This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - BUT the man's almost dead. The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Near by stood a sombre group of men. Leave him here, said one, addressing a gray-bearded giant. "He's the fellow sent into southern Utah to spy out the cattle thieves. He's all but dead. Dene's out-laws are after him. Don't cross Dene." The stately answer might have come from a Scottish Covenanter or a follower of Cromwell. Martin Cole, I will not go a hair's-breadth out of my way for Dene or any other man. You forget your religion. I see my duty to God.

Nitika Brodie was not what Hunter Tilton expected when he met her on the stagecoach. Trying to find her a suitable husband, her uncle, Alex Brodie had meant for them to meet. Unfortunately, a stampede destroyed any chance of him seeing his latest handiwork. Now the owner of one of the largest ranches in New Mexico, former Pinkerton agent Nitika has to fight to keep what's hers. A greedy neighbor is after her land, while his son is after her. Neither one will be happy if they don't get what they want. Nitika plans to disappoint them both.

Twice burnt when it came to women, Hunter wasn't ready to try again. But his former commanding officer, Alex Brodie, had been grooming the young man as a suitor for his headstrong niece. Captivated by the raven haired beauty, he finds himself rethinking his ideals.

The story of Toab and Doc who are traveling back west after returning to Alabama to pay off Toabs debts. They find a wagon train going west and join up with them and this is where their adventure begins. They are hired to find one woman's husband who has disapeared. In the process Doc has a run in with a member of an out law gang which causes a collison course with them which turns even more deadly when it is found Toab has a bounty on him that the outlaws want to collect. Toab and Doc are faced with defending themselves and the girls that they met on the wagon train. there is no backing up for Toab and Doc, and with Toab's since of responsability they will do all they can to make these out laws pay for all the evil they have done.

The Initiation into a community is never easy, but Emmett McCall finds himself thrust into new surroundings complicated by the murder of the mysterious Martin Parker. The people of Revelation quickly ready themselves for the uncertain future and changing prairie while questioning their neighbors, friends and themselves. Are more murders to follow? Who will lead them out of these dark days? Will life ever return to normal? As the murder is sorted, the evidence examined and suspicions abound; the town pushes forward to reclaim its innocence. Caught in the middle between his past and a fresh start, Emmett struggles to balance his duties as a pastor and the ongoing investigation which comes to a head in the streets of this peaceful town

The Real Western Canon

Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.

Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination -- one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex.

Contributors
Wallace Stegner * Dave Hickey * Dao Strom * Dagoberto Gilb * William Hauptman * Jack Kerouac * Ron Hansen * Diana Ossana * Robert Boswell * Tom McGuane Louise Erdrich * Max Apple * Mark Jude Poirier * Rick Bass * Jon Billman * Richard Ford * Raymond Carver * Annie Proulx * Leslie Marmon Silko * William H. Gass

JJ Byrider was taken by surprise when his cattle were rusteled and most of his crew killed in the process but he recovered and carried on but when Bert Haskins, an old enemy, beat and raped the woman JJ intended to marry, anger built up in him and exploded like steam bursting from a locomotive releaf valve. A vengence trail took him across the state of Texas to a showdown.

This Novel will capture your heart and mind as you begin this pilgrimage with Red (Fingers) Bolton. He left his high desert homeland in pursuit on the drifters that had killed his family. His journey led him far into the Northwest Territory of Oregon. This action packed western thriller is a love story between a young man and his beautiful devoted wife who experience extreme dramatic events early in 1874.

The book you are about to read is a story about four men and a woman. They terrorist people every where they go, they rape, kill, and rob. The men are Harold the English Man, he is a tall thin blond man he was very good with explosives. Then there is Anton a dirty little Mexican that most likely did not know what soap and water was all about. Sammy, well, he was the strong man with arms like tree trunks he could snap a man's spine like a twig. Ah Phillip a lady's man, love them, and then kill them.

A thrill-a minute ride set in the days of Spanish colonialism in California, where thugs and greedy tyrants try to wrest every penny from peasants . . . and the one hero who defends the common man is the mysterious masked stranger who calls himself Zorro--The Fox The first Zorro story appeared as a 5-part serial in All-Story Weekly, a famous American pulp fiction magazine, starting in the August 9, 1919 issue. In a case of fortunate timing, Douglas Fairbanks, the silent movie star, was in the process of trying to change his image at the time, and he chose Zorro as his next starring role. In 1920, when the romantic swashbuckler debuted, it set movie box office records. Riot police had to disperse the huge crowds that showed up at the New York opening. Zorro entered the public consciousness and is now a part of popular culture, the same as such heroes as Superman, Tarzan, and The Lone Ranger. The rest is history.

Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile. She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to in-volve her. And then she sighed, remembering that her father had founded this remotest border settlement of southern Utah and that he had left it to her. She owned all the ground and many of the cottages. Withersteen House was hers, and the great ranch, with its thousands of cattle, and the swiftest horses of the sage. To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste. She could not escape being involved by whatever befell Cottonwoods.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range. Jim wasn't fooling me, she said. "He meant it. He's going straight for the border ... Oh, why did I taunt him " It was indeed a wild place, that southern border of Idaho, and that year was to see the ushering in of the wildest time probably ever known in the West. The rush for gold had peopled California with a horde of lawless men of every kind and class. And the vigilantes and then the rich strikes in Idaho had caused a reflux of that dark tide of humanity. Strange tales of blood and gold drifted into the camps, and prospectors and hunters met with many unknown men.