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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.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.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.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.The grey man (Quick reads)
Par Andrew McNab. 2006
Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he'd like a night out. He's not talking about…
a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He's going to attempt to pull off a daring bank roberry single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown. For junior high readers. 2006.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.The magic of love (Janet Dailey's love scenes)
Par Alyssa Logan. 1997
Beth Harris knows that wishing doesn't just make things happen. As a single mother running her own business, she can't…
afford to believe in dreams. But when she meets a clown whose greatest joy comes from making children smile, can he help her find the magic of love? 1997.The lady and the cowboy (Janet Dailey's love scenes)
Par Christine Anne Wenger. 1997
Against her father's wishes, the lonely young lady Caroline Trask returns to her family's Wyoming ranch. What she finds is…
not what she expected. Can Raven, a handsome, dark-haired cowboy, help her sort things out? The two struggle to reconcile their growing love with the question of who owns the ranch. 1997.A friend in need (Janet Dailey's love scenes)
Par Sonja Massie. 1997
Clay Davis has more money than he can use in his lonely life. Proud, independent Kelly Brandon needs money for…
her son's operation. When they meet, things go wrong from the start, but will love blossom as they reconcile their warring spirits? GRADE I BRAILLE.Treasure island (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The red badge of courage (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.