became almost legendary in all the surrounding mountain towns around Trent's home in Gilpin County, Colorado. Laneetee whiskey stills and operation were making more money than he could have ever dreamed of. As Trent's legendary status and operation got larger and moved into other counties, his business drew the attention of the Denver Mafia. They gave Laneetee an ultimatum of sharing his business and profits with the Denver Mafia or going to war with them. What the gangsters from Denver did not know - was you did not threaten Trent Laneetee.

A mountain man legend had raised Dale Lee Patton to become a legend along the Rocky Mountain frontier. Patton only wanted to live the simple life with his wife to raise some children on a ranch near Gunnison, Colorado. That all changed one summer day when his wife was brutally murdered. Losing the love of his life changed Patton into something he thought he would never would be. He became a haunted and vengeful man, looking for justice to be dealt in the only manner that a legend could serve it up to those that deserved it. Having a skill set that includes all the current weapons of the day and having the killer instinct to set aside all feelings while on the hunt, he became a driven man to extract retribution from all those that prey on the weak and helpless. Patton would become the guardian that stands between predator and prey. Using his knowledge of the Rocky Mountains and the wilderness, he begins the life as a bounty hunter-a dead or alive bounty hunter.

"ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETRIBUTION" Chance Bondurant and his younger brother Jace are forced off their windswept grassland farm in Lane County, Kansas when their folks died of the fever.The Bondurant brothers with no money and less hope head to the gold fields in the Colorado Rocky Mountains near the mining camps of Central City and Nevadaville, where a righteous gunfighter named Lucas Eldridge takes and mentors the older Bondurant after Chance witnessed the brutal murder of his brother at the hands of a roaming outlaw gang.Years later, after learning a unique set of skills that included survival of the fittest amongst the high Rocky Mountains, the ins and outs of all manner of weapons and hand to hand combat, and after acquiring a killer instinct, Chance is now ready to embark on his "Rocky Mountain Retribution" and to ride his mare Storm beyond the great divide to track down the Bigger and Hammond gang to fulfill a sworn blood oath on the grave of his departed brother.With a dark heart and a half wolf, half something else dog named Mutt, Chance encounters all the dangers the Rocky Mountains can throw at him that include outlaws, grizzly bears, renegade Indians, and the deadly weather of autumn and winter in the remote mountain frontier.Trained to be a killer with no love in his heart, Chance meets Senorita Kellie Shawn Arriaga, the sister of a rogue Mexican rebel turned bandit, on the trail after rescuing one of her bodyguards. Smitten and with the prospect of true love, Chance hits the first crossroad of his life; one road is to start a new life with the beautiful Mexican girl bandit or follow the second road and continue his search for justice against the outlaws that killed his brother. Chance turns his back on the love that could have been and rides away to follow what he believes is his destiny in Grand Lake, Colorado. Little did Chance realize that Kellie Shawn Arriaga and her bodyguards would fall victim to the outlaws that he was pursuing. Now Chance must not only complete his oath to his dead brother, but also rescue the woman who has stolen his heart. If he is to ever find happiness, it would be in a thrilling final showdown which has never before been written about.

Scottish bandit Alistair McPherson and his brother Alban known as the Highlanders throughout the Rocky Mountain frontier kidnapped a young 10-year-old girl named Connor O'Brien for ransom from Alma, Colorado. Conner's wealthy grandfather Finn O'Brien on her father's side owned and operated the London and Mosquito gold mines and was more than willing to pay the $100,000 ransom. What the Highlanders did not know was that Conner's grandfather on her mother's side was the famous Federal Marshal Eric Robert.

Matt Lee, the sole survivor of a bloody battle with a band of Indians, stepped into insanity. For two years, Matt Lee, in his madness, would become the Ute Indians' greatest enemy; they started calling him - Ghost. Matt Lee stepped back over into the land of the rational the day he rescued a Ute princess from a mountain lion attack. Forever grateful, she would become his wife, Walk with Ghost. Follow this Kurt James western adventure of redemption and revenge of a man the Indians called "Ghost" as he battles Indians, racial hatred, mountain lions, avalanches, bounty hunters, and federal marshals.

Ten years after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, lifelong friends McCall "Mac" Patton and Ron "Sandy" Sands left Clay County, Missouri behind for another life adventure of prospecting for gold in the Colorado Rockies. Fate and destiny intervened and placed an old enemy Union Redleg Captain John Merna, in the path of Mac and Sandy. Follow Mac, Sandy, Keegan, and Hugo as they encounter renegade Union Redlegs, hostile Indians, sickness, tornadoes, and high mountain passes, as they travel "The Keegan Trail" across the plains of Kansas and Colorado to the far away Rocky Mountains.

Former Green Beret and native Coloradoan Micah Trask went missing in the autumn of 1972 into the remote wilderness of Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand County, Colorado Undersheriff Dane Lee was Micah's best friend and for four frustrating years there was never a clue about how or why Micah vanished into the mountain mist.In the autumn of 1976, Craig Dale a wildlife photographer and author also disappeared into the obscure mountains leaving behind an unfinished manuscript named "The Daunting." Within the pages of Craig's book were clues about Micah and perhaps six other men that may have vanished within the boundaries of the Never Summer Mountains of the park. Follow in the footsteps of Dane Lee and his girlfriend Deputy Sheriff Nickey Lynn Chavez as they try to unravel the mystery surrounding those who have faded into the secluded, unknown just below timberline. Not only does Dane Lee rely on Deputy Chavez but also his own Ute Indian heritage and the visions of his Great Grandfather the famous mountain man Matt Lee who the Ute Indians used to call "Ghost."Explore the Rocky Mountains in this tale of love, revenge, and murder with an ending you will not see coming. This story by author Kurt James begs you to answer this question: What would you do if your best friend vanished?

Kurt James the master of western adventures has finally released a poetry book that is uniquely Colorado. In these pages you will find tidbits, thoughts, history, mystery, ghosts, things that go bump in the night, and of course poetry of the fascinating and beautiful state of Colorado. These poems and thoughts are those you would hear in the autumn sitting and watching the red and the orange embers float and dance on the air above the campfire close to timberline in the Rocky Mountains with friends and family. You will experience the mountain melodies of the midnight wind and the tree whispers. Explore the haunted legends of the old gold and silver camps of Central City, Blackhawk, Silver Plume and Saint Elmo in the remote mountains. Some of what you will read will make you laugh, cry, smile, and say what the heck, but all will make you want to travel the same roads of these pages. If you live in Colorado you need this book - if you don't live in Colorado this book will make you want to move there.

When her latest original song went number one in 1977 on the country charts Laney McKay, America's sweetheart went home to Grand County, Colorado for a charity concert and to relax in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains to prepare for her upcoming United States tour the following summer. Laney, basking in her new fame and fortune, just wanted some time in the mountain mist of her home in Grand County. No one knew Laney had a secret that she held dear to her heart there amongst the evergreens and aspens trees.>Follow Under-sheriff Dane Lee and Deputy Nickey Lynn as they search the towns of Grand County, and the remote wilderness of Rocky Mountain National Park for the elusive and now famous songstress. Dane and Nickey will encounter the worse that the high country offers; they will battle the weather, altitude, renegade outlaws, all with the help of a spirit of the Ute Indians that still haunts these mountains. Dane and Nickey's search and investigation into what happened to their friend will take them from the Colorado Mountains to the flowing wheat-fields of Western Kansas. Follow the suspense, the adventure, and the thrill of another Kurt James novel.