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Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A Spur Award-winning AuthorIt was the Roaring Twenties, and they descended like a swarm of locusts on the oil-rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma: jackleg lawyers, thieves, "dope" doctors, prostitutes, bootleggers, oily merchants, and fortune hunters determined "to marry me a rich Osage" preying on naive Indian girls. Unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate as witnesses vanished, fearing for their lives. Were all the killings unrelated,...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The title story of this Western trio features Elgera Douglas. Wanted for murder, she leads a lawman on a perilous chase. In "The Hangman's Segundo, " a judge and his daughter are threatened by an escaped convict, and the man hired to protect them has an agenda of his own. "The Lone Star Camel Corps" is the brainchild of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a plan to put a corps of camels into service in the deserts of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Here are five vivid tales of the frontier by consummate storyteller Will Henry, whose stories "pull the reader feet-first into worlds that have vanished, except from the pages of books" (Santa Fe Reporter). Among them is "Wolf-Eye", in which Arizona Territory rancher Jim Lewis buys a German Shepherd puppy whose owner was destroying him. The dog, a throwback to the wolf strain, learns to shepherd cattle with uncanny intelligence. And "Ghost Wolf of...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Max Brand has never been equaled for his tales of the Old West, tales that combine historical accuracy, grand adventure and humanity. This exciting trio of novellas includes the title story, Brands final episode in the thrilling saga of Reata, one of his most popular characters. Reata has finally freed himself from master criminal Pop Dickerman, but then he meets Bob Clare, a man living under the constant threat of death. Clare enlists Reatas...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
This special collection of stories by one of the founding members of the Western Writers of America is now in paperback. This volume includes six of Newton's finest stories and short novels which show nothing in the frontier West is ever simple--or what it seems.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Three classic Western tales, from a master of Frontier fiction, are contained within this exciting volume that includes "Gambler's Row," in which a mysterious man known only as Drifter arrives at the Silver Slipper in Laramie, Wyoming Territory in search of an elusive eyewitness to a murder.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Lady gambler Mari Marshay decides to give it all up after a gunfight at her poker table kills a man. Leaving a note for the sheriff to locate the man's widow and return the deed to his ranch which was among her winnings, she boards the train called The Prairie Queen. Sheriff Milam has an urgent reason to catch up with Mari: the man has left a four-year-old orphan. But circumstances on that train are heading towards catastrophe. Eventually the train...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
After a stranger attacks Charles Barrett, leaving him comatose, his son Alex determines to bring the criminal to justice. As he begins to track him down, he finds unusual clues in a safety deposit box - a map, old photographs, some puzzling letters, and a large antique key. What do they all mean? Why did Alex's father hide his past for so long? And what does this mean about Alex's own identity? Find out in this action-packed novel of espionage and...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Alan LeMay dedicated his life to writing about the West. His short stories appeared in the top magazines, from The Saturday Evening Post to Cosmopolitan. He was a highly regarded screenwriter. And of course, he wrote the classic novels The Searchers and The Unforgiven, which went on to become equally classic films. Many of the best of his stories are collected in this volume. Here are stories filled with all the vitality and adventure of the frontier,...
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