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Manhunters
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Elmer Kelton; Afterword by Bill Crider
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As he flees to the sanctuary of Mexico, Chacho Fernandez is unaware
of the fuel he has added to the already simmering racial hatreds in
and around the quiet town of Domingo, Texas. Through events set in
motion by a misunderstanding, Chacho becomes a folk hero to his
people and a dangerous fugitive to a group of zealous lawmen.First
published in 1974 by Ballantine Books, ""Manhunters"", the tale of
Chacho's legendary flight, was inspired by the story of
controversial Mexican fugitive Gregorio Cortez. In 1901 Cortez, a
young horseman, shot a sheriff during an argument, leading to the
largest concerted manhunt in Texas history.This novel is alive with
the idiom of Kelton's native West Texas and freely punctuated with
his trademark wry humor. His characters, both the ignorantly petty
as well as the quietly strong, ring true to life.
"River of Tears" enters the heart of the two women in the life of
an impassioned man who took part in the massacre at Bute Inlet.
As a slave, Isaac Jefford went to war and saved the life of his
master, Major Lytton. As a free man, Isaac became one of the
major's top cowhands, respected--but never totally accepted--by
fellow cowboys: when they gathered around the fire to eat their
dinner, Isaac took his food and sat on the wagontongue alone. When
Pete Runyan, a bitter southerner, joins the crew, Isaac has to
swallow his rage more than once. But then Pete and Isaac are
assigned the task of getting cash--profits from the sale of the
herd--safely to the Fort Worth bank before a foreclosure deadline.
Time and three gunmen on their trail are against them, and their
journey becomes a race to prove who is the best man. First
published in 1972 by Bantam as a mass market paperback, Wagontongue
is one of Elmer Kelton's classic novels, exploring racial relations
on the West Texas plains in the low-key, wry, and compassionate
voice that characterizes Kelton's novels. The novel grew from a
short story, included in this volume.
New Western Romance Series from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy
When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an
avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him.
Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its
conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone else to serve as
a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin,
Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire
year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike. Then Heath
discovers the avalanche was a murder attempt, and more danger might
follow. Deeply involved with the family, Heath's desire to protect
Sadie goes far beyond friendship. The danger keeps them close
together, and their feelings grow until being apart is the last
thing on their minds.
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Too Hot to Ride
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Andrews & Austin Andrews & Austin
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Texas Outlaw
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James Patterson; As told to Andrew Bourelle
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The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter
struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to
their home in Wyoming and Montana.
"Mr. Fast's novel will stand or fall upon its value as a
dramatic, finely presented story. It is all of that: a model, which
may easily become a classic example, of what to put in and what to
leave out in the writing of a historical novel. ... I do not
believe it is saying too much to suggest that in the person of Mr.
Fast we may have the next really important American historical
novelist". -- Joseph Henry Jackson, New York Herald Tribune
Books
"Fast's writing, austerely polished and austerely poetic, is
admirably suited to this epic tale of a desperate effort for
dignified survival. ... Fast has gotten to the core of this
incident and made it into a rich American novel". -- New York Times
Book Review
"An amazing restoration and reconstruction. Thecharacters
breathe, the landscape is solid ground and sky, and the story runs
flexibly along the zigzag trail of a people driven by a deep
instinct to their ancient home. I do not know any other episode in
Western history that has been so truly and subtly perpetuated as
this one. A great story lost has been found again, and as here told
promises to live for generations". -- Carl Van Doren
They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a
dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the
part-time town constable to deal with the problem--and made sure he
had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez
killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice--and some
money for the dead man's woman--they beat Valdez and tied him to a
cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then
they began to die.
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The Rebel
(Paperback)
Lena Hendrix
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In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates,
New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of
the American frontier through the travails of two of its most
immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their
legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone,
Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out
the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into
history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the
myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged
them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, The
Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most
original American writers.
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Gold Coast
(Paperback)
Elmore Leonard
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Ahen he died, Florida mob boss Frank DiCilia left his gorgeous
widow, Karen, everything, but with strings attached. If she ever
gets involved with another man, she loses the millions, the cars,
and the palatial Gold Coast mansion. A crazy cowboy-wannabe thug
named Roland, who's acting as Frank's eyes beyond the grave, is
making sure Karen doesn't dally, with serious muscle if necessary.
But now Cal Maguire's come into the picture. A sexy, street-smart
Detroit ex-con, Cal's got a line and a scam for every occasion. And
he's got the perfect plan for getting Karen DiCilia her money and
her freedom . . . if it doesn't get them both killed first.
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Mavericks
(Paperback)
Jack Schaefer; Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund
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"Old Jake Hanlon sits on the edge of the mesa and looks out over
miles of southwestern plain," starts Jack Schaefer's all-ages novel
Mavericks. Old Jake Hanlon is "ancient and craglike, weathered and
withered . . . something like a worn rocky butte himself." Living
in his memories, Hanlon prefers to reflect on his youth, when he
lived every cowboy's dream, rather than think about the old man he
has become, now labeled "a decrepit old nuisance" by the folks in
town. Ultimately, it is Old Jake's recollection of the tales of his
past-stories of endurance, strength, compassion, and cunning-that
helps prepare him for death.
Now a Major Motion Picture It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle
Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying
audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has
lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain
enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is
offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives
in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed
Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised
her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the
ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she
knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and
unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous.
Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at
every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act
"civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors
tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks
the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome.
The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does
not remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A
respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice:
abandon the girl to her fate or become-in the eyes of the law-a
kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News
of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that
explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and
trust.
Set in New Mexico, St Agnes' Stand is a classic story of the
American West. Nat Swanson is on the run from a mob of Texas
cowboys. He has killed a man in a fair fight, but the man's friends
believe he was shot in the back and set out to string Swanson up
for murder. A bullet in his leg slows him down and with the posse
closing in, his chances of survival look dim. Trying desperately to
get to sanctuary in California, he comes upon two freight wagons
besieged by Apaches, and, against his better judgment, stops to
help. He kills one of the Indians with his grandfather's antique
crossbow, buying time for whoever survives behind the wagons.
Thinking he's done his good deed, he continues his flight. One of
those trapped, however, is 76-year-old Sister Agnes, who prays to
God for a man to deliver her, her fellow nuns and the seven orphans
they are transporting. Sister Agnes is convinced that Nat Swanson
has been sent by God to rescue them. Swanson is equally convinced
that the best they can hope for is not to be taken alive. And for
five gruesome days in the blazing heat and dust, faith fights with
humanity for the simple right to exist.
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