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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.

Fifteen years ago, DEA agent Bruce Carter was left for dead on his wedding day, his wife and unborn child slaughtered by the cartel. But Carter didn’t die—he was reborn as Jason Miller, a one-man army dedicated to eradicating the cartel menace by any means necessary.

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.

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.

Heading over the Canadian Rockies, now that his work with Mac had ended, Tyrell takes the job offered by Ed McCoy, bounty hunter extraordinaire. Under the name of Travis Sweet, he takes the Bounty Hunter's oath and becomes a registered bounty hunter. Caught up in a half-cocked scheme to capture US ex-Ranger Matt Crawford, and share in the $10,000 reward, he coincidentally meets up with an old friend and convinces him to help.

Carl is a Yankee cop in a small Texas border town. Isabella is a beautiful Mexican woman that everyone in town loves, including the hapless Pete and the wealthy, powerful Jack Talbott...but most of all, Carl.