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Author
Series
Fort Henry saga volume 3
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
3) True grit
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
4) Sin killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, determined Tasmin Berrybender, daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic Englishman who has brought his family to America in 1830 on an adventure of exploration in the just-opening West, meets and falls in love with frontiersman Jim Snow, an Indian-fighter and part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer."
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Toad brothers are wreaking havoc in Drywater Gulch when a boy with no experience but immense knowledge of dinosaurs rides into town on his tortoise and declares himself the new sheriff.
6) The pearl
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1986, c1945
Physical Desc
90 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The son of a German Farmer in Washington state during WWI, decides to join the Army to fight the Germans and "kill" the German part of his heritage. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer, and then has to protect her and himself from a worldwide labor organisation that is wreaking havoc all over the country to cause problems with the war effort....
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
From the most original mind in supernatural suspense... Award-winning Bill Myers asks: ""What would happen if Judas came back today?"" Judas wants a second chance. As a marketing expert, he never understood why God didn't use his abilities to sell Jesus to the masses and more effectively save the world. So God allows Judas to return to earth today to become the PR manager of a powerful young prophetess growing up in the inner city. But she has some...
9) The chase
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Isaac Bell sets out to pursue a ruthless bank robber who leaves no one alive as he goes from town to town.
10) Blue-eyed devil
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants whom the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2000
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wild Bill Hickock, U.S. Army colonel Fetterman, and other American figures appear in this historical novel of the nineteenth-century West, in which a woman named Mary Margaret treks across the country with her family to confront her traveling, philandering husband.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Zane Grey is an American icon, the premier chronicler of the West, and the writer who first brought the frontier to life in all its gritty glory. In this classic western, frontier legend Buffalo Jones won't back down from the most dangerous hunt of all...
Land Of Blood, Land Of The Brave
Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
14) Appaloosa
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
Author
Language
English
Description
A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle).
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 6
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a new installment of the series created by Robert B. Parker"--
After hunting down the notorious desperado Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to San Crist́óbal to stand trial. No sooner do they remand him into custody than a major bank robbery occurs and the lawmen find themselves tasked with another job investigating the robbery of the...
17) Brimstone
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier: Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas rangers—partners and friends—who have shared hardship and danger without ever quite understanding each other. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women. Call is driven and demanding, a natural authority figure with...
19) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
20) The water knife
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that...
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