Michael R Dougherty
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An 1800s western short story. In The Long Ride Home, an old west gunfighter is tired of having to prove himself to every young upstart who's looking to make a name for himself by out drawing a famous gunfighter.But after being shot by a bushwacker in an ambush, the gunfighter meets a woman and her young boy who make him think about hanging up his gun.But who ambushed him and why? One more gunfight brings him home.
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Trouble at the Lucky Lady, an 1800s old west short story is book two in the Gus Baxter, western fiction series. Gunfighter Gus Baxter becomes a hard fisted Sheriff. Gus finds new adventure when he hangs up his guns to become the hard fisted sheriff of Logan where he must deal with a drunken young cowboy who sees himself as the town "He Bull." After sending the cowboy out of town in nothing but his Long Johns, Gus finds himself having to face the...
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From 1959 to 1971, The Varsity Show ran live on KTVA channel 11 in Anchorage, Alaska. The show was Anchorage's answer to the American Bandstand TV show and it featured Anchorage area teens dancing on TV to the latest hit songs. But that's not the whole story. Anchorage high school students earned scholarships by becoming staff interns on The Varsity Show.
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Alaska commercial fishing is the hardest, most dangerous work I have ever done in my life. When I was only 16, my dad got me a job on a purse seiner out of the picturesque town of Cordova, Alaska on Prince William Sound. I had no idea what a purse seiner was, but I was about to find out.
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You're About To Go On An Incredible Adventure
Imagine it's 1897 and Gold Fever has gripped you to your very being.
You quickly board a steam ship headed for the rugged frontier town of Skagway, Alaska. The entrance to the Klondike gold fields.
But you didn't count on a man known as Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith and his gang of thugs and thieves.
If you survive long enough to strike gold, you still have to get it past Soapy and his gang. But...
7) Joe Spenard
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Joe Spenard was one of the most colorful characters who came to the rugged tent city in 1916 that would become Anchorage, Alaska. In this e-book you'll discover his real name and how he created three icons that are still in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Kings of Sole is a funny short story about author Michael R Dougherty and his younger brother Tom and their fun adventure fishing for sole, under a fish cannery in Cordova, Alaska. You'll laugh when Mike and Tom meet two scoundrels from the fish cannery and when a large Halibut nearly sinks their plans to be the "Kings of Sole". An Alaska Fishing Adventure