DescriptionLit a Shuck for Texas: Johnny Buck is a young Texas cowboy of 19 summers, working for the Bar W. In the process of roping an old stub-horned steer, Buck is thrown from his horse and into a hidden cleft where he encounters the mystery of a murder…
DescriptionMatt Braun's Spur Award-winning Dakota tells the compelling story of Teddy Roosevelt's foray into rugged Dakota Territory. Stunned by a Valentine's Day telegram, Teddy Roosevelt reached his Manhattan home just in time to watch death claim first his mother and then his wife on that dark day in 1884. Abandoning a promising political career, 25-year-old Teddy sought the healing solace of the Dakota Bad Lands. But after bagging grizzly and elk, decking a gun-waving giant, and building two thriving cattle ranches, he found himself in the sights of a deadly rival.
DescriptionProvocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels. Stylized and sometimes leaving narrative form to lean upon the structure of the music bed (and the wind), this story carves an indelible groove on the sandstone and pokes a hole in the water table, surprising us with the treasures of the natural order and the beauty of truth. The dirty blue peacock is dehydrated. The coyotes move very slowly. The moon covers its mouth and laughs. Borax. Mule droppings and railroad dust. Antifreeze. Alcohol. Pharmaceuticals. It's all here.
DescriptionThe Jericho mountain race - five hundred miles of spongy desert sand and impossible rocks and mountain cliffs. It takes a special breed of man, riding a very special horse, to win that grueling contest. Colonel Robert Dinsmore knows he has the horse that can do it - Crusader, a magnificent black stallion. But he knows, too, that there's only one man who can ride that great horse - the wild outlaw Harry Camden. The Colonel enlists Harry to train and race Crusader, but Harry will not find winning the event an easy task. For there are those who hate Harry Camden a great deal, and love victory even more, and some of those men will stop at nothing to be victorious - not even murder!
DescriptionUSA Today best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton tells an 1865 tale of a Kansas woman victimized by murderous marauders. As Julie Wilder races to greet her father, she sees his ashen face and fixed stare too late to escape the hooded nightriders who suddenly surround her. When bounty hunter Baines Meredith discovers her the next day - battered, bleeding, and barely alive - he covers her nakedness and gently cares for her. But can Baines help Julie develop the strength, courage, and skill she needs to administer her own brand of frontier justice?
DescriptionThis is a story of Texas in the 1870s. After killing a man in self defense, Buck Duane becomes an outlaw, a companion of the gunfighters and rustlers who live along the Texas border. In a camp on the Mexican side of the river, he finds a young girl held prisoner, and in attempting to rescue her, brings down upon himself the wrath of her captors. Henceforth, he is forced to live a lonely life, hunted on one side by honest men, on the other by outlaws. This continues until a big-hearted captain of the rangers takes him into his camp, wins him a pardon, and makes him a ranger, pledged to fight for the law rather than against it. The girl he attempted to rescue also finds good in Buck.
DescriptionIn a land of legends and mighty warriors, one fatal gunshot changes the course of a nation in this historically accurate adventure. Torn between two races, a white man raised by Blackfeet Indians is propelled across the vast Northwest wilderness of the early 1800s on a desperate mission: defending his adopted people from ruthless white fur traders.
DescriptionSociety has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the Postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and wooly 19th-century California.
DescriptionOne for the Mohave Kid: Few men were as deadly or troublesome with a gun as the Mohave Kid. Ab Kale, marshal of Hinkley, had warned the Kid to stay away from his town. Even as he trained his own adopted son, Riley, to handle a gun, he worried f…
DescriptionExperience the Old West in this evocative collection of Bret Harte stories. More than 100 years after his short stories began appearing, Harte's influence on the American literary tradition has become legendary. His character, Jack Hamlin, is the template for many a poised, chivalrous Western gambler, and Miss Mary is the prototypical schoolmarm. Included in this collection are "The Luck of Roaring Camp, " "Tennessee's Partner, " "The Idyl of Red Gulch, " "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar, "Brown of Calaveras, " "Miggles, " "A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flats."…
