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1) Cutthroats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lifetime outlaws Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, but when the younger members of their gang rebel, they must pull one last job to finance a retirement far away from the long arm of the law.
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 "accidentā, 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
Rocky Mountain legacy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abigail Martin feels at home in her rough western town. After she visits Montgomery Farrell at his nearby ranch, however, she is intrigued by his civilized manner and well-appointed house. Montgomery is attracted to Abigail, too, and begins courting her. But a deathbed promise will soon separate them. Can Montgomery be strong enough to bear the burden of his honor? And can Abigail understand the importance of his pledge? When the two finally reunite,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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...
11) Springfield 1880
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Holden must stop the thieving, traitorous Captain Foster from crossing into Mexico and selling to the highest bidder four wagons of munitions and supplies bound for the Arizona Territory.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bill Pronzini's riveting western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence-and his Peaceful Valley is anything but ā¦
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 is, until mid-October, 1914,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
Author
Series
Caleb York volume . 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
x, 229 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the west legends are made one bullet at a timeā¦
Trinidad, New Mexico, is an oasis of civilization in an untamed desert ruled by outlaws, bank robbers and horse thieves. Sheriff Harry Gauge rules his town with an iron fist, a fast gun, and an unbridled thirst for power.
George Cullen sweated blood to carve a ranch from the wilderness. He'd rather take a bullet to the gut than give in to the greedy sheriff's land grab. But a cattle empire isn't...
15) Cassidy
Author
Series
Big sky dreams volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her friend Meg has a baby, Cassidy Norton, a seamstress living in 1880s Montana, wants to change her priorities from having a church family to being a wife and mother, but to do so she must find someone who will not flinch at details from her past.
Author
Series
Angus volume Book 1
Publisher
Gleason & Wall Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xiii, 355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten Shoes Up, populated with horses, saddles, guns, and outlaws, is not a traditional "western." Angus lives alone on a mountain straddling the New Mexico/Colorado border. He doesn't talk much, and carries himself in a way that draws strangers to him like an anvil beckons the hammer. His world view is whatever he can see from the back of his horse. When he decides to come down off his mountain, "all hell breaks loose."
18) 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
Series
Have Brides Will Travel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan--the owner of a matrimonial agency--they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New...