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Im mythischen amerikanischen Wilden Westen beschäftigt sich ein alternder Cowboy mit dem Lauf der Zeit und erinnert sich dabei an einen prägenden Moment mit einer älteren Frau aus seiner Jugend.

Charlie Dawson and his partner Clem don't consider themselves bad guys. But they definitely made a bad error in judgment on a gold mine deal—turns out there was no gold—and ended up in a shootout with some very angry claim jumpers. Now a posse is in hot pursuit of Charlie and Clem. The unlucky pair hightail it to San Francisco, where they try to blend into the red-light district known as Barbary Coast. Another bad decision on their part.

This is a story from Major Tom Sheppard, a Union Army soldier in Colorado's territory. Tom retired from the army and then asked three years later to act as a liaison between the Comanche Indians and the Government of the United States. During that transition, the president urges Tom to travel to a town called Shilo, a lawless town. The president knew that the town of Shilo was critical to the government. The president asks Tom to go there and try to clean it up to be a safe place for pioneers to settle there, knowing the government had plans for the small town.

Cherry Hensley just wants to feel strong again. Armed with a bucket list of activities to help her regain her confidence after years of health conditions holding her back, Cherry’s determined to make the best of her last summer in Willow Ridge before graduating college and moving to the city. But when her best friend—and co-author of the bucket list—lets her down, Cherry’s left afraid to tackle it alone.

After the tragic death of their parents, two brothers, Cabel and David Glaize, buy a ranch in Wyoming Territory from a man in Virginia. Both brothers have been fighters all their lives—one in the ring, the other throughout the west. Cabel, the youngest, knows the territory and heads out first, only to find the place has been settled by outlaws. Fighting and gun battles ensue as the brothers engage in an effort to obtain what they legally own. But are they too late?

Scarlett Parish is a recovery agent, and she and her partner, Walter Hillam, travel all along California’s vast, unpredictable landscape as they search for, capture, and bring to justice wrongdoers. This story begins with just such an occurrence: Scarlett and Walter, after tracking a thief all the way from Sacramento to San Diego, are eventually able to apprehend the man and bring him to the local sheriff to retrieve their reward.

When Jane Withersteen's father dies, he leaves her in sole possession of the family's cattle ranch, situated on one of the most valuable pieces of land in Utah. The river that runs through the property gives Jane control of the local water supply—and the great power that comes with it. Coveting the property, a local Mormon leader named Tull tries to force Jane into a polygamous marriage—a fate that she resists.

After clearing up an almost comedic issue in Dodge City, Cy received an assignment to go to the town of Granite in New Mexico Territory to investigate a claim of massive overcharging by the telegraphers. It wasn’t a particularly challenging issue, but it would mean a long ride and Cy actually looked forward to it. He was still in a good mood as he rode out of Dodge City and eventually Kansas. He didn’t expect to spend much time in Granite and hoped that his next job would be a little more exciting. He’d had a few that reached that level but doubted that this one would be even difficult.

The town got its unusual name when a pair of brokedown prospectors accidentally dropped a stick of dynamite in the Rockies—and unearthed a massive vein of silver. One of the two men dropped dead from excitement. The other one named the place "Dead Broke" in honor of his dead broke companion and declared himself mayor of a brand-new mining town. Mayor Allane Auchenleck—better known as Nugget—put Dead Broke on the map. But when the silver market takes an unexpected nosedive, the bustling boomtown goes bust. And all hell breaks loose.

The American West. A landscape hewn in vastness as its rips from Plains, to deserts, to mountain, to ocean overlaid by waves of emigration of peoples either dispossessed or searching for a new life and the American dream. These are their stories. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

After four years in the cavalry, Beau Garrett returns to Nebraska Territory, expecting to reclaim his grandfather’s land and rebuild the life he left behind. But the world has moved on without him. His grandfather is gone, the farm is drowning in debt, and a powerful cattle baron—Luther Cain—is circling like a vulture, ready to take it all. Cain offers Beau a deal: hunt down Jedidiah Graves, the infamous Bandit King who has been robbing his trains, and the land will be his.

Sharlene Waverly is determined to have the "new and improved" Honky Tonk up and running before the holiday. For that, she'll need Holt Jackson, the best darn carpenter in the state. But his warm, whisky-colored eyes make her insides melt, and before she knows it, she's sharing her darkest secrets and talking about the nightmares . . .

Elwood's deputy, "Moosejaw" Hendricks is one of the fastest draws in the territory, and it's the best kept secret in the West. But when Moosejaw guns down three notorious outlaws in an attempted bank robbery, word gets around. And news travels fast. So fast that every tin horn west of the Mississippi heads for Buffalo Peak to prove they're the fastest gun. These half-cocked lunatics want to challenge Moosejaw to a showdown.

He never looked back as he made his way through the gaslit streets without a penny in his pockets and no place to sleep. He should have been crushed by his desperation, but it was his anger and hate that drove him. He would use the one skill he had learned in those empty years that he now left behind him. He would enter the world of bareknuckle fighting and have to face older, stronger men to make his way in this hard world. He may be nothing, but he wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

I'm willing to admit that I shouldn't read spicy scenes in public. But in my defense, the opportunity rarely rises elsewhere. As a single mom and farm owner, my time is stretched thinner than horse hair. Besides, I'd reached a pivotal peak in the story and couldn't put it down. That is, until someone bumps into me. My phone launches into the air like a base hit, but the device is caught before smashing into the ground. It comes as no surprise, considering the guy is a professional baseball star.

Monte Rio is spiraling into chaos. The once-respected Sheriff Gordo Trujillo has abandoned his post, retreating to the seclusion of his mountain cabin. With the town desperate for leadership, disgruntled Deputy Jim Crowther takes matters into his own hands—uncovering a forgotten law that forces the town’s coroner, Dr. Henry Schaefer, into an unexpected role: acting sheriff. Set against the rugged beauty of the early 1980s Southwest, In a Morada follows Doc Schaefer as he steps into a whirlwind of corruption, family tensions, and simmering violence.

On an abandoned beach on the Southern California Coast near midnight, Everett Durant reaches into the pockets of his jeans as he approaches the water’s edge. He unburdens himself of all personal belongings as he prepares to commit suicide by drowning but fails. During his unsuccessful drowning, Everett experiences the appurtenance of a Guardian Angel, of sorts. When he wakes, he sees only the impression of a sand angel remaining where he washed ashore.

In the 1870s, the United States is still reeling in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Gold Rush is a thing of the past, but the American West still holds allure and promise for those brave enough to venture into its untamed frontiers and build new lives for themselves. Former Union soldiers Owen Cobb and Will Abbott set off down the length of Missouri toward Oklahoma in search of a former comrade and his son who undertook just such a pursuit.

When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on an ATV will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. The canyon along the trail has a history, sure, but nature has a tendency toward violence. Greta can accept that, even if it makes her insides squirm.

When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question becomes—where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult.

The story of the cowboy has been much romanticized and made part of a mythology about the American West. Earl’s Own Dakota Odyssey is an update on that myth. What is the actual nitty-gritty of life for a typical ranch hand? The work is hard, without job security, health benefits or retirement accounts. When you get old, no one wants you. That’s the down side. The upside is you live in a world that’s real, surrounded by the day-to-day beauty of God’s creation, called the Great Plains.

An der spanischen Atlantikküste beginnt die Handlung dieses Romans mit einem heimtückischen Mord und einer Kindesentführung. Viele Jahre später enthüllt sich. das Schicksal des jungen Fährtensuchers und Pferdebändigers Tiburcio Arellano in den Weiten der mexikanischen Sonora-Wüste. Ihm zur Seite stehen der legendäre Waldläufer Bois-Rosé und sein Begleiter Pepe Dormilón sowie der Komantschenkrieger Falkenauge.

Ryder Malone ist ein waschechter texanischer Cowboy – bis zu jenem Tag, an dem ihn sein besoffener Vater aus dem Haus wirft. Das Schicksal will, dass er danach als Detective bei der Polizei in Dallas landet. Er baut sich ein neues Leben auf, das Jahre später wiederum jäh zerstört wird. Nun. hat es ihn nach Montana verschlagen, wo er sein Geld als Trapper verdient. Versteckt in den Wäldern auf einer kleinen Ranch will er nur eins: Vergessen! Doch als Julie in sein Leben tritt, wird ihm nach und nach klar, dass er als Einsiedler doch einiges vermisst.

Quando il famigerato ladro di cavalli comanche Kicking Wolf gli ruba l'instancabile Hector, un cavallo cosí poderoso da essere reputato magico, il capitano Inish Scull decide di inseguirlo a piedi, affidando il comando della compagnia di Texas Ranger a Woodrow Call e Gus McCrae. Mentre la caccia al ladro conduce l'impulsivo Scull a un durissimo scontro di volontà con il Black Vaquero, il bandito piú efferato del Messico, i neopromossi capitani si trovano per la prima volta ad avere la responsabilità della vita dei loro uomini.

Sheriff Joe Brooks was talking to a young prisoner who gave him some incredibly bad news. Three notorious gangs of outlaws had merged into one large band big enough to take over entire towns in his sparsely populated county. It was when they began to terrorize his county that he had to act, and he’d have to take them on alone.

1800’s American West—a place where men find themselves in harsh and cruel circumstances and where lives are short lived. Traveling independently on the expansive road through the west, cowboy and Westerner Tomas H. Elkman is a man of the times. To ease the loneliness of the trail while searching for gainful employment, Elkman warily teams up with a fight-prone, good-timing gambler by the name of Jefferson McGredy. This strange pairing of men is hired to deliver an assemblage of horses to a ranch in the untamed northern territory.

Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts the lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the protagonist, who is a member of a natural aristocracy among men. Owen Wister was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood.

Investigator James Creed has finally settled into life in San Francisco with his found family, the Brotherhood of the Golden Cog. Though he misses his adult daughter, he has a criminal leader to track down—an outlaw who murders innocents, enslaves the downtrodden, and uses machines to alter the bodies and minds of his many victims.

In this life, you have to play the cards you’re dealt. Sometimes the cards aren’t worth a dime. Even holding the winning hand is not a guarantee you will take the pot. One thing is certain, somewhere along the way you are going to cashing in your chips. It is a good bet the aces and eights you’re holding means that time is near.