American Old West

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! This baker's dozen of short stories with a Western flavor is the anthology of the third year's Readers Favorites from Frontier Tales, the online magazine of frontier and Western yarns. Join with others who've said these are some of the best short stories about the West that they've seen.

Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winning stories from the fifth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! From a post-Civil War soldier who's sick from the dreadfulness and injustice of battle and longs for a life where he can regain his self-respect to a slip of a woman with flashing blue eyes and an Irish brogue who's on the track of the men who took her family, this collection of monthly winners from the eZine Frontier Tales whisks you back in time to when life and death were close neighbors and a person's word was a bond. These Tales honor the Old West and the men and women whose strength and spirit made the United States the unique ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! In tales from heart-warming to bone-chilling, authors from across the country take us back to the lives and times of the western frontier, where the new culture met the old and battles were fought, love born, and dreams achieved—or lost. This collection of the Tales voted Best by readers each month at www.FrontierTales.com, plus an Editor's Choice, make 13 wonderful stories of the Old West. Meet civil war soldiers, sheriffs, grifters and gunslingers, natives and ne'er-do-wells, and the women and men who pioneered this vast new land. ...

A spring morning in Montana is shattered when Joseph Smith emerges from his tepee and his young wife is shot dead at his feet. He races after his wife's murderer but kills Three Pigs before he finds why the man murdered his bride. He returns to Bannack, where his three other wives fall victim to the plot against Smith and where Smith and his sidekick extract a bloody, Old West-style revenge.

A Minneapolis Reporter follows the boyhood dream to see Where Goes The River. On Memorial Day, 1925, he embarked from the headwaters of the Mississippi River-Lake Itasca, and spent the next 105 days on the river, becoming the first person to have made the complete 2500-mile journey by canoe. Averaging nearly 30 miles per day Tousley and his three separate companions, endured the elements and enjoyed the mighty grandeur of the river in the only way that one can truly experience it. . . by canoe. A 17-foot wood and canvas beauty named Charles H. Curly of St. Paul their canoe bore the brunt of...

***Edgy Inspirational Novel - Love scenes are consummated*** ***Western & Historical*** The year is 1886, Halona Ackerman’s life and land have been plagued with calamity for three long years. The country heiress knows most of her enemies, but there is no evidence to trace the frequent accidents and her father’s untimely death back to any of them. Until that happens, she has to keep her parents' legacy going even at the expense of her own dreams. A citified lawyer named Adam Thorpe shows up in the small town of Miskito, Nebraska with all the wrong intentions and a deep, dark secret to ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winners from the fourth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

Evan Chauncey, the long-lost sibling of the Chauncey clan, is poised to marry and thus secure his place in the family. His plans, however, are foiled at the last minute by the unexpected arrival of houseguests. *This book was previously titled Coming Home.*

In the wake of her father’s murder, Kayla Backer fled New York City and created a new life for herself in the Montana territory. As housekeeper and friend to Drew Pearson and Gideon Young, she has chosen a beautiful spot on their farm to build her own house—her first true home. Once a respected cattle drive foreman, Drake Meyers lost his job after the payroll he was entrusted with was stolen. Drowning in alcohol and self-pity, he has nowhere left to turn until his skill as a builder lands him a job building Kayla’s house. When Drew and Gideon travel to Missoula to assist Drew’s ...

Charlie Winters, a skilled physician with a thirst for adventure, jumps at the chance to leave her routine behind when she spots an unusual ad. Trading in her medical practice for the unknown, she heads west with no hesitation, eager to face whatever challenges the wild frontier throws her way. What she does not expect is to meet someone who will turn her life upside down. Martinique LaFleur runs from a life he wants to leave behind, adopting a new name—Martin Larson—and a new identity. Searching for a fresh start, he believes he will find it out in the west. But when an unexpected ...

It has been four years since the Civil War ended, and westward expansion seems imminent. Thirsty for adventure, Patrick Mulligan, a young Irish immigrant, learns of gold being discovered in Colorado Territory, so he moves his family from Pennsylvania farmland to the wilderness. Gold lust lures him to the small town of Breckenridge, where he befriends several Irish immigrants and miners. One man in particular, Silas Garvey, strikes Patrick’s fancy and the two become fast friends. But Silas has a dark secret, and is doomed due to chronic illness. Although Patrick adores the old man, he ...

By the autumn of 1883, the wild country west of Holt County was getting organized. Brown County was carved out of Holt and Long Pine precinct early in the year, and the railroad reached Stuart and Bassett and rolled on to Valentine. Telegraph lines ran between the cities, and newspapers--Lord, the newspapers!--were everywhere with their blaring headlines. Progress, every place you looked. But when Augustus "Gus" John is caught between the vigilantes of the new Niobrara Protection Association led by Cap Burnham and old loyalties to his friend, Albert Wade, newly released from jail and ...

Praise for The Last Stage: "Like the best works of Will James and Louis L’Amour, Bruce Scivally’s The Last Stage, with poetic economy, gives us new insights into the life of Wyatt Earp while placing itself solidly among the very best of new Western fiction." - C. Courtney Joyner, author of the Shotgun series (Bushwacked: The John Bishop Shotgun Saga, These Violent Times, The Bleeding Ground) Wyatt Earp. The life he lived. The death he imagined. Los Angeles, 1929. Wyatt Earp - once a famed Western lawman, now mostly forgotten - lies dying in his small bungalow, with his Jewish wife, ...

Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winning stories from the sixth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

Can Beauty Tame the Wildest of Hearts? Ella Dillard is the perfect schoolteacher—prim, proper, and well-respected in Blessing, Texas. But beneath her calm exterior, she longs for a family of her own. When her brother’s reckless mistake lands him in trouble, she’s given an impossible choice: marry two Texas Rangers who can help him—or watch her brother go to jail. Warren Alley and Clinton Flowers have one year to wed and produce an heir, or they’ll lose the sprawling ranch Warren’s grandfather left behind. Ella is everything they never knew they needed—but she doesn’t even ...

Lucy Wilson lacks confidence in herself and in her healing abilities. When she saves the wounded town smithy, Lucy’s father sends her to train with an old medicine woman named Gurty Jones in the new Union Colony just northwest of town. There, she learns as she mends her first patient, the handsome Liam Julian, a soldier returning from the Red River War who is haunted by his deeds on the battlefields of Texas. Liam soon realizes Lucy does not believe in herself. He takes it upon himself and his firm hand to correct her behavior, to help Lucy see herself as beautiful and talented—just as ...

Oliver Chauncey is crestfallen when the woman with whom he’s been exchanging letters fails to reply to his long-distance marriage proposal. A man of action, he travels to Boston to confront her and, in the process, discovers her mired in shame and disgrace. *This book was previously titled Going Home.*

Jasper Chauncey has finally found a bride to be in the matrimonial columns. While anxiously awaiting her arrival, his well-laid plans go awry as an auburn-haired spitfire captures his heart. *This book was previously titled Heading Home.*

Richard Chauncey has high walls around his heart but when a young woman arrives at his doorstep claiming to be his betrothed, brick by brick those walls begin to crumble. Richard’s no fool, though. There's a mystery surrounding his bride-to-be—one he aims to uncover!