In the town of Thirty-Four Corners, Colorado, Matt Jensen rides into a savage blood feud. Thirty years ago two friends came West and built a thriving cattle business. Now, their families have become kill-crazy enemies and the town is...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Gordon, Irene TernierSommaire:
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with. Her honeymoon was a four-month journey from Quebec to Pembina with a brigade of tough voyageurs, and she criss-crossed Canada with her fur trader husband during the early 1800s....
- Auteur:Siggins, MaggieSommaire:
In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and...
- Auteur:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, JoanneSommaire:
Margot, Willie, son frère jumeau, mémère Bette et l’oncle Albert se lancent à la conquête du Klondike! Cette drôle d’équipe fera un voyage plein de péripéties de l’Alaska à Dawson. Sur terre ou en plein fleuve, les aventures de Margot...
- Auteur:Benton, LoriSommaire:
With stirring storytelling evocative of Diana Gabaldon and Francine Rivers, this epic eighteenth-century novel transports readers to the Ohio-Kentucky frontier and a monumental encounter over a stolen child. When settler Clare Inglesby...
- Auteur:Brand, MaxSommaire:
Two classic western stories: one of a mountain man who is mistakenly believed to be a notorious outlaw, and another of a sheltered shoemaker that decides to buy a gun he believes is magic.
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
This collection gathers eight popular Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast. Willie Nelson reads several, one is read by Charles Dean, and another is fully dramatized by Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the...
- Auteur:Matthiessen, PeterSommaire:
Murder suspect E.J. Watson is gunned down by an enraged mob, each claiming self-defense. Over four decades later, his son returns to the Florida Everglades in order to discover the truth.
- Auteur:Bumsted, J. M.Sommaire:
Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770-1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and witness to the French Revolution, he dedicated...
- Auteur:McMurtry, LarrySommaire:
Lonesome Dove is a dusty little Texas town where heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Native Americans and settlers embody the spirit and defiance of the last wilderness. Larry McMurtry's American epic, set in the late 19th century,...
- Auteur:Robertson, Donald L.Sommaire:
As Lieutenant Rory Nance lay dying after the battle of Cedar Creek, Captain Josh Logan gave his word to his best friend. Now, two years later, Logan rides to accomplish his dying friend's request.
- Auteur:Wilkes, Maria D.Sommaire:
Caroline watches eagerly as buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of exciting, new things for Caroline to do! She gets to march in her first...
- Auteur:WILDER, Laura IngallsSommaire:
CLASSIC FICTION. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving as they soon find that they must share the land with wild...
- Auteur:Wilder, Laura IngallsSommaire:
The book that started it all! Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, which is based on her life growing up as an American pioneer. Told from four-year-old Laura...
- Auteur:Ffolkes, EdwardSommaire:
Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba first published in 1883 and long out of print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life. The letters were written by Edward ffolkes, who left England in 1880 to study at the Ontario...
- Auteur:Langston, LauraSommaire:
Baba had made Lesia a promise: just remember the flower is not always open, but if your effort is true, your rewards will be sweet. Fifteen-year-old Lesia treasures those words as she and her family leave Baba in their Ukrainian...
- Auteur:Zimmer, MichaelSommaire:
J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must...
- Auteur:Lee, NormanSommaire:
The latest addition to TouchWood Editions’ Classics West Collection, Klondike Cattle Drive is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee.In 1898, Lee set out to drive 200 head of cattle...
- Auteur:Shaw, Janet BeelerSommaire:
Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota.
- Auteur:Cotton, Ralph W.Sommaire:
When Texas Bob Krey gets a hot hand in cards, his good luck sparks a gunfight. Once the smoke clears, two men are dead, including the brother of Judge Henry Bass. Now Texas Bob is an outlaw, and only Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has the...