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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Preacher and Jamie MacCallister search for a hidden fortune that might be just a legend-but the bandits, bullets, and bloodshed they find are all too real ... Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo-especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver...
Author
Publisher
Brigids Gate Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an Old West overrun by monsters, a stoic gunslinger must embark on a dangerous quest to save her friends and stop a supernatural war. Sharpshooter Melinda West, 29, has encountered more than her share of supernatural creatures after a monster infection killed her mother. Now, Melinda and her charismatic partner, Lance, offer their exterminating services to desperate towns, fighting everything from giant flying scorpions to psychic bugs. But when...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls. In "Visitors in Cantera," the narrator receives a visit from questionable relatives. In "In the Breaks," a girl goes deer hunting with her grandfather and has to fend off unwelcome advances from a young man. In "Man of Trees," a homesteader helps solve the murder of an...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The West has been won and lawman James Flagg was there to help win it. But it's now the early 1900s and time, like a horseless carriage chugging ahead of a saddled palomino, has passed Flagg by. He's one of the last of a dying breed, and the first to take action when old-time thievery returns to this new Old West.
Author
Series
Western light volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Upon uncovering her tyrannical father's malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own. She will rescue her mother, who had already been sent to the asylum, and escape together on a wagon train heading west. Posing as sisters, Beth and her mother travel with the pioneers in hopes of making it to Idaho before the others start asking too many questions. Wagon-train scout Jake Holt senses that the mysterious...
Author
Series
Western adventures of Cade McCall volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for justice, a search that ends with Cade's Revenge.
Author
Series
Brannigan's land volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Something fishy is going on with the beef at Circle P. After a quick-and-dirty shootout with a small band of rustlers, Ty Brannigan and his son Matt do another count of their cattle -- and find they have over one hundred head more than before. Seems the rustlers were hiding stolen cows from other ranches among the Brannigan herd. And that's just the tip of the cowpie. In jail, the rustlers rat out their partners to the local marshal. They're not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bordered by the Blackfeet Reservation to the north and mountain ranges to the east and west, Cutthroat County is seven-hundred glorious square miles of Big Sky grandeur. For generations, the Maddox and Drew families have ruled the county - often at odds with each other. Today, Ashton Maddox runs the biggest Black Angus ranch in the country, while County Sheriff John T. Drew upholds the law like his forefathers did over a century ago. A lot has changed...
Author
Series
Woman who volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard to deny friends asking for help -- even when it means stepping headlong into danger. As a sort of left-over deputy from a previous adventure, January Billings is compelled to answer the call when a valuable gun is stolen from the local mercantile, and the storekeeper viciously assaulted. The town marshal is out of action and the sheriff is an ineffectual fool. What else can she do but step up? Besides, the stolen gun links Eli Pasco to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim. Armed with pan or pickaxe, driven by greed or glory, every last one of them was determined to strike it rich - or die trying. For Cord Bennett, it was more than a dream. California was his destiny...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A few hours after he had a violent argument with the railroad's lawyer, tough rancher Wyatt Kearsage was dead! Two days later, quick-drawing, smart-thinking Gregory Quist ran headlong into trouble when he started to investigate the murder of the man who had refused the railroad passage through his ranch. Heads were smashed and guns thundered as Quist tangled with the railroad's lawyer, beat up the belligerent saloon keeper, played cat-and-mouse with...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of his stories, featuring Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes - three inimitable characters who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Someone is terrorizing the Arizona border. Burning down ranches. Butchering travellers. Blazing a trail of bloodthirsty raids and robbing the railroads blind. His name is Melichus. A ruthless half-breed outlaw with a mile-long record of cruelties and crimes, he's the most wanted man in the territory. And the massive price on his head has attracted the attention of every trigger-happy, would-be bounty hunter this side of the Rio Grande. But Luke Jensen...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As the sun goes down behind the long, low western horizon, imagine a gathering of friends who write stories, share stories, encourage new stories, and visit about the craft of fiction. As a reader, you'll find stories about family, lost and found. Tales of Civil War and reconciliation. Gunfighters. Bounty hunters. Small towns and cemeteries. You'll find ghosts, real and imagined. Adventure and romance. You'll make new friends and rekindle old flames....
19) Concho Valley
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...
20) Kill me tomorrow
Author
Series
Old cowboys never die volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but--thanks to the success of their new business venture, the D&T Cattle Company--they're riding high in the saddle. And raking in the cash. What's their secret? ... Disguised as even older men than they are, Doolin and Tubbs have managed to pull off a string of bank jobs without a hitch,...