The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass’s six week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, from Custer’s final moments to John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears will take the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history and present them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
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From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history and presents them in one action-packed volume. Set on the plains, mountains, and deserts of the West, and arranged chronologically, they capture all the mystique and allure of that special time and place in America’s history.
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John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet
Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack
Janette Riker’s brutal winter in the Rockies
John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon
John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet
Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack
Janette Riker’s brutal winter in the Rockies
John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon
The Earp Brothers’ hot-tempered gun battle at Tombstone
General Custer’s ill-advised final clash wth the Sioux
General Custer’s ill-advised final clash wth the Sioux
About the Author
Matthew P. Mayo’s previous books include the Western novels Winters’ War, Wrong Town, and Hot Lead, Cold Heart. In addition to writing novels and non-fiction, Mayo has had short stories and poetry published in a variety of anthologies, and he edited the anthology Where Legends Ride: New Tales of the Old West. He is also a magazine editor and a member of Western Writers of America and Western History Association.
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Matthew P. Mayo is a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist and a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including BAD AUSTEN; BEAT TO A PULP; A FISTFUL OF LEGENDS; HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD 2; Moonstone Books' SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE CROSSOVERS CASEBOOK; the DAW Books' anthologies STEAMPUNK'D and TIMESHARES, and many others. Mayo's novels include the Westerns WINTERS' WAR; WRONG TOWN; HOT LEAD, COLD HEART; and DEAD MAN'S RANCH, and he contributes to several popular series of Western and adventure novels.
His non-fiction books include COWBOYS, MOUNTAIN MEN & GRIZZLY BEARS; BOOTLEGGERS, LOBSTERMEN & LUMBERJACKS; SOURDOUGHS, CLAIM JUMPERS & DRY GULCHERS; and HAUNTED OLD WEST. He has also collaborated with with his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, on a series of books including MAINE ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Pine Tree State; NEW HAMPSHIRE ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Granite State; and VERMONT ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Green Mountain State.
Matthew lives with his wife and dog on the coast of Maine. Stop by his Website for a chin-wag and a cup of mud at www.matthewmayo.com.
His non-fiction books include COWBOYS, MOUNTAIN MEN & GRIZZLY BEARS; BOOTLEGGERS, LOBSTERMEN & LUMBERJACKS; SOURDOUGHS, CLAIM JUMPERS & DRY GULCHERS; and HAUNTED OLD WEST. He has also collaborated with with his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, on a series of books including MAINE ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Pine Tree State; NEW HAMPSHIRE ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Granite State; and VERMONT ICONS: 50 Classic Symbols of the Green Mountain State.
Matthew lives with his wife and dog on the coast of Maine. Stop by his Website for a chin-wag and a cup of mud at www.matthewmayo.com.
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Gritty Western History from a Great Writer,
This review is from: Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West (Paperback)
Matthew P. Mayo is a master of starting as irresistibly close to the action as possible. In his fiction and his non-fiction, he opens with just enough that you care about his characters and then he hits that character fast and hard. Mayo's sentences are lean, tough and graceful. His writing has a powerful sense of moment and of scene, of gesture and of other human subtleties.Cowboys, Mountain Men, & Grizzly Bears and Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks tell fifty tales each of some of the most harrowing moments in their respective regions. These aren't dry recountings or glossy propaganda. Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks contains stories of swamp fights, death rides, and massacres, of pirates, rum-runners, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of extraordinary circumstances. Cowboys, Mountain Men, & Grizzly Bears features stories about gunfights, death marches, and grizzly wrestling, of narrow escapes, deadly winters, and cannibalism. These are gritty stories - stories, as he says in the introduction of Bootleggers, of "showing courage, resolve, and pluck in one's daily life, of being tough and uncompromising in the face of adversity." Indeed, both of Mayo's Grittiest Moments books read like Loren D. Estleman and Jim Thompson got together to re-write a Stephen Ambrose history book.
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Not your everyday short story book,
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My husband read this in the evenings before bed to his sons and I. Some of the stories are a bit gruesome, but he loves to read aloud and the boys enjoyed the stories of some hearty men of yesterday.
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Gripping, gritty stories from a talented writer,
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Matthew P. Mayo is a miner of unexpected gems. In Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West, Mayo unearths little-known characters with extraordinary tales. These tales are short, loaded with action and chalked-full of colorful characters and vivid scenes. Mayo has an uncanny ability to bring characters and scenes to life by using authentic, western language of the time. He's a master of western writing. If interested in bawling grizzlies, ruthless villains and impressive heroes... read these stories!
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