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Outside was the red dust, a foot deep on the highway, and the burning sun. The fountain before the mission splashed lazily; down at the beach it seemed that the tide had not its usual energy. Neophytes slept in the shadows cast by the mission walls. Here and there a robed friar went about his business despite the heat and the hour. There was no human being travelling El Camino Real—the king’s highway—as far as a man with good eyes could see. You can hear the whole story.

The weekly mail had just arrived at the Flying U ranch. Shorty, who had made the trip to Dry Lake on horseback that afternoon, tossed the bundle to the “Old Man” and was halfway to the stable when he was called back peremptorily.

Celeste Kennedy's father makes an arranged marriage for her, but when this beautiful and willful daughter sees how cruel and deceitful her fiancé is, she goes against her father and he throws her out of the house forever.

Some call it the most dangerous stagecoach in the West. But the hard-driving owners of the Frontier Overland Company will get you where you want to go—if you don't mind a detour through hell....

Civil War is brewing. Everything is about to change. Based on true events. When Regis Royle dreams, he dreams big. And since everything’s bigger in Texas, his dream is to make the Royle Ranch the biggest cattle supplier in the country. Problem is, the country is splitting apart, people are taking sides, and everyone’s gearing up for a full-blown War Between the States. Regis’s kid brother, Shepley, has enlisted in the Army. His trusted foreman “Bone” McGraw has left to rejoin the Texas Rangers. And the rail lines have been rerouted for the war effort.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The...

Reginald T. Fox is the town's resident gravedigger. He's their only gravedigger. But when he gets into an altercation with the Sheriff, he decides to head for the grander location of San Francisco. Reginald is given a job on the cemetery maintenance team which is a big city phrase for gravedigger, by the person in charge of such things - Samuel Seacroft. He is even given his own room in a building designated for city workers.

When Tom Knox decides to take his best friend’s advice and write for a Mail Order Bride, he figures it will be a marriage of convenience—someone to help him around the ranch and to keep him company. But when his intended bride arrives, it turns out to be anything but convenient… May Chapman, an heiress adrift, flees the stifling expectations of London high society for the promise of a fresh start. Boston was to be her salvation, but when fate uproots her plans, she finds herself venturing to the rugged plains of Texas.

A few days before Bree's upcoming wedding, she and her father spend a day in the mountains, and he tells her about the family's early days on a small ranch in California, the tragedy that struck her mother, and how they came to live in the valley.

In the criminal underworld of Laramie County, Lucien Clay was king. He terrorized the locals, robbed the coffers, and ruled the place with an iron fist. Thankfully he’s behind bars now—along with a load of other lowlife scum—thanks to Laramie’s new sheriff, Buck Trammel. Unfortunately, Buck can only enforce the law while others specialize in working around it: namely, lawyers. And no lawyer is more crooked or corrupt than the belly-crawling snake Clay hired to get him out. By any means possible.

An elderly Blackfeet warrior tells the story of his youth, when his tribe owned and lived free on the great plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. During those days of freedom and plenty, they hunted the vast herds of buffalo, worshipped their ancient gods, and sought glory in war parties against their traditional tribal enemies. In order to achieve his adulthood in the tribe, Little Otter must face the dangerous vision quest to find his sacred helper and then risk death as a member of a daring war party. Most of all, though, Little Otter wants to become a Sun priest.

As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains. Ironically, his last formal education had given him the skills and knowledge to help build those railroads, and now he’d finally put them to use. His short-term plan of spending a quiet night or two in Pine Bluffs would soon be altered by a simmering man-made volcano in the mountains of central Wyoming at a mine that provided the coal for the railroad’s locomotives.

In Tunis und im Wilden Westen spielt der erste Teil dieses dreibändigen Romans. Er schildert die Schicksale einer deutschen Familie, deren Mitglieder durch die Intrigen von Verbrechern in die ganze Welt zerstreut wurden. Im Mittelpunkt der abenteuerlichen Handlung steht die Wiedervereinigung der Getrennten. Neben Action und Spannung kommt auch der Humor nicht zu kurz; dafür sorgt einmal mehr die Figur des spleenigen Sir David Lindsay, mit dem es hier ein Wiedersehen gibt.

In dieser letzten Reiseerzählung Karl Mays finden Eindrücke von seiner Amerikareise 1908 ihren Niederschlag. Die Bedeutung früherer Geschehnisse um den edlen Indianer Winnetou tritt hervor, und das große Menschheitsproblem erfährt am Beispiel der roten Völker seine gerechte Lösung. Zu Karl Mays Lebzeiten erschien dieser Band im Verlag Friedrich E. Fehsenfeld unter dem Titel Winnetou. 4. Band!

Eine deutsche Auswandererfamilie ist von Wegelagerern ausgeplündert worden. Da kommt ihr das berühmte 'Kleeblatt' zur Hilfe. Auch Old Firehand und Winnetou greifen ein. Im "Tal des Todes", einem Ort des Grauens, laufen schließlich die Schicksalsfäden der Menschen zusammen, von denen bereits im Band Der Derwisch die Rede war. Die Verschollenen tauchen wieder auf und ihre Familien werden endlich vereint.

Keeping the peace in a West Texas town like Buffalo Peak should be easy for a legendary frontiersman like Marshal Elwood "Firestick" McQueen. He’s got his longtime buddies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks as his deputies—not to mention the famous rifle that earned him his nickname. But when Firestick learns that their ornery old friend “Rip” Ripley just rode into town, all bets are off. It’s darn near impossible to keep the peace when Rip’s specialty is disturbing it. Firestick finds a decade-old wanted poster for Rip—the reward is one dollar.

Jeff and the settlers spend the winter in Missouri, preparing to leave for the West in the spring. But tensions flare between the settlers and anti-Confederate locals, and between Jeff and Abe Hackett. Abe, who shot a man down in cold blood a few weeks earlier in Tennessee, is willing to turn one settler against another to get what he wants.

I have to have her. Ive been alone for so long. I never thought I would want to change that. But when I saw her, I knew she was meant to be mine. And now that her husband isgone, its time to make my move. Ive never felt like this about anyone. I want her everything: her body, her mind, her soul...

With the threat of war growing more real by the day, Henry Jackson faces an impossible choice. Virginia is divided, with half the state poised to secede, leaving the Jackson family farm teetering on the border that will divide the north and south. He accepts the government’s promise of land and a fresh start in the untamed western territories to protect his wife and their three boys.

USA TODAY Bestselling Author To uphold the law …will she take down her ex? The town wants her to arrest her former boyfriend for a murder on his ranch­—but Sheriff Leigh Mercer refuses. The newly elected law enforcer doesn't have evidence against bad boy Cullen Brodie. In fact, the search...