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Texas Panhandle, 1883. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay…
decent wages. The ranchers also want to take away the cowboys' rights to own cattle because they believe it would lead to thieving. When rumours of such anti-ownership legislation travel to the cowboys, they decide to fight back by holding a strike. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 1971.
For John McCallam, escaped prisoner on the run, the discovery of the deserted cabin and the dead body of a…
man seemed just the lucky break he needed. Here was his chance to assume a whole new identity, become another person, even down to a change of clothing. But little did McCallam realise the nature and character of the man he became. 2008.
1850s. Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian wife Victoria agree that Skye should take a second Indian wife to produce…
a son. Skye marries Blue Dawn, a beautiful young Shoshone woman, and the trio is hired to guide English explorer and journalist Graves Mercer to see a mysterious canyon full of dinosaur bones. On the trek, they endure prairie fires, superstitious natives, and Mercer's arrogance, which endangers the whole party. Sequel to "Fire arrow", followed by "Virgin River". Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008. (Skye's West ; 15)
Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some…
dirty dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada, with little more than the shirt on his back - to say nothing of the tools required to make revenge a reality. Then he meets a woman who is down on her luck - just like him, but with a lucrative connection to a mysterious Frenchman. For Savidge, playing along means the opportunity to purchase guns and horses: necessities for a man hell-bent on retribution. 2010.
Fictional account of the 1876 robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, by the James-Younger gang. The raid…
unfolds from various perspectives, including those of outlaws Frank and Jesse James, Sheriff James Glispin, the daughter of a murdered teller, and the gun-toting town residents. Some strong language. 2007.
The cowboy comes to Matagorda looking for a herd to drive to Kansas, but finds instead a town caught in…
a blood feud where every man is forced to join or die choosing. 1967.
Colorado, 1885. Ace Keegan returns to avenge his stepfather's murder and his mother's rape. He discovers that the killer, Conor…
O'Shannessy, is dead but O'Shannessy's daughter, Caitlin, has inherited the ranch. Ace compromises Caitlin's reputation, but then proposes a marriage of convenience as compensation. Descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. c1996.
When the law went loco and charged him killing his wife, innocent Jack Fallon had two choices only - run…
or hang. So he ran - to a strange lost valley shut off from the world and ruled by a cult of holy men who would prove more lethal than any posse could ever be. 2008.
Ty Hardin leaves Montana to learn 'packing' (leading mule trains into mountains where wagons can't go) from the best -…
Fenton Pardee. After many adventures and being wounded in World War II, Ty eventually heads for the Sierra Nevada - the highest country of all - to become a legend in his own right. 2006 Spur Awards winner. 2005.
Tales of the untamed West depicting people who face harsh tests that threaten their way of life and survival. In…
"Caprock Rancher," a boy comes to realize his father's courage as the two join forces to recover their neighbours' lost savings from outlaws. 1997.
In pursuit of a world-champion title, Joe Willie Wolfchild suffers a career-ending accident and is taken to his family's ranch…
to recuperate. Meanwhile, urban street-kid Aiden, sick and tired of his mother Claire's long string of abusive boyfriends, plans a robbery only to land in jail. Upon his release, a concerned parole officer finds a place for Aiden and his mom at the Wolfchild ranch. Strong language. 2006.
When Dean Kittredge is taken on as a hired gun by the Rafter W ranch, the owner's wilful granddaughter is…
only the first of his worries. He soon finds himself up against the notorious El Serpiente and his gang of Comanchero gunmen. 2011.
The patrol’s lieutenant is killed by Mohave Indians, but Private Callaghen’s leadership and desert survival skills save the rest of…
the men. After discovering a treasure map in the dead officer’s belongings, Callaghen changes his plans and tests his mettle. Some descriptions of violence. 1972.
Set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, this combines a compelling love story, a tale of revenge and…
violence, a spectacular battle scene, and the story of an incident in Welsely's past that threatens his relationship with Ada. Companion to "The Englishman's boy" (DC13940) and "The last crossing" (DC24555). Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence. 2011.
Dying of typhoid fever, Ingrid Bjorkman asks Gabriel Moonlight to bury her beside her late husband in Santa Rosa. Knowing…
he's an outlaw with a rope awaiting him in New Mexico, she makes him promise to hire a Pinkerton to escort the coffin. But Gabriel loves her too much to let anyone else handle the burial and accompanied by her rebellious teenage daughter, Raven, he takes the coffin to Ingrid's former farm where her husband is buried. But the shadow of the rope looms over Gabriel. Faced with betrayal, can he escape with his life? 2009.
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood…
pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "help" of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again--if it ever rains again. 2008.
The collapse of one of the stone walls of Surprise Valley where the gunman, Lassiter, Jane Withersteen and young Fay…
Larkin have been imprisoned for the last ten years, results in their capture by a hooded Mormon. The price extracted for Lassiter's and Jane's life is the immediate marriage of 15-year-old Fay Larkin to the mysterious, cruel, hooded Mormon leader. John Shefford, a defrocked minister from Illinois, embarks on a quest to rescue the prisoners. This is the uncensored version of The Rainbow Trail, as the author intended it to be published. 2003.
Two Rangers, Call and McCrae, face the wildness of the Frontier and the men who live there - the Indians,…
savagely defending the land, the texans, attempting to seize and 'civilise' it, the Mexicans, threatened by both. Danger, hardship, sacrifice, pain and fear test them to the limits of endurance; friendship, comradeship, courage and love give them the strength to survive against fearful odds. 1995.
Tasmin and the Berrybender brood flee south from Santa Fe, facing hardship and death along the way. After Tasmin's husband,…
mountain man Jim Snow, rescues them, he avenges the murder of his Indian family. Sequel to "By sorrow's river" (BR73589). Explicit descriptions of sex. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.
In this sequel to "The Wandering Hill" (EB73600), Lord Berrybender and his mountain men continue their trek from the Rocky…
Mountains to Santa Fe. Heroine Tasmin's strength and wisdom bind them as they brave infidelity, heat, thirst, Indian attacks, and group members' unrelenting seductions. Violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003. (Berrybender narratives ; 3)