The Crossing forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise. 'The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' The Times This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a series of the best in contemporary literature, inaugurated in Picador's 50th Anniversary year.

"ILONA'S MOUNTAIN" is a woman's historical adventure novel circa 1820-1850. What follows is an engrossing action-packed tale of a young woman's struggles in an era where violence and conflict exists in a male-dominated society. The heroine is a destitute young girl, born 1820 into a sharecropper's family. Adopted by the famous Colonel Wade Hampton of America's Revolutionary War, Ilona Christine Rutledge grows up on the Carolina showplace, Hampton Plantation. Over the years the young Ilona matures as an educated southern lady and an astute businesswoman.

Using plantation slaves, the heroine farms a sizeable garden, opens highway vegetables stand, and wisely shares her profits with the slaves.

By her middle teens, she finances the re-floating of a sunken riverboat from the waters of Savannah, Georgia. She hires a New Orleans marine engineer to raise the derelict, refit it, and fashion it into an opulent riverboat casino. Unexpectedly, heavily armed enemies strike.

Within years, "That Rutledge intruder," now known as The River Queen, acquires a fleet of elegant stern-wheeler gambling boats. Accumulating immense wealth, she helps many people, unwittingly including those who secretly plot to kill her.

The grisly showdown comes when the duelist, Randolph Holcombe, pursues, traps, then challenges "Gray Hair," leader of the murder conspiracy, inside a snow-covered mountain cave. In spite of a surprising and horrible confrontation, the actual identity of "Gray Hair" remains hidden. Only suspicions point to why he hates The River Queen so much.

A friendship germinates between two unlikely men on a quiet road in New Mexico. When Jack Collins invites Cameron Yellow Fox Arnfinn, tagged as Timco, to ride in his truck-along with a stray pooch they've dubbed Midnight-they can't predict what the future holds.

Timco, following a hitch as a Code Talker with the Marines in World War II, has been traveling extensively, homing in on a return to the reservation. Half Navajo Indian, he's a man of many contradictions and numerous talents. Jack, an enigma, mourns the loss of his wife as he journeys the country. The two take refuge in the small New Mexico community of Estancia al Cabo.

Timco and Jack endear themselves to this community and join the archaeological efforts of Doc who has been assigned to excavate a long-lost pueblo. Timco is delegated as the intermediary between the hired indigenous Navajo people and the whites.

When winter closes down the digs, he remains at the ranch. After all, the ghosts that linger in the ancient pueblo surely are his ancient relatives. He's imbued with a sense of dedication to the task.

Gold Fever is written in the first person as the author wanted his readers to see the story of Everett "Easy" Edwards through his eyes as he experiences his trials in life. The book starts with an action packed situation on the first page where his partner, Bill Shields and he are under siege by Apache Indians. The story moves quickly in a rapid action packed adventure. Easy travels on to the goldfields. Along the way he meets two miners that become life-long partners in this adventures. The three meet two young people, Al and Karen Harris and the six establish a lucrative gold mine. During this time Easy also meets a powerful, unscrupulous mine owner, Clay Brett, who befriends him then turns on him and hounds him throughout the book. Easy falls in love with Brett's step-daughter, Myra, and elopes with her. This only adds fuel to the fire of Brett's hatred for Easy. Easy is ambushed and is rescued by a fifteen year old orphan girl, Lara Adams, whose parents and brother were killed by Brett's men. She becomes Easy's unlikely partner and is featured in every adventure of Easy's life. The reader will love this girl as she is clever and unique. Their many adventures and narrow escapes will keep the reader on edge throughout the book.

In El Sombre, Shadow of the Saguaro, the author has attempted to blend together actual historical figures, events, and facts, of the early 1800's with fictional heroes and villains. In as much as possible, these true life figures and forerunners of the West were picked by the author, because they were contemporaries of the era. The author has left it entirely up to the reader to sift the truth from the fiction, in order to pique your interest in historical study. The Author would classify this book as a fictional, historical, western fantasy. The author would be gratified if one day this book was chosen as required reading material at the high school-college level, and has deliberately chosen descriptive words and linguistics on a higher educational plane than the average pulp paper Western. The author has also endeavored to combine adventure, romance, and humor in order to attract a wider range of readers, but at the same time, to create heroes that might be suitable role models for the young men and women of this generation. If you are a descendent of the heroes portrayed, it is hoped that you will take family pride in reading the epic. fact that you as a responsible American Citizen have restored the family name. Bear in mind, also, that many of our forefathers were painted as villains when they were heroes. - Because they were not politically correct, or took a stand that was not popular with the world. Both hero and villain will some day stand before the Highest Command and be judged by the One Righteous Judge of all time, in the light of His Holy Word - Then, and only then, will it become apparent who the real heroes were.

The Pulitzer Prize­–winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers.

Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.

Gold and silver came to a man by hard work or by stealing it. O'Brien took the easy way. When Trevane's wife is raped and killed during a robbery, he swears vengeance on the outlaws that did this.
Two years later, Trevane stands heartbroken at the gravesite of his second wife. Wondering if death is to be his shadow, Hardin seeks the solitude of the open range. Planning to sign on as a trail hand and push a herd to market, his plans are derailed, and he is forced to live by the gun again as he faces his deadliest opponent yet.

A County Sherrif on the brink of self destuction. A series of grisely murders. Drug smuggelers and F.B.I. agents . Ancient Indian legends of a being half spirit halfmyth that takes peoples souls and can summon up the Devil Himself ! All this and more await you in The Soul Taker. a page turner from begining to end, this is the First book in the Starbuck & Onehorse mystery/ adventure series . Once you start it, you won't want to put it down. join the gang from Dullknife County as they embark on this wild ride, you'll be glad you did.

The final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.