In 1986 General Gogol made a gamble to avoid total nuclear meltdown. Within weeks his secret was being shipped to the Arctic Ocean. Years later, Richard Mariner is commissioned to tow an iceberg to a drought-stricken state — unaware of the...
“Iron Dust,” an eight-part serial, was Frederick Faust’s fourth contribution to Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine. It appeared under his George Owen Baxter byline, beginning in the issue for January 15, 1921, and is in book form as...
"The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story,...
SWORDS OF ROME SUMMARYIt is a time of great crisis and bloodshed as the two greatest powers of the ancient world - Carthage and Rome are locked in a deadly struggle for control over the Mediterranean. But for one young Roman soldier named Gaius...
In the Wild West, a desperate gang of outlaws targets a gold shipment
During the Indian Wars, Boag and Wilstach rode with the Tenth Cavalry, the most feared outfit ever to gallop over the American plains. But now that things are relatively...
Indian mythology-North America, Indians of North America-Great Plains-Religion, Teton mythology, American bison, Bison-Social aspects, West (U.S.)-Social life and customs.
Published in the United States by Denver Museum of Natural History Press,...