This is a story of love and struggle in 1876 America about a family nearly penniless traveling west on the Oregon trail in search of a better life like countless thousands of families who went before them. This is a story about the Leland family and how they interact with their fellow travelers and how they deal with and overcome the harsh realities of the Trail. The arguments and violent tempers within their group, the violence they are subjected to by others, and the insecurity they must live with after the massacre of the 7th Cavalry.

Step back into the shadows, take a deep breath and try not to be noticed. The stranger in Saragosa is Orin McNeel. His Colt is tied down, but loose in the holster, and he's here to confront he brother, Brody. But before they can settle their differences, The Santa Fe Ring decides to eliminate them both. With both men wounded and their only help an untried young deputy, they are about to face an army of deadly gunfighters hired by The Ring.

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.

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.

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 - - Buffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss. He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to a singular passion, almost an obsession, to capture alive, not to kill. He has caught and broken the will of every well-known wild beast native to western North America. Killing was repulsive to him. He even disliked the sight of a sporting rifle, though for years necessity compelled him to earn his livelihood by supplying the meat of buffalo to the caravans crossing the plains. At last, seeing that the extinction of the noble beasts was inevitable, he smashed his rifle over a wagon wheel and vowed to save the species. For ten years he labored, pursuing, capturing and taming buffalo, for which the West gave him fame, and the name Preserver of the American Bison.

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 - - It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane - outlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee's story of the last of the Duanes has haunted me, and I have given full rein to imagination and have retold it in my own way. It deals with the old law - the old border days-therefore it is better first. Soon, perchance, I shall have the pleasure of writing of the border of to-day, which in Joe Sitter's laconic speech, "Shore is 'most as bad an' wild as ever " In the North and East there is a popular idea that the frontier of the West is a thing long past, and rememb-ered now only in stories. As I think of this I remember Ranger Sitter when he made that remark, while he grimly stroked an unhealed bullet wound. And I remember the giant Vaughn, that typical son of stalwart Texas, sitting there quietly with bandaged head, his thoughtful eye boding ill to the outlaw who had ambushed him. Only a few months have passed since then - when I had my memorable sojourn with you - and yet, in that short time, Russell and Moore have crossed the Divide, like Rangers.

Travel Winds of Moon Driver Ranch is a western about the people of Bowie and the ranch of the arrogant cattle barron, Tyree Stockton. This seqel brings together the women travelers and the forces of the winds impacting the uncertain desires and wishes they hoped for.

The men and women travelers are united in their endeavors to fulfill their destinies.

Everyone from time to time has experienced a troubling bluster in their lives. What was the message the wind might be sending us as mortals? Perhaps the message was one of power or one of a mystical nature. The Travel Winds of Moon Driver Ranch takes the reader through a journey of which they see the impact the flurries can have on lives. The reader might pay more attention the next time a gale crops up and makes them uneasy,

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 - - When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking white stars. Miss, there's no one to meet you, said the conductor, rather anxiously. I wired my brother, she replied. "The train being so late - perhaps he grew tired of waiting. He will be here presently. But, if he should not come - surely I can find a hotel?" There's lodgings to be had. Get the station agent to show you. If you'll excuse me - this is no place for a lady like you to be alone at night. It's a rough little town - mostly Mexicans, miners, cowboys. And they carouse a lot. Besides, the revolution across the border has stirred up some excitement along the line. Miss, I guess it's safe enough, if you -

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.

Using real historical events and places adventures are woven into the life of Luke, a fictional young boy that carries him through tragedies and successes in the 1880s. Orphaned at the age of 13, he rides west on his one eyed pony, a Sharps Rifle, and encounters Indians and cattle drovers. At a buffalo wallow his pony is killed and he obtains a large black horse. Luke continues west in search of the horse's true owner. At the Rio Grande River, assistance is provided by a Padre who sends Luke on west to the Bar-C ranch to return the black horse. With successful encounters at Socorro and Magdalena, NM, Luke becomes a ranch hand, where his Sharps is used on rustlers, mountain lions, and Indians.

Since the late 1870s, travelers coming out of Mexico have whispered of Mateo Madero, the captain of a gang of mysterious outlaws - bandits who prey upon bandits, killers whom other killers fear. Statements in old Pinkerton files tell of this shadowy chief, reportedly wounded in body and spirit, who suddenly vanished from the accounts of men. In the Arizona Territory, sixteen-year-old Collie Callaghan is befriended by a scarred stranger who buys her a beautiful horse and touches her heart in ways she cannot comprehend. After he disappears, Collie is swept up into a terrible conflict. A cattle baron is fighting all those around him for land, power, and the future. Range detectives, highwaymen, and murderers are enlisted in the battle as the cattleman strives for dominance over desperate ranchers in a war without a quarter. "Rider in the Rain" is the searing tale of a young girl's recovery of a lost past and a stricken bandit's final quest for redemption.