Bruce Olds

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made ...

• Aug-2001
• / Historical
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An American Library Association Notable Book

John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over th...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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Abandoning the Wisconsin dairy farm of his bookish, sexually precocious youth, Franklyn Shivs arrives in turn-of-thecentury Chicago, where his position as a newspaper reporter, a job to which he is singularly ill-suited, obliges his reluctant partici...

• Mar-2018
• / Historical
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This Way Slaughter, an original work of literary, biographical fiction about “the Voice of the Texas Revolution” and Commander of the Alamo, William Barret Travis, marks the first and only time that figure has received full-length treatment in a ...