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3) Easy street
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On his graduation from Harvard, Jay Warren, son of a self-made rich man, receives a ticket to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and five hundred dollars with instructions to find himself and shape his own destiny. He hopes to find Easy Street, but instead has some brutal lessons and plenty of opportunity to succeed or to destroy himself"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Collected here for the first time are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, winner of four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for his lifetime achievement in the world of Western literature by the Western Writers of America, with a cast of vividly drawn characters including madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsmen, and lawmen"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Skeleton Gulch, men disappear, widows are turned into whores and suckers end up dead. Now the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency has sent Dink Dragos to Skeleton Gulch to make contact with an informant, find a legend named Vanishing Jack, and fingure out a madam who calls herself the Yellow Rose---and who loves to see people die.
7) Snowbound
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, John Fremont must fight his way out, battling the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader with a survival saga like none before it-a struggle of man against man, man against nature, and man against himself- a novel you will never forget.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
From the moment Abner Dent spotted Eve in a Maiden dance hall, he knew he wanted her for his wife. He promised her everything and kept his word. But suddenly--so it seemed to Abner--everything was falling into ruin. When it seemed as if nothing worse coul
10) Sam Hook
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Meagher County, Montana, is Hereford country. All the ranchers are raising Angus or Hereford cattle--all except Sam Hook. He is the only holdout, continuing to herd longhorns as he has for years.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Throatlatch, Wyoming, is a sinister town that preys on travelers. One of them is No Name, a drifter who lives his life without purpose. Something about the little town obsesses No Name, and he finds himself drawn into a whirl of evil - murders and cruelties all done in the name of virtue. No Name soon discovers that Throatlatch is the home of a cult that wants to bring paradise to earth. Will No Name resist? Or will Utopia kill him, too?"--Provided...
12) Easy Pickings
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A widow must defend herself and her property from the greedy townsfolk of Marysville, Montana"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel Hapgood headed west from Massachusetts in 1873 to stake a homestead claim in the Arizona Territory, he wagered it would take backbreaking labor to carve out a living from a decent-sized spread of land--nothing his Yankee know-how couldn't handle. But his stern New England upbringing hadn't prepared Nathaniel for Don Ignacio Olivera, a proud and powerful Spaniard who flew the Mexican flag over the hacienda and had his own private army...
15) Restitution
Author
Series
Witness westerns volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
17) Richard Lamb
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Lamb was a peace-loving man hoping to live out the rest of his days with his Indian wife and their large extended family, but the Partridge brothers had other plans--deadly plans to advance their careers. All they needed was a little Indian resistance"--
18) Bushwack
Author
Language
English
Description
At the beginning it looked as if Randy and Linda Van Pelt would have the most wonderful married life together. They had a perfect Montana ranch and the best stock of bulls, but their newlywed bliss was not destined to last. Randy died of pneumonia after their first hard winter and Linda, a transplanted Easterner, found herself alone in a desolate country. Linda turned for help to her neighbor, a horse trainer named Canada Parker. After Canada buried...
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Down the Eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfoot country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land come a pair of young wanderers - half-breeds born of two worlds, but belonging to neither. Bound by love and torn by their loyalties, they share a single destine - a destiny about to unfold on the banks of the Two Medicine River.
20) Dark passage
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.