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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth... Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...

"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I...

He comes to the Belllounds ranch the Mysterious Rider no one knows from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gun fighter that they call him Hell Bent Wade. He plays the part of fate in all their lives, and only when the inevitable tragedy come and the Mysterious Rider makes the great sacrifice, do they know. Then out of the shadow of this tragedy, Columbine comes into the sun shine of love. This is a novel written with that...

Chet Byrnes has his hands full taking care of his family and running his ranch in Arizona Territory. But he takes his responsibilities as a deputy U.S. marshal seriously. Bandits have been crossing the border, cutting a bloody swath of mayhem and high-tailing it back to safety in Mexico. The chief U.S. marshal asks Chet to lead a secret task force to round them up dead or alive. But the bandits fight back -- putting a five-hundred-dollar bounty on...

For Milt Dorn, the silence and solitude of the mountain forest were what brought him a sense of peace and contentment. In the pioneer community of Pine in Arizona Territory, Dorn is regarded as shiftless because he refuses to take a job on a ranch, but people are happy to have him do odd jobs. Wealthy rancher, Al Auchincloss is ailing and has sent for his two nieces to take over his holdings after his death. By sheer accident, Dorn overhears an ambitious...

An engrossing, contemporary western romance starring Rance McKettrick, a handsome, successful businessman and cousin to the last volume's hero, Jesse. Having buried himself in work since his wife's death five years earlier, Rance gets a wake-up call in the form of a blonde newcomer to the small ranching town of Indian Rock, Ariz. Riding up in a hot pink VW Bug, eccentric Chicagoan Echo Wells sparks the whole town's interest when she opens up Indian...

Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, an Arizona territory rancher announces a competition: the first to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit his ranch.

When Miranda Hunt sees the classified ad for an heiress to the legendary Last Chance Ranch, she knows assuming the identity of Annie Beckman is the perfect cover. As a Pinkerton Detective, Miranda has been tasked with apprehending the Phantom���an elusive and notorious train robber thought to be hiding on the sprawling ranch. But she isn't the only one there with something to hide. Wells Fargo detective Jeremy Taggert is working the scene undercover...