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The gun from Prison Hill
By Bill Wade. 1971
Released from prison after a nine-year sentence during which his guards have tried cruelly and relentlessly to break him, Tim…
sets out in this Western to discover the reason for his treatment. 1971.The general's notorious widow (The belles of Lordsburg. #2)
By Stephen A Bly. 2001
Even in her secluded hiding place of Lordsburg, New Mexico, Lixie cannot escape the unwanted notoriety that her husband's scandalous…
death has brought. Sequel to "The senator's other daughter", followed by "The outlaw's twin sister". 2001.The edge of time (Texas tradition series ; #11)
By Loula Grace Erdman. 2004
Bethany and Wade Cameron are young newlyweds bound for the Texas Panhandle in the 1800s. In the land of endless…
cattle ranges, they plan to build a modest home and work the fields, making a life for themselves as best they can. Though the journey west is long and arduous and their new surroundings are less than hospitable, the Camerons persevere through courage, faith, and most importantly the support of each other. 2004.The Doomsday Canyon (A Double D western)
By Ray Hogan. 1984
The devil's badland: Devil's Badland (Loner. #2.)
By J. A Johnstone. 2011
After his wife is murdered, Conrad "Kid Morgan" Browning hunts down the men responsible - then visits his wife's grave…
in New Mexico. There, he is shocked to discover his ex-fiancée waiting for him - along with armed backup. 2011.The cowboy with the Tiffany gun (Lone Star audio)
By Aaron Latham. 2008
Continues the Arthurian-themed western begun in "Code of the West". Jimmy Goodnight's son Percy, or Pyg as he is known,…
comes of age. Returning to their ranch land in Texas, Pyg and his mother discover their family heirloom ax is missing. Now Pyg's leading a posse aiming to get it back. 2008.The contractor
By James C Work. 2016
Based on an actual event, an 1868 murder in a railroad camp during the building of the Union Pacific. The…
killer, a construction contractor, flees the territory only to find himself being pursued by N.K. Boswell of the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency. When Boswell takes the murderer into custody, however, the detective finds that his problems have only just begun. Now he has to transport him back to Laramie. Forty miles of empty Iowa prairie, then the flooded Missouri River, then four hundred more miles of prairie. And all the while the murderer's brother and his gang of thugs are determined to stop Boswell at any cost. 2016.The Devil in Texas and other cowboy tales
By John R Erickson. 1982
Humorous yarns about cowboys, roping cattle and other facets of modern ranch life as told by a cowboy, a cowboy's…
wife, a couple of cow horses and a cow dog. 1982.The day the cowboys quit
By Elmer Kelton. 1999
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.The devil's anvil (A black horse western)
By Steve Hayes. 2014
The news wasn't good: the kill-crazy McClory brothers had busted out of Yuma Pen and were headed for Indian Territory.…
Somebody would have to bring them in. The job falls to Liberty Mercer, a US deputy marshal who also happens to be a woman, one who was getting mighty tired of having her abilities questioned time and again. 2014.The desert crop
By Catherine Cookson. 1997
1880s England. Young Daniel Stewart's life changes when his alcoholic, widowed father marries a distant Irish cousin, Moira Conelly. Over…
the years the cheerful Moira has many children while the father squanders their money. When his father dies, Daniel assumes the leadership of the family, falls in love with the wrong girl, and continues farming. 1997.The Deadwood trail: The Trail Drive, Book 12 (Trail drive series. #12.)
By Ralph Compton. 1999
Veteran ranchers Nelson Story of Montana and Benton McCaleb of Wyoming were bringing herds to the gold camps of the…
Black Hills, where miners were hungry for beef. But the drives would pass through Crow and Sioux territory, and within the two outfits were Indians, gunmen, Texans, lovesick cowboys, and high-spirited women. Each was tangled by violent grudges, stampeding herds, and dangerous deception, and each had a deadly surprise awaiting it at the end of the trail. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c1999. (Trail drive series ; 12)The crazy man
By Pamela Paige Porter. 2005
1965. After Emaline, 11, is crippled in a tractor accident, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from…
their Saskatchewan farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local mental hospital to help with the farm work, but the neighbours jeer and complain about the crazy man. Emaline sees Angus' kindness and strength, but it is only when he performs the ultimate act of heroism that others in the town finally recognize his worth as a human being. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Golden Oak Award. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2005.The crosshatch men (Nightingale Series Large Print Bks.)
By Ray Hogan. 1989
Curt Ramsey is in danger of losing his ranch to the crafty ranch hands he has fired. Only his estranged…
brothers can help, but first they must get past renegade Indians and dangerous outlaws. 1992.The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard
By Elmore Leonard. 2007
Collected stories of a suspense writer who began his career writing pulp westerns for magazines. Thirty works span Leonard’s career…
from "Trail of the Apache" (1951) to "Hurrah for Captain Early!" (1994). Some violence and some strong language. 2007.This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.The Dakota deal (A black Horse Western Ser.)
By Dan Claymaker. 2008
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.The contract surgeon
By Dan O'Brien. 2001
Fictionalized account of the friendship between Dr. McGillycuddy and Sioux leader Crazy Horse. McGillycuddy, a private physician working under contract…
for the army, must decide whether to act as a doctor or a friend when the seriously wounded chief faces cruel imprisonment. Some violence and some strong language. 2001, c1999.The Dakota trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Trail drive series. #14.)
By Ralph Compton, Robert Vaughan. 2001
Returning home after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Dick Hodson finds his Texas town destitute and the surviving ranches, including…
his family's, nearly in ruins. To save them, Dick plans a cattle drive north with a party of greenhorns. One dangerous man's fortune, however, rests on their failure. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2001. (Trail drive series ; 14)The coyote tracker: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #5)
By Larry D Sweazy. 2012
After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot,…
in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. Winner of the 2013 Spur Award for Best original mass market paperback. 2012.