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The day the cowboys quit
Par Elmer Kelton. 1999
Texas Panhandle, 1883. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay…
decent wages. The ranchers also want to take away the cowboys' rights to own cattle because they believe it would lead to thieving. When rumours of such anti-ownership legislation travel to the cowboys, they decide to fight back by holding a strike. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 1971.The Christmas pearl
Par Dorothea Benton Frank. 2007
Charleston, South Carolina. Ninety-three-year-old matriarch Theodora lives in her ancestral house, where her malcontented family gathers for the holidays. Theodora…
longs for a peaceful celebration similar to the events in her 1920s childhood that the family's Gullah housekeeper Pearl created. But then Pearl's ghost returns and restores harmony. 2007.Keegan's lady
Par Catherine Anderson. 1996
Colorado, 1885. Ace Keegan returns to avenge his stepfather's murder and his mother's rape. He discovers that the killer, Conor…
O'Shannessy, is dead but O'Shannessy's daughter, Caitlin, has inherited the ranch. Ace compromises Caitlin's reputation, but then proposes a marriage of convenience as compensation. Descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. c1996.High country (Literature of the American West ; #15)
Par Willard Wyman. 2005
Ty Hardin leaves Montana to learn 'packing' (leading mule trains into mountains where wagons can't go) from the best -…
Fenton Pardee. After many adventures and being wounded in World War II, Ty eventually heads for the Sierra Nevada - the highest country of all - to become a legend in his own right. 2006 Spur Awards winner. 2005.Dancing through the snow
Par Jean Little. 2007
Min has nothing - no mother, no birth certificate, no baby pictures, not even a real birthday. After four different…
foster families, she's not surprised to be dumped back with Children's Aid the week before Christmas. Still, a small part of her can't help aching for a miracle - and now she's found an injured dog that needs one too. Some strong language. Grades 4-7. 2007.A pioneer Thanksgiving: a story of harvest celebrations in 1841
Par Heather Collins, Barbara Greenwood. 1999
With a mix of fiction and non-fiction, interesting facts, and hands-on activities, you can follow the Robertsons, a Canadian pioneer…
family, as they prepare for a special Thanksgiving in 1841. Grades 2-4. 1999.Dead man's walk: A Novel
Par Larry McMurtry. 1995
Two Rangers, Call and McCrae, face the wildness of the Frontier and the men who live there - the Indians,…
savagely defending the land, the texans, attempting to seize and 'civilise' it, the Mexicans, threatened by both. Danger, hardship, sacrifice, pain and fear test them to the limits of endurance; friendship, comradeship, courage and love give them the strength to survive against fearful odds. 1995.Folly and glory (Berrybender narratives ; #4)
Par Larry McMurtry. 2005
Tasmin and the Berrybender brood flee south from Santa Fe, facing hardship and death along the way. After Tasmin's husband,…
mountain man Jim Snow, rescues them, he avenges the murder of his Indian family. Sequel to "By sorrow's river" (BR73589). Explicit descriptions of sex. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.By sorrow's river (Berrybender narratives. #3.)
Par Larry McMurtry. 2003
In this sequel to "The Wandering Hill" (EB73600), Lord Berrybender and his mountain men continue their trek from the Rocky…
Mountains to Santa Fe. Heroine Tasmin's strength and wisdom bind them as they brave infidelity, heat, thirst, Indian attacks, and group members' unrelenting seductions. Violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003. (Berrybender narratives ; 3)The wandering hill (Berrybender narratives. #2.)
Par Larry McMurtry. 2003
Continues an aristocratic English family's misadventures, begun in "Sin Killer" (BR73599), in the early 1830s American West. Abandoning their steamboat…
stuck in the icy river, the Berrybender expedition members settle in for the winter at the trading post of Pierre Boisdeffre. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003. (Berrybender narratives ; 2)Sin killer (The Berrybender narratives ; #1)
Par Larry McMurtry. 2005
It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its…
way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers, explorers, pioneers, and one part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer." 2005, c2002. (The Berrybender narratives ; 1)A peaceful gunman (Dales western)
Par Bill Foord. 1997
The Civil War brings together conscripted Union soldier Ted Wells and the wild regular officer, Hank Newton. A trumped-up charge…
sparks off a running feud and it is only after the war has ended that Ted feels he can at last leave everything behind him. But fate takes a hand and it isn't long before their paths cross again.Premlata and the Festival of Lights
Par Rumer Godden, Ian Andrew. 1996
Tonight is the most magical night of the year. Premlata loves Diwali, the Festival of Lights, when everyone decorates the…
village with thousands of tiny lamps for the great goddess Kali. But this year Premlata is desolate - her family is too poor to have lamps. Their house will be the only one left in darkness. Grades 3-6.Hondo
Par Louis L'Amour. 1997
Angie Lowe is raising her son Johnny on an isolated ranch in Apache country. Hondo Lane approaches their homestead on…
foot to buy a horse, and with an Indian attack seemingly imminent, he tries to convince them to leave. Soon Angie and Hondo are involved in a tale of love, war, and honour. 1997.Chocolat
Par Joanne Harris. 2000
An exotic stranger opens a chocolate boutique in a French village at the beginning of Lent, the traditional season for…
self-denial, dividing the community and causing a conflict that escalates into a "Church not Chocolate" battle. 2000.Ambush at Black Rock (Gunsmith. #217.)
Par J. R Roberts. 2000
Longarm and the blue-eyed squaw (Longarm #No. 19)
Par Tabor Evans. 2000
Trouble on the Lordsburg Trail (Dales Large Print Ser.)
Par Elliot Conway. 1997
On his way to Lordsburg to visit his kinsmen, young Ben Howard rides into big trouble - shooting and killing…
trouble. He teams up with Sheriff Garrett to take on the Kerney gang and the big man behind them, cattle baron Brad Logan. But no one is prepared to back down, and the fight for justice turns into a fight for life.Marshal of Gunsight (Dales Ser.)
Par Elliot Long. 1994
Tom Callan is the marshal of the backwater town of Gunsight and deputy sheriff policing the southern end of the…
county. Things are going well until Dave Bates and Will Mercer decide to resist arrest. Then all hell breaks loose.Action by night
Par Ernest Haycox. 1991
Tracy Coleman arrives at Horsehead Ranch with a letter from the elderly absentee owner making Coleman the new owner. Horsehead's…
foreman doesn't take kindly to the news, nor do the surrounding ranch owners, who plan to take over Horsehead's land. But Coleman's as stubborn as they are and not about to leave. Some strong language and some violence.