On 22 April 1889 the American government opened the new Oklahoma territories to settlement In this volume Lucky Luke acts as a government agent & ensures that every candidate for settlement is treated fairly He has to deal with jealousy corruption & greed As in other Lucky Luke volumes readers discover different aspects of the United States' conquest of the Wild West ...

Luke gets to help set-up the legendary Pony Express! In 1860 getting from Missouri to California on the West Coast took a long long time
- not to mention a certain degree of courage Annoyed at the delay in communication the federal government offers a grant to whoever can solve the problem & set-up a fast reliable mail system linking East & West In response entrepreneur WH Russell founds the Pony Express company fearless men riding day & night changing horses at way stations But not everyone likes that idea The 46th adventure of Lucky Luke & the Old West at its funniest!
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The First Transcontinental Railroad is stopped dead near its starting point both in the East & in the West Repeated injunctions from the president of the Transcontinental Railroad A" are having no effect His workers are constantly prevented from working by agents of a mysterious traitor But Lucky Luke witnesses one of the acts of sabotage & stops it Soon he is in charge of security for the entire westward push-and he will have his work cut out for him! ...

Two rival families live in Painful Gulch the O' Timmins clan who have big noses & the O' Haras who have big ears They've been fighting for decades & don't even know why anymore Lucky Luke is appointed mayor in order to bring peace back to the town But the men & their thick-headed sense of honour will wreck all of Lucky Luke's plans for reconciliation Our hero must find a solution! ...

1861 Abraham Lincoln orders that the First Transcontinental Telegraph line currently interrupted between Nevada & Nebraska be completed Two teams one heading east from Carson City & the other west from Omaha will meet up in Salt Lake City Lucky Luke joins the eastbound team But when a 100000 reward is offered to the first team to arrive there's suddenly more to fear than the natural obstacles of the journey A saboteur seems to be at work! ...

Mulligan's Western circus
- his troop lion & elephant
- arrive in town under the escort of Lucky Luke Zilch a rich businessman

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It's the start of the 1860s & the Old West is changing-a change that comes as a shock to the Daltons when they're arrested not by Lucky Luke but by
- Allan Pinkerton! The man is determined to turn bandit-hunting into a modern rational business-even at the cost of the American people's personal freedom It'll be up to Lucky Luke to ensure that the USA is protected against all evil-doers rascals & lawmen alike -
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The 69th adventure of Lucky Luke & the Old West at its funniest! 48 pages 1 Illustrations unspecified Pearce ...

Lucky Lupin is a poignant yet light-hearted story of survival against the odds based on Charlie Mortimer's life with HIVAids during the early years (1984-1996) when there was neither treatment nor cure Using a combination of good luck gallows humour Fray Bentos pies & copious quantities of Solpadeine Charlie survived not only the illness but the hysteria that accompanied the so-called 'gay plague' Anyone infected became a social pariah; had the local launderette got word of his illness they wouldn't have washed his sheets but burnt them Whilst taking full responsibility for the consequences of his behaviour
- ' The fact is you don't get AIDS from watching telly'
- Charlie initially took to the sofa & prepared for death but in time he found the inner strength required to confront his fatal diagnosis becoming among other things an antiques dealer & contemporary art collector With blistering & often hilarious candour Charlie also recounts his childhood where he developed a passion for cars cultivated by his adventurous mother ' Nidnod' his dizzying array of careers & somewhat curious domestic arrangements including the 'adoption' of a bank robber for twelve years He also confronts head on his experiences of coming to terms with confused sexuality addiction epilepsy & clinical depression before finding lasting contentment Praise for Dear Lupin' As well as being the funniest book I've read in ages it's also extremely touching A delight then on every front' The Spectator ' Very very funny' Sunday Times' Wry trenchant often extremely funny but also charmingly forbearing & forgiving' Country Life

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In September 1998 Michael J Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
- in fact he
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