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Author
Publisher
FORGE/"A Tom Doherty Associates Book"
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.
When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But, Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.
And, when luck finally sets...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton
Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Barbed Wire," former cowboy and Irish fencing master Doug Monahan is unwittingly drawn into a barbed wire war, and in "Llano River," Dundee works to stop a cattle-rustling operation and gets caught in the middle of a deadly feud.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence...
10) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Many a River, two brothers are orphaned and separated, only to be reunited as enemies on opposing sides of the Civil War.
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1986, 1987
Language
English
Description
Ross Hardy had made a decision about his life, a life that had been rich in the hard-fisted experience of cold winters and dusty cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers and hunted buffalo and horse thieves, but now he would to ride for himself, and fight for himself.
Author
Series
A novel of the Texas Rangers volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having finished Texas Standoff, seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton-the Western Writers of America's "Best Western Writer of All Time"-took his leave with 50 notches on his gunbelt of classics. When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
14) Flaming irons
Author
Publisher
Black's Readers Service Co
Pub. Date
1955
Language
English
Description
Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later - jailed, hunted and betrayed - Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out to even the score…
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black's murder charge was dropped. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, handsome, and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison walls, including the upstart young warden....
16) Die by the gun
Author
Series
Chuckwagon trail volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is wanted for a killing he didn't commit. He saved his hide by signing on as a cattle drive chuckwagon cook and bolted the territories. Mac's enemies are hungry for more and have hired a gang of ruthless killers to turn up the heat.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident”, that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin-Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Physical Desc
xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim...
Author
Series
Chuckwagon trail volume Book 1
Language
English
Description
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie flees New Orleans to become a chuck-wagon cook on a cattle drive and learns that the drive's trail boss plans to double-cross the herd's owner and steal the money the herd brings in.
20) Honor's price
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The exciting continuation of the Rocky Mountain Legacy series focuses on trusting in the Lord. After a vicious fire brings injury and devastation to Monte Farrell's western home, he feels fearful and protective. The dreams he shares with his betrothed, Abbie Martin, are going up in smoke. When the fire proves to be intentional, and the sabotage against the property escalates, Monte desperately wrestles with his need for revenge and his sense of honor....