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"Nick Cashman had few friends in Crooked River, Oregon. He reckoned he’d been there on the run for long enough after “mauling” a skunk of a man to death in Lander City, Wyoming. Now was his chance to move on with Peyton, the gambler, wanting a herd t...
"Steve Rambo, hard and determined, came to the town of Post Oak, looking for a man to kill. He had stayed on quietly, taking a job with the Swallowfork outfit as cover for his presence, waiting for the fellow to show his hand. Somewhere in this high ...
"In “The Courage Builder,” the small ranchers in Harmony, Oregon, are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails....
"Striking ruthlessly out of the night, the Ghost Riders are the most brutal band of outlaws ever to plague Texas. Leaving death and devastation behind them, they raid town after town, slaughtering, looting, and burning. Dressed in white robes that co...
"The way Flint MacKeithan had it figured out, a Tennessee mountain man needed three things to make him happy and to keep him that way. He needed a good long rifle in the hoop of his left arm, a sharp hunting knife in his belt, and plenty of land all around...
"Trans-Pecos had been running into unexpected difficulties while trying to complete its line across the Drifting Sands country. Besides the ordinary hazards of laying track across that wild section of West Texas, it had had to contend with Slash Hanl...
"After the mining company he works for goes belly up, young Max Tillman has a chance encounter with a man who has a bounty on his head. He soon takes up tracking other wanted men, but realizes he may be in over his head as he travels through some of the...
"In Savage Barranca, the Revenger gets captured by the U.S. Cavalry, but he avoids getting the death penalty. The governor of New Mexico Territory gives him an ultimatum: kill a man in Mexico and bring back the governor's kidnapped daughter, or face ...
"The West of the late 1800s is a lonely place. Margaret Thomas lives that loneliness. Alone, after the shooting death of her sheriff husband that she blames on herself and searches for solace in a liquor bottle. Then one day a miracle arrives in a te...
"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other....
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One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, they accept work at Fort...
The notorious bounty hunter known as Iron Eyes is tracking down his errant sweetheart Squirrel Sally, and his quest takes him all the way from Mexico to the forests of the West. However, unbeknown to him, unscrupulous men envious of his success in hi...
Texas Ranger Chet Hallam stayed behind when his family moved to Kansas. Five years later he rides north to pay them a visit and discovers that his father, the county sheriff, left town a month ago to track down a gang of outlaws and never returned. But...
When Captain Barnabas Quinnell, late of the defeated Confederate army, decides to smuggle a cart carrying a ton and a half of Henry repeater rifles and ammo into Mexico with his band of bushwhackers, it seems like a simple, straightforward and profit...
Matt Buckman, a young cowpuncher, is headed for Dodge City to see the sights, but on the way he finds trouble instead. First he's caught in Indian country and ambushed by a band of renegade Kiowas. More trouble follows after he's rescued by Cud Hooker...
Clay Holley and Tom Denton, returning from a successful cattle-selling venture, can hardly wait to see their wives and Tom's young son again. But when the two ranchers top the last rise before the house where their families are staying, they see only...
"Hap and Everett, adopted children of the Yaqui County sheriff and his wife, were known as the Kingman twins. Actually Hap was the son of the upright rancher Warren Allen, who had been killed by bushwack bullets, while Everett's father was the ruffian...
"Jim Bannister rides into Cabra Springs with no money, no friends, and a price on his head--12,000 dollars. Unable to prove his innocence, he's been running for a long time, knowing that bounty hunters were on his trail. But a man can't change who he...
"When two strangers come to the aid of a teen hustler known as Gitalong because of his crippled leg who is being harassed by three Texas drovers, it seems like a normal day in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. When the Texans return with reinforcements, an...
"The war party came howling down on us from the tall bluffs, and under the blue sky that stretched away for a million miles they finished off our wagon train. They killed Ma. I heard her screaming. I ran, but one of them caught me and slung me over his...
"Nothing will stop him, not even death ... In the dusty town of Creekside, bullets fly and crooked men walk the streets. Wes Torveen, the notorious gunfighter known as One Arm Savage, has been wreaking havoc on the town, killing the men who terrorised...
"Cornered ... Moran tried the hat trick again, shoving the Stetson into view on the end of his gun barrel. This time he almost lost the gun as a well-aimed bullet drilled the hat and scratched his gun muzzle. He was cornered – by an unknown marksman who...
"Known for his historical fiction and Great Western Detective League series, Colt uses an inventive narrative format to deftly weave adventure, nostalgia, American history, and biography together. Colt imagines real-life friends Damon Runyon (famed j...
"A rebellion is brewing in the New Mexico territories. Ghost Warrior--a Navajo renegade using the name of a legendary fallen warrior--is stirring up fear and bloodlust. Under orders from President Ulysses S. Grant, Zak Cody--the elusive enforcer they...
"The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation...
"Eight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing them in 1881. He lives only for vengeance, and the fresh Mescalero trail in the snow leads straight into...
"Ransom valley: The Wyoming Territory town of Wind River has gotten so peaceful that some people think it's downright civilized. But they don't know that a gang of outlaws is planning a raid that will clean out the bank. Anyone who gets in their way will...
"Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and forty-two cents--plus one busted harmonica--to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinne...
Riding into town with pennies to his name after a venture to round up wild horses ends with his pard riddled with arrows and everything they owned in the hands of the Utes, Grady Mulvane cuts the figure of a saddlebum looking for a handout. But the sheriff...
Brett Havolin and Tony Mareno were pards as close as a horse and saddle, and it wouldn't have occurred to Brett not to be at Tony's Flying Club outfit when trouble struck. But with no advance warning, by the time he arrives, Tony's body has been found...
Reverend Matthew Devlin is busy writing the moment six desperadoes burst through the church doors, attacking both him and his wife Sarah. When Matt regains consciousness, he's been trussed to his own cross, and Sarah has been viciously murdered. And so...
Sheriff Joe Flint wakes up to just another day in Greenville. But when you live in a border town in New Mexico, every day is different, and this is a bad one. Who is the dead man on the mysterious coach that rides into town, also carrying a badly injured...
Following on from A Return to the Alamo, Thomas Collins and the Texas Rangers are on a mission to escort the infamous dictator Lopez de Santa Anna inland so that he can regain power and end the war with America. But far from assisting him, Collins's men...
"He came out of the north, from the mountains of Colorado to the dusty, sun-dried territory of New Mexico, gunning for a killer. When Jim Lane stepped off the train at Mountain City, there was the smell of blood in his nostrils. He had carried the stench...
"More than two years of relentless stalking of his wife's killers had brought Cullom Blaine from Texas to California's Antelope Valley and landed him in the middle of the explosive and mindless fury of a range war in this gripping tale of revenge in the...
"When land promoter Rodney Gallant comes to Nebraska and tries to tie up water rights around Silver Lake, Jim Carlin hoped to head off trouble peacefully with a ranchers' meeting until a bushwhacker's bullet tried to keep him from the meeting. Now it's...
"In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade...
"Lt. Ed Preston is returning to his cavalry fort after being on leave when he is mistaken for a bank robber. He is arrested, placed on trial and sent to prison to serve years of hard labor for a crime he did not commit. Forced to endure horrible conditions...
"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had...
A year ago, Ron Garroway was in the right place at the wrong time: searching for land to start a ranch near the fledgling town of Prescott, Arizona, he fell in with two men who robbed a bank with a confederate. Although on a scouting expedition at the...
The life of Hawke Travis began when the West was young. Born in Ohio, he moved West with his family when he was nine years old, where he became a good shot even at that young age. Times were hard, but Hawke dreamed of something better. He was sent to...
Marshal Matt Fallen and his deputy Elmer Hook have never seen War Smoke so busy. People are gathering for the opening night of the Tivoli theatre, and top of the bill is the famed Mezmo, an illusionist who can reputedly mesmerize anyone into doing his...
Liberty Jones is tired of war. Now he just wants to be left in peace, but trouble has a way of finding him. Riding into the town of Red Rock to escape a marauding tribe of Indians, any hopes of safety he had are soon dispelled. The town is under mili...
Enraged by the actions of ruthless hired gun Holt Danvers in killing rancher Frank Carver and leaving his young daughter Mary on the verge of death, flamboyant Mexican bandit Zococa and his mute Apache sidekick Tahoka vow vengeance. After leaving the...
When Red Mike Stall hijacks the westbound train with the help of his gang and attempts to murder everyone on board, he's shocked to find Brolin, a gunfighter thought to have been dead for ten years, among the passengers. Effecting an escape, Brolin d...
Friend to the Sioux, clad in buckskin and wearing an eagle feather, Wes Gray meets with a hostile reception in Palmersville, where rumours of Indian unrest abound. He was summoned to the town by long-time friend Crackaway - and is surprised to learn on...
Brother and sister Nash and Wendy Valeron didn't expect that starting up a doctor's practice would be so lively. But when a young woman rushes in and begs them to hide her, their lives are turned upside down. What begins as protecting Trina from a couple...
"Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville, and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North and...
"Lee Sowell tells us about the Pard Newman battles--which nearly cost him his life--in this sequel to The Ox That Gored. It takes three battles, one in the Long Branch Saloon of Dodge City, one in Texas, and one in the Territory of New Mexico to finally...
"After a hard night with his sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure -- "the Vengeance Queen" -- Lou Prophet decides to cool his heels at a local honky tonk. Things heat up fast when he defends one of the girls from a sadistic brute who also happens to be the...
"In 1871, sharpshooter Emmet Honeycut is acquitted of murdering a 12-year-old girl who was about to burn to death in a hotel fire. Emmet faces a bleak future until he receives a telegram from Major Kingston; his niece, Faith, has been abducted, and h...
"From the moment he pins his father's bloodied star on his chest, Sheriff Simms fulfills his calling, hunts his father's killer, and eludes the U.S. marshal with his fallen-away Mormon deputies who hunt the sheriff for the bounty on his head levied because...
"Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos ... After a lifetime of robbing banks...
"Ketta Noonan, her mother's child by rape, has been kidnapped by the twelve-year-old's father. Big Joe Noonan, her mother's husband, is glad she's gone. He's always detested the child as evidence of her mother's violation, and kept her hidden away. But...
"Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at 2.00 dollars an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour. So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't...
"Cole Bonner will never forget what happened to his family at Crow Creek Crossing. His wife, her parents, and their three young children - brutally slaughtered by outlaws. The horror of the massacre drove him into the wilderness. Drove him nearly mad....
"Matt Battles was an outcast in his own home town. Robbery and murder had been done and, despite a total lack of proof, many thought that Matt, and his pal, Johnny Kidd, who had disappeared after the crime, had been in on it. Then Matt was offered a chance...
"There were few horse breeders in the West to equal Lee Banner: the man was a born horseman who took any job he could find to keep his small Oklahoma spread going and to help him fulfil his lifelong dream of seeing one of his two-year-olds in the All...
"Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin, and Stony Brooke had ridden into Prospect looking to buy some bulls from Marty Barrett when Tucson saw a pretty girl lose a piece of paper from her pocket. He rushed to pick it up to return it to her, but when Gus Brown...
"What's a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it's 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making...
Sheeped from the cow business and driven from his home after being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Walt Bender hauls up in the wilds of New Mexico - but wherever he goes, there follow the hired guns of "sheep king" Deef Lasham, the man who put a...
IT SEEMS TO TAKE A LOT OF LUCK TO STAY ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY... And luck is what wagon captain Ross Sheldon has in spades. From the flood-ravaged plains of Nebraska to the dust-strewn canyons of Wyoming, his new freight business goes from strength to...
When Jack Rogan decides to return home from years of gambling on the Mississippi riverboats, he makes a mistake by taking what he thinks is a shorter, faster route back to Texas. The Louisiana swamplands are teeming with danger, not least Gaston Savoy,...
Cheyenne cowboy Gat Hammer has decided to use his savings to buy a ranch in Dodge City. Arriving with the cattle drive and depositing his wages in the town bank, he rents a room in the Deluxe hotel, unaware that outlaw Emmett Holt's gang have been hired...
Jason Connor, a wandering preacher, stumbles across a wagon and its dead occupants. In shock, he decides he must deliver the only survivor, a young boy, to his aunt and uncle - but not before shooting his way through the gang responsible for the murders....
Arriving in Temple Rock to visit his brother John, Brent Kelf is greeted with a shower of bullets. John's ranch is under attack, his animals stolen, and his family in danger - but with his leg broken, it falls to Kelf to find the culprit. Following the...
British Army deserter Thomas Collins is working with the Texas Rangers to bring supplies of gunpowder back to San Antonio for the continuing struggle against the fearsome Comanche Nation. As they slowly drive their heavy-laden wagons back, Thomas's p...
Drifter Chuck Mellors is wondering where his next dollar will come from when he receives an enticing proposition from an unpleasant man. Inveigled into assisting in a robbery which goes terribly wrong, he soon becomes a fugitive from the law. Seeking...
"Zak Cody is on the trail of the gold-seeking killer who made him an orphan. But while he's taking down his adversary's hired guns, their leader, Ben Trask, continues to elude him as he brews a poisonous stew of betrayal, death, and lies in a plan that...
"Enticed by the richest poker tournament the west has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone, Arizona. Lawman John Slaughter already has his hands full when a local Romeo takes off with a rancher's daughter...
"A rancher is murdered and Sheriff Tommy Stallings suspects the rustlers are members of the vicious White Caps gang. Tommy locates their hideout in the canyons north of Cimarrón but his investigation is interrupted when corrupt politicians insist the...
"As the father of a young Crow tribesman, Preacher would like nothing more than to see the long-time natives and newly arrived settlers live together in peace. Then the killing starts. As a family man and frontiersman, Jamie Ian MacCallister is more than...
"Cajun box man known as Duval blows a safe in San Francisco and makes off with sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones. Insurance Company of North America engages the Great Western Detective League and veteran investigators Beau Longstreet...
"Dylan Curry robbed trains before the war that changed him forever. After the Union was repaired, he needed a job that would legally employ his unique skills—and Dylan Curry was reborn as "the Guardian." Now the plainclothes train marshal uses the skills...
"The Rio Grande was streaked with blood when Walt Slade rode into the territory. El Paso, Juarez, Clint – all three towns were red-hot with killing, rustling, robbing and arson. Could Slade’s big Colts put an end to it before the powder keg blew up? ...
"Warner Grayson and his wife Laura are perfect partners in the horse business. But they’ve become sparring partners in their marriage. Warner’s stiff-necked pride over having a wife with a lot more money than he has turned their sparks of passion into...
"Bartlett Nunnally, better known as Bar None, was a soft-spoken, gentle-mannered hombre who looked like a tenderfoot, and therefore seemed to present no threat to the citizens of Twin Buttes, where he had come looking for his friend Ben Godfrey. But you...
"When Rogue Bishop and Michael McLean wandered into the deserted mining town in Arizona, they were looking for only one thing – silver. Rogue had rescued McLean in the desert; in gratitude, Mike had told Bishop about a cache of hidden coins in an old...
"Sam Remington stirred his gaze on the stagecoach being readied for the run south. For ten years he had been the 'jehu,' the driver between Apache Springs and Springville, but now he was making the trip for the last time, with a new driver at the helm...
"Hugh Collier in 'The Danger Lover' feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a 'caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that...
"The story of Andersonville prison camp was written in blood, with few left alive to tell it. Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells was one of them, and he was sworn to share the tales of those who suffered and died beside him. It is a promise that has brought...
"Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Beneath his calm, collected demeanor beats the heart of a warrior and he dreams and longs for the days when...
"Rosary Without Beads is a back-hills narrative for the 1800's Lincoln County War. The novel reboots Billy the Kid's academic legend and gives voice to the silent story haunting the hills of New Mexico. Ambrosia Salazar, a sheepherder's daughter, bat...
"For twenty-four years, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Contention and Other Frontier Sto...
For years, Morgan Cameron and Jim Brett have been working and planning for the day when Morgan's sons, Stash and Lee, will take over leadership of their cattle empire, the B C Company. Stash, who is determined to become sole boss by fair means or foul,...
Striking where least expected, the outlaw band known as the Faceless Riders have been spreading a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande, throwing the whole territory into a panic - and the toll from their guns is overflowing Boot Hill. As ac...
Texas, 1874: Ex-cavalrymen Ben Turner and Wes Noble arrive in Copper Creek to find the town is being held ransom by a gang of gunslingers led by ruthless local rancher Ed Holden. The law here is non-existent; its most recent marshal left rather than ...
When the Mounted Police's best man-hunter disappears after arresting Alphonse La Rue, Sergeant Dan Keane is dispatched to locate the two men. La Rue is an infamous criminal, the leader of the gang responsible for terrorizing the frozen North and stea...
When gambler Jack Morton invests his winnings in the wagon and stock of a snake oil conman, he reinvents himself as Professor Cornelius Murgatroyd, purveyor of a miraculous cure for rheumatism. Travelling across the West making a precarious living from...
Lee Madden's job is to protect a wagon train on its journey from Missouri to Oregon. But his past catches up with him in the brutal shape of Deacon Swain, a border ruffian out to avenge the killing of his younger brother. There are compensations, though....
Tragically orphaned, two young children, Jacob and Rachel Peterson, leave Beckinson in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains for adoption by relatives in Chicago. Ten years later, when the opportunity arises to expand his uncle's business, Jacob sets up...
Sheriff Thomas of Fenton's Creek is puzzled when an elderly recluse is murdered. This first killing is followed swiftly by another, leaving the small town at the centre of an affair which has even the government in Washington alarmed. Oblivious to th...
"There was only one way Brent could track the man he was out to kill – and that was to join forces with the outlaws he despised, ride and rob with them, and stake his life on the masquerade! The Vengeance Trail – Brent Hollister rode it into the outlaw...
"A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn’t have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town’s new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced and hot-headed, hasn’t been in the job for...
"When Red Clark’s buddy, Shorty Dock, asked him to ride over to Wesco and search for a black-bearded man who had an annoying habit of shooting good men from ambush, the hard-riding redhead soon found himself in a tangle of trouble. But Red Clark’s trigger...
"Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to control more land. When he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that had been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is Dunstan's intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation Morgan makes is that...
"With their acclaimed novels of the Jensen family, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone have captured the pioneering spirit of America itself. Now a new generation of Jensens prepares to take the reins - and live the dream thei...
"It takes one tough man to make it as a Texas Ranger, and Jim Blawcyzk certainly qualifies. Surviving this particular month has been full of trials he never expected -- and quitting never entered his mind. After single-handedly arresting a ring of mu...
"They were cat and mouse. Antagonists in a deadly game of survival, Ward Cameron and William Olive were linked together by the most fearful word in the West: bounty. Olive was a thrice-hardened Foreign Legionnaire turned bounty-hunter. And Cameron was...
"Rancher Harry Hamilton enrolls in the Civil War, leaving his wife, Elizabeth, and their son to fend for themselves. They are joined by her draft-dodging brother and when Hamilton is killed the brother tries to prove his manhood by joining a gang of ...
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