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East Texas wasn’t much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he’s come back to farm the land that’s rightfully his. Only Cullen’s in for an unwelcome homecoming: his neighbors have long memories, the Reconstructionists have greedy hearts, and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. But Cullen isn’t about to back down.

Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove will make listeners laugh, weep, dream, and remember.

Eleven years have passed sub Lieutenant John Dunbar became Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, caused by increased reports of violent confrontations with white soldiers, who want to drive the Comanches onto reservations. Disquiet turns to horror, and then to rage, when a band of white rangers descends on Ten Bear's village, slaughtering half its inhabitants and abducting Stands With A Fist and her baby.

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.

Step back in time to the heart of Sydney’s gold rush era with an unfiltered glimpse into the city’s bustling construction scene. Immerse yourself in the vivid historical backdrop transporting your senses to the hustle and noise of the burgeoning Sydney in 1855.

In the depth of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates, and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in the city by the bay: the well-rounded, open-natured Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces. Smoke once rescued her from raiding Cheyenne, but now Madame Francie is mysteriously dead...and Smoke's arrival in San Francisco is less than welcoming.

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.

After a fight over the family ranch, Dad's young fiancée is found dead. Bria risks her family's disapproval to sneak around and investigate as the tragedies pile up. Luckily, she has help from her childhood crush and from the handsome new deputy. When new love blooms in two directions and her main suspect dies, she must grow around her grief to discover the family's secrets before she loses everyone she loves.

It all started with the geese. The Firefly crew is eager to get paid for their latest job, but when payment arrives as a gaggle of geese instead of a purse, their stay on the planet Brome gets an indefinite extension. Don’t matter that the geese will fetch a pretty penny once they get somewhere to sell them. Without coin, they can’t buy fuel, and without fuel, they can’t get offworld. Serenity is stuck.

CORRAL DUST chronicles the extraordinary lives of the Edwards family in Southern Arizona's Cañon del Oro where legends of the lost Iron Door Mine still live in the shadows of the mighty Santa Catalina Mountains. The saga begins in 1907 when Hugh Edwards is wrongly convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to hard time on a chain gang but after a daring escape, he hides out in Arizona’s Canyon of Gold with the help of an enigmatic character known as Saint Jimmy.

When Wade Murdock is arrested after killing a bank clerk during a robbery, his outfit goes gunning for the witnesses before they can testify. The only hope Connie Martin has of surviving: A former gun for hire whom she despises. Winslow Pike is a rare breed: a retired gunfighter. Most of ’em don’t survive that long. And now he’s looking to make amends with his past. To do it, he’s must find a man named G.W. Helm.

As a young man, John Bannack worked hard on his brother's farm—until times got tough and his brother grew desperate. Desperate enough to rob a bank. Unfortunately, John's brother left a trail that led straight to the Bannack farm. When a posse showed up to make an arrest, John made a fateful decision: He confessed to his brother's crime. Sacrificed his freedom for the sake of his brother's family. And doomed himself to a hard, hellish life in a rat-hole state prison.

The story of Jackson Slade, Soldier, Drifter, Indian fighter. Jackson's life spans many more years the it should because of an accidental discovery of a mysterious portal to another world and the further discovery of an even more mysterious cave with a glowing pool of water. Come ride with Slade as he fights, lives and loves across the many years.

On death’s door, broken, bleeding and wracked with pneumonia, Deacon believes his race to save loved ones is thwarted, but by the healing hands of a legless stranger, he is miraculously delivered. What will he do with a second chance at life? . . . at friendship? . . . at love? Accompanied by Tim Finlinson and Dillan McCall, Deacon resumes his race to save his family, but when he finds a collapsed chimney and charred rubble where the Lambert home once stood, grief consumes him. Soon after, one of the grave markers left by Ben Halladay provides consolation and new hope — Cole is alive!

After five long years in the army, First Lieutenant John Flynn was finally being mustered out and would soon be going home to the family he hadn’t even heard from in all that time. But when he rode to the family home, he made two shocking discoveries: his family was gone, and he had been declared dead by the army four years earlier. He left to cross the plains of Nebraska to find his family, but he would find so much more.

When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young Bendigo is forged into a man.

Dr. Patrick Kinney is no ordinary man, not least for his tenuous position as the only medical professional in Flats Junction. He's met his match in the widow Jane, in more ways than one, but together they struggle against disease, injuries and the stubborn resistance of frontier folk to medicine and healthcare.

Als Regulatoren bezeichnet man eine Gruppe von Männern, die sich zusammengeschlossen haben, um nach ihren eigenen Vorstellungen Ordnung in ihrem Land zu schaffen, weil sie die regulären Richter und Polizisten für unfähig oder zu lasch halten. Es sind also selbst ernannte illegale Richter und Polizisten. Wie ihr Leben und Treiben moralisch zu bewerten ist, lässt sich gewiss nicht spontan und generell entscheiden. Wie so oft hängt es von den besonderen Umständen ab. Gerstäckers Roman ist eine abenteuerliche Kriminalgeschichte, ausgeschmückt mit komischen Szenen und einer Liebesgeschichte.

Set in the framework of historical events with political overtones, the Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto and Mexican-American War come to life for the listener. The story is told through the eyes of Texas Ranger Jesse McAlester.