Western Myth

"No one, and I mean no one, combines great stories, good information, and laugh-out-loud humor more seamlessly than Philips."—Daniel Pritchett, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Historian Settle into your easy chair and let the 5-Minute History of the Wild West carry you back "to those thrilling days of yesteryear!" Tales include: The decades-long search for the mysterious lady who witnessed the Gunfight at the OK Corral. A medicine man is beaten and renamed Coyote Vagina after a famous battle. The son of a Western legend shoots up a courtroom to win an acquittal. A single attack forces ...

Louis L’Amour Meets Lovecraft Porter Rockwell, wanted for a murder he did not commit, is hiding out in Old California selling whiskey to thirsty forty-niners. When his friends dig up some monstrous bones and a peculiar book and offer to sell it for a helluva price, Porter can’t resist the mystery. But when both his night bartender and the sellers are murdered at his saloon Porter has to find out what the mysterious artifacts are all about. With some Native American legends, Sasquatch, Lovecraftian horror, and murderous bandits thrown in, not even bullets and blades can stop Rockwell ...

Set in an ancient West African kingdom, The Gay King tells the story of King Adebayo, a revered ruler carrying a secret that could shatter his kingdom. While tradition dictates he marry, his heart is drawn to Kwame, the twin brother of his intended bride. As their forbidden love deepens, Adebayo faces an impossible choice: uphold his duty or risk everything for a love that could transform his kingdom. A timeless romance where love challenges tradition and identity finds its true voice. For readers captivated by the rich history and vibrant cultures of Africa, this tale offers a profound ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Three lives, one hundred years, one ghost town: an explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife “I’ve loved every book Téa Obreht has...

RC Sandoval has faced monsters, killers, and the ghosts of his own past — but nothing in his life prepared him for what waits in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When a legendary lost treasure resurfaces, RC is pulled into a deadly hunt that cuts through abandoned mining camps, cartel‑scarred borderlands, and the haunted high country where the land itself feels alive… and hungry. What starts as a search for answers becomes a fight for survival against a creature born of frontier violence, starvation, and the unforgiving mountains. As bodies fall and old wounds reopen, RC must rely on ...

"In classical Greece men called rhapsodes memorized and recited “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” My own rhapsode is the English actor Dan Stevens, whom fans of “Downton Abbey” will know as Matthew Crawley. He’s been performing the Robert Fitzgerald translation, and no Hellene could...

Read this for free with your Kindle Unlimited Membership Greece is a colorful country and has always been the target of many tourists looking to have a relaxing time. However, what many people do not seem to know is that Greece also packs a rich history – all lying beneath the beautiful landscapes and beaches. Its history starts thousands of years before the Christian calendar was used – and each moment represents a cultural artifact that enriched more than a single country. Greece went through many wars – big and small. Some were fought because certain conquerors had their eyes on ...

The gods of Olympus never disappeared. They live in our language, our psychology, our political institutions, our literature, and the stories we continue to tell. Their temples may have fallen into ruin, but the ideas encoded within Greek mythology still shape how we understand power, desire, conflict, identity, heroism, suffering, and death. The Olympian Mirror is not simply another collection of Greek myths. It is an illuminating exploration of what those myths mean—and why they remain relevant thousands of years after they were first told. Ancient Greek mythology functioned as a ...

Whether sitting down with a militia member seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.

In this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe's greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so central to Western mythology and culture. He demonstrates how the main features of the legend are from an older...

"The entire cowboy-outlaw era, which reached its climax in 1897 and ended around 1905, comes vividly alive in this kaleidoscopic work ... countless other instances of robbing, stealing and retribution, are woven splendidly into this rousing saga of the closing years of the outlaw epoch of the...

In July 1876, three weeks after Little Bighorn, army scout William F. Cody killed a Cheyenne warrior named Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek. Within weeks he was performing the killing on a Rochester stage — in the same black velvet costume he had worn when it happened. He was not dramatizing the frontier after the fact. He was reenacting it while it was still running — and for the next four decades that is what he kept doing, for paying audiences, on a scale no one has matched since. Nearly everything you picture when you picture the Old West — the buckskin scout, the stagecoach chased ...

Step into the Wild West, where the truth is stranger, messier, and far more entertaining than anything Hollywood invented. Strange But True: The Weird History of the Wild West explores the real stories behind cowboys, outlaws, gunfighters, boomtowns, brothels, snake-oil salesmen, stagecoaches, gold rushes, and frontier legends. Discover why cowboys were never one kind of person, how cattle drives became thousand-mile disasters with horns, why towns asked visitors to surrender their guns, and how outlaws turned criminal reputations into surprisingly successful brands. Along the way, meet ...

Explore Captivating African Mythology and Egyptian Gods Two captivating manuscripts in one book: African Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Africa Egyptian Gods: A Captivating Guide to Atum, Horus, Seth, Isis, Anubis, Ra, Thoth, Sekhmet, Geb, Hathor and Other Gods and Goddesses of Ancient EgyptThe continent of Africa is home to fifty-four countries that together harbor over three thousand cultures, each with their own ways of life and each with their own stories. Some of these stories have their origins in the folk beliefs of people native to their ...

🐍 NAGAS: HUMANS, SERPENTS, SHAPESHIFTERS Uncover the enduring mystery of the Naga—the ancient serpent deities woven into the foundation of history, myth, and faith across the world. The Naga is more than a mythological monster; it is a foundational archetype that spans continents and thousands of years, capable of chaos, wisdom, and cosmic creation. Yet, despite its centrality to Buddhist, Hindu, and indigenous cultures, the true breadth of its influence remains largely misunderstood. In this definitive, meticulously researched volume, Dr. Kaelen Thorne provides the first comprehensive...

London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, Joanna and Mikey. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the ruthless Marauders -- the German Army led by Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer. Unsure if the virus has spread past England's borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook hunts for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the survivors. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation.

"What a sweet child," says a newcomer in town about Goldilocks. "That's what you think," a neighbor replies. For Goldilocks is one of those naughty little girls who does exactly as she pleases, even if that means sampling the three bears' porridge, breaking Baby Bear's chair, and sleeping in his bed.

Most books about Appalachian folklore begin with the words "locals say." This one gives you the court records. You have read the other ones. Forty legends, two paragraphs each, every story introduced by an anonymous source that cannot be checked. You finish the book unable to tell the difference between a legend with a courthouse file behind it and one somebody invented for a website in 1994. Primeval Appalachian Folklore takes the opposite approach. Every story here comes with a county, a date, and wherever possible the name of the person who told it and the name of the person who wrote it...

"As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story about the Old West."—AudioFile The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling...

WINNER OF THE 2025 ALDISS AWARD FOR WORLD BUILDING A young magician fighting for liberation is drawn into a battle between the gods in this West African-inspired epic from an incredible new voice in fantasy . . . Rumi and his family are Odu, stricken with poverty and disparaged by the other...