Western For Kids

"In 1879, the notorious horse thief Doc Middleton rules the Niobrara rough country west of Holt County, Nebraska, with a loose affiliation of young outlaws, dubbed the Pony Boys. Albert "Kid" Wade, August John, Windy Barnes, Boots Harper, and a dozen other amoral roughnecks spent their days stealing horses, raising hell, and generally having the time of their lives. But nothing lasts forever, and the unorganized territories west are succumbing to complaints from settlers and the Indian agencies alike. What happens to the Pony Boys when law and order lands hard-and ruthless-at the end of a ...

In "Anna-Banana & The Secret Of The Haunted Doll Of Key West," readers are transported to the sun-kissed shores of the Florida Keys, where young Anna embarks on a journey of mystery and friendship. Excitement fills the air as Anna anticipates her spring holiday vacation, although her enthusiasm is tempered by the prospect of traveling with Arturo, a mischievous older boy who delights in teasing her. As their vacation unfolds, Anna finds herself drawn to the historic sights of Key West, including an old fort housing the legendary Key West Doll. Whispers of ghosts and curses surround the ...

Traditional and progressive meet in ruby red west-central Texas... Emmie Warren is a middle school teacher who is trying not to rock the boat until she can finish her Master’s Degree and find the courage to move herself and her son away from sleepy Sweetwater to diverse, vibrant Austin, the only place in Texas she ever felt free to be herself. She’s been hiding her truth for years. She doesn’t see any reason to change that before she can make a clean break of things and start all over. Cass Prater is a brash cowgirl who lives life out loud, wherever she lives. She's got a plan and she...

His pa died from snakebite when he was four. It was just him and his ma until Ike Sanders came to Deep Water. Most riders drifted away after a day or two but Ike stayed on. He invested in the town, started a newspaper and took an interest in Johnny. When Johnny was fifteen Ike hired him on as an apprentice, and ma stopped working at the Lucky 7 Saloon each time a cattle drive came through. Life was pleasant. Then The Kid came to town and everything changed. A long-ago secret connected Ike and The Kid, a secret the feared gunfighter wasn't about to let go.

Henry McCarty William H. Bonney Billy the Kid He’s one of the most famous figures in the Old West, no matter what name he goes by. His exploits are the stuff of legend, but the most fantastical of all of them have been lost to history. Until now. It’s 1949, and the famous gunslinger is now a federal agent called William Kidwell, and he’s returned to where it all began—Lincoln County, New Mexico, to face the demons of his past and wrest control of his soul from the immortal witch Scáthach.

The story of Wyoming rancher, Sam Murray, who raises his son the only way he knows how. Through the trials of life and family secrets, the cowboy kid will come of age. Celebrating the western lifestyle and all who live it. "Cowboys & Indians" Magazine May/June 2021: A western page-turner doesn't always have to involve tense, ongoing conflicts between heroes and villains. Sometimes a story can be authentically "cowboy" but more grounded, emotionally complex, and a closer reflection of what life looks like for those who live in wide open spaces and work the land every day. "The Cowboy Kid" (...

I’m a grumpy loner cowboy and I like it that way. Until my beautiful mail order bride arrives and suddenly, I want more than a marriage in name only. Ethan I’m not exactly Mr. Hearts and Flowers. I mean, I was at one point in my life. Back before I discovered my wife was cheating on me in front of the whole town. Oh, and the baby she was carrying wasn’t even mine. So, to say that my late grandfather insisting that marriage is a requirement for claiming my rightful inheritance doesn’t exactly have me jumping for joy. But it’s too late because my mail order bride is already on her ...

Book 1 - Silkworm Secrets Series 'The ancient trees with their rough bark wrap around me like silk cocoons. Their solid trunks and tendril roots grip the ground as if to say, I will hold you, I will not let go.' In the 1960s the rural suburbs of Brisbane should have been an idyllic place for Ruby and Bobby to grow up. Their treehouse retreat, set high in a mulberry tree is a place to share friendship and watch the events of the yards nearby. However as the two become teenagers, the naive Ruby is exposed to the sinister events that Bobby has to deal with in his family life. As the years pass...

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so...shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending the helpless and protecting the weak, just as long as he’d had his afternoon nap. Behold the very exciting and very funny adventures of Lancelot the Great, as only the acclaimed Arthurian author Gerald Morris can tell them.

The Bodacious Kid is a novel alive with humor, suspense, romance, and authentic frontier atmosphere gained through a lifetime of living, researching, and depicting the West.

Billy the Kid - born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney - emerges from this audio in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

They say the truth will set you free… but what if the truth ruins your life? Ellie Ryan is seventeen and determined to move to Nashville to pursue her dreams of making it as a songwriter, but an unexpected pregnancy shatters her plans and sets her on a course she never imagined. Shawn Klein has it all. The beautiful girlfriend. The scholarship to play football at Vanderbilt after he graduates high school. At eighteen, he leads worship at his father’s prosperous megachurch. His life is perfect. So why isn’t he happy? Everything changes when Shawn’s parents bring Ellie into their home...

Scare Bears from Outer Space tells the epic story of me, Raven West, and my little sister, Aurelia, battling hungry alien bears on Halloween Night. My sister and I was supposed to go trick o' treating with our daddy, when killer teddy bears from outer space landed in my home town and began to terrorize the neighbourhood. Not wanting to be food, my sister and I stole the aliens' weapons, transforming ourselves into real-life super heroes. With mummy working at the hospital and our brother out on his bike with friends, it was time for us to save our family and save the town!

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Their grandfather’s farm has always been a magical place for eleven-year old cousins, Liam and Samantha. Even before the wormhole in the woods transported them to the magical world of Nelliah where they encountered a variety of magical creatures with special powers, they’d known the farm and surrounding area was unlike any other place they’d ever been. The Promise of the Wishing Rock, finds the cousins deposited back to a time of ruthless outlaws and charming gun slingers. Imagine driving cattle hundreds of miles across the open terrain, befriended by Indians, enchanted by ...

Billy the Kid once said that he killed 22 men - one for each year that he lived. While it’s more likely that he only killed eight or nine, this young outlaw was clearly deadly. But his brief and brutal life reveals how his tragic existence led him into a life of crime. After growing up in poverty as an Irish immigrant in New York City and losing his father at a young age, Billy the Kid had to endure losing his mother when he was only 15.

People may not have heard of Robert Leroy Parker or Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, but everyone in America—and most of the rest of the world—have heard of their better-known aliases: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This infamous duo carved out their place in American history stealing horses and cattle, and ingeniously robbing numerous banks, stagecoaches, and trains.

Ghosts of the Wild West tells the tale of Billy the Kid as you’ve never seen him: no longer a mere gunslinger or cunning outlaw, but a man haunted by every victim he ever claimed. Each new killing spawns another restless ghost, trailing him through desert wastes and half-collapsed frontier towns. As his fame (or infamy) grows during the Lincoln County War, so do the whispering apparitions: some pleading for peace, others demanding vengeance, all of them fueling Billy’s slow spiral from cocky renegade to trembling soul.

Watch the video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeiXZkL8iYI Search Packy Trucker on YouTube A time travel western adventure Book 1 – Visiting Billy There was a period of time after Billy the Kid’s last escape from jail when little is known of his whereabouts. It was in this period four people go back in time and convince Billy to enlist the help of his gang to help the four time travelers put the Chicago Cleaver Gang out of business.The eight riders headed west on 59th street. It was sometime in April and spring had arrived . Leaves were just starting to bud, flowers bloomed ...

A lone rider stops at the border, preparing to return to the United States for the first time in three years. When he left for Mexico, the Rio Kid was 18, a terrified youngster fleeing a fraudulent murder charge. He returns a grown man, with blood on his hands and twin .45s on his hips. His destination is a small town in Arizona, where he plans to clear his name and reclaim his legacy. But there is a lot of trail between here and there. Wanted signs paper every border town, offering $10,000 for the Rio Kid - dead or alive.