Collected Western Stories

by Paul Morrison

Overview

COLLECTED WESTERN STORIES is inspired by the American West. They are the stories of adventurers and explorers of the lands inhabited by the Native Americans who had to constantly fight the newcomers whom they considered invaders. The stories develop paradoxical heroes: settlers and their families, risking all to begin a new life, as well as the gunfighters who sought to impose the rule of the gun. Another Notch for Sam and The Hanging Tree are stories of these gunfighters while in Comanche Run and The Wind Spirit, the reader will witness the struggles of the Native Americans.

Important events in American history are not overlooked. The story, Grey Steel, Rivets and Canvas tells of the last attempt by the Confederacy to change the course of the Civil War. The plan is an ambitious one which may just work. Or will it? Western Delight will take the reader, travelling in a time machine back to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in a story which has a strange twist to its end. In yet another story, The Last Ride, we hear first-hand, an eye-witness account of the Little Big Horn battle from a soldier in a battle when there were no survivors from Custer’s command. How did he survive when all of the others died? The seventeen stories in this collection will inspire and entertain all who are interested in the American West and even those who aren’t, but who just love a good story and a good read…

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044626966
Publisher:	Paul Morrison
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Collected Series , #6
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	747 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Morrison, a retired museologist, has also been a writer for most of his life. “I cannot remember a time when I was not writing, even when I was five or six years old. I grew up with books such as TREASURE ISLAND, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and THE TIME MACHINE — these and the many other books which I read in my early years fed my imagination, a voracious imagination transporting me to faraway places, other worlds and to other times in both the recent and the more distant past...” Many of these worlds and places are visited in the novels and short story collections he has written.

Besides a love of fiction, Paul also reads widely on ancient history and archaeology. “I am particularly interested in Ancient Egypt, mainly Old Kingdom Egypt during the age of the pyramid builders. I have always been intrigued as to how the pyramids were built and also about the lives of the pharaohs and the workers who constructed the pyramids. There were many questions filling my mind, but few if any answers.” This inquiring interest led to the GIZA TRILOGY books, THE PHARAOH, THE SPHINX and THE THREE QUEENS, a monumental work of well-researched fiction set against the backdrop of the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Together, with their associated books, THE DIVINE LIGHT, ETERNAL EGYPT (Supplement to the Giza Trilogy), and SECRET OF THE PYRAMID, these books total more than 1.3 million words! Other books written by Paul cover a wide range of subjects including historical fiction, science fiction, ghost and detective stories as well as many other genres.

Paul currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife in a house overlooking the Derwent River. “The magnificent views of Hobart and Mount Wellington inspire me in my writings — but the most important inspiration is my wife, Helena.”