American
History
Our
surroundings don't matter.
The important thing is what we'll find beyond
the last hill
even
if the only place really belonging to us,
is the one we bring into our heart.
The East Border
The new frontier in
For to pay homage to the Master Zane Grey.
(Cover drawn by G.Crepax for Sonzogno)
Tanimari, Vento Solitario (Tanimari)
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Vol.1, August 1982 - Vol.2, September
1982
The Great Lakes and the forests, the
The Way to West
L'Ultimo Cielo
(The Last Sky) - Sonzogno, February 1967
An handful of young men towards
Rio
Two men drawn together by a peculiar
friendship-ostility relationship,
a still-wild
This novel has been turned into film script.
An Apache legend about a gold lode, and a girl, sole repository of its
secret.
L'Anima Selvaggia (Wild Soul)
- Sonzogno Vol.1, November 1967 - Vol.2, December 1967
The history of a family interwined with the Texas
from
Dalla Parte
Sove Soffia il Vento (Windward)
- Sonzogno Voll.1 and 2, September 1969
Together with rebels around
- Sonzogno, December 1970
In 1835
Civil War
Lettie Huddlestone
- Sonzogno Vol.1, April 1968 - Vol.2, May 1968
Missouri in Quantrill's days, a family of farmers, and the war seen
through a young man's eyes.
The Cattle Trails
Malpaso
- Sonzogno - Voll. 1 and 2, March 1972
How the cattle trails were opened: Dodge,
The history of a man, Dan Marrow, ready to face any kind of struggle
until the last one with his forbidden love.
Il Sentiero
della Vendetta (Revenge Trail)
- Sonzogno, December 1968
Deed Woghan is a broken man. At 36, he bears no more desires nor seeks
for anything; but in
Gloria del Mattino
(Morning Glory)
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A town marshal last three days of life - and all his memories - into a
forgotten West's unremarkable town.
A short, very intense novel, with crepuscular tone mixed with an epic
one, and a thriller day by day action.
Elijah McGowen's cycle
"Elijah McGowen is a Federal
Marshal. But he's also an eerie individual, shady, fascinating and
unpredictable, born from the forced union between a Mormon and a Gentile woman,
rebel against his own world: he's a man who doesn't want to belong to anything
or anybody but himself..."
Adios, Amigo -
Sonzogno, April 1969
In Arizona about 1850 Federal Marshal
Elijah McGowen, renegade son of a Mormon, go undercover between desperados for
find a killer, Sol Hannagan, guilty for the massacre of a family. He take the
identity of US Official Charlie Shuterland, traitor of his fellows soldiers of
Fort Sheldon, the last outpost in the country, and take with him the last
survivor of the family, the young girl Corail. In the nest of desperados
McGowen take a hard trial, and his time is running out when his undercover fall
apart. Imprisoned with Hannagan, the two find well together; to make use of his
ability, McGowen free both of them and Corail from the desperados. Unspoken
friendship grow between the two man, fighting back-to-back on the way to Fort
Sheldon for deliver safe the young girl and others Apache raids survivor. Until
the last day…
McGowen is back, without the badge symbol
of the aim in his life. The death of his wife Corail left him with a three
years daughter and a Mormon War at hand, with all ghost from his past of a
renegade mormon trained for be a church's chief, and his father hard presence
in the Virgin River War.
Coming back into the desperados' land, a
land to conquer and snatch away from Apaches and outlaws, both unwilling to
allow a new community settling in
L'Ultimo Sentiero (The Last Trail)
Once again Apaches, desperados, Mormons,
into a land where conquerors are planting their seed... the path's ending for a
man who, at least, learned to know peace, and is ready to offer his life on
behalf of his woman and his child.
Reprint
Adios,
Amigo
- June 1986
The
I Fiumi del
Vento
(Popo Agie
Time)
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From the preface:
This story has been get out from diaries
and notes belonging to Ray T.
Logan has been guide, hunter, gold
digger, stagecoach driver, saloon owner... but a writer he was not. The notes
were written a long time after the related events, nevertheless they bring
back, lively in an unbelievable way, times and vicissitudes otherwise lost,
and, like it happens to reappraised memories, they often ring with feelings.
Ray T. Logan's individual history is
closely linked with the history - fluid into the extreme - of American West,
starting in 1849.
In that year the
These three great events, together,
triggered the Native Americans Question - the White Man Question, to Shoshones
and other tribes, from the
So, Logan witnesses Denver's birth and
Sioux extermination; in front of his eyes the great plains, frozen by Wasiya
Wind and black with buffaloes, become empty and scarred by the railroad's long
slashes; he witnesses roads and towns changing the land's face, up to the
oil-wells' coming of in 1905. He lives, and fights, all the long struggle
that'll leave the American West transformed, at the dawning of the next
century.
"Ray Logan restrained his horse at
the Main Street entrance, resting to restore his breath. He didn't like to come
back into an already-known place. But that place was different.
Different from any other on Earth. There,
the Popo Agie were born. There, was his home. Home.
A strange word, he'd never use. Because
if you stop, you allow your shadow to get entangled, and sprout roots. At
least, so Indians used to say."
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