Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0383-3
Colorful, nostalgic and unpretentious, ranging in theme and mood from tough to tender, and told with the artful artlessness of the born raconteur, these 10 linked tales, supposedly from the lips of one Shanks Caulder, evoke the full flavor of life...
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Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (354p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0776-3
In yet another of his outstanding chronicles of American history, Jones ( Roman ) vividly illuminates a turning point in the nation's consciousness. When Colonel Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders invaded Cuba in 1898, it marked ``the beginning of
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Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1387-0
Again proving himself master of his craft, Jones ( Come Winter ) contributes another outstanding novel set in the American West. This adroitly written story of murder, revenge, frontier culture and history takes place in Arkansas and the Indian...
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Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.45 (418p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0944-6
This sixth and concluding volume in Jones's long-running Hasford-Pay family saga is, again, a marvelous read. Utilizing an array of memorable characters and the sure and graceful touch that has twice won him the Golden Spur Award for Best Western...
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Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (401p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2243-8
Enhancing his reputation as a superb raconteur, Jones ( The Search for Temperance Moon ), three-time winner of the Golden Spur Award for best western historical novel, tells a gritty, rollicking adventure story about one family's trek from St. Louis,
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Douglas C. Jones, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3654-1
Several Golden Spur Awards for Best Western Historical Novel, as well as the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution and Achievement in Western American Lettres, have come Jones's way for his 15 historicals (The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, etc.)....
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Douglas C. Jones, Author, Damien Wilkins, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4849-0
Perhaps the only fault with this latest frontier mystery by the author of The Search for Temperance Moon is that readers may have to read it twice. Jones weaves so much social and political history into this tale of frontier life in Ft. Smith, Ark.,
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