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2) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Many a River, two brothers are orphaned and separated, only to be reunited as enemies on opposing sides of the Civil War.
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son,...
3) Bloodthirsty
Author
Series
Buckhorn volume 3
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
378 p.
Language
English
Description
In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Yankee prison camp run by evil, sadistic General Thomas Wainwright. In the war's aftermath, a survivor of Andersonville summons Joe Buckhorn to New Orleans, and asks the gunslinger to kill the general -- not simply for revenge, but to stop another atrocity. Wainwright has seized control of Wagontongue, a township on the edge of the Arizona desert, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Santa Clara, Colorado, is 24 hours by train from the land where Smoke Jensen found peace and prosperity on his Sugarloaf Ranch. But somehow, Smoke can't stay away from Santa Clara--and from an evil cattle baron hiding a murderous past.
And Where There's Smoke--There's Justice...
For Smoke, it starts at a high-class auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. Smoke wins the bidding--and earns the hatred of Pogue Quentin, Santa Clara's leading citizen...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone comes the fiery saga of Perley Gates, a legend born out of the brutality and violence of the American West. He's the son of a cattle rancher. A restless young dreamer who, under normal circumstances, would follow in his father's footsteps. Normal, however, is not his style. Like his famous grandfather and namesake Perley Gates--a hell-raising mountain man with a heavenly name--young Perley wants...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Duff MacCallister and his partner, Elmer, agree to rescue the Texas governor's daughter from a gang of fence cutters called the Blue Devils, they must team up with three outlaws that they don't completely trust.
Author
Series
Frontiersman volume 4
Language
English
Description
Following the trail of carnage left by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan, fearless pioneer Breckenridge Wallace, aka the Frontiersman, walks into a trap but nevertheless, fueled by righteous fury, he battles to destroy his enemy.
10) The Black Hills
Author
Language
English
Description
Ex-Confederate Hunter Buchanon, along with his loyal coyote companion, Bobby Lee, is determined to live a peaceful, gun-free life, but when he accidentally kills a corrupt sheriff's deputy, he lands himself in a world of trouble.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the dark shadow of the Prophecy Mountains lies the ramshackle town of Rattlesnake Wells, where dreamers come to make their fortunes, and desperados come to die. The streets of this little settlement are slick with mud and stained with blood, and it will fall to Bob Hatfield to sweep them clean. The town marshal, Hatfield has a young man's face, but his eyes are those of a killer. He is a good man, but he has a secret that weighs on his soul. In...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Smoke Jensen looks forward to spending a quiet holiday with the family. But an unexpected arrival from south of the border has him reaching for his guns, defending his land"e"and risking everything he loves . . . Sally Jensen strikes up a friendship with a lovely Mexican woman"e"who turns out to be married to the mysterious stranger plotting to steal her ranch . . . Ace and Chance prepare to fight a gang of outlaws trying to kill the man who raised...
Author
Series
Texas John Slaughter volume 2
Language
English
Description
Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone, Arizona. Lawman John Slaughter already has his hands full when a local Romeo takes off with a rancher's daughter and draws the ire of her father and a blood-thirsty posse. Back in town, a murder shatters the poker tournament, with a beautiful Englishwoman as the prime suspect. John Horton Slaughter has been to hell...
14) The Jackals
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
Description
The Jackals, a group of justice fighters brought together by fate, find themselves in possession of stolen property that belongs to the Hawkin gang and must prepare for a bloody showdown in order to earn five thousand dollars.
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Series
Language
English
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras, but Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
17) Behind the Iron
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Pbk. edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ;
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Country. The Good Die Young. The Bad Die Younger.
In this gripping thriller, America's greatest Western storytellers take you inside the dangerous world of an undercover agent-and the deadliest jail in America...
PRISON RIOT
Hank Fallon knows what it's like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
281 p. : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Salt Springs, on the Fourth of July, a young man took a bet - and ended up broken, battered and fighting for his life...But Billy Piper didn't die. He just came back to haunt Salt Springs. This story of Billy Piper becomes a powerful tale of two men's undying friendship, of a murder and a fight for justice--[cover].
19) Firestick
Author
Series
Firestick volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his mountain-man days, Elwood 'Firestick' McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name 'Firestick.' His two best buddies are Malachi 'Beartooth' Skinner--whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers--and Jim 'Moosejaw' Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Country. The Good Die Young. The Bad Die Younger.
From the bestselling masters of western fiction comes two tough frontier detectives who solve the bloodiest crimes with bravado, brains, and bullets blazing …
HOMICIDE ON THE RANGE
A killer is on the loose in the Arizona Territory. One by one, Tonto Basin ranchers are being murdered for their livestock-and the Cattle Raisers Association has hired two range detectives to catch the culprit....