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Bryan brings us bad men who were, alas, merely human, and sometimes barely that... my nominee as the fellow hardest to beat at swapping anecdotes". (Tony Hillerman)"Bryan's book gives a good account of about twenty-one lawless brigands ... fascinating history for the general reader". (New Mexico Historical Review)"Robbers, Rogues, and Ruffians supplies a fresh bumper crop of good badmen". (Wild West)"Bryan spins a great yarn, and this book is ...

Popular historian and Spur-award winner Howard Bryan has been delving into obscure corners of Southwest history since his early years as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book offers a wealth of fascinating true stories of old Santa Fe that Bryan uncovered researching 19th century newspaper archives, and through personal interviews with old-timers who remembered a way of life that had given way to the modern age. Their recolle...

Italien, 1944. Während der Zweite Weltkrieg unvermindert lodert, wird die 332nd Fighter Group - die erste afroamerikanische Lufteinheit - in Italien stationiert, wo sie mit zweitklassigen Einsätzen abgespeist wird. Den Stolz der Piloten mindert das nicht. Jetzt wollen sie beweisen, was wirklich in ihnen steckt. Vor allem Marty ''Easy'' Julian und Joe ''Lightning'' Little brennen auf Einsätze - auch wenn das bedeutet, sich über die Anweisungen ...

Italien, 1944. Während der Zweite Weltkrieg unvermindert lodert, wird die 332nd Fighter Group - die erste afroamerikanische Lufteinheit - in Italien stationiert, wo sie mit zweitklassigen Einsätzen abgespeist wird. Den Stolz der Piloten mindert das nicht. Jetzt wollen sie beweisen, was wirklich in ihnen steckt. Vor allem Marty ''Easy'' Julian und Joe ''Lightning'' Little brennen auf Einsätze - auch wenn das bedeutet, sich über die Anweisungen ...

Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4, 000 shots at him without effect. In this informative and entertaining book, Howard Bryan examines the facts and legends surrounding Baca's long and astonishing career as a gunfighter and ruffian, lawyer, sheriff, mayor, district attorney, and a perennial candidate for political office. This remarkabl...

Albuquerque Remembered" is an informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City." Under the flags of Spain, Mexico, the United States, and for a brief period, the Confederate States, Albuquerque grew from a small farm and ranch village in the northern reaches of New Spain to the thirty-fifth largest city in the United States. Howard Bryan devotes special attention to some of the colorful characters who have populated the city's history, a...

Historic photos and a lively text chronicle dramatic events from the time of wagon trains to the arrival of airplanes. Bryan drew most of these tales, many published here for the first time in book form, from the pages of early newspapers and from the accounts of New Mexico old-timers whom Bryan interviewed in the 1950s and 1960s.