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Starvation camp
By Bill Pronzini. 2003
When Molly Malone, kind roadhouse proprietor and McQuestion's lover, is brutally slain and her cupboards robbed, McQuestion suspects the unusually…
long winter and greed may have driven the guilty parties to murder. A stoic and steely loner, McQuestion swears he will bring these men to justice. With special orders from his superior officer, he ventures out into the ice wastes to find them and bring them in - dead or alive. 2003.Slate Creek: journey to the white clouds
By Wallace J Swenson. 2017
1873. Simon Steele accidentally killed a bartender in Wyoming and then denigrated his life-long friend. His friend left without a…
word, their friendship broken. When his letter to a lost love elicits what he sees as another final rejection, Simon decides to go into the Whitecloud Mountains of Idaho Territory to see if he can regain some sense of worth. Always naive and trusting, Simon opens himself to trouble when he teams up with Justin Reed, a self-serving muleskinner who has ulterior motives. 2017.Stark's justice: A Judge Earl Stark Western
By James Reasoner. 1994
When stagecoach guard Earl Stark listens in on a murder trial, he realizes a man is going to be hanged…
illegally. Compelled to step in and straighten things out, Stark displays a knowledge of the law that earns him a quick entrance into the bar. But when Stark's lady friend is shot down, he forgets his new profession. As far as he's concerned, her killers are already tried and convicted. Strong language and violence. 1994.Standoff at Sunrise Creek (Stuart Brannon western adventure series. #Vol. 4)
By Stephen A Bly. 1993
When Stuart Brannon finally returns to his ranch, the Triple B, he finds it occupied by Earl Howland, representing the…
Casa Verde Land Corporation. But it's Earl's buddies Stuart has to fight to reclaim his home. Fortunately he receives some reinforcements of his own, including Harriet Reed. 1993.Speedy
By Max Brand. 1931
A gambling vagabond named Speedy arrives in the town of Durfee to find some easy money and instead finds friends…
and a girl named Mary. But can a rolling stone ever stay in one place? Some descriptions of violence. 1995. Originally published in 1931.South of Rio Grande
By Max Brand. 1968
Soldier in a buckskin: a western story (Western Ser.)
By Ray Hogan. 1996
The story of American frontiersman and fur trapper Kit Carson's life is told in this biographical novel. It focuses on…
his life from 1831 to 1848, when he married an Arapaho woman and had a daughter. After his wife's death, he met Josepha Jamarillo who introduced him to Spanish and Mexican society of the Southwest. 1996.Song of eagles (Eagles. #6.)
By William W Johnstone. 1999
Falcon MacCallister is in New Mexico territory visiting a family friend and meets Billy Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. When…
a cattle dispute erupts, pitting rancher against rancher, Falcon and Billy become involved in the Lincoln County War. Sequel to "Rage of Eagles". Violence and strong language. 1999.Snowbound
By Richard S Wheeler. 2010
After his 1847 court-martial, Colonel John Frémont, known as the Pathfinder, resigns from the army and embarks on an expedition…
to survey a proposed railway between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trapped in the Colorado mountains during winter, his team battles starvation and freezing temperatures. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel. c2010.South to Sonora
By Michael Stewart. 2013
After a 10-year prison term for killing a man he'd found molesting a girl, all Tom Jericho wants is a…
quiet life. But the State Governor offers him a deal: the notorious Crane Gang are planning something big, and the governor wants to know what it is. Jericho has befriended the youngest of the Crane boys in the pen and, with Lee now being transported across the desert, all Jericho has to do is help him escape, infiltrate the gang, and uncover the plan. Before he knows it, Jericho is in Mexico. 2013.Sons and gunslicks (A black Horse Western Ser.)
By Chap O'Keefe. 2007
Where was Emily Greatheart? The pretty young lady from Denver who had gone to Arizona to meet her dead fiance's…
mother had vanished. Only a bloodstained jacket was found in an abandoned spring buggy hired from the Pike's Crossing livery stable. Strong language. 2007.Son of a wanted man: A Novel
By Louis L'Amour. 1984
Mike Bastian must take over the reins of his father's outlaw gang. Soon he finds himself caught between the jealousy…
of other gang members, the growing love he feels for an innocent girl, and the relentless pursuit of two lawmen. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1984.Sons of Texas (Sons of Texas ; #1)
By Tom Early. 1989
Mordecai Lewis's wandering spirit means he is rarely home with his family in Tennessee. His son Michael decides to follow…
Mordecai on his latest adventure, capturing wild horses in Texas. Betrayed by cowardly Cyrus Blackwood, Mordecai and most of his group die at the hands of Lieutenant Armando Rodriquez. But Michael survives to avenge his father's death. Followed by "The Raiders" (DC14629). Strong language and violence. 1989. (Sons of Texas ; 1)Six-gun crossroad
By Lauran Paine. 2018
When a pair of killings rattle his peaceful community, small town sheriff Percy Whittaker wonders if he needs a partner…
in crime-fighting. A preacher who can take on cowboys may just fill the role. 2018.Sixteen brides
By Stephanie Grace Whitson. 2010
Sixteen Civil War widows respond to a land speculator's promises of prime homesteads in a booming community, when his true…
motive is to bring women to the fledging mostly male community of Plum Grove, Nebraska. When the women meet the men who are waiting for them, they'll need all the courage they can muster to survive these unwanted circumstances - especially when they begin to discover that none of them is exactly who she appears to be. 2010.Six ways of dying (Black horse westerns)
By Lewis B Patten. 1996
The trouble started when Guy Doniphan decided to move to Colorado and set up Square D ranch. His wife hated…
the new country from the start and her hatred was soon justified when she was brutally raped by some Indians and lost her unborn child. Then the Roan Creek cattle were driven onto Square D rangeland, presenting a challenge that had to be answered. Guy and his elder son Floyd tried to find a peaceful solution but Cashman, brought up in the wake of his mother's bitterness, had other ideas. 1996. (Black horse westerns)Silvertip's trap
By Max Brand. 1933
Six bits a day (Hewey Calloway series. #1.)
By Elmer Kelton. 2005
Western Texas, 1880s. Brothers Hewey and Walter Calloway hire on at C.C. Tarpley's ranch for six bits a day. Walter…
meets a girl, but to keep him from settling down Hewey volunteers them for a cattle drive. Meanwhile a fugitive outlaw stalks Hewey and a range feud ignites. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "The good old boys". 2005.Six for Laramie
By Rick Dalmas. 2009
Six of them came to Laramie that early summer: six gunfighters all hungry for money and not too fussy about…
how they earned it. They all had their reasons - greed was not a factor in every case. Bannerman, toughest and fastest, had a special reason: one of the six had backshot a friend, and there was no charge for what he intended to do to that man. Even if it disrupted the plans for the main job for which he had been hired. And that would put him on the wrong end of the gun. Five guns. 2009.Silveroo (Black horse western)
By Joseph John McGraw. 2008
Daco Ward is a drifter with just seventy cents in his pants' pocket when Bill Dodds offers him a job.…
But Dodds has a way of making enemies. He bests Tucker Lankton at cards and Lankton, backed by his sidekick Ed Crants, vows to get even. And Daco too didn't like the feeling that Dodds had made a fool of him. A man couldn't walk away from such things. He had a score to settle. Now Daco would find himself in the middle of a deadly game of deceit and murder; the prize being the riches of Silveroo. 2008.