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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Volume One)

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Volume One)

by Cormac McCarthy

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy , All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. ... (more)

The Whistling Season

by Ivan Doig

"Can’t cook but doesn’t bite." So begins the ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee, Montana. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher,... (more)

The Way West

by A. B. Guthrie

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the... (more)

Big Sky

by A. B. Guthrie

Originally published more than fifty years ago, THE BIG SKY is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. THE BIG SKY introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature. Traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers.... (more)

Dances with Wolves

by Michael Blake

The world renowned, American epic Dances With Wolves is the eternal story of one man's search for his place in the world. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical and unpredictable journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it's gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is... (more)

A Woman Named Damaris (Women of the West)

A Woman Named Damaris (Women of the West)

by Janette Oke

Will she ever discover the story behind her unusual name? Fifteen-year-old Damaris can no longer stay on her family's farm and endure her father's drunken rages. With the help of her heartbroken mother, Damaris makes her escape, taking along two family treasures: her grandmother's lacy golden brooch and her grandfather's watch. These items and her name are the only legacy she has from her past. Her... (more)

English Creek

by Ivan Doig

In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Montana in the 1930s -- that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills. The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into... (more)

Ride with Me, Mariah Montana

by Ivan Doig

This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, returns as the witty and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family's -- and... (more)

Dead Man'S Walk : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging... (more)

Anything for Billy : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud....Welcome to the wild, hot-blooded adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape their way into the shining memories of Western myth. Surrounded by a splendid cast of characters that only Larry... (more)

The Searchers

by Alan Le May

The epic American Western classic from the author of The Unforgiven. Twice Mart Pauley had watched as the bloodthirsty Commanches destroyed everything he held dear. The first time he was a helpless child. But the second time, when they slaughtered his adopted family and took a young girl hostage, he was a man. A man who could seek revenge .

Destry Rides Again

by Max Brand

Destry, young and reckless but no criminal, sat stunned as the judge pronounced him guilty. But he was innocent! He eyed the 12-man jury, then responded with words that would become legend in the little frontier town of Wham. "Twelve peers? Twelve half-bred pups! Well, let `em think this over. When my ten years is up, I'm gonna call on `em. If they ain't in, I'm gonna leave my card anyway. I've been a waster,... (more)

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The Trail Driver

by zane grey

RAMRODLUKE SHORT

RAMROD

by LUKE SHORT

Arfive

by A. B. GUTHRIE Jr.

TRACK OF THE HUNTERLewis B. Patten

TRACK OF THE HUNTER

by Lewis B. Patten

Texas DawnPhillip Finch

Texas Dawn

by Phillip Finch

Man Who Rode Midnight (Texas Tradition Series, No 14)

Man Who Rode Midnight (Texas Tradition Series, No 14)

by Elmer Kelton

Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes's grandson reluctantly tries to convince him to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the ranch's--and a young cowgirl's--wild beauty.

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Roman

by Douglas C. Jones

YA Readers were first introduced to Roman Hasford in Elkhorn Tavern (Holt, 1984) as he and his mother defended their farm during the Civil War. It is now 1865. His father has returned from the war and resumed his role as man of the house, and Roman feels the need to move on. Finding a job in Levenworth, Kansas, Roman achieves many of his dreams, although seeing buffalo killed by hunters or being ambushed by... (more)

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