Gary McCarthy
1) Sodbuster
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s. Zach and Carrie Bennett, teenaged children of that wretched class, are determined to escape the scorn. They resolve to trek to Texas on foot. They are babes on the prairie, ignorant of the geography and hostility. This incredible journey through the lawless West reveals human nature at its most base and unveils a capacity for violence...
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Miguel Santana, a young Spaniard abandoned by his gold-hungry comrades, and his Pima son, Vitorio, find their lives entwined with those of beautiful Jacova and the mysterious "man of three bloods" on the banks of the Gila River.
5) The Colorado
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
The magnificent Colorado River, vast and unyielding, lets no man tame its fierce soul. But Isaac Beard, a man of courage and strength, dares to defy the mighty forces of nature to build a dynasty for his sons and their children in this sweeping hi.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Wedding bells are in the future for Darby Buckingham, the West's hardest hitting, toughest fighting, fastest thinking, hero. But when his fiancée, Dolly Beavers, fails to show for their announced wedding, he realizes something is wrong and strikes out for Reno convinced she must be a victim of foul play.
7) Restitution
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To make amends for his criminal past, Bruin Henry promises to deliver his granddaughter to the father she has never known-his former partner in crime...
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 15
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into California. But to Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades and an unforgiving wilderness. Then she stumbled upon a father and his two sons in search of a dream valley where they could settle and prosper....
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 7
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire. At his side was Morgan Beck, out to stake his own claim at the confluence of two powerful rivers, the Sacramento and the American.
10) The Horsemen
Author
Series
Publisher
Diamond Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
THE HORSEMEN, is the story of the Ballou family's brave struggle to fulfill a dream. The Ballous were the finest horsemen in the South, a courageous Tennessee family famous for the training and breeding of glorious thoroughbreds. When the Civil War devastated their home and their lives, they headed west into the heart of Indian territory. As horsemen, they triumphed. As a family, they endured. But as pioneers in a new land, they faced unimaginable...
11) Wind River
Author
Publisher
Leisure
Pub. Date
c1984, 1998
Language
English
Description
In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between a decent man and an outlaw was often too thinly drawn, two extraordinary sisters struggled to survive and fought for their freedom. Rebecca, as beautiful and untamable as the mountains of Utah, was forced to marry a brutal polygamist, but she refused to surrender her dream. And Katie risked her life so Rebecca might have a chance for freedom. And she risked everything else...
12) Mesa Verde
Author
Series
National park novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff. It is the ruined city of the Anasazi Indians, a civilization lost for over a thousand years. This is the story of how Mesa Verde, the cliff city, came to be. It is 400 A.D. at the Animus river Valley in what is now Northwestern New Mexico, and Echata, the leader of the Raven Clan, was concerned for...
13) Mustang fever
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
When Hench Hightower rode into town with his half-dead herd of mustangs, Darby had no stomach for what he saw. It was time to end a vicious cattle baron's control of the Nevada range...time to end the murder of the mustangs.
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 19
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Andy Parmentier is sixteen the winter his father joins the Union army, working his mother's farm and dreaming of heading west for gold. When his father's death and the murder of his mother's new husband forces Andy to flee their Virginia farm, he teams up with con-artist Gizzard O'Reilly in an adventure that will lead them from a Mississippi river boat along the bullwhacker's trail to Santa Fe. When a Comanche attack leaves Andy in the hands of Comancheros,...
17) Blood brothers
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as day and night. A miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son son of Ulysses Kilbane, a professional gambler and the fastest gun in town. Ulysses kills as easily as he shuffles a deck of cards. It looks as though Rick is a chip off the old block until Ben Pope pins on a sheriff's badge and the blood brothers start down the road to...
19) Yellowstone
Author
Series
National park novels volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English