Old West Adventure

Thanks to a new line, Duff MacCallister can transport his 250 Black Angus cattle herd with ease by Iron Horse instead of enduring a two-day traildrive. But the day after depositing $15,000 in his Cheyenne account, Duff learns that bank president Jeremy Brinks embezzled every cent - totalling $65,000 - and then, guilt-ridden, committed suicide. The widow Brinks doesn't believe her husband was a thief or that he killed himself. Duff agrees. And after getting an appointment as Territorial Marshal, he's aiming his barrel at putting every double-crossing lawman.

Boone's Lick is high adventure, a perfect Western tale and a moving love story - it is vintage Larry McMurtry, combining his brilliant character portraits, his unerring sense of the West and his unrivalled eye for the telling detail.

Sloan Ferrell and his brother James stared at their parents lifeless bodies on the floor. Fourteen years later, young cowboy Sloan found his chance to avenge his parents. The brothers go all out to bring eight outlaws to the justice they’ve evaded for fourteen years. The outlaw gang leader Cole Marsh spent the Civil War years riding with one of the most infamous soldiers of any war, Captain William Clarke Quantrill, the architect of the 1863 Lawrence massacre. The Ferrell brothers’ pursuit of the outlaws is helped by feisty lady Gretchen Hughes, who still recognizes Cole as her ...

For Clint Beck, a quest to arrest Ruffen is also his chance at redemption. Rustling is a big problem for the God-fearing folks of Perryville in 1870. Not only that, but it’s now escalated with the killing of community pillar Jonas Davidson – a farmer, husband and father of five. The town screams for justice. As Perryville sheriff, Clint sets out to arrest the guilty parties. Almost everyone in the county knows that Clyde Ruffen and his gang are behind the heinous crime but… proving it is another story. Ruffen has spent thirty years learning how to hide his crimes and avoid the law. He...

Blackfoot tribal member Dean Wolfsblood is the reluctant guardian of a centuries old medicine pipe that makes time travel possible. When Dean's former Marine buddy, Badger Lowell, bribes him to take the arduous trip into the past, the last thing either of them expects during the “Night Medicine” ceremony is for a grizzly bear to chase Kai, a beautiful and complicated Cree woman, into the past with them. Upon arrival in 1868, the three doubtful travelers are ensnared into an adventure of deceit, murder, buffalo hunters, and a kidnapping as they journey from the vast Blackfoot Nation to ...

The new, exciting Western adventure from author… Rebecca McLendon! Eleven-year-old Becca Rose Wimberly climbs into her grandparents’ beloved truck Daisy June to head out on the adventure of a life time. She had a head full of fantasies which included riding her horse through the rugged mountains and canyons of the Old West, waving her rifle in the air and whooping like Annie Oakley, her heroine. Now she is heading there with Grampaw and Granmaw—a journey that will go with her the rest of her life. Come along as the truck pulls out of the long gravel driveway and turns onto the highway...

Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books. Many of his outdoor observations in nature were used as plots for his stories. In his first book, "Old Mother West Wind", published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories.

Though the Pony Express has enjoyed a lot of traction over the years, among the authors that have attempted to encapsulate it, none have ever ridden it themselves. While most scholars would look for answers inside a library, Will Grant looks for his between the ears of a horse. Inspired by the likes of Mark Twain, Sir Richard Burton, and Horace Greeley, all of whom traveled throughout the developing West, Will Grant returned to his roots: he would ride the trail himself with his two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, from one end to the other.

Reed Morrow is happy making a living hunting buffalo on the Kansas plain. But he makes a change after he finds his best friend with a bullet in his neck. He’s turning his rifles away from the buffalo herd and training them on the ruthless outlaw that pulled the trigger – Bradshaw Devlin. Bradshaw failed as a buffalo hunter. But he’s starting to make a fortune from his new trade – cold murder. Following the buffalo herd closely, Reed finds bloody echoes of Bradshaw’s rampage along the trail. Reed thinks he’s alone in his hunt. Until he meets Celia Arnold. Celia’s family has ...

Ben Daniel is a driver for the Rocky Stagecoach Company. He has a zest for the frontier as well as transportation. After all he had been a rider for a short while with the widely known Pony Express outfit. Ben takes enormous pride in his stage duties and is incensed that another company driver, Merle Rusten, has crossed the line and become a criminal. Rusten has orchestrated a holdup on his stage. It led to the deaths of five people and the loss of sixty-thousand dollars. One of those killed is guard Jason Carey, father of Sarah Carey. And Sarah is Ben’s one and only true love. Ben will ...

It’s 1869 in the New Mexico Territory and the frontier legend of Dory McLee is only growing. The farm girl is as skilled at riding, shooting and chasing criminals as much as her male counterparts. Back east, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, know about Dory thanks to the sensationalized dime books and pamphlets, yelling out her western moxie. Their stories, including the taming of a grizzly bear, may be exaggerated. Yet people have become enchanted with the young woman. In the real world, the stakes are high for Dory as she is helping a friend, Abby Davis, find the killer of her ...

Former U.S. Marshal Austin Harper is a wanted man. He is wanted in Robbers Roost for intercepting their raids at a stagecoach way station in New Mexico. He is wanted for saving a distressed Rachel Dennis. Now, Harper is facing not just one petty gang of robbers but an entire canyon of criminals operating in a highly organized fashion. Not that Harper is afraid. But his badly injured leg during his line of duty is a huge encumbrance. And time is running short. This nefarious bunch is terrorizing a lot of the southwest from a barren and well-fortified canyon in nearby No Man's Land. Together ...

Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential, and vindictive, is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er-do-well troublemaker who surrendered his life in a duel with Stonecroft. After a perilous journey down the Ohio River aboard a flatboat, the two friends now set out to explore the West.

Waking in the dirt to the smell of smoke, widower Ben Palmer finds his homestead razed, and his daughter gone. Ben is raising his daughter Iris as best he could, scratching a living out of the rocky New Mexico mountain soil. Life is hard – but it just gets a lot harder. Under the lead of the notorious Stitch Jacobs, six desperate men have just fouled relations between the Apache nation and a wealthy land baron. Caught in the crosshairs of their escape, Ben’s daughter is taken hostage as a peace offering to the tyrant who bankrolls the gang. Ben is desperate. Getting his daughter back ...

Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can't take it any longer. Everyone in Centerville, Texas is sitting back and letting a local cattle baron and his ranch hands call the shots for everyone, whether they like it or not. Most of them don't, but won't do anything about it. They're all paralyzed by fear. They refuse to act against the bullies, mis-named the Justice Rangers. That group threatens anyone they don't like with violence and unspeakable acts. Kidnapping and murder aren't below this violence gang, who hide their identities with masks. Not only is the town scared but the ...

Love can be just a hard ride away. Gunfighter Jack Cassidy is looking for a hot meal and a warm bed. When he tries to do the right thing, he winds up with a gun in his hand, a dead man on the floor, and a woman who needs his help. A sizzling romance set in the West, A HARD RIDE is a fast-paced, sexy read. "Nicky Sparks is one of the hottest new writers around." -RomanticTimes.net

In the year 1850, an adolescent Filipina girl is captured by marauding pirates and tossed into a whirlpool of turmoil. Emerging from her misfortune, she finds herself bravely traversing from Hawaii to The Cascade Mountains and onward into the American Old West. By chance, she stumbles upon a treasure of gold extracted by Chinese miners,and hidden before the Chelan Chinese Massacre.. Fate and her quest to return to the Philippines push her onward. Saddle your horse and hang on as you follow her down the path of her adventure! The trail is laced with actual historical events and Native ...

John Biles wakes in the back of a strange family’s wagon, and his whole life is in ruin. John’s family is riding their way to El Paso to establish a newspaper. His father is a newspaper man, and the rest of the family works in the print shop. Descended upon by a group of Indians who talk like white men, John’s family wagon is besieged, leaving his parents and sister dead. Wounded, John is found by the Jensen family whose wagon is on its way to a massive piece of land they’ve inherited on the outskirts of Whistle Springs. The property inherited has a natural spring from which the ...

After an attempted theft of one of his ranch’s horses, Levi Clay finds himself with blood on his hands and renewed questions about his father’s mysterious death… As he searches for answers in the neighboring town of Masonville, he uncovers a world that’s been warped to serve a brutal gang of outlaws led by one man – Pete Ramsey. Murder. Raids. Corruption. Pete has done it all. But nobody dares to point out the injustices that they have suffered. Speaking up only puts their lives in danger, because… The sheriff and his deputies are on Ramsey’s payroll. As he probes deeper into ...

Anyone who has experienced the thrill of the wilderness cannot get enough. He can only count the days until he is back among the wilds, and his mind eased as only the wilderness can. Jim Bond, who brought us the exceptional story of his wilderness trip in From Out of the Yukon, is back with another series of delightful stories of the north. This time its in Alaska; from the wilds of Kodiak Island, trout fishing along the remote Kulik river, unto the rugged Alaska Range mountain sheep hunting, and down the Alaska peninsula for some "September Crazy" moose rut. Taking place in the 1950's when...