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English
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English
Description
J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must guide the sheriff through the deadly Sonoran Desert.
The story was adapted from surviving transcripts of the American Legends Collection, which were written in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works...
Author
Series
Battalion of St. Patrick volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
291 p.
Language
English
Description
"To the Color" is the continuing true story of John Riley: young (28), cynical, charming, a professional Irish 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, humor, pathos, and romance, it not only brings to life his torturous journey of reformation but that of the rough-hewn Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life"--
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 p.
Language
English
Description
"In 1846, the Mexican-American War cast together Latter-day Saints fleeing persecution and the U.S. Army on a desperate mission to capture California. The Mormon Battalion-including two pregnant laundresses-must march two thousand miles. Among the army's First Dragoons, Moses Cole, a Virginia farm boy running from his abusive father, grows to manhood under the mentorship of a tormented alcoholic and former professor. Among the Mormons, Orson Everett...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heading into the wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullet and arrows begin to fly. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, but out where fortunes can be grabbed by the strongest and quickest, he has a lot to learn.
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
321 p.
Language
English
Description
"Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona ranch house thirty years ago led to an untimely marriage for Dempsy's Aunt Cindy, who now runs three ranches with an iron will and a shotgun loaded with buckshot....
Author
Publisher
Goldminds
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
244 p.
Language
English
Description
In August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory-an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota's Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures crime. After the shocking murder of an acquaintance, Jack Jones...
10) Red ruckus
Author
Series
A Morgan Clyde western volume 3
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 p.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Clyde, legendary town tamer and shootist, is the kind of man who will look down the barrel of your loaded gun and keep on coming, and the kind of man there's no stopping short of putting him in a grave when he thinks he's in the right. He's just the kind of man that a certain little town in the lawless Indian Territory needs, the town once known as Ironhead Station and the town that has already almost killed him more than once. Only this time,...
Author
Series
Five trails west volume 4
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 p.
Language
English
Description
"Will Castleberry, guide, gambler and gunman, is an unconscious participant in the most incredible gunfight in the old west, just one tale in this last volume of the Five Trails West Series. In it, Zenas and his pals cross the Tularosa Basin in search of gold and adventure only to find the water holes fouled by avenging Indians. He participates in the Red River War and the rescue of the German girls. Zenas and Van Hunsucker encounter a most unusual...
Author
Series
Five trails West volume 3
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 p.
Language
English
Author
Series
Five trails West volume 2
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 p.
Language
English
17) Pony boys
Author
Series
Curse of the Niobara trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 p.
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, the notorious horse thief Doc Middleton rules the Niobrara rough country west of Holt County, Nebraska, with a loose affiliation of young outlaws, dubbed the Pony Boys. Albert "Kid" Wade, August John, Windy Barnes, Boots Harper, and a dozen other amoral roughnecks spent their days stealing horses, raising hell, and generally having the time of their lives. But nothing lasts forever, and the unorganized territories west are succumbing to...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
214 p.
Language
English
Description
"January 29, 1863. United States Army troops attack a Shoshoni village on the banks of the Bear River in what is now southeastern Idaho. Four hours later, the army abandons the field, leaving behind the dead bodies of some three hundred men, women, and children. This all-but-forgotten massacre stands today as the worst killing of Indians by the military in the history of the American West. In the pages of And the River Ran Red, four-time Spur Award-winning...
20) 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...