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For fans of Paulette Jiles and Marisa de los Santos Winner of the
Sarton Women's Book Award and the Western Writers of America Spur
Award Annie Rushton leaves behind an unsettling past to join her
brother on his Montana homestead and make a determined fresh start.
There, sparks fly when she tangles with Adam Fielding, a visionary
businessman-farmer determined to make his own way and answer to no
one. Neither is looking for a partner, but they give in to their
undeniable chemistry. Annie and Adam's marriage brims with
astounding success and unanticipated passion, but their dream of
having a child eludes them as a mysterious illness of mind and body
plagues Annie's pregnancies. Amidst deepening economic adversity,
natural disaster, and the onset of world war, their personal
struggles collide with the societal mores of the day. Annie's
shattering periods of black depression and violent outbursts exact
a terrible price. The life the Fieldings have forged begins to
unravel, and the only path ahead leads to unthinkable loss. Based
on true events, this sweeping novel weaves a century-old story,
timeless in its telling of love, heartbreak, healing, and
redemption embodied in one woman's tenacious quest for control over
her own destiny in the face of devastating misfortune and social
injustice.
Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There they came under siege by the Indians. And there they would make their stand--with little hope of living beyond the next day and only a hard man named Logan Cates to show them how to conquer their true enemy: fear.
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Lone Star Law
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Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, James M. Reasoner, Ed Gorman; Edited by Robert J Randisi
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A thrilling collection of twelve powerful and action-packed stories
that celebrate the legendary Texas Rangers from Louis L'Amour, the
world's greatest Western storyteller, Rod Miller, and many more.
Explore the proud heritage of the elite Texas Rangers in these
exhilarating, white-knuckled stories. From historical tales of
outlaws and rustlers to modern thrillers of tracking serial killers
with the latest technology, Lone Star Law is an outstanding
collection of stories about delivering justice the Texan way.
She came to California as a young bride in an arranged marriage.
Now she owns 75 square miles of property bordering the Mokelumne
River, where gold has been discovered. They want her land and will
stop at nothing, even if it means her murder.
It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they faced the constant danger of attacks by outlaws and marauding Indians. Yet, with the support of a spirited Irish woman, a fearless orphan boy, and, most of all, the mysterious gunman Temple Boone, Mary found the courage to shape her station into a vital stop on America's westward journey. Until the vicious murderer whose bloody rampages had stained her past suddenly stalked Mary Breydon to Cherokee Station.
In the bestselling tradition of such western writers as Louis
L'Amour and Elmore Leonard come the riveting and unforgettable
first two books of Tobias Cole's "The Sharpshooters" trilogy-now in
one volume BRIMSTONE The story of Andersonville prison camp was
written in blood, with few left alive to tell it. Union Army
sharpshooter Jed Wells was one of them, and he was sworn to share
the tales of those who suffered and died beside him. It is a
promise that has brought Jed to Kansas and to small-town sheriff
Amos Broughton, a friend and fellow survivor of hell on earth. But
Broughton's dangerous obsession with a mysterious man threatens to
explode in a vengeful rain of bullets and death-forcing Jed Wells
to take up his rifle to save a soul damned by terrible secrets that
are buried with the bones of captured soldiers in the Georgia mud.
GOLD FEVER Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad
artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville,
and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to
unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North and
South have fallen forever silent, curiosity is drawing Jed back
onto the trail of the eccentric McCade. But the artist's charmed
life may soon be coming to a brutal end, thanks to a secret he will
tell no one-a mystery that's pulling Jed Wells himself into the
gunsight of a killer.
First published in 1925, the seven stories collected here revolve
around the adventures of a lanky cowboy named Bill whose drifting
takes him throughout the West as he lives the hard life of a
working cowboy.
"Ranger's Law" brings together the fourth, fifth, and sixth of
Elmer Kelton's novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers.
Kelton's young heroes, Rusty Shannon, and one-time Comanche
captive, Andy Pickard, fight Indians, outlaws, feuding ranchers,
smugglers, and all manner of lawbreakers while trying to make lives
for themselves in the tumult of post-Civil War Texas. In "Ranger's
Trail "it is 1874 and retired Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon is urged
to rejoin the force to assist in protecting settlers from Indian
raids and outlaw bands. After the girl he loves dies, Rusty goes on
a vengeance trail, determined to find and kill the man who has
ruined his life. But the trail Rusty is following may lead him to
an innocent man.
"Texas"" Vendetta"" "takes the young ranger Andy Pickard into the
midst of a hate-filled and bloody post-Civil War feud between two
Texas families. Pickard, who survived a childhood as a Comanche
captive called "Badger Boy," also becomes involved with the young
son of an outlaw, a boy who has been "adopted" by the rangers at
their San Saba River camp, earning his way as a cook's helper. The
boy's father, now released from prison, comes to take his son back,
and into a life on the run.
In "Jericho's Road, "Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico
border and finds an ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of
ranch land above the Rio Grande: "This is Jericho's Road. Take the
Other."" "The sign signifies Jericho Jackson's land and Jackson is
at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side
of the river, Guadalupe Chavez. The two rustle each others' cattle,
raiding and killing on both sides of the border, heading for a
bloody showdown -- with the Texas Rangers standing between them.
As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition
contains exclusive bonus materials! Kilkenny wasn't looking for
trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but
trouble found him when a reckless youngster named Tetlow challenged
him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life. Looking to escape
a reputation that he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the lonely
mountain country of Utah, planning to ranch a high, lush valley.
But the past is on his trail. Jared Tetlow is a powerful rancher
determined to run his vast herd on the limited grasslands
there--whether he has to buy out the local ranchers, run them out,
or kill them. He'll cut down anyone who stands in his way,
especially a man he already despises: the gunman named
Kilkenny--the man who killed his son. Louis L'Amour's Lost
Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more
unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis
L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader
on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short
stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to
publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first
novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program,
is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These
exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost
Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be
rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring
previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes,
and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the
stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.
In" Lone Star Rising," Elmer Kelton ("A Texas Legend," according to
Texas Governor Rick Perry), brings together the first three books
of his acclaimed Texas Ranger saga.
"The Buckskin Line" introduces Rusty Shannon, the red-haired
Comanche captive rescued and adopted by Mike Shannon, who is a
member of a Texas "ranging company" that protects settlers from
Indian raids. In the throes of the War Between the States, Rusty
joins the Rangers and searches for the renegades who killed his
adoptive father.
In "Badger Boy," the Rangers are disbanded and Rusty returns to his
home on the Red River only to discover that the girl he loves has
married another. In a time of personal turmoil as well as the
post-war uphheaval in Texas, Rusty's childhood returns to haunt him
as he rescues Andy Pickard, called Badger Boy by his Comanche
captors.
Andy and Rusty ride together in the newly reformed Rangers in "The
Way of the Coyote," in a time when Texas is overrun with outlaws,
Confederate raiders, Ku Klux Klansmen, and marauding
Comanches.
The Sacketts were fierce fighting men from the hills of Tennessee. The Talons were French, but a life of piracy brought them to America. Milo was half Talon, half Sackett. He'd been riding the outlaw trail for three years, but now he was hunting a man who had betrayed a trust with his own kin. And when he found him, Milo Talon would do no less than any Sackett or Talon before him.
Longarm owes his life to a man in handcuffs... Mild-mannered postal
thief Brian Henry is not about to give Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis
Long any trouble on the ride back to Denver for trial. After being
double-crossed by a tantalizing temptress who took his money, Brian
is good and licked. In fact, when Longarm is pistol-whipped by
highwaymen, it's his polite prisoner who comes to his aid and makes
no attempt to escape as the lawman rides off to rescue a beautiful
woman kidnapped by the desperadoes. But when the gun smoke clears,
will this be Longarm's last showdown?
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