Tales both historical and contemporary are told in the western United States.
Sons of Texas
Elmer Kelton
Ambushed in 1816 Texas for trying to capture wild horses, the sons of murdered veteran and farmer Mordecai Lewis are eventually permitted to resettle in Texas, where one of them falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy French landowner and both a
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Louis L'Amour
When the beautiful Liza Hetrick is abducted and held in a mountain fortress, reclusive gunfighter Rye Taylor must face his deadliest enemy yet, the very man who taught him, as an orphan, about manhood, friendship, and the way of the West.
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Elmer Kelton
The Barfield brothers are separated by a Comanche raid. Years later, they are destined to be reunited and discover how their separate lives have changed them.
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Michael McGarrity
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the 19th century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in
Read More View in CatalogA Big Sky Christmas
William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
From the masters of frontier fiction comes a holiday tale set in the very heart of America--a Western saga of courageous souls coming together, with a little help from the Jensen family. . . In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off f
Read More View in CatalogThe Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's
Read More View in CatalogParadise Sky
Joe R. Lansdale
A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick. Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in an
Read More View in CatalogThe Long High Noon
Loren D. Estleman
A decades-long feud between Old West cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer are separately approached by a man with the popular Buffalo Bill show who proposes they publicize a winner-take-all duel.
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Loren D. Estleman
U. S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by Federal Judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Confederate Captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City--and then intends to turn north to rekind
Read More View in CatalogThe Western Star
Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomoti
Read More View in CatalogDodge City
Tom Clavin
Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before
Read More View in CatalogWolves of Eden: A Novel
Kevin McCarthy
The Civil War may be over, but in this thrilling historical novel, the battle for the West is only just beginning. Dakota Territory, 1866. Following the murders of a frontier fort’s politically connected sutler and his wife in their illicit off-pos
Read More View in CatalogRobert B. Parker's Buckskin
Robert Knott
After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothill
Read More View in CatalogThe Peaceful Valley Crime Wave
Bill Pronzini
Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that’s just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn’t had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That
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Téa Obreht
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, her husband, a newspaperman, who has gone in search of water for
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