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Tragedy of a Gunslinger

A number of years ago Arthur Chapman, the Western poet who wrote Out Where the West Begins, explained "Billy the Kid must remain wholly the most unaccountable figure in all frontier history."

For three-quarters of a century he remained exactly that — the victim of the myths which had surrounded and captured him.

Hundreds of articles, radio and TV shows, stories, books and motion pictures have been written around this unique young man. Unfortunately none of the writers had access to more than a small part of the hidden source material which would have cleared away the fabulous tales and obscure half-truths and brought into clear focus the real Billy the Kid and the great days he lived.

For the first time the fully documented facts have now been brought together. They comprise a great mass of letters, newspaper accounts, official reports and word-of-mouth recollections.

Tragedy of a Gunslinger by Frazier Hunt, ISBN: 978-0-8038-2092-0

Ghost Towns Revisited

No relics so completely symbolize Colorado's glamorous past as the ghost town, the old mining camps tucked away in the folds of its rock-ribbed mountains. These crumbling and often quire deserted "cities" — some all but forgotten — still reflect for those who have eyes to see, the pomp and circumstance, the violence and squalor, the high tragedy and low comedy of those exciting days when the world turned its eyes westward to behold the glittering vision of another and greater El Dorado.

Ghost Towns Revisited — Book 1

Federal Writers Project

120 pages, 5.25" x 8"

Maps

Many historic photographs and drawings

ISBN: 978-0-8038-2093-7

Return of a Classic II

THE RHINELAND

by Walter Marsden

A HASTINGS HOUSE CLASSICS BOOK

This timeless classic, first published in 1973, has been once again made available as an exact reproduction of the original volume, now a collector's treasure.

The Rhine is Western Europe's greatest highway. It is also a natural frontier, a source of legend, and its banks are covered with some of the world's finest vineyards. Neanderthal man was found in the Rhineland; the Romans colonized it, Charlemagne ruled it, the French conquered it. All have left their mark, but none more so than the medieval robber barons, whose grim fortresses dominate the river for much of its length. As befits its importance, the Rhine with its tributaries has sustained a string of great cities — Speyer, Heidelberg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne, Bonn — and countless smaller towns and villages.

The Rhine is above all romantic; it is Siegfried's river and the home of the Loreley, and the whole of the Rhineland is as riddled with Gothic fantasy as with Gothic legend. Walter Marsden works his way south, from Aachen down the Mosel valley, always returning to the Rhine itself, but leading off wherever there is a town, a castle, a village, monument, church, cathedral, mountain, valley or vineyard which adds something to an understanding of the rich variety of the river and all it has influenced. Detailed enough to serve as an on-the-spot guide, this book is sufficiently wide in scope to make good armchair travelling, equally useful as a reminder or as a foretaste of the Rhineland.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-8038-2070-8

ISBN-10: 0-8038-2070-4

240 pages, 5.5" x 8.25"

Illustrated

$18.95

Classic Book Titles

HASTINGS HOUSE IS BRINGING BACK THE CLASSIC TITLES OF THE PAST!

Hastings House has embarked on an ambitious program of reissuing many of the great classic books from years past. These gems contain timeless information that remains valid today.

What makes this practical, and indeed economically possible, is the use of Hastings Houses' Print-on-Demand (POD) technology in conjunction with Booksurge LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon.com. All titles in the program will be featured on Amazon's websites worldwide and will be available for timely delivery.

Founded in 1936, Hastings House has rights to thousands of titles, many of them classics that are difficult or virtually impossible to find today. We are presently going through these, selecting those for which there is a small but important demand today.

As these books are reissued, they will be listed and fully described on this blog, on our regular website www.hastingshousebooks.com, and on Amazon. com's websites worldwide.

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