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Sundown Riders 3: Skeleton Lode (Sundown Riders)

Sundown Riders 3: Skeleton Lode (Sundown Riders)

by Ralph Compton

Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck--until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine--and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival... "If you likeLouis L' Amour you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune Chief Praise for the ... (more)

A Century of Great Western Stories

John Jakes is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles. A Century of Great Western Stories is a retrospective of Western writing over the past hundred years, showing the evolution of the genre, as well as a glimpse into what the future might hold for Western fiction.

Life Among the Apaches (Bison Book)

by John Carey Cremony

John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony's account of his... (more)

Geronimo His Own Story

by Geronimo

One of the most extraordinary documents in the annals of Native American history, this is the authentic testament of a remarkable war shaman who for several years held off both Mexico and the United States in fierce defense of Apache lands.

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