No. 12, January '22

Howdy pard,

Welcome back – looks like you’ve been busy as a beaver getting back into the swing of things after the festive season!

Don’t worry, I’ve got just the thing for you - I’ve found some great free page-turners to help you keep those cold, cold nights at bay, a fun video looking back at the age of the stagecoach in the Old West, and a recipe for cowboy-style omelets that will put the spring in your step.

Come inside, get warm by the fire, and let the longhorns look after themselves for just a little while!

The Gaslight Gunslinger

I’m proud to recommend a great western I read recently – The Gaslight Gunslinger, by Sugar Lee Ryder.

Here’s the story (spoiler-free!):

1878: San Francisco’s changed from a Gold-Rush era boomtown into a bustling city full of money, bawdy houses, and a loose sense of the law.

Enter Matthew Slade, formerly the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s best gun-hand, investigator, and tracker. No sooner does he arrive at San Francisco’s stockyard than he rescues Mai Lee, a little Chinese girl, from a pair of thugs intent on kidnapping her.

Can a gunslinger used to the open plains and prairies of the West deal with the criminal underworld of a crowded metropolis? Even with the help of a sea-captain and a pair of bawdy-house madams, the odds are long at best!

Download your free copy of The Gaslight Gunslinger by clicking here:

https://storyoriginapp.com/swaps/920ee05e-35c5-11ec-a1f3-57c898b60740

New Year reading blitz

Looking for some great new historical fiction to bring in the new year? I’ve found a stack of free (and great!) novels for you to try, all with an historical background.

From mystery to westerns, WWI and WWII, suspense, action and adventure, and romance – this bundle has it all covered. They all have something in common – they are all set in the past – and they won’t cost you a cent. Pick one, pick ten, pick them all – it’s up to you.

Here’s a couple of titles to whet your interest:

•  Shoot like a Girl by Kari Bovee
• Fire and Water, by Danielle Grandinetti
• The Wideawake Hat, by Amanda Giorgis
• The Hangman’s Turn, by A E Johnson

Don’t miss out, folks! Click here to get your free books:

https://books.bookfunnel.com/newyearhistoricalfiction/9la6v6nv6e

Omelets cowboy-style

What came first – the chicken or the egg? It doesn’t really matter when you’ve got the best light and fluffy scrambled eggs anywhere on the range sitting on your plate ready to eat!

In this youtube video, genuine cowboy cooking legend Kent shows you how to add a little yahoo to your yolks by cooking them cowboy-style in a cast-iron skillet. As an added bonus, he goes on to create a lip-smacking open-range omelet.

• Get his scrsmbled eggs /omelet recipes here https://kentrollins.com/best-scrambled-eggs/
• Watch Kent cook them up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhL9c3v4bG4

Heart-attack material

If you’re looking for some edge-of-your-seat reading, you can’t go past this collection of pulse-raising reads. With more than 20 different titles to choose from, you’re sure to find something that will get your heart pumping

This collection of free novels focuses on ‘Dangerous Men, Lethal Women’, and includes a wide range of thrillers, suspense stories and mysteries. They all have something in common – they will all get your pulse racing – and they won’t cost you a cent. Pick one, pick ten, pick them all – it’s up to you.

Here’s a couple of titles to whet your interest:

• A Vigilante and a Two-Armed Man, by B D Lawrence
• The Silence of the Children, by Chris Lewando
• Flight 802, by Jake Lucas
• Wicked Battle, by Chase Austin

Don’t miss out, folks! Click here to get your free books:

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/Y0alodM

Did you know?

Outlaw Elmer McCurdy wasn’t very lucky in life, or in death. He robbed a train in 1911 but got away with only $46. When the law eventually caught up and shot him down, his corpse remained unclaimed, and was sold to a traveling carnival as a sideshow attraction. From there, McCurdy’s remains made the rounds of wax museums and haunted houses before being discovered 66 years later in an amusement park in Long Beach. Amazingly his ultimate fate was inadvertently discovered during the filming of an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man!

Stagecoach fever

Here’s a lovely little piece of western history I ran across recently – a nice video article about the history and significance of stagecoaches in the Wild West!

The video discusses how stagecoaches were made, their importance in moving people from place to place, how stagecoach companies grew to become some of the biggest and most important organisations in the United States.

Of course, being about the old West, there's also a bunch of people reenacting the old times and generally having a lot of fun.

You can watch it here – enjoy!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYgo2FsZdFU

The start of something good

There’s nothing quite like the joy of finding a book you really enjoy, only to discover it is the first in a series. Here’s a list of books that will not only leave you wanting more – but can actually deliver in spades.

With more than 35 different titles to choose from, you’re a great chance of finding a new series that will keep you turning pages for some time to come.

There’s something here for everyone – fantasy, romance, westerns, mysteries, action. They all have something in common – they are all prequels to a series – and they won’t cost you a cent. Pick one, pick ten, pick them all – it’s up to you.

Here’s a couple of titles to whet your interest:

• The Cat’s Paw, by Matthew B Berg
• Finding Lottie, by Hillary Pugh
• Daylight Burning, by Lisa M Green
• Assassin’s Tribute, by Levi Jacobs

Don’t miss out, folks! Click here to get your free books:

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/XFV5GUu

Happy trails,

Nick