Bøker av John Legg

IN THE MERCILESS TRENCHES OF A MOUNTAIN WINTER, ONE MAN FACES A DEADLY CHOICE...AND A PAINFUL LOSS.Mountain man Hawley Cooper always does what he believes is right-regardless of the consequences. But this time, his decisions unleash the wrath of family and friends.As consequences loom on the horizon-some deadly, others agonizing-Cooper remains steadfast and embodies his mountain man spirit. Ignoring warnings against interfering in another man's treatment of a woman, he defiantly carries a Nez Perce woman to safety through the heart of yet another punishing winter.But his battles with the Blackfeet are far from done, and they, too, have painful costs.Follow along as one man navigates the treacherous terrain of morality, loyalty, and survival in the unforgiving depths of a mountain winter.

IN THE UNFORGIVING DEPTHS OF A MOUNTAIN WINTER, ONE MAN FACES AN UNYIELDING CHALLENGE FROM THE BLACKFEET TRIBE.Following numerous battles, Hawley Cooper has grown weary of his confrontations with the Blackfeet. But with seemingly dozens of them swarming the valley and more arriving every day, he has no choice but to brace for another battle.When a situation appears dire-an outnumbered contingent of mountain men pitted against a formidable horde of relentless Blackfeet warriors-Cooper clings to a single lifeline that involves confronting his adversaries head-on.With the odds stacked against them, Cooper-accompanied by his trusted friend and frequent trapping partner, Zeke Potts, and an unlikely ally, Nez Perce-embark on a desperate mission amidst the unforgiving snow and biting cold of the Rocky Mountain winter. And should they emerge from this crucible of conflict, another, more personal mission awaits them.Follow along as one man embarks on an epic journey of survival and redemption and discovers the unyielding strength of the human spirit.

"A CHILD'S ABDUCTION SETS OFF A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TWO TOUGH BOUNTY HUNTERS! Jace Coppersmith, a marshal in a Colorado Territory town, makes the tough decision to hand in his badge and leave his fiancâee to help a friend, Travis Van Horn, in Kansas. Van Horn, who trained Coppersmith in the ways of the bounty hunter, is being forced to commit crimes by an outlaw who has abducted Van Horn's five-year-old daughter, a child he has never really known. Coppersmith enlists the help of Van Horn's brother in the search for the missing child, but the search and its aftermath spawn a feud between the two old friends that can only be solved with gunfire. TAGLINE: At the end of the day, bullets beat blood every time..."--

THE PREVIOUS TWO WINTERS HAD BEEN HELLACIOUS . . . THIS ONE WOULD BE SAVAGEThe third winter in the Rocky Mountains was not the charm for mountain man Hawley Cooper. What started out as a prime beaver trapping season turned forbidding as another winter beckoned and settled into the Absaroka Mountains. A war party of Crows raided his camp and ran off with his wife, a Shoshoni named Black Moon Woman. Left without a horse, Cooper follows the Crows as best he can but soon realizes that with winter laying its frigid hand on the land, he would never catch the warriors on foot.Refused help by the Shoshonis, he gets a horse and heads out alone into the heart of winter again, searching the Bighorn Mountains hoping to find the Crows, bent on rescuing his wife-or avenging her death.Winter isn't forgiving, and neither is he...

"FOR SOME MEN, TROUBLE IS A CONSTANT COMPANION . . . No matter how much he tries to avoid trouble, bounty hunter Brodie Pike can't just look away when it stares him in the face. In his business, friends are hard to find, and when they need help, Pike will always heed the call. Pike faces daunting odds when he rides to the aid of some newfound friends in the gold- and silver-mining towns of Colorado Territory-two marshals beset by outlaw gangs, and a woman ravaged by bestial men"--

Chase tanner is a peaceful man - until enemies target his woman and friends. They soon learn how tough a peace-loving man can be.Branded a coward and Indian lover for trying to stop some of the slaughter of peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos at Sand Creek, Chase Tanner must live with his "shame." But he refuses to run, though several members of the Colorado militia keep dogging him with lies, even years after the event. When he falls in love with a Cheyenne and becomes friends with a half-breed and his full-blood wife, things turn to the worse. Tanner turns from fighting to clear his name to fighting for his life and those of his woman and his friends."Legg tells a spellbinding story that pulls you in and keeps your attention." - Reader

HONOR FORCES BOUNTY HUNTER ELIAS PROSPER TO TRACK DOWN A RENEGADE UTE, NO MATTER THE COST. Bounty hunter Elias Prosper is as tough a man as the West has produced. But as hard as he is, he has a soft spot for children and women. When a Ute named Painted Bear casts off the ways of the white man and spirits away a Ute boy and a white woman, both of whom Prosper had rescued earlier, the bounty hunter ignores his wife's pleas to stay home and instead heads into the mountains to hunt down the renegade warrior.

HIS RAGE HAS NO LIMITS AFTER AN ATTACK ON A PEACEFUL UTE VILLAGE. Bounty hunter Brodie Pike cannot see all the good he has done, only the infrequent mistakes. So he decides to get away from people. Little does he know when he finds a beautiful valley in Colorado Territory's San Juan Mountains - where he plans to make his home - that the love of a Ute woman and the friendship of a warrior would change his life. Blaming himself for a white men's attack on a peaceful Ute village, and the defiling of an eleven-year-old girl, Pike embarks on a trail of vengeance to make the white demons pay a bloody price.

BRODIE PIKE IS ONE AGAINST MANY - THE ODDS ARE NOT IN HIS FAVOR. Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next day, the man he had helped is found beaten to death. Though he knows he is responsible for Dunn's death, he refuses to help the group of small ranchers who know that the Buckskin County Cattlemen's Association will be coming for their land soon. Months later, he reads that the association has started its campaign of terror against the small ranchers. Against the odds, he decides to throw in with them, facing the association's horde of hired guns, risking his life in the bloody, violent Buckskin County war, where death is always just one bullet away.

Only one man dared to challenge the Comanche war party...Caught up in a battle between the U.S. Army and a Comanche raiding party, mustang herder Linus Hudson and his two Cheyenne friends become part of a dangerous plan to rescue three captured soldiers.

Having had enough of leading a fairly large brigade of trappers, giant mountain men Nathaniel Squire heads to the Rockies with just a few of his young friends. The small group is having a fine season, pulling in plenty of plews. But another group happens by and tells Squire that last year's brigade, under Colonel Leander Melton, is in dire straits, having been raided by the Blackfeet under the direction of Jacob Meisner, an old enemy. Squire and his group plunge headlong into an effort to save Melton and his brigade - and then, one way or the other, take to the vengeance trail.

This new title from the authors of A World of Rail - John Legg and Ian Peaty - takes us on a fascinating tour of Britain's rail-borne transport sytem, or rather systems, as it covers a wide variety of locations and gauges. The variety of rolling stock is a feature including of both passenger and freight vehcles.