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82) Texas Showdown
Author
Language
English
Description
Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country, West Texas, in these two stories of cowmen and cow country. In "Pecos Crossing", two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned pay by their rancher boss, Larramore and intend to get what is due to them. In "Shotgun", Two Forks, Texas, rancher Blair Bishop must contend with a mean customer named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past....
Author
Series
Buckalew family volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
629 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two complete novels by 'one of the greatest and most gifted of Western writers'. (Historical Novel Society) Bitter Trail: Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend--his former partner and brother of the...
85) Hard ride
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
641 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, the second-ever collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power of western spirit. They are filled with marvelous characters--from a rodeo clown who seeks redemption via romance, to an outlaw who comes to the aid of ranchers with no other recourse...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Stand Proud: "Frank Claymore is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant--just the qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattle rancher on the West Texas frontier. Stand Proud follows Claymore from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the twentieth century--through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the society that once hailed him as a hero, and which later has him condemned as a despoiler and tried for murder."--Page...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
599 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Badger Boy: The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he...
Author
Series
Texas Rangers volume 7
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Texas Rangers volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shadow of a star: Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coldridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way. Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems...
Author
Series
Hewey Calloway volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his middling years, as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado, on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in...
Author
Series
Texas Rangers volume 6
Publisher
Graphic Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a rivalry between a white rancher and a Mexican cattle baron escalates to deadly levels, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard teams up with former Confederate soldier Farley Brackett to prevent a violent showdown.
93) Lost trails
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won. Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...