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The contract surgeon
Par Dan O'Brien. 2001
Fictionalized account of the friendship between Dr. McGillycuddy and Sioux leader Crazy Horse. McGillycuddy, a private physician working under contract…
for the army, must decide whether to act as a doctor or a friend when the seriously wounded chief faces cruel imprisonment. Some violence and some strong language. 2001, c1999.The Dakota trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Trail drive series. #14.)
Par Ralph Compton, Robert Vaughan. 2001
Returning home after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Dick Hodson finds his Texas town destitute and the surviving ranches, including…
his family's, nearly in ruins. To save them, Dick plans a cattle drive north with a party of greenhorns. One dangerous man's fortune, however, rests on their failure. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2001. (Trail drive series ; 14)The coyote tracker: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #5)
Par Larry D Sweazy. 2012
After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot,…
in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. Winner of the 2013 Spur Award for Best original mass market paperback. 2012.The cougar's prey: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #4.)
Par Larry D Sweazy. 2011
Assuming a secret identity, Josiah Wolfe investigates a slew of thefts that are leaving the local ranchers of Corpus Christi…
angry as hell. After four long months away from home, Josiah will have to bring the leader of the raids to justice if he ever wants to return home to his family. c2011.The Chisholm trail (Trail drive series. #3.)
Par Ralph Compton. 1993
Ten Chisholm has returned to the Texas brakes with a team of cowboys and ex-soldiers. He must round up wild…
longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive outlaw attacks as he opens a new trail to Kansas. He also vows to marry Priscilla, the beautiful daughter of a New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1993.The business of dying: the complete Western stories
Par Richard S Wheeler. 2017
A collection of ten Western short stories. In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy," celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an…
academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art. And in the title story, two young men in the gold fields of California spend one last night together as one of them confronts his own imminent death. This collection also includes "The Square Reporter," "A Commercial Proposition," "The Great Filibuster of 1975," "The Tinhorn's Lady," "Hearts," and "Looking for Love at a Romance Writers Convention." 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.The Cheyenne Trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Those Jensen boys!)
Par Ralph Compton, Jory Sherman. 2017
Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from…
Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom's home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin--and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son. A target of the most vicious renegade on the high plains, Ransom turns to his old friend Chip. And Chip never forgets his friends--even if it means making a few enemies. 2017.The break
Par Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.The brass man: a Western story
Par Max Brand. 2018
Lew Weldon must choose between two jobs: hired gun for a smuggler, or bodyguard to a beautiful convalescent. The first…
could be deadly, but the second could land Weldon on the outlaw's bad side. 2018.The branch and the scaffold: the true story of the west's legendary hanging justice (Lone Star audio)
Par Loren D Estleman. 2009
Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals.…
But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every aspect of his life. 2009.The borderland
Par Edwin Shrake. 2001
Doc Swift - half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer - seeks the supernatural creature who guards the…
treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria. 2001.The Bozeman Trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Trail drive series. #16)
Par Ralph Compton, Robert Vaughan. 2002
1860s. During the Civil War, a motley group of young people plan a cattle drive from Texas to Dakota. Among…
them are James Cason; Duke Faglier, seeking to avenge his family’s murder; and the Scattergood brood of four brothers and a sister, all suspected cattle thieves. Some violence. Sequel to "Alamosa trail", followed by "Amarillo trail". 2002.The bushwhackers
Par Lee Floren. 1992
Cal Sherman came to Mad Horse Basin looking for a place to settle down after the civil war, but the…
basin was on the brink of war between cattleman Mel Powers and the sodbusters, and Cal was headed for a deadly showdown before he knew it. 1992.The Californios
Par Louis L'Amour. 1974
In 1844, Eileen Mulkerin is about to lose her ranch in Malibu when an ancient Indian, survivor of the Old…
Ones, leads her to a hidden cache of gold. Some descriptions of violence. 1974.The blue jay
Par Max Brand. 1926
The canyon of bones (Skye's West Ser. #15)
Par Richard S Wheeler. 2008
1850s. Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian wife Victoria agree that Skye should take a second Indian wife to produce…
a son. Skye marries Blue Dawn, a beautiful young Shoshone woman, and the trio is hired to guide English explorer and journalist Graves Mercer to see a mysterious canyon full of dinosaur bones. On the trek, they endure prairie fires, superstitious natives, and Mercer's arrogance, which endangers the whole party. Sequel to "Fire arrow", followed by "Virgin River". Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008. (Skye's West ; 15)The burning hills
Par Louis L'Amour. 1956
Trace Jordan, slowly dying in the saddle from a bullet hole in his hip, sees the buzzards circling above him…
and slides down a canyonside to a cave under the rock wall. He crawls in and lies down with his rifle pointed at the entrance. When he awakens, he finds a woman kneeling beside him. Explicit descriptions of violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2009, c1955.The broken gun
Par Louis L'Amour. 1966
An author of western fiction and history visits a remote Arizona town to research the disappearance of the original settlers…
almost a century before. He soon becomes involved in a ninety-year-old mystery and vendetta. Some descriptions of violence. c1966.The buffalo commons
Par Richard S Wheeler. 1998
A wealthy benefactor dreams of restoring a vast Montana grassland to its natural state, where wolf and buffalo can roam…
freely. But his noble dream threatens the local ranchers and farmers, who oppose the plan in order to protect their traditional way of life. 1998.Taqawan: roman (Collection Polygraphe)
Par Éric Plamondon. 2017
Il avait démissionné, une jeune Mi'gmaq se trouvait sous sa protection, deux hommes étaient morts et une partie du Québec…
voulait qu'on en finisse une fois pour toutes avec les Indiens. Cette histoire commence en Gaspésie, le 11 juin 1981. Cette histoire commence il y a des millénaires, avant les Vikings, avant les Basques, avant Cartier. Cette histoire commence avec les Mi'gmaq. Pour eux, c'est la fin des terres, Gespeg. Pour d'autres, c'est le début d'un nouveau monde. Alors que trois cents policiers de la Sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour saisir les filets des pêcheurs mi'gmaq, un agent de la faune change de camp, une adolescente affronte ceux qui ont humilié son père, un vieil ermite sort du bois, une jeune enseignante s'apprête à retourner dans son pays - pendant que le saumon devenu taqawan, au retour de son long périple en mer, remonte la rivière jusqu'au lieu de sa naissance. 2017.