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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.Keegan's lady
By Catherine Anderson. 1996
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.High country (Literature of the American West ; #15)
By Willard Wyman. 2005
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.Dead man's walk: A Novel
By Larry McMurtry. 1995
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.Folly and glory (Berrybender narratives ; #4)
By Larry McMurtry. 2005
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.By sorrow's river (Berrybender narratives. #3.)
By Larry McMurtry. 2003
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)The wandering hill (Berrybender narratives. #2.)
By Larry McMurtry. 2003
Continues an aristocratic English family's misadventures, begun in "Sin Killer" (BR73599), in the early 1830s American West. Abandoning their steamboat…
stuck in the icy river, the Berrybender expedition members settle in for the winter at the trading post of Pierre Boisdeffre. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003. (Berrybender narratives ; 2)Sin killer (The Berrybender narratives ; #1)
By Larry McMurtry. 2005
It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its…
way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers, explorers, pioneers, and one part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer." 2005, c2002. (The Berrybender narratives ; 1)A peaceful gunman (Dales western)
By Bill Foord. 1997
The Civil War brings together conscripted Union soldier Ted Wells and the wild regular officer, Hank Newton. A trumped-up charge…
sparks off a running feud and it is only after the war has ended that Ted feels he can at last leave everything behind him. But fate takes a hand and it isn't long before their paths cross again.Hondo
By Louis L'Amour. 1997
Angie Lowe is raising her son Johnny on an isolated ranch in Apache country. Hondo Lane approaches their homestead on…
foot to buy a horse, and with an Indian attack seemingly imminent, he tries to convince them to leave. Soon Angie and Hondo are involved in a tale of love, war, and honour. 1997.Ambush at Black Rock (Gunsmith. #217.)
By J. R Roberts. 2000
Longarm and the blue-eyed squaw (Longarm #No. 19)
By Tabor Evans. 2000
Trouble on the Lordsburg Trail (Dales Large Print Ser.)
By Elliot Conway. 1997
On his way to Lordsburg to visit his kinsmen, young Ben Howard rides into big trouble - shooting and killing…
trouble. He teams up with Sheriff Garrett to take on the Kerney gang and the big man behind them, cattle baron Brad Logan. But no one is prepared to back down, and the fight for justice turns into a fight for life.Marshal of Gunsight (Dales Ser.)
By Elliot Long. 1994
Tom Callan is the marshal of the backwater town of Gunsight and deputy sheriff policing the southern end of the…
county. Things are going well until Dave Bates and Will Mercer decide to resist arrest. Then all hell breaks loose.Action by night
By Ernest Haycox. 1991
Tracy Coleman arrives at Horsehead Ranch with a letter from the elderly absentee owner making Coleman the new owner. Horsehead's…
foreman doesn't take kindly to the news, nor do the surrounding ranch owners, who plan to take over Horsehead's land. But Coleman's as stubborn as they are and not about to leave. Some strong language and some violence.Beyond the outposts
By Max Brand. 2001
An epic following the journeys of young Lew Dorset as he searches the frontier for his father, an escaped convict…
on the run. He survives an attack by a Cheyenne war party, finds shelter among the Sioux, and takes part in a battle between the Sioux and the Pawneee, but there is still more surprises that lie ahead. 2001.Soft metal
By Max Brand. 2000
In "The Red Bandana" Clancy Morgan returns to town to warn his best friend, Danny Travis, that Bill Orping is…
heading there, looking for a confrontation. But when he gets there he finds that Orping has arrived before him and was shot in the back - and it looks like Danny was the killer. "His Name His Forturne" is the story of a young gambler who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy ranger who despises him. In "Soft Metal" Larry Givain, fleeing from a posse, meets a beautiful woman at a deserted cabin belonging to one of the men in the posse. Her brother is also holed up in the cabin, pursued by a notorious gunfighter. With death drawing ever nearer, Givain realises his life will never be the same again. 2000.Gunsmoke (Gunsmoke Western Ser. #Vol. 1)
By Gary McCarthy. 1998
When Doc suffers a mild heart attack, Dr. Jerome Gentry, a young frontier doctor, comes to help the aging man…
with his workload. He quickly becomes popular with the townspeople, and a little too popular with the ladies, single and otherwise. When a gang of outlaws rob the local bank, leaving wounded behind, Dr. Gentry is nowhere to be found. Was he in on their plot, or is he in a whole lot of trouble? 1998.Cities of the plain (Border trilogy. #3.)
By Cormac McCarthy. 1999
In this final part of "The border trilogy", two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, in the stillpoint…
between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition. Some strong language and some violence. 1999. (The border trilogy ; 3)The long trail
By Alan Irwin. 1996
Former lawman Dan Murdoch finds that his twin sister, Mary, and her husband have been brutally murdered on their homestead.…
He sets out on a trail of vengeance after the gang of outlaws who killed them, and especially their leader, the notorious Hennessey. Dan catches up with the killers in the Indian Territory and, with the help of a courageous half-breed Indian woman, metes out his own brand of justice.