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Deadman Butte
By Don Delillo, Hank Mitchum. 1988
When Two Thumbs, a brutal Sioux chief, makes his plans to ambush the Buffalo Stage line at Deadman Butte, Wyoming,…
he does not expect the showdown he gets. Aboard the stage are Larry Mangrum, headed for a confrontation with a cold-blooded killer; Marshal John Claxton and his prisoner Pete Wells; and Well's wife Molly. Stagecoach Station series, 34. 1988Sonora
By Hank Mitchum. 1983
The Sonora Kid is waging war against the gringos by robbing the Sonora stage. Sharon Cortland is searching for her…
brother, who disappeared in the gold camps. She accepts the help of prospector Dan Prentiss and find themselves fighting against a madman out to bring Sonora to its knees. Stagecoach Station, book 9. 1983Buchanan's big fight
By Jonas Ward. 1981
Buchanan's gun (Buchanan Ser.)
By Jonas Ward. 1968
Coffin Ranch (G. K. Hall Western Ser.)
By Walt Coburn. 1998
Three short western novels. The title story features the Wild Bunch, some of whom the author knew. Edited by Jon…
Tuska. 1999. Contents: He Rides Alone. The Badlands Buckaroo. Coffin RanchSnakehead
By Chad Merriman. 1965
In 1874, Doc Baker has dreams to improve the Yakima country. He wants to make wheatland of the rich plateaus…
up in the Cascade Mountains, build a railroad through the passes, and establish mercantile houses, banks and homes. He's a big man with big ideas. And that makes him a prime target for the greedy and the lawless. Originally published in 1965. 2004El Dorado
By Hank Mitchum. 1987
Solomon King, his sister-in-law and an Indian guide Gray Hawk were searching for Solomon's missing wife when they were stranded…
in a blizzard with a party of miners at El Dorado station. As the snow deepens, the miners are killed one-by-one. Someone in the party is killing them for their gold. Stagecoach Station series, 28. 1987The best western stories of Ernest Haycox
By Ernest Haycox. 1975
Wipe out the Brierlys
By Ernest Haycox. 1967
The Brierly clan had always rustled a few head of cattle. But now they are stealing anything and everything from…
the ranchers -- including the women from the valley. It is up to King Merrick to stop them. 1959. Also published as: Brand Fires on the RidgeBad dirt: Wyoming stories (Wyoming stories #02)
By Annie Proulx. 2004
"Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be…
even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Range. Annie Proulx's new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Born to ranching, drawn to it, or desperate to get out, they inhabit worlds that are isolated and often dangerous. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they drive themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. No one writes better than Proulx about the American west and about lives that may no longer be viable. This is a stunning collection by one of the most vivid and exhilarating writers of our time." -- Provided by publisherHaints stay
By Colin Winnette. 2015
"Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there…
is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger." -- Provided by publisherThe drop edge of yonder
By Rudolph Wurlitzer. 2017
"Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook,…
a mountain man who has a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered, to "drift like a blind man between the worlds, not knowing if you're dead or alive, of if the unseen world exists, or if you're dreaming." Zebulon sets out on the trail from Colorado, venturing to the remote reaches of the Northwest, a journey that traverses the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, and up the coast of California to San Francisco and the gold fields, bringing him face-to-face with mystics and outlaws, politically-minded prison wardens and Russian Counts, each hungry to stake their claim on the American dream." -- Provided by publisherThe willow field
By William Kittredge. 2006
In 1933, Nevada rancher Slivers Flynn gives fifteen-year-old Rossie Benasco an ultimatum: run horses to Canada or marry Slivers's daughter.…
Rossie hits the trail and falls for Eliza Stevenson. Their union sees years of change, war, and death. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2006Pinon Range
By Lauran Paine. 2004
George Wayland, a rancher who ran his tomahawk-branded cattle in the pi on country, had been having a bad spell.…
For two years, he'd faced a rancher's worst nightmare -- a terrible drought. Just when he thought things couldn't possibly get worse, a band of free-grazers invaded the area. Tempers flared and guns blazed -- until a man lay dead under the hooves of stampeding cattle. Strong languageDakota spring
By D. Anne Love, Ronald Himler. 1995
Caroline and Jess have lost their mother, and now their father has been seriously injured building a barn. Both children…
struggle to get along with their prim and proper grandmother, who has reluctantly come to their farm in the Dakota prairie to take care of the family. For grades 2-4Quincannon (Quincannon Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Bill Pronzini. 1985
John Quincannon, former U. S. secret agent, is now a full-time drunk trying to forget the young mother he accidentally…
gunned downed. But the government needs him back to track down a gang of counterfeiters who are leaving a trail of false green from 'Frisco to Idaho. 1985Virginia City
By Hank Mitchum. 1983
Former rebel Grant Jordan rescued Gwen Quinn from Indians attacking her stage near Virginia City, Montana. She is carrying vital…
supplies to her father's mine through hostile Indian country. Jordan decides to help her and to work to stop an army captain from massacring a group of peaceful Crow Indians. 1983. Stagecoach Station, book 5Wichita (Stagecoach Ser.)
By Hank Mitchum. 1984
Former gunfighter Layne Britton turns to ranching and finds love in Wichita. But his love's greedy stepfather threatens to destroy…
their happiness and a murder turns the rancher back into a gunfighter. Fifteenth book in the Stagecoach Station series. 1984. Some violenceMojave
By Hank Mitchum. 1985
Grant Whitman risks his life to hunt down Mexican bandit Arango and his riders of death in the Mojave desert.…
Meanwhile his ally, Eustacia Kibbe, a wife and mother, searches desperately for her husband. 1985. Sixteenth book in the Stagecoach Station seriesBuchanan's war
By Jonas Ward. 1971
After quitting his herding job to avoid a ranch feud, Buchanan is ready to fulfill his dream of prospecting. Instead,…
the gentle giant of a man is arrested by the Texas Rangers and coerced into returning to the ranch feud as a Ranger. Rumors are that the driving force behind the fighting isn't coming from the owners, but rather from their ornery daughters. Strong language and violence. 1971. Part of the Buchanan Series. Violence and strong language