Westerns
Blue kingdom
Carrick Dunmore is a capable man on a horse and in the use of a six-gun. However, he does have a serious handicap. He's hopelessly lazy and prefers to spend his time drinking, playing knives, and just having a good time. Everything would have gone on as usual if Carrick's friends hadn't goaded him into riding a wild horse at the local rodeo. And even then, his life as a ne'er-do-well might have been allowed to continue if Carrick hadn't won the horse, and the prize money.
Thirty-five other Max Brand titles are available at the library including Large Print and Book-on-CD formats.
Destiny Valley
Three classics of the western genre by the greatest of its founders Zane Grey is the most famous writer in westerns, a founder of the genre. His works have been made into more than one hundred movies and his stories have endured for a century, influencing all others in the genre. Three fine, characteristic works are included in this omnibus: To the Last Man , the story of Arizona's Pleasant Valley War--an historic brutal family feud that ended in universal slaughter; The Mysterious Rider , a romantic adventure featuring Hell Bent Wade, a basically good man with a violent temper that leads him to murder--and redemption; and The Lone Star Ranger , the tale of a youth turned gunman turned Texas Ranger--and perhaps the spark that inspired that mythic character, The Lone Ranger.
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The library owns several other Fred Grove books.
Fight for the Valley
If it grew or grazed or lived in Indian Valley, it belonged to Mike Dugan. A man could lease land there, drive cattle there, and marry his woman there, but he had to be ready to eat dirt -- or leave -- when Dugan said so. And Tommy Gordon had left five years ago. But when a man eats dirt, it gets into his blood; his holster gets stiff and his fists get loose. Tommy knew Ben Dugan had hurt a lot of the good folks of Indian Valley. So Tommy rode back to Indian Valley. He bought his own spread and he picked a woman. He was tall enough now, and he could slap leather fast enough -- and his anger had had five years to come to a boil.
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This is a Large Print book. The library owns several others by this author.
Forgotten destiny: a Western trio
A master of the Western genre presents three classic novellas that embody thedramatic struggles that made life on the frontier unique.
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This book is in large print. The library owns several others by this author for you to enjoy.
Hard Country
A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier.Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico.In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life. Spanning the years of 1875 to 1918, Hard Country is the Western reinvented and enlarged into a saga that above all celebrates the people and the land of the great Southwest.
Lonesome Animals
In Lonesome Animals, Russell Strawl, a tormented former lawman, is called out of retirement to hunt a serial killer with a sense of the macabre who has been leaving elaborately carved bodies of Native Americans across three counties. As the pursuit ensues, Strawl’s own dark and violent history weaves itself into the hunt, shedding light on the remains of his broken family: one wife taken by the river, one by his own hand; an adopted Native American son who fancies himself a Catholic prophet; and a daughter, whose temerity and stoicism contrast against the romantic notions of how the west was won. In the vein of True Grit and Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals is a western novel reinvented, a detective story inverted for the west. It contemplates the nature of story and heroism in the face of a collapsing ethos not only of Native American culture, but also of the first wave of white men who, through the battle against the geography and its indigenous people, guaranteed their own destruction. But it is also about one man’s urgent, elegiac search for justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.
Lonesome gun
In his younger days, Dr John Fletcher Styles shot men to pieces more often than he stitched them up. However, Doc has sworn to put those days behind him. Until a letter from an old flame arrives.
The library owns several other titles by this author.
The Devil's roundup
This thrilling saga, told in a series of connected stories, reveals an entire frontier community's growth through moments filled with excitement, drama, and highly memorable characters.
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The library owns several other Will Cook titles for you to enjoy.
The lost band
"A continuation of Don Coldsmith's Spanish Bit series, The Lost Band traces the saga of the People, a fictional nation of American Plains Indians in the late eighteenth century. Annually the People celebrate the Sun Dance, and each year the Council circle leaves an empty place of honor for the Lost Band, whose members disappeared and are presumed killed in a genocidal raid in the Great Plains two hundred years earlier. This group is the Lost Band, their fate an ongoing mystery in the history of the People." "In The Lost Band, Story Keeper, chief of the Forest Band, unravels the puzzle when he makes a sudden and dramatic appearance. To claim the empty place at the Council table, Story Keeper must recount the fate of the Lost Band. The story begins as White Moon and her adopted child are gradually embraced by a childless couple whose people have abducted the last of the Band. At the same time, White Moon's friend Turkey Hen becomes the Second Wife of her captor. Turkey Hen enjoys her status and is willing to sacrifice her heritage for security. White Moon, however, is determined to return the Lost Band to their seat in the Council circle. She secretly struggles to keep the traditions of the Forest Band alive".
The library owns several other Don Coldsmith titles in both Large Print and CD formats
The riders of High Rock
Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he's sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt's about to learn the hard way that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy, you better make sure he never gets up again.
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The library owns many other titles by this author.
Western Legends
Three classics of the western genre by the greatest of its foundersZane Grey is the most famous writer in westerns, a founder of the genre. His works have been made into more than one hundred movies and his stories have endured for a century, influencing all others in the genre. Three fine, characteristic works are included in this omnibus: To the Last Man, the story of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War—an historic brutal family feud that ended in universal slaughter; The Mysterious Rider, a romantic adventure featuring Hell Bent Wade, a basically good man with a violent temper that leads him to murder—and redemption; and The Lone Star Ranger, the tale of a youth turned gunman turned Texas Ranger—and perhaps the spark that inspired that mythic character, The Lone Ranger.
The library owns several other titles by this author.
