New Releases by Will James

"Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" is a seminal chronicle of the most famous boomtown in the American West. This narrative history brings to life the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona, during its most violent and legendary era. The work meticulously recounts the rise of the mining camp and the inevitable clashes between lawmen and outlaws that defined the frontier. Central to the story is the legendary feud involving the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil-and Doc Holliday against the Clanton and McLaury families, culminating in the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Walter Noble Burns blends historical fact with a dramatic prose style, capturing the epic proportions of the Old West''s struggle for order amidst chaos. Beyond the famous shootout, the book explores the colorful characters, from silver miners to stagecoach robbers, who shaped the destiny of the Southwest. With its vivid descriptions and compelling storytelling, "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" remains an essential piece of Western Americana, preserving the grit and grandeur of a bygone age for modern readers seeking to understand the mythology of the American frontier. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"My Life Story" is a compelling and evocative autobiography by Will James, one of the most iconic figures of Western American literature and art. This narrative traces the author''s journey from his early years in the rugged landscapes of the frontier to his legendary status as a chronicler of cowboy culture. Through vivid storytelling, James captures the essence of life on the range, the deep bond between a rider and his horse, and the untamed spirit of the American West. Written with the authentic voice of a man who lived the experiences he depicts, the work explores the challenges and triumphs of a drifting cowboy. It offers readers a unique window into a bygone era of ranching, cattle drives, and the vast, open plains. James''s talent for capturing the grit and beauty of the wilderness shines through his descriptions, providing a rich, visual sense of the landscapes he traversed. "My Life Story" stands as both a personal testament to a life of adventure and a vital historical record of the Western way of life, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the true history and lore of the American frontier. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Will James'' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives. This first appeared in 1930 as James'' life story, following the author''s evolution from boy to cowboy to artist and writer. This will offer new audiences a spirited blend of fiction and autobiography as James traces the early influences which marked his life... --Midwest Book Review

Will James (1892-1942), artist and writer of the American West, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. It was during his creative years everyone grew to know him as Will James. During the next several years, he drifted, worked at several jobs, was briefly jailed for cattle rustling, served in the army, and began selling his sketches and in 1922 sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders. The sale of several books followed. In 1926 his most famous book, Smoky the Cowhorse, was published, which won the Newbery Medal in 1927. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930. He also wrote Home Ranch (1935) and he wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942. In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books.

Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James - This is the classic great horse story written by a cowboy who trains a little black colt to become the most dependable horse. The experiences of a fascinating horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

The Math in "The Paper" was taught by a person who is most intelligent and affluent in Mathematics and Engineering. Said person is older than " Time " it self. His name is: 3.14159265 the 10th power divide by 47171060.81

This composite book contains three wonderful pieces of work by famous writers - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James and The Pacing Mustang by Ernest Thompson Seton. Love to animals, to horses in particular, unites these stories. The first book became a world bestseller. It was purchased by more than 50 million readers. In Smoky the Cowhorse an old cowboy tells about hard life of a real cowboy horse in the wide expanse of the prairie. In The Pacing Mustang, the wild black Pacing Mustang couldn’t be caught by any cowboy. Only a greedy cook was able to cunningly entrap the fast horse. In the end, even the cook was left behind by the horse’s tremendous speed.

Charles Baudelaire was the first of our postmodern poets. So we begin with him, where a small dose of his work will soon transport us into a country of dark dreams, of melancholy and wondrous visions. We will end with Sappho and the ancient Greeks (with my own poetry falling between these two countries, these two worlds). The translations are mine. -Will James

The old ones, ghosts now, had grand and glorious machines. They inhabited glittering cities of light. They loved to fly (seemingly so dangerous to us). They could fly across oceans. Their sailing vessels filled the skies. They mapped the stars and sent men into space, but they went mad and destroyed themselves. They were like gods, yet they were like us. Their minds worked like our own, using the same inner protocol. What we call the "God protocol". Faint traces of the old world can still be seen in our world, in ruins and refuse not yet been reclaimed by nature. We do not know what lies beyond our shores. Our seafaring vessels are not capable of traversing the globe. Over many generations our people have engaged in battles but nothing like the great wars of the past. We live a peaceful existence. We feel blessed. We share a common language with the old world, with our ancestors; even so, many of their words seem foreign to us and are difficult to decipher. The old ones were capable of great magic. They were able to record and transmit images of themselves across great distances. This art has now been lost. We do have transcripts of these talking pictures (one of which we have included here) along with faded photographs, ragged books and other deteriorating volumes archived in makeshift libraries. Sadly, the largest of these libraries recently burned. This is why we have decided to compile and distill from the existing archives a few stories that moved us and print and distribute them. We are thinking of future generations, that there will be a record not just of sacred texts (stories of sky gods and virgin births), of poets and philosophers and of visionaries and prophets but we wish to produce (using the archives and literary techniques discovered in the books of the old ones) a glimpse into this ancient civilization before death and the whirlwind overtook them (the collapse of that world documented in the final two stories in this collection).

A story told against the passage of time, The Other American explores the relationship and lack thereof between two people connected since the age of eight through different phases of life and all its twists and turns. Alan and Emma are two expatriate American children in Perth, Australia. Through the highs and lows of their lives, they have each other, until they don''t. They both try to find each other, but that may not be as easy as it seems.

"Harnack captures the special quality of life in Wisconsin''s North Country. This is a book that residents or visitors familiar with places like Sherman should find of special interest. But its audience need not be confined to Northwoods admirers. If the writing is regional, it''s in the broad spectrum of such writing that includes authors such as Sherwood Anderson." -- Robert W. Wells, Milwaukee Journal Book Editor "You are doing in print what it seems Seurat and Renoir did in oil on canvas: vibrating with the stuff of everyday living and feeling but in your case with a lively sense of value." -- Lester Mondale, Philosopher (brother of Walter Mondale) "Poignant, reminded me of my own life. The mystique of the Northwoods." -- Antler, Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Recipient of the Walt Whitman Award "Place has always been important to me. Like grapevines and cocoa beans that reflect through their flavor the soil and water in which they grow. Some places become part of a person''s emotional and mental fabric, sometimes even when a person only passes through for a night or two. Mr Harnack has written a collection of evocative, elegiac stories that show us a few of the human threads woven through a small northern Wisconsin town in the Chain of Lakes. The stories span decades and characters disappear and re-emerge, forging, repairing or severing links, bound together by the vibrations and ethos of the remote beautiful, northern woods and water. Reading the book feels at turns like watching the flickering 8mm films of home movies, flashes of a familiar past linking up with the present. Like John Prine''s "Lake Marie," which inspires the final tale, the lake town of Sherman, WI is the stage, the foundation and steadfast witness to life, death, loss, love and memory." -- A Reader, Ludington, MI

The old ones had grand and glorious machines. They inhabited glittering cities of light. They loved to fly (seemingly so dangerous to us) as documented in our first story: The Little Prince. They could fly across oceans. Their sailing vessels filled the skies They mapped the stars and sent men into space--but they went mad and destroyed themselves. We are their offspring. Faint traces of the old world can still be seen in our world, in ruins and refuse not yet been reclaimed by nature. We do not know what lies beyond our shores. Our seafaring vessels are not capable of traversing the globe. Over many generations our people have engaged in battles but nothing like the great wars of the past. We live a peaceful existence. We feel blessed. We share a common language with the old world, with our ancestors; even so, many of their words seem foreign to us and are difficult to decipher. The old ones were capable of great magic. They were able to record and transmit images of themselves across great distances. This art has now been lost. We do have transcripts of these talking pictures along with faded photographs, ragged books and other deteriorating volumes archived in makeshift libraries. Sadly the largest of these libraries recently burned. This is why we have decided to compile and distill from the existing archives a few stories that moved us. We are thinking of future generations, that there will be a record not just of sacred texts (stories of sky gods and virgin births), of poets and philosophers and of visionaries and prophets but we wish to produce (using the archives and literary techniques discovered in the books of the old ones) a glimpse into this ancient civilization before death and the whirlwind overtook them.ABOUT THE AUTHORSWill James is a poet and musician. After spending several years in Paris, France, he returned to the United States in late 2005.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon France in 1900. He disappeared in July 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France during World War II.

Killers will rise. Angels will fall.When death is just the beginning, how far will an assassin go to hunt her quarry?The grim congregation is assembled. The target lies ahead.If our broken reality is to stand a chance, Deborah and her ragtag crew must travel a long and perilous road.Traversing the plains of a hostile heaven, her Band of Heroes must endure all that fate can lay in their way.Ahead, the legion Office of God.Behind, the furious, Hell-torn past.Among them, doubt, fear and the conflicting loyalties of the lost.In a world where nothing is constant, where the whims of the unworthy sow seeds and the masquerade of sin and faith sways like the breeze, how much betrayal can one woman bear?How far can blind loyalty be pushed?

The old ones had grand and glorious machines. They could fly across oceans. Their sailing vessels filled the skies. They inhabited glittering cities of light. They mapped the stars and sent men into space--but they went mad and destroyed themselves. We are their offspring. Faint traces of the old world can still be seen in our world, in ruins and refuse not yet been reclaimed by nature. We do not know what lies beyond our shores. Our seafaring vessels are not capable of traversing the globe. Over many generations our people have engaged in battles but nothing like the great wars of the past between Eurasia, Atlantis, Oceania and the Illuminati. We live a peaceful existence. We feel blessed. We share a common language with the old world, with our ancestors; even so, many of their words seem foreign to us and are difficult to decipher. The old ones were capable of great magic. They were able to record and transmit images of themselves across great distances. This art has now been lost. We do have transcripts of these talking pictures along with faded photographs, ragged books and other deteriorating volumes archived in makeshift libraries. Sadly the largest of these libraries recently burned. This is why we have decided to compile and distill from the existing archives a few stories that moved us. We are thinking of future generations, that there will be a record not just of sacred texts (stories of sky gods and virgin births), of poets and philosophers and of visionaries and prophets (Nostradamus, George Orwell and Edgar Allan Poe), but we wish to produce (using the archives and literary techniques discovered in the books of the old ones) a glimpse into this ancient civilization before death and the whirlwind overtook them.

Peachland in Winter "On my first day of the ninth grade, I arrived at the bus stop early. Johnny O soon joined me at the bus stop. We did not know each other well but over the next few years we would become close friends. Johnny was a year younger than me and had recently formed a band with my old pal Syd on bass. Johnny was the front man, the guitarist and singer. He was small, good looking--he had that whole David Cassidy, Mick Jagger thing going for him. With my long wavy, blonde hair, I looked pretty good myself (earlier that summer I had gotten chubby, but I dieted on Fresca and yogurt and with the help of a major growth spurt; I was once again a contender for the girls'' hearts). I was dressed in my new clothes, a lavender shirt, corduroy bell bottoms and boots. (Soon there would be no division between school clothes and play clothes; I would wear blue jeans and whatever shirts my mother had laundered that week.)The ninth grade would be wild. While I wouldn''t become a total stoner (that would come later), I would dabble with drugs whenever I had the chance. I would find the girl of my dreams and then lose her. I would then be asked to join Johnny and Syd''s band (the best junior high band in the Twin Cities) and then be asked to leave. The thing about good fortune, about good luck, is that there always the chance of a reversal of that good fortune, of that glittering prize being stolen or lost. But a loss can bear its own kind of fruit, its own kind of wisdom, bittersweet and dark. This dark night can change us, transform us, if we let it. After all, it brought us the cantos of Dante after the death of Beatrice, and a whole universe of poetry and song."

Will James first took up the guitar at the age of 11 in his hometown of Minneapolis. He moved to Texas at 17. He now lives in Arkansas.

Will James first took up the guitar at the age of 11 in his hometown of Minneapolis. He moved to Texas at 17. He now lives in Arkansas.

Deborah''s 39th contract seems so easy, but the fortunes of an assassin can change on a dime.Bleeding her last on the hard wooden floor, Deborah is about to discover that death is just the beginning of her journey. What lies ahead will test her resolve, her beliefs and her very concept of reality.These ethereal beings that seem so interested in her fate? Their tale might be outlandish. It might be incredible. It might be ridiculous. But if it''s true? Then her 40th contract could prove to be a kill like no other. She''ll need to confront more than just the forces that stand in her way. She''ll need to confront more than just this dying reality. She''ll need to confront her own past. She''ll need to confront her own demons. And she''ll need a team.

A graphic novel based on the true story of the astronaut testing program that enlisted thirteen women who believed they would be considered serious candidates to be among the first Americans in space. The women struggled to contribute to the space program in the face of political opposition, personal vendettas, and the prevailing sexism of the period. Includes a short interview (1 page) with Susan Kilrain, a former NASA pilot.

Smoky, the Cowhorse is the story of a horse--from his first hours on the prairie sod to his final years out to pasture. Smoky grows up wild and wise to the ways to the range, fighting wolves and braving stiff winds. Clint, a bronco-busting cowboy on the R