Carl Coke Rister

Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

Introduces a little known phase of the great General's career--his service in Texas during the four turbulent years preceding the Civil War.

This book is an examination of General Sheridan's post-Civil War activities in the West. Far from being a biography of Sheridan, however, this book examines the issues relevant in the various capacities in which Sheridan served, and looks at the way they were handled, both by Sheridan and his subordinates. This work is far from being a comprehensive look at Sheridan's post-war career, and in fact covers only the most important topics (the most prevalent being the Indian Wars), but it nevertheless serves its purpose. By itself, this cannot be considered a definitive work, but as part of a study, either of Sheridan or of the frontier army, this book is definitely worthy of consideration.

Dr. Beales and Sarah Horn present us with a fascinating story and a grim, dramatic tragedy of the Southwest, 1834-1838. The short-lived attempt by Beales to found a settlement in the heart of Comanche Country is based on his letters and documents plus a contemporary account by one of the colonists published in Germany, 1837. Interesting details appear on Mexican empresarial contracts, land grants, and particularly of the Rio Grande and Texas Land Company. This is followed by Mrs. Horn's Narrative of captivity in its original 1839 edition. An English lady of some culture, she also relates the ways of the nomadic Comanche tribes. The ransom of the captive Mrs. Horn and Mrs. Harris by New Mexico traders, her experiences in Santa Fe and Taos, and her return to Missouri with a Santa Fe caravan, add a wider scope of interest to the story.

"The southern plains, with which this book is concerned, has no very definite boundaries ... It embraces what is now western Kansas, eastern Colorado, western Oklahoma, western Texas, and eastern New Mexico."--Introduction.

A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain which has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon. The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars—and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not arisen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed away in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet British countryside were swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the Huldu—an ancient fae race, monstrous in their inhumanity, who have decided that mankind’s ascendency over the world can endure no longer. Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the war, fueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once fought, Duncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shot and a deadly iron knife, Duncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen from the arms of their families. No matter how many Huldu he may have to slaughter along the way. But when he is hired by a mother to return her four-year-old daughter, Miriam—taken by the Huldu six months past and replaced with a Changeling—all hell breaks loose. Miriam is a pawn in a much bigger game for dominance than Duncan ever expected, and several long-buried secrets from his past are about to be violently resurrected.