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Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A natural storyteller, author Jane Candia Coleman offers nine stories about the many physical and psychological borders of people's lives. Among them, "Sandhill Cranes" tells of the long and perilous journeys of the children who were sent west on orphan trains in the late 1800s. The title story is comprised of many journeys and a multitude of crossings, including Pancho Villa's raid on New Mexico -- an act of unprecedented daring by a most unusual...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Captain Evan H. Shelby was retired from a distinguished military career when he contracted tuberculosis. His condition was considered hopeless until he went west to occupy a humble cabin in the great Gila Wilderness of New Mexico Territory, and he has been without symptoms for six months. Shelby has come to love the Rosita farming and ranching community, where he has many friends. When a major Texas cow outfit opens a land office in Rosita, intending...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Rigdon Sadar has carried the burden of it all his life: For forty-five years it has been widely believed that his grandfather, Sam Rigdon, stole twenty-seven sacks of high-grade ore from a mine in Sylvanite. After the theft Sam had gone to Alaska and struck it rich, a move most thought he used to cover his sudden wealth. Now Sadar has seven days to find the cache before he must leave Sylvanite, now a tourist resort. His only leads are the old-timers...
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
2000.
Language
English
Description
Teenage Tyrell Breen is determined to become a cowboy and sets out for San Antonio where his Uncle Cliff has a ranch. Robbed along the way, Tyrell is a sorry sight when he arrives--but not as sorry as Cliff, who has neglected everything except a whisky bottle. A neighbor asks Cliff to boss a trail and get his cattle to market. Not only will Cliff have to give up drinking, but he'll have to tend to young Tyrell along the way.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Clayton Hawks has returned to Powder Springs, Wyoming, to settle some rustling problems on the Lazy B Ranch. Sam Hawks, Clay's father and owner of the Lazy B, stayed behind in Boston, offering Clay the ranch in return for solving the problem. What Clay finds, though, is a lot worse than what he was told to expect. He discovers mismanagement, corruption, and out and out lawlessness. He knows the rustling has to be stopped if the ranch is to go on,...
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
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
c2000.
Language
English
Description
The Salt Creek Valley in Colorado Territory is the setting for "The Guns in Greasewood Valley", the story of brothers Tom and Dayton Roark, who share a small ranch. When Tom falls prey to malicious gossip about his wife, he responds with violence that escalates from a personal conflict to a crisis on the range. In the title story, Dan Iles is sent by his father to Ox-Yoke Ranch to see how much of their water John Mallory is diverting through his floodgate....
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
2001.
Language
English
Description
After she is rescued from a sadistic employer, who delighted in beating her, Teresa Cavan transforms herself into a woman of incredible power and wealth when she allies herself with a controlling faction that is taking over Sante Fe, but her newfound status brings with it many enemies.
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
2001.
Language
English
Description
It's often been said that the only law in the West was a gun, and that outlaws rode unchecked over anyone unlucky enough to stand in their way. But as these two classic short novels by Lauran Paine show, there were courageous men willing to risk their lives to tame the Wild West. "Lawman" is the story of Boyd Dylan, the newly appointed deputy sheriff of Santa Maria, who runs into trouble when his boss, Sheriff Rensberg, doesn't want him to disturb...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
When Ed Morgan got word that his younger brother, Ben, had been released from prison, he set out to see him immediately, hoping for reconciliation between them. Instead he found his brother near death, with one final request. He made Ed swear to recover fifty thousand dollars that Ben had buried before he was captured and sent to prison. He even drew a crude map to help Ed find the money. But that much money never comes without trouble, as Ed soon...
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