Bill Gulick
Teoksen Roadside History of Oregon tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Bill Gulick, Bill Gulick was born in 1916 in Missouri. He does not consider what he writes to be westerns, but merely stories set in the West. He has written such books as, "Bend of the Snake" and "Liveliest Town in the West."
Tekijän teokset
Roll On, Columbia: To the Pacific : A Historical Novel (To the Pacific/Bill Gulick, Bk 1) (1997) 4 kappaletta
The Country Club Caper 3 kappaletta
White men, red men, and mountain men 1 kappale
Abilene or Bust! 1 kappale
Associated Works
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Avustaja — 104 kappaletta
The Golden Spurs: The Best of Western Short Fiction (Western Writers of America ) (1991) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Best of the West: Classic Stories from the American Frontier, Volume 2 [Audiobook] (2003) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1916-02-22
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Walla Walla, Washington, USA
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Saddleman Award (1983)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
This book is vol. 1 in a trilogy. A story about St.Louis, the frontier, the Nez Perce and several generations of one family during the Lewis and Clark era.
Bill Gulick is one of the premier authors of Northwest history.
FROM THE JACKET: "Bill Gulick is obviously on the side of deviltry and disorder and his characters have a warmth and likability that you can't resist. He's given his own special twist to the ancient and disreputable American tradition of the tall tale and comes up with some of the freshest entertainment of the season..." FROM THE FOREWARD by the author: "If all the ornery reprobates of the Old West that deserved hanging had been hanged the population of the country this side of the Mississippi would be considerably smaller than it is today. It's lots more fun to write about ornery, contrary characters than it is about good ones. Upright people are sadly limited in the things they can do, but the ornery character can do anything that comes into his head. The stories in this collection have one thing in common: they're full of uninhibited characters whose antics I had fun describing..."… (lisätietoja)
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