Search Results: The Holts by Dana Fuller Ross

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1993. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 352 Pages. No marks or stamps to this book. When covered wagons rolled along the Oregon Trail, crossed the Rockies, and brought the first settlers to the magnificent American West, one man became a legend in his own time. He was wagon master Whip Holt, and his blood ran hot with the kind of courage needed to tame a wild land. His indomitable spirit has been inherited, along with his vision of a proud American West, by his descendants in a family so extraordinary, so destined for greatness, that the whole world will know their names: The Holts 1887. The full fury of a western winter rages across the land. Blizzards take their toll of ranches in the Dakota Badlands, leaving thousands of families ruined. The American West is a land that breaks the weak without mercy: only the strong survive. The Holts are survivors. But the winter of 1887 will test them and begin the events… Read More

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1993. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 352 Pages. Brand new condition. No marks or stamps to this book. When covered wagons rolled along the Oregon Trail, crossed the Rockies, and brought the first settlers to the magnificent American West, one man became a legend in his own time. He was wagon master Whip Holt, and his blood ran hot with the kind of courage needed to tame a wild land. His indomitable spirit has been inherited, along with his vision of a proud American West, by his descendants in a family so extraordinary, so destined for greatness, that the whole world will know their names: The Holts 1887. The full fury of a western winter rages across the land. Blizzards take their toll of ranches in the Dakota Badlands, leaving thousands of families ruined. The American West is a land that breaks the weak without mercy: only the strong survive. The Holts are survivors. But the winter of 1887 will test them… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 340 Pages. Octobeer 1992 Edition. Tight, bright, square book with no marks or stamps. 1896. As gold fever sweeps the nation, a great migration north begins to the Yukon Territory of Canada, where the adventurous Frank Blake chases his dreams of fortune aboard a rickety steamer headed for the uncharted waters of the Klondike --- pursued by a dangerous enemy bent on deadly vengeance. Across the continent, on New York's teeming shores, daring trailblazer Dr. Janessa Holt Lawrence scandalizes eastern society with her radical discoveries and impassioned struggle for women's rights. And amid the dazzle and deception of Washington's glittering social whirl, Toby Holt fights adesperate battle with President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt to prevent a war that could alter the fate of a nation. Also includes a preview of Expedition! which is the second book in the Wagons West Frontier Trilogy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. May 1992 Edition. 341 Pages. Tight straight book with no marks or stamps. 1895. In a boxcar speeding west to California's oil fields, a young boy has hitched a ride to adventure, or to tragedy. Seventeen-year-old Frank Blake, great-grandson of frontiersman Whip Holt has stormed out of his parent's house in anger and is heading toward a rendezvous with real life at its most raw and shocking. Meanwhile, his cousin, San Francisco newsman Tim Holt, is getting mixed up with a very different kind of trouble. A woman who may be too much for even a Holt to handle. This indomitable suffragist won't let billy clubs or jails stop her from joining the political battle of the century. Tim soon learns he has a spitfire in his arms who needs more than love: she needs a man strong enough to let her be free.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. May 1992 Edition. 341 Pages. Tight straight book with no marks or stamps. 1895. In a boxcar speeding west to California's oil fields, a young boy has hitched a ride to adventure, or to tragedy. Seventeen-year-old Frank Blake, great-grandson of frontiersman Whip Holt has stormed out of his parent's house in anger and is heading toward a rendezvous with real life at its most raw and shocking. Meanwhile, his cousin, San Francisco newsman Tim Holt, is getting mixed up with a very different kind of trouble. A woman who may be too much for even a Holt to handle. This indomitable suffragist won't let billy clubs or jails stop her from joining the political battle of the century. Tim soon learns he has a spitfire in his arms who needs more than love: she needs a man strong enough to let her be free.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Third Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 340 Pages. October 1992 Edition. Tight square book with no marks or stamps. In 1896 as gold fever sweeps the nation, a great migration north begins to the Yukon Territory of Canada, where the adventurous Frank Blake chases his dreams of fortune aboard a rickety steamer headed for the uncharted waters of the Klondike --- pursued by a dangerous enemy bent on deadly vengeance. Across the continent, on New York's teeming shores, daring trailblazer Dr. Janessa Holt Lawrence scandalizes eastern society with her radical discoveries and impassioned struggle for women's rights. And amid the dazzle and deception of Washington's glittering social whirl, Toby Holt fights adesperate battle with President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt to prevent a war that could alter the fate of a nation. Also includes a preview of Expedition! which is the second book in the Wagons West Frontier Trilogy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Fourth Printing . Mass Market. Very Good. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 337 Pages. November 1991 Edition. Light wear to covers. No marks or stamps and interior text pages are flawless. The flames of revolt blaze across the Hawaiian islands, plunging the new republic into revolution and bringing a proud empire to its knees, The golden reign of a great and beautiful queen comes to a violent end, her once-dazzling dynasty swept up in a maelstrom of political intolerance and seething unrest. In the face of such rampant destruction, only one bold family dares to rise up against insurmountable odds in the name of honor, justice, and freedom: The Holts 1895. The ruthless overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the seeds of counterrevolution turn the island paradise of Hawaii into a land of brutal turmoil and dark treachery. Among the fallen queen's faithful supporters is royalist rebel Sam Brentwood. Tortured and sentenced to death for treason, he battles to save his life, his… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1994. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Larkin, Bob - Cover Art. 370 Pages. This is the First printing of the October 1994 Edition. Interior text pages are bright,tight, and white. Its 1899. and in Taos New Mexico, the enterprising Michael Holt pursues a personal dream, a vision of the West that will forever alter the American landscape. Half a world away, U.S. intelligence agent Henry Blake has watched his government sink into a military quagmire in the Philippines, leaving him to make a fateful choice between his famIly and his country. And in Washington D.C. Henry's estranged son Frank, has returned home from the gold mines of the Yukon. But just as a new century beckons a nation, so the promise of a new adventure draws Frank once again westward, toward New Mexico, there to discover a powerful passion and an unexpected destiny,.