Thunder over the Prairie

Name: Thunder over the Prairie
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.net/authors/Chris-Enss/245645038
ISBN: 9780762744930

The True Story Of A Murder And A Manhunt By The Greatest Posse Of All Time

By Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian

LIST PRICE $14.95

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About The Book

Future legends of the Old West, Charlie Bassett, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Bill Tilghman were the lawmen who patrolled the unruly streets. When a cattle baron’s son fled town after the shooting of the popular saloon singer named Dora Hand, the four men--all experts with a gun who knew the harsh, desertlike surrounding terrain--hunted him down like "Thunder Over the Prairie." The posse's ride across the desolate landscape to seek justice influenced the men's friendship, their careers, and their feelings about the justice system. This account of that event is a fast-paced, cinematic glimpse into the Old West that was.

About The Authors

Chris Enss

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss’s most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont “The Fifth Marx Brother,” and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.

Howard Kazanjian

Product Details

Publisher: TwoDot (June 2, 2009)
Length: 168 pages
ISBN13: 9780762744930

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Raves and Reviews

I just finished “Thunder Over the Prairie.” It was fantastic! The story was totally captivating. I love the way we started by meeting Dora, and were given just enough information about her to grow to like her and then she’s taken away from us. I guess that’s kind of how her life was. The reader feels just like the people of Dodge City must have felt, to lose her so early and tragically. Then we meet the posse. The names are all familiar but their stories not as well known. To hear them swap stories between themselves, then to read their histories, gets us to understand how it is that they are all here at this particular time and together for this event. You feel that they’re destined to succeed in capturing this animal. How could they fail? I loved the book and have recommended it to others already.

Dale Warshaw, Literary Critic

KMSB TV Tucson, AZ.

Thunder Over the Prairie, written with cinematic clarity and a galloping pace, is a wonderful primer for the considerable literature on Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp et. al. This accessible narrative of a fascinating episode in the careers of these well-known western icons is filled with characters that are archetypal yet utterly fresh at the same time. This charming book is the perfect read for anyone lingering over a drink (or two) in a dusty western saloon on a lazy afternoon.

Jay O’Connell, author of Train Robber’s Daughter: The Melodramatic Life of Eva Evans, 1876-1970

“Lawmen, cowboys, songbirds and soiled doves…it doesn’t get much better. A shooting, a chase and a trial whose verdict changes all of their lives. Thunder Over the Prairie is a great story from the history of our American West, warts and all.”

Dakota & Sunny Livesay

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