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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their... (more)

Territory

by Emma Bull

Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton. You think you know the story. You don’t. Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it. Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to... (more)

Chancy

by Louis L'Amour

Cattle drive in a deadly country... Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But... (more)

The Cherokee Trail

by Louis L'Amour

Attempting to run a stagecoach station on the perilous Cherokee Trail, widow Mary Breydon vows to survive and forge a new life for her daughter and herself, and she is aided by a mysterious gunman. Reprint.

Guns of the Timberlands

by Louis L'Amour

Clay Bell was a onetime drifter who'd grown weary of long trails and settled on the sweetest land he'd ever seen. For six years he fought Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the Bar-B ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But now all that Clay has worked for is threatened. Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, wants Bell's rich timberland--and he doesn't care how he gets it. Backing... (more)

by Zane Grey

Montana Creeds: Logan

by Linda Lael Miller

Descendants of the legendary McKettrick family, the Creeds are renowned in Stillwater Springs, Montana—for raising hell… After years of wandering, Logan Creed, a cowboy with a dusty law degree, has returned home. To put down roots, to restore his family's neglected ranch…to have kids of his own proudly bearing the Creed name. Divorced mom Briana Grant has heard the stories about her gorgeous neighbor. So Logan's... (more)

Montana Creeds: Tyler

by Linda Lael Miller

Whether winning championship belt buckles or dealing with Hollywood types for endorsement deals, former rodeo star Tyler Creed can handle anything. Except standing on the same patch of land as his estranged brothers. Yet here they are in Stillwater Springs, barely talking but trying to restore the old Creed ranch— and family. Lily Kenyon knows all about family estrangements and secrets. The single mom has come... (more)

Gingham Mountain (Lassoed in Texas)

by Mary Connealy

All aboard for a delightful, suspense-filled romance, where a Texan is torn between his attraction to a meddlesome schoolmarm and the charms of a designing dressmaker. When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, she's determined to keep him from committing her orphans to hard labor on his ranch. How far will she go to ensure their welfare? Grant is determined to provide a home for the two kids brought in by the orphan... (more)

The Ox-Bow Incident

by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Tall Stranger

by Louis L'Amour

Rock Bannon rode a steel-dust stallion that was as stubborn and leather-tough as he was. Scouting for a wagon train full of high hopes, Rock saved the Eastern-bred settlers from a brutal Indian attack. But they paid him back with scorn when he advised against following a fast-talker named Morton Harper. Rock Bannon followed no man, so he left the settlers to their promised milk and honey--until they realized their... (more)

How the West Was Won

by Louis L'Amour

Chronicles the lives and fates of the courageous men and women who pushed forward relentlessly to claim the West, despite hardship and death at every turn. Reissue.

Matagorda

by Louis L'Amour

Tap Duvarney settles in Texas on the ranch of his old friend Tom Kittery--but is soon caught up in a feud between Kittery and the Munson clan that is headed for an inevitable and savage showdown. Reprint.

Monument Rock

by Louis L'Amour

This priceless collection of newly discovered stories brings to life a time of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers. A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who's fleecing his neighbors while secretly cutting their throats....A young drifter, wounded in a gunfight, finds a chance to change his ways--but he must be... (more)

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Caine's Reckoning

by Sarah McCarty

The Hell's Eight is the only family he's ever needed, until he meets the only woman he's ever wanted...Caine Allen is a hardened Texas Ranger, definitely not the marrying kind. But when he rescues a kidnapped woman and returns her to town, the preacher calls in a favor. One Caine's honor won't let him refuse. From the moment he beds Desi, Caine knows turmoil will follow. Desi might have the face of a... (more)

Boone's Lick : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century west. Like his bestsellers Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon, and Dead Man's Walk, Boone's Lick transports the reader to the era about which McMurtry writes better and more shrewdly than anyone else. Told with McMurtry's unique blend... (more)

Conagher

by Louis L'Amour

In this classic L’Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life — and together they... (more)

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

by Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx's new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Born to ranching, drawn to it, or desperate to get out, they inhabit worlds that are isolated and often dangerous. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they drive themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. No one writes better than Proulx about the American west and about lives that may... (more)

Folly and Glory: A Novel (Berrybender Narratives)

Folly and Glory: A Novel (Berrybender Narratives)

by Larry McMurtry

As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. In the... (more)

Under the Sweetwater Rim

by Louis L'Amour

Major Mark Devereaux must track down a wagon on the run from the Indians, manned by a dashing, hell-for-leather cavalry officer with sixty thousand dollars in gold and Devereaux's daughter as his passenger. Reissue.

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