[PDF] Six Gun Justice eBook

Author : Eugene Moser
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1467084883

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The book titled 'Six Gun Justice' is a fictional account of the life of the main character, Jim Vogt. The story begins with Jim and his father are off hunting and a tragedy happens to his mother and brother. A group of evil men rapes and murders the mother and takes Jim's young brother Peter off to sell into slavery. Jim is sent to his uncle Martin to live, while the father tries to track down the evil men. Fifteen years later, while living in Texas, tragedy again strikes Jim's loved ones. His pregnant wife is raped and murdered and he sets out on a trail of revenge. It takes a long time, but he tracks down the criminals and metes out his own brand of justice on them. On his travels he meets and falls in love, and meets someone who knows his brother. He settles down with his new wife and one day his long lost brother appears at his door. He stays with Jim for a period of time. He then sets out on his own and marries. He takes on the job of sheriff. He has some trouble with a local rancher and calls on Jim for help. Peter and his wife then travel to California. At this time Jim receives a letter from his long missing father, who happens to live in California. Jim is able to contact both his father and brother and arranges for them to return back to his ranch. The family is reunited and a new generation of'Vogts' is started.

Author : Jon Sharpe
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451206312

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The Gold Rush boomtown of Ophis, California, is plagued by a series of robberies, extortion schemes, and murders, and with no sheriff in town to keep the peace, things can only get worse, until the Trailsman arrives.

Author : Jane Little Botkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806169915

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In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado’s two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for “girls,” as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts—and devastating misfortunes—as a leader of the so-called housemaid rebellion. A native of Indiana, Jane Street (1887–1966) began her activist endeavors as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In riveting detail, author Jane Little Botkin recounts Street’s attempts to orchestrate a domestic mutiny against Denver’s elitist Capitol Hill women, including wives of the state’s national guard officers and Colorado Fuel and Iron operators. It did not take long for the housemaid rebellion to make local and national news. Despite the IWW’s initial support of the housemaids’ fight for fairness and better pay, Street soon found herself engaged in a gender war, the target of sexism within the very organization she worked so hard to support. The abuses she suffered ranged from sabotage and betrayal to arrests and abandonment. After the United States entered World War I and the first Red Scare arose, Street’s battle to balance motherhood and labor organizing began to take its toll. Legal troubles, broken relationships, and poverty threatened her very existence. In previous western labor and women’s studies accounts, Jane Street has figured only marginally, credited in passing as the founder of a housemaids’ union. To unearth the rich detail of her story, Botkin has combed through case histories, family archives, and—perhaps most significant—Street’s own writings, which express her greatest joys, her deepest sorrows, and her unfortunate dealings with systematic injustice. Setting Jane’s story within the wider context of early-twentieth-century class struggles and the women’s suffrage movement, The Girl Who Dared to Defy paints a fascinating—and ultimately heartbreaking—portrait of one woman’s courageous fight for equality.

Author : Melissa Kate Merry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472126245

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The politics of gun policy in the United States are dramatic. Against the backdrop of daily gun violence—which claims more than 33,000 lives per year—gun control groups push for stronger regulations, while gun rights groups resist infringements upon their Second Amendment rights. To illuminate the dynamics of this polarized debate, Warped Narratives examines how and why interest groups frame the gun violence problem in particular ways, exploring the implication of groups’ framing choices for policymaking and politics. Melissa K. Merry argues that the gun policy arena is warped, and that both gun control and gun rights organizations contribute to the distortion of the issue by focusing on atypical characters and settings in their policy narratives. Gun control groups emphasize white victims, child victims, and mass shootings in suburban locales, while gun rights groups focus on self-defense shootings, highlighting threats to “law-abiding” gun owners. In reality, most gun deaths are the result of suicide. Homicides occur disproportionately in urban areas, mainly affecting racial minorities. While warping makes political sense in the short term, it may lead to negative, long-term consequences, including constraints on groups’ ability to build broad-based coalitions and to reduce prospects for compromise. To demonstrate warping, Merry analyzes nearly 67,000 communications by 15 national gun policy groups between 2000 and 2017 collected from blogs, emails, Facebook posts, and press releases. This book is the first to systematically assess the role of race in gun policy groups’ framing and offers the most comprehensive examination to date of interest groups’ presentation of this issue.