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The only thing I had read by Pearl S. Buck before this collection was The Good Earth, which I enjoyed very much. These stories are really good too. I think my favorite story is "The Beauty," though.
It is about the relationship between a very traditional Chinese wife and the bar girl her husband loves. Apr 25, Stacey Culpepper rated it it was amazing. I enjoyed reading this collection from Pearl S.
Mary-Clare rated it liked it Nov 02, Fourteen Western tales, by turns boisterous, bawdy, shocking, sentimental. These are stories with a difference. I just loved it! Be the first to ask a question about Fourteen Western Stories.
The common thread in most of the short stories is of course love sometimes mixed with tragedy. I like the Asian influence throughout because of the authors'personal experience with the culture but more importantly it highlighted a diversity in characters at a time in American History when that was not popular. For that reason alone Ms. Buck should be celebrated! Aug 13, Ellen rated it liked it. I'm not always a fan of short stories, however several of these were good and several I couldn't get into at all.
As usual the ones I liked had an Asian flair and the ones I didn't were a bit to white-bread American. May 14, Sherrill rated it liked it. I have been enjoying her books.
Mar 15, Gina House rated it it was amazing. Beautiful book in every way. Dec 06, Katie rated it really liked it Shelves: Jun 21, Linda rated it liked it. Short stories featuring Asians in both China and the U. Working from a list of books I read years ago. Apr 07, Al rated it it was ok. Not my cup of tea. Joellen rated it it was amazing Aug 30, Deepa Jayabhadran rated it it was amazing Jun 12, Holly rated it it was amazing Apr 24, Matt rated it really liked it Jul 07, Lindsey Lane rated it liked it May 30, Mary Alice rated it liked it Mar 22, The first treks were led by gruff, Bret and Bart Maverick and in later seasons, their English cousin, Beau are well dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.
Poker five-card draw is Two Secret Service Agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West. TV-PG 25 min Western. Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the s. Approved 25 min Western. The wild west adventures of a free-spirited girl and her wild stallion horse companion. It is the s in the Wyoming Territory. Slim Sherman and his fourteen-year-old brother Andy try to hang on to their ranch after their father was shot by a land grabber.
TV-PG 30 min Western.
A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the s. Not Rated 30 min Comedy, Western. The misadventures of the staff and neighbors of a remote U. Army outpost in the Wild West.
PG 60 min Western. Big John wants to establish his cattle empire despite Indian hostility.
He's aided by brother Buck and son Unrated min Adventure, Biography, Drama. TV-G 30 min Western. TV 45 min Action, Adventure, Comedy. A bounty hunter rides the Old West, fighting bad guys, many with futuristic-type gadgets. When an Indian village is threatened by ex-Confederate soldiers, several villagers head out to seek help. They recruit seven men, each with unique skills, who return to the village and take After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the west looking for fights, women, and bad guys to beat up.
His job changed from episode to episode.
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, just before and during the Revolutionary War. In Janestown on the Alberta-Montana border, three women band together for survival after the men in their town are murdered. A father and son team up with America's first female detective to solve crimes in the Wild West.
The Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West. Political and natural disasters ravaged country both Europe and the four khanates of the Mongol Empire. Consequently, the Mongol court was driven out of China and retreated to Mongolia, the Ilkhanate collapsed in Persia, the Chaghatayid dissolved and broke into two parts and the Golden Horde lost its position as great power in Eastern Europe.
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