Bøger af Tom Rizzo

Maintaining law and order in the Old West stood as a major challenge to those who chose to wear a badge. The hours were long. The expanse of the areas under a lawman's jurisdiction was huge. Although the responsibilities fell to the most qualified, no formal guidelines or standards were in place. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Two: The Law Keepers, novelist Tom Rizzo introduces you to a courageous, sometimes innovative, and mostly persistent cross section of those who figured out the best way to do the job on their terms. A few others walked both sides of the law. - One of the Dalton brothers who didn't break the law. He chose to enforce it. - Jack Slade who lay in the dirt bleeding from six bullet wounds and two shotgun blasts, but lives to reap revenge. - A rare town square showdown between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt to settle a poker game argument. - Tom "Bear River" Smith, the town marshal who wore no gun while patrolling the streets of Abilene, Kansas, dubbed, the Wickedest & Wildest Town in the West. - Sheriff Harry Morse and his courageous one-man showdown with a feared killer and his gang. Texas Ranger Jim Gillett who risked everything by riding into a Mexican village to capture the man who killed his friend. - George Maledon, a small quite man with dark eyes, known as the Prince of Hangmen.

On my desk is a simple reminder I once wrote about living life to its fullest: Don't leave anything on the table. Llife tends to be more enjoyable when you squeeze everything possible out of it. I jotted down other snapshot observations about living, working, and socializing and concerted them to this book. Reality Checks are designed to kick start your thinking. Timeless Tips, on the other hand, are aimed at promoting action. Reality Checks and Timeless Tips touch on: Communication, Productivity, Leadership, Time Management, Sales and Marketing, Success Listening.These are in no particular order. Random thoughts about random issues, designed to spark an idea or encourage a fresh way of looking at something you already knew.

Most of the people who settled in the West didn't wake up in the morning and strap on a gun. Nor did they get involved in shootouts. As in any society, the Old West had its share of bad men and women. The rate of homicides on the frontier remains a source of contention. Some historians say most towns averaged about 1.5 murders a year, not all of them shooting. Others however, say the risk of being murdered was high. In Tall Tales from the High Plains & Beyond, Book Three: The LawBreakers, novelist Tom Rizzo takes you behind the scenes to meet some of the gunmen and back shooters who roamed the frontier trying to take what wasn't theirs. - Bob Rogers who slashed the throat of a deputy constable, left him to die, and then returned to the crime scene to attack the dead man's corpse. - James McIntire, a lawman turned killer who once claimed he talked with Christ. - Cyrus Skinner whose reign of terror ended in a town appropriately named, Hell Gate. Deputy Sheriff Charley Allison who organized a gang to of outlaws to rob stagecoaches. - Lame Johnny, a one-time college student who graduated to a criminal career of cattle and horse rustling and robbing stagecoaches. - Belle Starr, wife, mistress, mother, and horse thief, who died from an assassin's bullet. - Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce, a card cheat turned killer