The Rifleman’s Rifle :
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The definitive work on the Winchester Pre-64 Model 70, authorized by Winchester (both Olin Corporation and U.S. Repeating Arms Co.) with over 350 pages and over 500 photographs (many in full color) is an in-depth study of the Model 70, 1936-1963, and presents fresh information on the Model 54 and the new Model 70. Factory blueprints, records of “Net Orders Received,” shipping ledgers, and the “Basic Nomenclature List” were analyzed; catalogs for every year were studied. In short, this is the MOST COMPLETE REFERENCE BOOK PUBLISHED ON THE MODEL 70.
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R.L. Wilson. Winchester An American Legend, “A Model 70 book with exhaustive information is Roger Rule’s The Rifleman’s Rifle, a tome every Model 70 collector must have.”
Frank De Haas. Bolt Actrion Rifles. “WOW, what a book! The Rifleman’s Rifle — it is grand. You were the right person to have written it…”
Jim Carmichel. Outdoor Life. “Let me tell you that I think your book on the Model 70 Winchester rifle is absolutely wonderful. The work you put into this book is astounding.”
American Rifleman. “…the Winchester pre-64 Model 70 rifle is covered in exhaustive detail — 368 p. “For those who would like to delve further into the history and development of the Model 70, we recommend The Rifleman’s Rifle by Roger C Rule.”
This is a novel of Sarah Winchester, the heiress of the Winchester rifle fortune, who, after the deaths of her daughter and husband, was told by a Spiritualist medium that evil spirits, killed by Winchester rifles, were now avengingly murdering her family. Given advice to thwart them, she moved from New England to California, becoming an early feminist and creating a new life for herself: one of eccentricity, romance, and intrigue, while overcoming powerful forces against her and building one of the largest homes in American history. Today, the Winchester Mystery House is open for tours.
Stealing Home:
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“STEALING HOME” tells the story of 13-year-old William Martin, a child born in a white middle class family in Kansas City in 1958 when segregation was prevalent. After William’s tolerant father discovers that peer pressure has given William a prejudice worldview, maliciously believing everything he has ever heard about black people, Mr. Martin brings home a black orphan, Alex, hoping that getting to know Alex will remedy it.
The two teenagers strike up an unlikely friendship. William’s life takes an unexpected turn when he and his mischievous friend, Robert, scheme to sneak Alex into a public segregated pool where Alex ends up saving a girl from drowning.
William and Alex’s friendship is challenged when William’s prized possession, his baseball signed for him by the New York Yankees, turns up missing when Alex leaves his home. Alex is suspected of the theft and William finds his prejudiced feelings once again reinforced. He becomes a detective to find out the truth.
Nowhere in the story is the “N” word used. The climax consists of a G-rated fight with Alex saving his white friends through his Judo training.
BILL TILGHMAN AND THE ORIGINAL WILD BUNCH
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Bill Tilghman, as a Wild West lawman was the most underrated in history, but not by his peers. Bat Masterson said, “Of all of us, he was the best.” Bat included Wyatt Earp, himself and other famous lawmen. From the long-lasting TV show, Gunsmoke, Matt Dillon was the personification of Tilghman, the Dodge City Marshal.
After appointed U.S. Marshal, he was mainly responsible for the demise of the notorious original Wild Bunch (not the hole-in-the-wall gang later): Bill Doolin, Billy Dalton, Bill Raidler, Red Buck, Arkansas Tom, Tulsa Jack, Dick West, Dynamite Dick, Charley Peirce, Bitter Creek Newcomb, Little Britches and Cattle Annie.
Tilghman was one of few men that lived during the time that spanned hunting buffalo to stopping narcotics flown in from Mexico. He became the Chief of Police of Oklahoma City and was elected as one of the first senators of the new state. Happily married to his second wife, Zoe, he was prosperous, owned a Kentucky Derby winner, founded a movie film company, and had a starring role.
Even at 70, he continued his law enforcement, cleaned up the oil boom town of Cromwell and was killed in action. He was the first lawman to have his casket lie in state in the capitol rotunda with an honor guard. This novel contains actual dates and events.
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