When a one-eyed youngster named Jimmy Goodnight amazingly manages to free an ax stuck fast in an anvil at the county fair, folks take note that this boy will grow up to be someone important, a leader. Now an adult, Jimmy runs Home Ranch...
Western fiction
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Author:Latham, AaronSummary: - Author:Whitman, CharleneSummary:
Greeley, Colorado, in 1875 is a town built on a promise . . .. . . but to Emma it is a desert prison in the middle of a hostile and dusty prairie. Emma had hoped to go to Vassar College, to pursue her dreams of becoming a botanical...
- Author:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Summary:
On the wagon road toward the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill-crazy gang of cutthroats. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide, only to find his parents butchered, his sisters...
- Author:Hamelin, Louis, Murray, Jean PaulSummary:
Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles Desches, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly memory of a twelve-year-old murder....
- Author:Johnson, CatSummary:
What happens when you mix a Manhattan workaholic with a Colorado ranch boss? Casey Harrington’s life is her career. Bonner “Blue” Boyd’s life is the ranch. So why can’t they keep their minds—or their hands—off each other? They both know...
- Author:A Dorman LeishmanSummary:
When former soldier Jim Rennie finds a dead body at the bottom of Sandy Creek, he realises that his quiet life in Creeback valley is over. Reluctantly, he begins to investigate. The dead boy was not one of the settlers nor a cattleman;...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Reeling from the death of his wife Rosa, Fast Larry Shaw turns to whiskey to drown out the sorrow. But even with a drink in one hand, he's still the fastest shot around. So when he becomes a target for a Mexican bounty hunter after...
- Author:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J.A.Summary:
The 50th Book in the Bestselling Mountain Man Series! A cold day in hell descends upon Texas when mountain man sharpshooter Smoke Jensen pins on a tin star to tackle a wild bunch of bloodthirsty outlaws in this gun-blazing novel from...
- Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:
When a woman has to choose between death and marriage to a total stranger, she must be in a dire predicament... And for Jolie McKibben, about to pay by hanging for a terrible crime she didn't commit, salvation by marriage couldn't come...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Everybody thinks the night is scary. ... The time of danger for the living is the time of change, from day into night, when the world isn't sure what it is or what it wants to be. ... When Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long's niece Jaya...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Frank Morgan and a handful of survivors are stranded in Western Canada. An old enemy of Frank's has resurfaced, and with him a band of murderous Metis rebels armed with stolen U.S. Army Gatling guns. Now Frank and his ragtag bunch are...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Blake Carly is wanted for the murder of an elderly town sheriff. When his brother Abel flees with him intoe the New Mexico high country, ranger Sam Burrack is hot on the trail of these identical twins. But only one outlaw is alive when...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Dead Man's Walk is a powerful prequel to best-selling author Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are still teenagers when they enlist as Texas Rangers. Soon they are roaming the untamed West...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
A collection of three stories by Louis L'Amour: "Black Rock," "Gamble of the KT," and "Showdown Trail."
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he...
- Author:Richards, DustySummary:
In the latest installment of his epic Byrnes family saga, Western Heritage and Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards tells of the blood that was spilled trying to make Arizona Territory a good place to live ... Building a ranching...
- Author:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Summary:
Following in the footsteps of his adoptive father Smoke, Matt Jensen has big boots to fill. Matt's never been one to shy away from a confrontation, and he's got a fire burning in his belly that's leading him straight toward a deadly...
- Author:Braun, MattSummary:
Matt Braun turns the classic elements of tough men and rough land into westerns that ring with authenticity. A native of the West and author of 31 novels, he bases many of his book on historic records. Deadwood draws on accounts of the...
- Author:Paine, LauranSummary:
Deadwood, Dakota Territory, was filled with luckless miners and diggers, as well as more than its share of lawlessness, and more often than not, there was nothing Marshal Fred Nolan and his two deputy marshals, Wentworth and Grubb,...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Elderly local woman Mari Baroja is poisoned, breathing her last at the Durant Home for Assisted Living. Sheriff Longmire wants to know who's been to see her lately. As the Sheriff enters the outermost edge of her web, he sets in motion...
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