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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border
wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life
this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love. El
Paso pits the legendary outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa,
against a thrill-seeking railway tycoon known as the Colonel whose
fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua. When
Villa kidnaps the Colonel's grandchildren in the midst of a cattle
drive and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the patriarch and his
adopted son head to El Paso, looking for a group of cowboys brave
enough to hunt the Generalissimo down. Replete with gunfights,
daring escapes and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso, with its
blend of history and legend, is an indelible portrait of the
American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier.
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Shane
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Jack Schaefer
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'If you read only one western in your life, this is the one' Roland
Smith, author of Peak He rode into our valley in the summer of
1889, a slim man, dressed in black. 'Call me Shane,' he said. He
never told us more. There was a deadly calm in the valley that
summer, a slow, climbing tension that seemed to focus on Shane.
Seen through the eyes of a young boy, Bob Starrett, SHANE is the
classic story of a lone stranger. At first sight, the boy realises
there is something unusual about the approaching man, but as Bob
gets to know Shane, he realises that there is an inner sadness in
him. SHANE is the story of a gunfighter who tries to hang up his
gun but is drawn to the side of the boy's family and other
homesteaders in their struggle to keep from being forced off their
land.
"It's the scenery-and the big guy standing in front of the
scenery-that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and
leathery mysteries." -The New York Times Book Review A sheriff's
mysterious death spurs the tenth Longmire novel from the New York
Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves In Any Other Name, Walt
is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss,
Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent
county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know
what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock
ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the
by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning
three missing women. Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating
secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before
the sheriff can serve justice-Wyoming style.
The Lonely Men
Tell Sackett had been lured into the Apache's mountain stronghold by the icy beauty of his brother's wife. He didn't go alone. John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and the half-breed Tampico rode beside him. Each was driven by his past to test his speed and cunning against an enemy who could smell a white man a mile away-and then shoot his eyes out at a dead gallop. It was a contest few men could enter-and fewer still could hope to win.
The Sacketts
They are the unforgettable pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the spirit and adventure of the American frontier. The Sacketts, men and women who challenged the untamed wilderness with their dreams and their courage. From generation to generation they pushed ever westward with a restless, wandering urge, a kinship with the free, wild places and a fierce independence.
The Sacketts always stood tall and, true to their strong family pride, they would unite to take on any and all challenges, no matter how overwhelming the odds. Each Sackett novel is a complete, exciting history adventure, and read a s a group, Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts form an epic story of the building of our mighty nation, a saga cherished by millions of readers around the world for more than a quarter century.
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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