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21) Rio Ruidoso
Author
Series
Three rivers volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 p.
Language
English
Description
"Rio Ruidoso offers a gripping blend of history and story as two-time Spur Award-winner Preston Lewis explores the violent years before the famed Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory. Seamlessly weaving fact with fiction, the author details the county's corruption, racism, and violence through the eyes of protagonist Wes Bracken, newly arrived in the region to start a horse ranch with his alcoholic brother. Bracken's dreams for the Mirror B...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against the backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
23) The regulator
Author
Series
Regulator volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 p.
Language
English
24) Wanted: Sam Bass
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 p.
Language
English
25) The rusted sun
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gil Ryan is nearly dead from starvation and hypothermia when he stumbles into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a blizzard. Owing his life to a kindly doctor and a widowed mother, Gil soon finds himself drawn into a bloody range war between the Ensillado Basin|s largest rancher and the small homesteaders who have begun squeezing into the valley. Gil wants no part of the trouble about to descend upon the Basin, but he won|t turn his...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
499 p.
Language
English
Description
The Poacher's Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won't soon forget.
In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely...
27) Call me lonesome
Author
Series
A Morgan Clyde western volume 2
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
451 p.
Language
English
Description
"The Arkansas Traveler, a hired assassin is obsessed with killing Morgan. He's waiting for him on the Arkansas River. The Pinkerton Detective Agency have put their best man hunters on his trail. Morgan has one thing going for him. His enemies have made him very mad, and surviving is the only way he can kill them all"--Provided by publisher"--
29) Crimson harvest
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 p.
Language
English
30) The last warrior
Author
Series
The life and times of Yellow Boy Mescalero Apache volume Book 3
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 p.
Language
English
Author
Series
Five Trails West volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
301 p.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lee Pate is a man of principle. Either that, or he is a misguided dreamer. Troubled by the institution of slavery, he uproots his family of three sons and a wife without notice and leaves Tennessee. Destitute and bound for Mexico, his wife, Sarah, and eldest sons, Richard and Melvin, grow increasingly frustrated. Only the youngest son, Abel, is willing to follow his father without question. From somewhere in Arkansas, Lee sends his three sons back...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 p.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his...
Author
Series
Battalion of St. Patrick volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 p.
Language
English
Description
""Changing Flags" is the true story of John Riley, a cocky Irish professional soldier who deserts the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, romance, and humor, it brings to life his torturous journey of reformation and that of rowdy Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared dream. Their epic tale begins in Michigan when Riley launches...
37) Pine Marten
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 p.
Language
English
Description
"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hager's fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in what's left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
39) Smoke wagon
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 p.
Language
English
Description
It's 1872 and the Katy Railroad is hell-bent on laying the first set of tracks through Indian Territory, but things have stalled out at Ironhead Station. It's a man-a-day, end-of-the-tracks boom camp, meant to live loud and die young. The railroad has hired a new chief of police, a man named Morgan Clyde, but the gambling crowd is giving three-to-one that he'll be dead by the end of the week. If Clyde can't out-think the smart ones, out-lie the sneaky...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...