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Deadly Pursuit: A Western Story
by T. V. OlsenSilas Pine was about to turn fifty. That tended to start a man thinking, especially when his doctor told him he had a bad heart and he had to take it easy if he wanted to see his next birthday. What Silas wanted more than anything was one last chance to make peace with his son, who was marshal in the isolated town of Grafton. Wyoming. But arriving in the middle of a bank robbery wasn't the way Silas had pictured the reunion. Neither was leading a posse in a pursuit more deadly than bullets.
Death Chant (Cheyenne series #2)
by Judd ColeAlthough he was raised by settlers, Touch the Sky was gifted with the strong powers of his ancestors. When he returned to the Cheyenne, the young brave had need of such skills to battle murderous frontiersmen and renegade Indians. Yet not even the mystical ways of a shaman could save his tribe from an outbreak of deadly disease. Racing against time and brutal foes, Touch the Sky had either to forsake his heritage and trust the white man's medicine-or prove his loyalty even as he watched his proud people die. Although this is the second book in the Cheyenne Series, it can be enjoyed fully without having read the first book.
Bitter Grass
by T. V. OlsenThe Civil War changed many things for many men, and Jonathan Trask was no exception. Returning home after two painful years in a Yankee hospital and prison camp, he found his mother dead, his father a hopeless drunk, their once-prosperous ranch a shambles, and the girl he loved married to his brother! A lesser man might have given up in despair, but these setbacks merely tempered the steel in Jonathan's character. He suppressed his personal problems by devoting his full energies to rebuilding the ranch. Within a few years his success was acknowledged throughout Texas and his name was spoken with respect and fear. But Jonathan's empire had a fatal flaw and as his wealth and power grew, so did the seeds of self-destruction. BITTER GRASS is an exciting western of a dynamic man destroying himself through the misuse of power. Note from T. V. Olsen Author Frontier historians, professional and amateur, will recognize BITTER GRASS as being in large part a highly fictionalized account of the career of Isom Prentice "Print" Olive, a real-life pioneer cattleman of Texas and Nebraska. With a few exceptionsmost notably Alex McKennathe key characters are drawn from life to one degree or another, as is much of the narrative. However, because my characterization of actual personalities is imaginary, because many of the events are either fictitious or based only slightly on fact, and because the chronological sprawl of a single career has been here compressed into a ten-year period, I have assigned fictional names to most places and all but a handful of historical persons mentioned (i.e., McCoy, Hickok, Shanghai Pierce). While the vigorous and violent public (but not private) life of the real "Print" Olive is paralleled very closely by that of the fictional Jonathan "Buck" Trask, no aspect of this book should be regarded as the author's opinion of "how it might have been." BITTER GRASS is a novel, not a speculative work. Both fact and speculationand two diametrically opposed viewpoints on the character of "Print" Olive are abundantly presented in Harry E. Chrisman's THE LADDER OF RIVERS and Man Sandoz' THE CATTLEMEN, to which I refer the curious reader.
Ordeal
by William W. JohnstoneMiles from civilization, a hiking party has embarked on a wilderness weekend with little more than their wits and a lust for adventure ... IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS of Montana, THE DEADLIEST ENEMY IS MAN! PREY BECOMES PREDATOR IN THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL!
Tombstone (Stagecoach Station, #4)
by Hank MitchumTOMBSTONE--It was The Town Too Tough to Die--the bigge st and wildest site in the Arizona Territory. Up to now Wyatt Earp had ruled the town, walking the hard line of law and order. But many feared Earp's ruthless ways and the guns of his brothers and the notorious Doc Holliday who were in his control. There were even those who suspected Earp of breaking the law himself. That's why investigator Dan Stockard was secretly sent for, to stop the robbers who were terrorizing the treasure coaches from the Tombstone mines--even if the trail led right to the Earps. Stockard soon discovers that in Tombstone you can find yourself rubbing elbows with your deadliest enemy at any moment. His only ally is the beautiful Nellie Cashman,the one woman brave enough to stand up to the Earps. Yet time is against Stockard, for soon all of Tombstone will explode in the streets near the O.K. Corral in the West's most famous gunf ight.
Cheyenne Comancheros
by Judd ColeThis is another in the Judd Cole Cheyenne book series. Raised among frontier pioneers, Touch the Sky never feared losing his freedom. But to his people, the threat of being sold into bondage was very real. And when a notorious Spanish slave trader captured their women and children, Touch the Sky and his brother warriors raced to save them. It was a battle against time, and if the Cheyenne were too late, the glorious promise of their past would fade into a bleak and hopeless future. One man's heroic search for a world he could call his own.
Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni's World
by James Willard Schultz David C. AndrewsA collection of short stories as they appeared in magazines in the early 1900's. These stories chronicle life experiences among the Black Feet Indians. The scholarly notes by the editor, David Andrews discuss the author and his legacy.
Santa Fe (Stagecoach Station #6)
by Hank MitchumThe sixth book in the Stagecoach series is the story of the stage owner's daughter finding her life at risk in the hands of her fiance who is a wanted man. WHEN HE LED THE WESTBOUND STAGE OUT OF KANSAS, CLAY, CHIEF FIELD AGENT OF THE HANLON STAGE LINE, HAD NO IDEA HOW THIS TRIP WOULD TEST HIS SKILLS AS A TROUBLESHOOTER.
Seattle (Stagecoach Station #7)
by Hank MitchumSEATTLE-To the far frontiers of the Pacific Northwest fled the dreamers, like Kate Harrow. She was willing to lead a stage full of women on the hazardous journey through the Rockies, to challenge hairpin mountain trails and raging swollen rivers for the chance to make a new start in the rugged coastal mining camp of Seattle. But the greatest danger came from the Indian Red Feather and his band of renegade braves, and there was only one man worth a damn in Indian country, only one man who could safely escort Kate's stage: Scott Winslow, former U.S. Deputy Marshal. But unknown to Kate, Winslow's skills were endangered by his relentless vengeance hunt for a brutal killer. And Kate and Scott cannot escape the stalking treachery of Red Feather. For the renegade chief has a secret partner, a man the Indians call Crooked Face: a man who plans to betray his own people and has sworn that all those who hoped to find new lives in Seattle will find only savage death along the trail.
Fievel Goes West
by Charles SwensonAfter a cat attack in New York City, Fievel Mousekewitz and his mouse family head west on a dangerous journey to the Green River.
Double-Cross
by Stephen OverholserThe future looked bright for Matt McLeod. He was an outrider for the Two-Bar Ranch, hired to protect the ranch from poachers. Then he saw Riley Wilcox in the Denver City jail and everything changed. Wilcox had been convicted of a grisly murder and was sentenced to hang. But as soon as Matt caught sight of Riley he knew one thing--Riley was his twin brother, adopted by a different family as an infant. He also knew Riley couldn't have committed that murder. After a daring jailbreak, the two brothers set out to find their biological parents. But even more important, they have to track down the real killer if either of them ever wants to live free again.
Eye Of The Wolf
by T. V. OlsenFrank Ulring was The Law in Grafton County. In six short years he had driven the outlaws, the rustlers and robbers from their mountain refuges and had whiplashed the Navajos into sullen, but submissive obedience. Though some might have muttered about the severity of his methods, when they remembered how it had been, they always supported their tough, domineering sheriff. The town of Spurlock was his domain, where he had everything he had aimed for in life except a wife. Though the woman he wanted was already married, the Sheriff had a scheme and the scheme was called murder, and the only obstacle to it was a witness a Navajo who soon became the object of one of the most intensive manhunts Grafton County had ever seen.
DEATH RIDES THE DENVER STAGE
by Lewis B. PattenClee Fahr has just arrived by stage in Denver City, Colorado. It is 1861 and the War Between the States has broken out back in the East. Torn apart by opposing military and political sympathies, the town is a tinderbox of treachery and suspicion. Eames Jeffords, an old enemy of Clee's from the South, is buying arms for the Confederate cause. Sam Massey, a mine owner, is raising a company of volunteers to march east and join the Union forces. Although he was born in the North, Clee has divided sympathies. But he's caught in the middle, and both sides see him as a threat--a threat that needs to be removed.
Fort Yuma (Stagecoach Station #8)
by Hank MitchumThey came to fort Yuma. Luke Faraday-A bounty hunter who lived by his Hawken .50 rifle, he knew the territory would never be safe as long as the Bodine gang ran wild. Lorene Martin-Most at home with the wild wind in her hair, behind her proper beauty she was a straight shooter protecting secret papers that could expose the vicious treachery of a California congressman. Lieutenant Horatio Stack-Ashamed of letting his prisoner escape, he set out on the hard and lonely trail to bring Bodine in. Chastity Blaine-A true daughter of the West, full of life-and now dangerously close to a cruel death at the hands of Bodine.
Ghost Wolf of Thunder Mountain
by Will HenryWill Henry could weave a tale of excitement and adventure better than any other writer of the West, and collected here are five of his greatest and most vivid frontier stories. In the opening novella "Wolf Eye," a cattle rancher must make a wrenching decision when wolves come onto his land. And "Ghost Wolf of Thunder Mountain" tells of a very different kind of wolf, one whose cry is the harbinger of death. But each tale in this book is a prime example of the artistry, the craft, and the emotion that Will Henry put into everything he wrote.
Blood of the Breed
by T. V. OlsenIke Banner cursed his arthritic hands as he grasped the reins. Pain he'd easily shrugged it off while building the Swallowtail Ranch, a rope burn, a cattle kick, they healed. But like the throbbing in his joints the pain his three boys caused him was a permanent burr under his saddle. Thorp was a good foreman, if you overlooked his cruelty. Since his accident, Tyrone had climbed into the bottle, and Free had the morals of a snake. Just as he had curbed their wrongheadedness in life, Ike would do it in death. He was sure he had been fair in his will, done his duty to his claimed, and unclaimed sons.
Canyon of the Gun
by T. V. OlsenWhen they shot his father, Calem Gault seeks revenge against Major Jeffrey Dembrow's people, who gets a posse together and pursues him and his brother Jesse.
Keno
by T. V. OlsenIn the Southwest temperatures ran as hot as the tempers, and men were silent while guns talked too fast. Keno was that rare breeda cowboy between jobs, out to make an honest dollar and keep his pride and his hide, his only two possessions, intact. Which was why he was riding alone across the hottest, most godforsaken stretch of mesquite in the Territory when he came across a stranger. Hog-tied. Bellydown. Branded and left to die hideously. Keno knew he had to save him. That was his first mistake.
When Hope Springs New (Canadian West, Book #4)
by Janette OkeLeaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive outpost in the Canadian Northwest.
The Legend of the Mountain
by Will HenryEverything Will Henry wrote was infused with historical accuracy, filled with adventure, and peopled with human, believable characters. In this collection of novellas, available for the first time in paperback, Will Henry turns his storyteller's gaze toward the American Indian. "The Rescue of Chuana" follows the dangerous attempt by the Apache Kid to rescue his beloved from the Indian School in New Mexico Territory. "The Friendship of Red Fox" is the tale of a small band of Oglala Sioux who have escaped from the Pine Ridge Reservation to join up with Sitting Bull. And in "The Legend of Sotoju Mountain" an old woman and a young brave must find and defeat the giant black grizzly known to their people as Mato Sapa.
The Colonization of America (The White Indian Series #1)
by Donald Clayton PorterTHE KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES HIS LAND. The vast, virgin ocean of trees was his empire. He was Renno, the White Indian, the mightiest of all the Seneca braves. Now the settlers came to sweep over his home and hunting grounds, with their strange ways, their fiery weapons -- and with the beautiful Englishwoman claimed the verdant New World. Some came to settle, some to steal and wage war. Each man, woman and child found a new life. A harsh yet thrilling fate awaited Deborah -- one that few women dared dream and fewer still would ever know.
Kit Carson - Blood Rendezvous
by Doug HawkinsTRAPPERS' TREASURE! The high point of any trapper's year was the summer rendezvous, the annual gathering where mountain men from all over the frontier met to trade the pelts they had risked their lives for. But for Kit Carson, the real danger lay in getting to the rendezvous. He was leading a party of trappers, all of them weighed down with a year's worth of furs. That was enough to make them a tempting target for any killer on the trailespecially when the trail led through Blackfoot territory.
Alder Gulch
by Ernest HaycoxThe boom was on for Alder Gulch in Montana, and Pierce was forced to run from other troubles to try and make his fortune in gold. He was persuaded by beautiful Diana Castle to let her accompany him, and the two set forth together upon an incredible adventure. In crude Virginia City, wagons careened in and out of town, carrying thousands of prospectors who panned for gold. Crime was rampant, and the law a thousand miles away. ...