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Shavetail: a novel
Par Thomas Cobb. 2008
Arizona Territory, 1871. When seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne arrives for duty, Corporal Brickner, a conniving old mule driver, takes advantage of…
the young "shavetail", a name applied to untrained mules and soldiers. Outranked but not outwitted, Ned faces scorpions and Indians in a battle for survival. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Spur Award. c2008.Shadow of the lariat: A Treasury Of Frontier Tales
Par Jon Tuska. 1995
Anthology of twenty-two Western short stories by Zane Grey, Max Brand, Les Savage, Frank Bonham, and others. A brief biographical…
sketch of the author accompanies each frontier tale, many of which originally appeared in such publications as Lariat Story Magazine. 1995.Secondhand bride (McKettrick series ; #3)
Par Linda Lael Miller. 2004
Jeb McKettrick, discovering that his bride, Chloe, is married, returns to the Triple M ranch convinced that he'll never inherit…
it. But an unexpected reunion and a dangerous interloper give the couple another chance. Sequel to "Shotgun Bride". Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.Scar county showdown
Par Elliot Long. 2011
When town marshal Arthur Curry is gunned down from behind by killers unknown, his brother Sam comes to Columbus to…
pay his last respects and to seek vengeance against those who have wronged his family so grievously. The mayor of Columbus has an idea of who is responsible for the crime, but Sam is determined to come to his own conclusions. Includes strong language. 2011.Savagery of the mountain man (Mountain man. #37.)
Par William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone. 2010
Smoke Jensen is already on cattle baron Pogue Quentin’s bad side for outbidding him at an auction in Quentin’s town…
of Santa Clara, Colorado. Now Smoke must ride to Santa Clara and face Quentin again to protect his friend Pearlie. 2010.Savage country (Last gunfighter. #13.)
Par William W Johnstone. 2006
Harvard-educated businessman Conrad Browning hires his estranged father, gunslinger Frank Morgan, to find the saboteur of the railroad spur construction…
in New Mexico Territory. Frank, knowing Conrad still blames him for his mother’s death, also hopes to reconcile their strained relationship. 2006.Sanctuary
Par Gary D Svee. 2005
The town of Sanctuary is controlled by a fanatical reverend and a vicious rancher. Considering the circumstances, few men stop…
in Sanctuary longer than it takes to get their boots dusty. Then one day, a hard-drinking, gun-toting preacher named Mordecai steps off the train. Mordecai brings a new morality for the townsfolk and clashes with everything they know. His message angers the ruling elite, but Mordecai intends to stay until he's heard--loud and clear. 2005.Sanaaq: an Inuit novel (Contemporary studies on the north ; #4)
Par Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Peter Frost. 2014
An Inuit family negotiates the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in…
the mid-nineteenth century. 48 episodes recount the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. The spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family. 2014. Uniform title: Sanaaq.Sandstone
Par Robert Rhode. 1982
Savidge (Black horse western)
Par Sean Kennedy. 2010
Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some…
dirty dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada, with little more than the shirt on his back - to say nothing of the tools required to make revenge a reality. Then he meets a woman who is down on her luck - just like him, but with a lucrative connection to a mysterious Frenchman. For Savidge, playing along means the opportunity to purchase guns and horses: necessities for a man hell-bent on retribution. 2010.Satan's gun (Black horse western)
Par Bill Williams. 2007
Nineteen year old Sam Bryson faces a conflict that will test his courage, character and faith. He had been given…
his first pistol on his thirteenth birthday and ordered by his grandpa to practise every day, except Sunday. Sam Bryson has no reason to fear any man nor any desire to kill, but he will soon discover that his life is threatened by others and that he must protect himself. 2007.Rose's run
Par Dawn Dumont. 2014
Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some…
self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that would be for her to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty years, smokes and initially has little motivation, she announces her intention to run the race. But one strange and unforeseen outcome of her decision is that she will have to do battle with an old inadvertently conjured demon that feeds off the strength of women. She is a truly mean old spirit who can invade other women and have them do her bidding and in no time has the Rez in an uproar. As Rose discovers, the old demon has been unintentionally called forth by Rose's teen daughter, Sarah, which complicates Rose's life just a little more. Winner of the 2015 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. 2014.Sagebrush and spurs: classic western short stories
Par Eric Tripp. 1992
The stories in this collection come from the high noon of western writing, where the American civil war, and subsequent…
frontier wars provided a mixture of legend and fact as monuments to national courage. There are contributions from the earliest protagonists of the "formula" western, with stories from Jack Schaefer, Stephen Crane, Owen Wister, O. Henry and others, the emphasis is on finely drawn characters and believable plots. 1992.Saddlemates: a Western story
Par Max Brand. 2018
While walking from Boston to the Southwest to inspect a mine he inherited, Edward Dugan meets a man that tells…
him that Henry Christian, the man that has offered to buy the mine, can't be trusted. 2018.Rookie season (Sports stories ; #42)
Par Jacqueline Guest. 2000
Leigh Aberdeen is determined to win the hockey championship with her new all-girl team, the Chinooks. Then her dad, who's…
also the coach, adds a know-it-all boy to the team which makes Leigh furious, and her best friend Tina, the goalie, starts mysteriously dropping practices just as the Chinooks show they can win. Leigh realizes that the team will need to overcome their problems on and off the ice before they can get it together and win. Grades 4-7. 2000.Rough justice: a Western story
Par Lauran Paine. 2016
When Dale McAfee kills a range rider in a saloon gunfight, a stray bullet kills an innocent old swamper. Sheriff…
Doyle Bannion rules the involuntary shooting death by misadventure, but the King brothers see things differently--and they're bent on avenging their father's death. 2016.Sacred is the wind (Lone Star audio)
Par Kerry Newcomb. 2006
Panther Burn, exiled from his Northern Cheyenne tribe, senses war on the horizon as he sadly watches his Southern Cheyenne…
brothers abandon their ancestral customs and become slaves to the culture of the white men. Jubal Bragg, haunted by an Indian ambush, leads a vicious band of frontier militia men. When a sequence of malevolent events brings these two men face to face, they engage in a tragic struggle over the lands of the western frontier. 2006.Sackett's land (Sacketts. #1.)
Par Louis L'Amour. 1974
Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills. Declared…
an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. The ruthless piracy of the open seas and the unknown dangers of the savage American wilderness lay before him. And so did the thrill of discovery and the chance to establish a bold new future if he survived. 1985. c1974. (Sacketts ; 1)Roy & Lillie: a love story (Lone Star audio)
Par Loren D Estleman. 2010
Judge Roy Bean is an infamous arbiter of Old West justice. For years, he writes admiring letters to British stage…
actress Lillie Langtry, and she occasionally responds. But just as they are about to meet face-to-face, fate intervenes and keeps this oddball romance from blooming. 2010.Rudy Wiebe: collected stories, 1955-2010 (Currents Ser.)
Par Rudy Wiebe. 2010
Divided into four sections, these 51 entries showcase Wiebe’s diverse concerns. The first section includes tales of warriors, Chiefs, and…
the First Nations’ experiences prior to the imposition of restrictions on their land and freedom by the Crown. The other sections include stories on Mennonite history, Western Canada, and more personal character sketches. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.