John D Nesbitt
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's ranch. Shortly after Dunbar's arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard's father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, Louise, a beautiful woman...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
347 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"PLAYING A LONE HAND is a collection of six Western fiction stories. In WHITE CITY, a stranger comes to a tent city looking for a kidnapped girl. In BUCKSKIN TRAIL, a cowhand helps a widow find her late husband's killer. In BLOOD AT THE RANCH, a young man confronts trouble when his father brings a stepmother and stepbrother to the ranch. In PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, a detective looks for a girl who has been kidnapped. In OF EMERALD HUE, the same detective...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
345 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Under Heaven's Own Blue is a collection of short fiction. In "Truth and Principle," detective Henry Tresh helps a woman find the truth about the death of her son. In "Double Deceit," detective Dunbar is tracking a malefactor who killed a woman and is now conducting a medical practice without a license. In "Bitter Range," ranch hand Orin Blake becomes caught up in an intrigue in which a former ranch hand is discovered to be having an affair with the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jord Blaine, one of the riders for the Skull outfit, falls out of favor with the foreman and goes to work for a rancher named Carlson, building fence with a young man named Jimmy Baker. Blaine and Jimmy finish the job and go their separate ways. Blaine finds work with an outfitter who is going to take out a group of deer hunters. During the hunting expedition in the mountains, the outfitter is killed by a shot that seems to be intended for Blaine....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An aspiring Ohio transplant's dream of owning his own spread in turn-of-the-century Wyoming is put on hold due to a series of inconvenient murders. Earl Miner, who owns the Pick, makes no bones about insisting that every man who works for him file a claim to 160 acres under the Homestead Act and then sell it to him so he won't be troubled by competing ranchers in the Decker Basin. As soon as cowpuncher Reese Hartley bridles at that arrangement, foreman...
9) Silver grass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant is on his own when he meets a traveler on foot. The two arrive in the town of Silver Grass, where the other man finds work washing dishes. Wilsey goes out to look for work and meets an indentured servant girl, an orphan like himself. Before long, the fellow traveler turns up dead. Wilsey goes to work at the nearby Emerald Peaks Ranch, where he hears of ranch hands terrorizing the settlers, and he witnesses the shooting...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
"These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls. In "Visitors in Cantera," the narrator receives a visit from questionable relatives. In "In the Breaks," a girl goes deer hunting with her grandfather and has to fend off unwelcome advances from a young man. In "Man of Trees," a homesteader helps solve the murder of an...
11) Coldwater range
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Del Rowland, working for Bill Overlin at the Spoke ranch, begins to doubt the boss's integrity when Overlin and others bully a homesteader named Holt Warren and goad him into a fatal gunfight. Dels curiosity increases as he gets to know Overlins stepdaughter, Lawna, and hears stories from saloon patrons. One of them is shot in the street at night. Meanwhile, the cattlemen step up their aggression by burning Holt Warrens buildings and running their...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
345 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after Dunbar goes to work at the Hook ranch, a ranch hand who aspires to marry the cook's niece is found dead. The niece, Vivian, works at the mercantile, and her boss seems to be fond of her. Another cowhand on the ranch also fancies her, but he, too, ends up dead. Dunbar and Edwin "Rye" Ryerson, the cook who tells the story, go to a local brother to learn more. Back in town, Dunbar and Rye learn that Madeline, a street girl, has been killed....
13) Summer's lease
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lawrence Orme, who has left his work as a professor, comes to the countryside of Wyoming, only to find the body of a young man. He attends a meeting in town in which one of his neighbors is running for public office. Before long, this neighbor is found dead. Lawrence finds out that the unoffending neighbor was looking into the death of the young man, as part of his sense of obligation as a condidate for public office. An ally of Lawrence's, the hired...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--a wandering drunk who has picked up gossip in an alehouse, and then the proprietor of the alehouse. People who know too much are being silenced. An old woman named Verona...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2025
Physical Desc
337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is a collection of a dozen Western stories in which people ride into danger and draw upon their own fortitude to get out---men and women, guns and horses, wrongdoing and justice. It includes the award-winning story "Return to Laurel," which was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award and for the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award in short fiction, an "Darlings of the Dust," which was featured in CENTENTION AND OTHER FRONTIER...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jim Fontaine wants to get a new start in life by settling on his own piece of land near the town of Redwillow. He isn't there very long, though, when a saloon girl named Emma turns up dead and a friend of his, Charley Drake, gets thrown in jail for the murder. Nora Winterborne, who is new in town, confides to Fontaine that she is interested in the case because Emma was her sister, but she has to keep quiet. Fontaine also learns of the disappearance...
17) Good water
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
311 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ranch hands Tommy and his pal Red make friends with the Mexican people who live nearby. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that their former employer, Vinch Cushman, is trying to force the Mexicans off their land by damming the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he's shot dead. Tommy joins the Mexicans in their exodus,...
19) Castle Butte
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harrassed by ruffians.

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