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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Westerns
Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most
prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his 89
novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L'Amour is
also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. This
volume features 35 action-packed frontier stories.
When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train,
he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left
him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since
then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while
serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off
dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest
attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger
sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at
the mercy of her rescuer. Trace offers the only shelter for miles
around, and agrees to take them in until she can safely continue.
His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in
the picture and their arrival is unsettling--yet enticing. Working
to survive the winter and finally bring justice to the trail, Trace
and Deborah find themselves drawn together--yet every day
approaches the moment she'll leave forever.
She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a
journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hopes of
catching Silas for one final showdown. Stansel follows the chase
and shares the story of the brothers' rise from hardscrabble
childhood to their reign as the region's preeminent horse trainers,
tracking the tense sibling rivalry that ultimately leads to the
elder's death. A fully realised tale that challenges notions of the
modern West, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo will satisfy fans of
Kent Haruf, Charles Portis, Molly Gloss, and Smith Henderson, and
establish Stansel as a new voice in this grand tradition.
Sketcher, as ramrod over the Valeron cattle, takes Reese Valeron's
place on a trip to the yearly auction in Chicago with Shane and
Jared Valeron. A simple sketch becomes the impetus that quickly
involves Sketcher with several street urchins, a person called
Mother and an unsolved murder. Meanwhile, Wyatt goes to visit a
friend in the small town of Solitary. What starts out as a genial
trip ends up as a battle with a rancher and his sons that leaves
him fighting for his life. The call goes out to come to Wyatt's
aid. Jared and Shane leave Sketcher to deal with buying and
delivering the prize bulls to the Valeron ranch. Others from the
Valeron ranch join the conflict, arriving in Solitary to wait for
Jared. The battle with the Strang ranch could pit thirty men
against Jared and his handful of men, while Sketcher is risking his
life dealing with crooked cops and the leader of a Chicago gang.
Covering bets on two fronts, the chances are slim everyone will get
out alive!
Set in the lawless town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Hour Glass
shares an intimate look at the woman behind the legend of Calamity
Jane told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Jimmy Glass. After
their pa falls deathly ill with smallpox, Jimmy and his sister,
Hour, travel into Deadwood to seek help. While their pa is in
quarantine, the two form unbreakable bonds with the surrogate
family that emerges from the tragedy of loss. In a place where life
is fragile and families are ripped apart by disease, death, and
desperation, a surprising collection of Deadwood's inhabitants
surround Jimmy, Hour, and Jane. There, in the most unexpected of
places, they find a family protecting them from the uncertainty and
chaos that surrounds them all.
Winner of the 2016 Laramie Awards for Western Fiction Longlisted
for a Reading the West Book Award Finalist for the Colorado Book
Award for Best Fiction Finalist for the High Plains Book Awards In
Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into
Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest
Colorado where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever
happened. But you'd be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has
happened, starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the
town's Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the
death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar. As the
soon-to-retire Sheriff, Shep Dudival, investigates the
circumstances surrounding the murder, it comes to light that Buster
and Mallomar's young wife were having a Cowboy Always Rings Twice
affair. From there, Price takes this familiar story plot and turns
it on its head folding a rococo cast of Vanadium's characters into
a timeline that begins with Vanadium's post-WWII labor strife and
ends with the Kulturkampf of present day. While it may all seem
humorous and surreal at first blush, one gets the feeling by
Improbable Fortunes' unguessable conclusion that Price has used the
fictitious town of Vanadium a place without a recognizable gas
station, a decent restaurant, or a clean bathroom as the Rosetta
Stone for something larger.
When Nathan Wheeler is taken from school by a drifter posing as a
policeman, his girlfriend Amy Sterling, her mother, and a retired
homicide detective spend the night searching the mountains for him
and following his attacker.
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.
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.
This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the
Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From
muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical
government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers,
the historical development of entwined legal and cultural
discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private
citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may
be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western
genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which
American law seems ever-eager to adopt. -- .
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