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From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—"Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt" (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling...

Utah Blaine saves Joe Neal, owner of the 46 Connected Ranch, but when another murder attempt succeeds, Blaine finds himself alone to face a gang of greedy ranchers.

Presents two full-length stories in one volume - Snow Kisses and Darling Enemy - in which Abby Shane comes home to Montana and faces her memories of an affair with rancher Cade McLauren and city girl Teddi Whitehall butts heads with an ornery rancher at every turn while spending the summer in Canada.

She can't forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex husband, the tough, tender father of her child. Tori Tyler can't let Will Tyler go to prison for a crime that was a simple accident. But she can't deny that her feelings for the man run much deeper than loyalty, and her desire for his strong, sure embrace has never died. Protecting him is second nature, until an unexpected terror threatens to shatter them both... and Tori needs Will's...

In this legendary John Wayne film, the cattle rancher McLintock puts his brand on the territory and every woman in it! The lovely Louise Warren plays a widow who moves with her two children onto McLintock’s ranch to serve as cook, while Maureen O’Hara plays the estranged wife. Every great Western staple is accounted for: Cowboys, Indians, gun battles and fistfights. Plus, that pair of (now infamous) spanking scenes!A western version of "Taming...

Red River Valley (1936, 56 min.): Cowhand Gene Autry and his partner help Arizona cattlemen who are trying to build a dam that will bring water to their parched lands. Unscrupulous businessmen attempt to hinder these plans for their own profit. Saddle pals (1947, 71 min.): Rancher Gene Autry goes to the home of wealthy hypochondriac landowner Waldo Brooks, trying to get rent reductions for all the tenants in the valley. Waldo persuades Gene to switch...

The Brennans and the Gallaghers put aside their one-hundred-year feud every Tuesday for their weekly poker game. This week, the stakes are sky-high. Goaded to recklessness, Declan Brennan bets one thousand dollars that he can woo the next woman to walk into the saloon. A minute later, fiery-haired Betsy Gallagher pushes through the doors. If Declan can tame this wild Gallagher, he'll have earned every penny. Betsy can outshoot anybody in Burnt Boot...

A self-assured American sharpshooter moves to Australia in search of employment, and finds work for a despotic land baron in the Australian outback. He discovers that he's been hired to kill aborigines, and takes an instant dislike to his boss...spawning a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in which only one will be left alive!

For years, goody-two boots AJ Foster wished her dream man Cord McKay would see her beyond the girl in pigtails. Now that she's old enough to stake her claim on him, she challenges the cowboy to teach her how to ride-- and she doesn't mean horses."

"Cole Waldron will face legal tricks, gunmen, and dynamite to keep his promise to his army buddy who willed him half a ranch as he was dying"--