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Jones, Douglas Clyde was born on December 6, 1924 in Winslow, Arkansas, United States. Son of Marvin Clyde and Bethel Mae (Stockburger) Jones.
(“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significan...)
“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.”—The New York Times Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful, traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessed hangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to the courtroom, Winding Stair is a classic historical novel that brings to vivid life a bygone era.
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(Eben Pay, a United States attorney from the Native Americ...)
Eben Pay, a United States attorney from the Native American territory, and his Native American companion, Joe Mountain, join the American troops in Cuba fighting the Spanish for Cuban independence, encountering the realities of war. Reprint.
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(Indian agent James McLaughlin and reservation teacher Wil...)
Indian agent James McLaughlin and reservation teacher Willa Mae Favory uncover the truth about the men, women, and government with whom they live and work during an attempt to arrest Sitting Bull and end the frightening Ghost Dance, as they realize their love for and loyalty to the Sioux. Reprint.
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An insightful glimpse into America's frontier days depicts the Fawley family, among the unsung heroes of the expansion westward, the common people who settled the frontier and whose main concern was their own survival. 10,000 first printing.
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(In 1890, the American Indians are a vanquished people, li...)
In 1890, the American Indians are a vanquished people, living primarily on reservations, until the Ghost Dance spreads among the Lakota Sioux and the army is sent in to pacify the Indians, leading to inevitable tragedy. Reprint.
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Leaving his wife and children behind to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Martin Hasford embarks on a path from which he may never return. War has ripped his nation apart, and like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his family and his sense of duty. Along the way he joins up with the Fawley brothers, backwoods young men running straight from the law into the Confederate Army; Beverly Cass, once the son of plantation privilege yet now in the trenches; Guthrie Scaggs, a country judge turned army officer; Sidney Dinsmore, a no-account drunk; and Liverpool Morgan, a Welsh gambler and soldier by habit more than necessity. Together these men form a tight niche in the Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, trudging from the Ozark foothills, headed east, determined to beat back the Yankees and end the war. From Chickamauga to Spotsylvania, from Gettysburg to Appomatox, and countless battles in between, The Barefoot Brigade is an extraordinary story that noted historian James McPherson called "One of the best Civil War novels I have read."
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“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The New York Times Book Review From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle. Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst battlegrounds in the West.
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When former marshal Oscar Schiller investigates the violent slaying of Temperance Moon, the legendary female outlaw, he rides straight into a web of jealousy, blackmail, and deceit. Reprint.
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Jones, Douglas Clyde was born on December 6, 1924 in Winslow, Arkansas, United States. Son of Marvin Clyde and Bethel Mae (Stockburger) Jones.
Following the divorce of his parents, he graduated from the Fayetteville, Arkansas high school in 1942 and was drafted into the army, where he served in the Pacific Theater. Following his discharge, Jones attended the University of Arkansas and obtained a bachelor"s degree in journalism in 1949.
As a boy, he had lived for a time in Fort Smith, Arkansas, adjacent to former Indian territory. He subsequently returned to the army and served for another twenty years. In service, he obtained a master"s degree from the University of Wisconsin.
After retiring as a Lieutenant
Colonel in 1968 after twenty-five years of service, Jones taught journalism at Wisconsin for six years. Jones wrote his first novel, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, which was soon turned into a television drama, based on the premise that Custer had survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
In addition to his writings, Jones was also a painter in the western genre and a jazz musician. Douglas Jones died in Fayetteville of obstructive pulmonary disease.
In an effort to keep his work alive, in November 2010, New American Library reissued Jones"s Civil War novel Elkhorn Tavern in trade paperback.
lieutenant is the first of four planned reissues of his novels.
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(In 1890, the American Indians are a vanquished people, li...)
(In 1890, the American Indians are a vanquished people, li...)
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(Boone Fawley and his family head south into Arkansas in 1...)
(The story of Chosen, a ten-year-old girl captured in the ...)
(When former marshal Oscar Schiller investigates the viole...)
(When former marshal Oscar Schiller investigates the viole...)
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(-- 1992 Owen Wister Award, Western Writers of America)
(-- 1992 Owen Wister Award, Western Writers of America)
(“One of the best Civil War novels I have read.”—James M. ...)
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Served with United States Army, 1943-1945, World World War II, PTO.
Married Mary Arnold, January 1, 1949. Children: Mary Glenn, Martha Claire, Kathryn Greer, Douglas Eben.