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The Making of A Gunman
by Max BrandTommy Mayo seemed like just a loafer, but didn't fool former gambler and gunslick Henry Grant. When Grant heard that the rancher's son had leveled a hardened outlaw with one bullet, Grant knew he had found his man. Henry Grant needed protection and young Mayo needed a guide. But Mayo's knack for the gunslinger game was frightening. He tamed the fiercest and fastest stallion Grant had ever seen, dealt poker hands like a sharp, and drew a gun with the speed of lightning. With his cool nerve and shiny new revolvers, Mayo was burning for action. Grant had a wild plan of vengeance to wipe out his old gang, and Tommy was more than ready for his final death defying test in... THE MAKING OF A GUNMAN.
Riders of the Plains
by Max BrandMaimed by his injuries, Peter Hale battled the Westerner's scorn for a cripple, and brought new life and prosperity to the family ranch. Then he dropped out of sight.
Smoky the Cowhorse
by Will JamesIn language that truly evokes the Wild West, Smoky the Cowhorse brings to life one horse's story, from his birth on the open range through his breaking to Smoky's other lives as an outlaw rodeo star and saddle horse. <P><P> A Newbery Medal Award winning book.
A Star to Follow
by Elizabeth HowardArizona was a remote and primitive place in 1875--especially when compared to Detroit. Ellen and Nettie really found this out when they made the difficult trip to the Southwest to join their parents at the army post commanded by their father. Nettie, who was gay and pretty, with the interests suitable for a young girl, adjusted quickly to army life. There were too many attractive lieutenants around for life to become boring. Ellen, however, found nothing in the tea-parties and the army gossip to replace her dream of going to college and becoming a doctor. The only man who really interested her was Neil Brent, but he was an enlisted man and therefore an officer's daughter could not associate with him. In desperation Ellen strove to overcome the prejudice which her parents and the post doctor felt toward the idea of a girl's studying medicine, and she finally won permission to read the doctor's medical books as a first step toward realizing her ambition. No one except Neil Brent believed that Ellen could actually stick to a vocation so difficult and in many ways so repellent. The desert country has its own fascination, as Ellen discovered. Miss Howard captures its appeal in her vivid description of mountains and mesas and the weird beauty of the cactus. Set against this background, the story of Ellen's struggle to follow her star and her heart has a particular charm which girls will find absorbing and unusual.
Black Mesa
by Zane GreyPaul Manning has just found out that his love has betrayed him. Broken-hearted, he finds himself in a trading post where a woman is in distress and under-handed dealings seem to be going on.
Bullet Barricade
by Leslie ErnenweinHe was muy hombie, this Clay Spain, tough as all the trails he had ridden, ruthless as the frontier he roamed--intimate with death more than once. And he was a loner. Then he rode into Apache Basin--the torn and bloody range straddled by violence, trampled by a cattle king hungry for power. It was none of Clay Spain's business, not his brand of trouble. Until a girl's angry challenge got under his hide--and then Clay Spain rode out, armed with his gun and his careless courage--to dispense justice where the law had never reached!
Death Comes for the Archbishop: Large Print (Vintage Classics)
by Willa CatherWilla Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
The Far Journey
by Loula Grace ErdmanIt was a long hard trail from Southern Missouri to the Texas Panhandle in the 1880’s, and yet a gentle, inexperienced young woman traveled it to join her beloved. The author of such bestsellers as The Edge of Time, The Years of the Locust, and Lonely Passage has written this story of a daring adventure with great warmth and insight, so that it is as immediate, as true to life as it is dramatic. And its thrilling episodes are revealed as the milestones in a spiritual journey as well. Growing up in Reconstruction days on the remnants of a fine Missouri plantation, Catherine Montgomery had been reared in the aristocratic ante bellum traditions her mother resolutely maintained. Yet, when she was eighteen, she fell in love with a “Yankee upstart,” Edward Delaney, whose most cherished dream was to claim land of his own in the untamed West. Edward and Catherine could not set out for the West immediately after their marriage, however, for they had to have money for a stake. By the time their chance finally came, their son Ned was three--and Catherine was too happily settled, too fearful of the risk to her child, to share her husband’s enthusiasm. She let him leave for Texas without her.... For Catherine, the passing days were filled with fruitless repentance for failing her husband. And when circumstances prevented Edward from coming for them as he had promised, the rift in their marriage seemed to widen. Edward needed her, she knew. And she needed to prove herself in his eyes, to measure up to the demands of the life he wanted to make for her. So, with only her small son and her wise but dubiously reliable Uncle Willie as companions, she set out to go to him. At midpoint of the dangerous trip she was suddenly, tragically robbed of Uncle Willie’s guidance. But not even then would she turn back.... It would be unfair to deny the reader the suspense and satisfaction of making this “far journey” with Catherine herself, of sharing her adventures, which include a startling encounter with a mysterious Indian, a poignant trailside birthday party, and a terrifying pursuit by an evil stranger! Catherine’s journey is, in a sense, the journey every woman makes toward her love. And as she crossed the vast plains of a growing America, Catherine herself grew to a mature understanding of those simple, enduring values that still beckon each of us onward today. In The Far Journey, the reader will find them, as Catherine does, in the daily round as well as in the once-in-a-lifetime moment that reveals them in all their glory.
Guns of the Timberlands
by Louis L’amourClay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and fifty of the toughest lumberjacks in the county. But as Colleen Riley, Devitt's fiancée, realizes the brutal game he's playing, her disapproval of his actions, and Clay Bell's obvious integrity and charm, pull her toward a destiny that will tip the scales in their bloody battle over timber and cattle.From the Paperback edition.
Gunsmoke Mesa
by Daniel JamesRed Batten was a hot-tempered giant of a man. Talkie Hines was his opposite! smooth, icy, lightning fast. But one thing they shared: bitterness at being railroaded to prison. Busting out was no trick for them, it was setting up an outlaw kingdom in Apache land. But the pair could not rest until they settled scores with the two lawmen who had wrecked their lives! It was showdown time when they rode into town. And the streets would run with blood before the fuse of hate burned to its explosive climax. ...
Law Rides the Range
by Walt CoburnWADE MORGAN killed the town boss in a vicious gun-fight and knew that he must make tracks--fast! But he left his son Joe behind to make sure he got a fair deal. What he didn't reckon with though, was the terrible revenge that Bull Mitchell's renegade crew decided to take--a terrifying act of retribution that brought Wade Morgan back to town with a smoking gun and a heart full of hate. ...
Oklahoma Run
by Alberta Wilson ConstantMany people know that Oklahoma was first opened to settlement in 1889 with a Run for land, but not so many know that this was only the first of the land openings in Oklahoma Territory, later combined with Indian Territory into the state of Oklahoma. This story, Oklahoma Run, concerns the second land opening. The settlement of the Indian Territory in the late 19th century is recorded through the experiences of one family, the Sheridans, viewed through the young eyes of Lainey who gros up with the land, and bears a comfortable air of domesticity. For Bushrod, the new country has a challenge which the gentler Allegra can never really share.
Rawhide Guns
by Frank BonhamTHEY HIRED A GUNMAN TO BUILD A RAILROAD Jim Harlan had to rawhide a railroad across some of the wildest country in New Mexico, but the cattlemen of the Magdalena Basin had a much tougher job - they had to stop him! What Harlan knew about building railroads was slung from his belt, but it was enough. ...
The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek
by Evelyn Sibley Lampman[From the back cover:] "Meet George. He's Strong, as a giant dinosaur should be--strong enough to wreck an airplane! (Of course he thinks it's his old enemy, the flying dinosaur Pteranodon.) He's Loyal. He'll do anything to help Joan and Joey save their mother's ranch at Cricket Creek--even chase a bank robber. He's shy. He's so shy he gets Joan and Joey into hilarious, dinosaur-sized trouble!" The full page pictures are described.
Thunder Moon
by Max BrandWHITE CHEYENNE! Thunder Moon was the adopted son of the great and powerful warrior Big Hard Face, unaware that he was born the son of a white man. And though he grew bigger, stronger than the other Indian boys, he was not accepted by the tribe's elders. For he was not their equal in swimming, riding or wrestling. And most hateful of all, he could not bear pain. Until the day a water snake's fangs bit into his flesh, the Sky People sent him a sign, and an adventure began that would make him a legend among his adopted people.
Wild Horse Tamer (Tack Ranch #6)
by Glenn BalchKing, the magnificent black stallion who ranged the high, wild Twin Buttes country of southwestern Idaho, is missing. And when his self-appointed guardians, Ben and Dixie Darby, find King's bunch of wild horses with another stallion triumphantly leading them, they are mystified and worried. Gaucho, the Argentine trainer who has such a way with horses and who knows how much Ben and Dixie love the black stallion, warns them, "He would not leave. Something happen." Because to them King is more than a horse, because to them he is a spirit wild and free, Ben and Dixie, with the help of Gaucho, set out to find the black stallion—dead or alive. Endorsed as an IDAHO CENTENNIAL PUBLICATION
Buzzard's Roost
by W. F. BraggGalloping Jack Johnson had spent most of his life around cattle, and he was looking forward to getting into the high country near Eagle River and to associating solely with trout for a couple of weeks. To carry his pack he rented a mule, which somehow escaped and stampeded a herd of cattle. That brought the wrath of big Mort Hooker of the Flag Six spread on the vacationing waddy, and once he had helped round up the cows Jack had to stop to fight Mort. That led to an even more horrendous experience at a goose ranch, where Jack became an unwilling goose herder. By the time he had finished that ordeal, he'd become practically a local citizen, and knew all about the mysterious badman who holed up in the Buzzard's Roost. So he figured he might as well stay on awhile longer and buy into the trouble too.
Escape from Five Shadows: Escape From Five Shadows; Last Stand At Sabre River; The Law At Randado
by Elmore LeonardNo one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows--but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, and beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. He'll have help this time--from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. Because freedom isn't enough for primed dynamite like Bowen. And he won't leave the corrupt desert hell behind him until a few scores are settled...permanently.
The Golden Stallion's Victory: Golden Stallion #4 (Famous Horse Stories)
by Rutherford MontgomeryCharlie Carter’s first meeting with the big stallion of the Bar L took place in the spring of the year. Golden Boy was a wild colt then. The story of how Charlie caught, tamed, and raced him was told in The Capture of the Golden Stallion, in which the reader also first met Charlie’s ranching father, his beautiful, impetuous mother and Ellen Sprague, who went to school in the East but felt the way Charlie did about Golden Boy and the Bar L. Now spring has come again to the high country, where Golden Boy triumphantly guards his mares. Charlie looks forward to a fine summer, but his first ride to look over the horse herd brings an ominous adventure. An old silvertip has killed a cow, so Charlie stalks the bear, taking chances that a more seasoned hunter would not approve. After that things happen fast. A neighboring ranch, the Big Circle, has changed hands, and the new owner ruthlessly attempts to usurp the Bar L’s range and water rights. Golden Boy fans the flames by trespassing in Big Circle territory, and Ellen arrives from the East accompanied by a girl friend straight from the soda- fountain set. When the range water is diverted from Canna Creek the complications seem insurmountable, but actually they set the stage for Golden Boy to make the run of his life.
Gunfire at Salt Fork
by William HopsonCarr was coming back, and along the silent, dusty street of Salt Fork you could almost smell death in the air. In the gray light of morning the four Kendalls waited for him, gun-hot and swaggering, but thinking, too, of five dead outlaws strune out down Jonathan Carr's back The morning grew brighter- and so did the knowledge that by sundown in Salt Fork there would be burying to do.
Hannah Fowler (Kentuckians #2)
by Janice Holt GilesHannah, a young Kentucky pioneer in the 1770s, builds a life for herself after her father dies from an axe cut. With new her husband Tice, the couple builds a cabin, starts a family, and thrives in spite of their harsh life. Hannah and Tice face almost overwhelming obstacles together that come their way, ranging from hungry wolves and a killing blizzard to skirmishes with and captivity by Native Americans fighting to retain their lands. Set in the time of Daniel Boone, the author presents an enduring story of frontier life without romanticizing the reality of hardships faced by pioneers.
Mystery Ranch
by Max Brand"Raisin' Hell is a Profitable Crop!" said the man with the shotgun, and Templar was beginning to believe him. The sheriff offered Templar $50 a week; the saloon owner offered him $75. What had Templar done to command these magnificent offers? He'd gone into the town of Last Luck, gotten drunk and laid out almost every able-bodied man in town. But there was still another offer to come. A very rich man would pay him $5,000 for a month's service as a bodyguard. When Templar gasped at the price, the rich man looked at him earnestly. "I live," Condon said, "in constant fear of murder."
Night Passage
by Norman A. FoxA lone wolf rustles with the frontier's worst villains . To most folks, Junction City, Montana means little more than its name-a dreary station en route to nowhere. But for loner Grant McLain it marks the beginning of the road to opportunity. A new job in the town offers just what he needs-a chance to clean up his tarnished reputation and to win back the woman he's dreamed of for five miserable years. Guarding the railroad payroll from a band of cutthroats is honest but dangerous work. Grant has to stick it out or lose his one shot at a new life-if he can stay alive at all.
Old Yeller
by Fred GipsonAt first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller<P><P> The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.<P> Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller?<P> <b>Newbery Medal Honors book<P> Winner of Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Award</b>