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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family, while exposing their damning secrets. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken...
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In The Sky-Liners, Louis L’Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That’s when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman, but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, for Judith had fallen
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Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in the rocker outside the Manix store, whittling and spitting. Jim said hardly anything. Ever. That's how Henry Lancaster felt. Sure, he'd hear his grandfather talk to his grandmother fairly often - But Jim hardly said anything to anybody else. That all changed when he took Henry along on a scouting trip, and told his grandson how it was that winter of 1886 -...
5) Scalpers
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"Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack rides the border badlands to Iron Point hoping to capture escaped prisoner Ozzie Cord, a mercenary who killed a sheriff back to Mesa Grande. But as Sam nears his prey, the trail of scalped bodies makes it clear that someone else has a vendetta. By all appearances, Turner 'Big Foot' Pridemore, leaders of the scalpers, has driven away the desert Apaches and ousted the law. But he's missing sin son, Fox, who has...
6) Outlaw pass
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Adam Blaine was always content to stay on his family's cattle ranch on the Yellowstone. Unlike his brother, Jake, who could never resist the open road - or the prospect of gold. When Jake doesn't return, Adam sets off to look for him, never expecting to find hell waiting. Because where there's gold, there are thieves. And these thieves don't think twice about putting a bullet in a man. Then a case of mistaken identity turns Adam into a "vigilante"...
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Lawrence Shaw is known on both sides of the border as the fastest gun alive and for other reasons he'd like to forget. He's just spent a month in Old Mexico, drowning his demons in mescal, tequila, and peyote wine. But when his drunken sabbatical ends, he faces more than a lethal hangover. It begins when Shaw kills two bushwhacking banditos, becomes quarry for ruthless bounty hunters, and stumbles across a long-dead body in a cave.
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Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Bustamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood, and steals a thousand head of cattle--along with two hundred of Smoke's horses. Going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, Smoke crosses the border in hot pursuit of...
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Sam Houston's victory at San Jacinto has made Texas an independent republic. Along with other settlers whose lives have been disrupted by the revolution, Joshua Buckalew tries to put the pieces back together. He finds that starting over in the aftermath of war can be as challenging as war itself. The racial differences that helped foment the conflict have not disappeared -- and being an independent republic can be more difficult than being a colony...
10) Dark Horses
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Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging him for a horse thief, but not before they take him to their boss -- Ansil Swann, the very man Summers is delivering four horses to. Will is saved from the noose by Ansil's beautiful wife, Bailey. Only Bailey has an agenda of her own, one that lands Will right in the middle of a deadly shootout.
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Sure, it would've been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman's trust -- before squaring off with the most ruthless pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier.
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"THREE MEN DEAD. AND SIXKILLER MIGHT BE NEXT. The territorial governor has sent three lawmen to clean up the mess that is Chico, New Mexico and not one of those lawmen has made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified denizens of Chico under his boot heel, so the governor turns to John Henry Sixkiller, sending him undercover as a gunman for hire. So far, Sixkiller has bloodied his opponents in every battle he s fought in the Southwest. But...
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Ladd Buckner, a stranger to the small town of Piñon, Arizona Territory, makes a good impression when he joins a range crew from the Muleshoe Ranch under attack by renegade Apaches. Buckner buys the local saddle shop, but the way he stitches a saddle makes the local doctor suspicious. He tells the marshal, who makes inquiries. When the marshal is killed in a daring bank robbery, a letter in his pocket states that Buckner was just released from prison....
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"Born on a Cherokee reservation, John Henry Sixkiller is known as the most cunning lawman in the West. He's in Ringgold, Wyoming, for Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been stalking for weeks. But before he can strike, Skillern goes to work for the town's corrupt mayor. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out. The plan is working--until he discovers that, except for one beautiful, crusading newspaper...
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It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. There's a showdown coming and only one man will ultimately rise up out of the carnage . .
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"Lawrence Shaw is known as the fastest gun alive--and it's no exaggeration. But after he guns down thieves and recovers a fortune in stolen gold at Fire River, being the fastest may not be enough. Garris 'the Cat' Cantro and his Border Dogs are more than thieves. They're an army--remnants of the Confederacy who will fight, steal, and kill to the last man. And with so much gold to be had, they'll spill the blood of anyone who stands against them. That's...
17) The ridgerunner
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It had been a long time since John Locke had seen his foster brothers, Bert and Starr Whitcomb. He smiled to himself as he rode toward the old homestead. It would be good to see them again. But as he rode into town a hard-faced marshal grabbed him and put him under arrest. His brothers were wanted for murder and now John was under suspicion too. A lynch mob was gathering outside the jail, he could hear their angry voices ..
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Preacher is on the move, joining a springtime trail drive led by freewheeling Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. Red Knife's war party has other plans. Fighting their way to safety, the horse traders make it to Fort Gifford - where the beautiful wife of the fort's commander makes a raid of her own with Wiley. As jealousy erupts, Red Knife's bloodthirsty legion comes galloping over the horizon....
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There are a million ways to die in the Rockies--and a million predators, natural or otherwise. But even seasoned mountain dweller Preacher is shocked by the latest horror lurking in the hills. Trappers are being hunted down like animals and killed. Some were Preacher's friends, and now two others have gone missing. Preacher is determined to track them down, but nothing can prepare him for what's waiting at the end off the trail.
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