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"Fifteen short stories of the West with a variety of characters from the familiar figures of lawmen and gunfighters to some seldom featured characters such as a traveling apothecary, a coffin trimmer, and a prison warden with some unexpected twists"-- Provided by publisher.

The 40th anniversary celebration of the Sacketts continues with this classic L'Amour adventure. To help a cousin in need, the Sackett brothers drive 1,100 head of cattle across the wide Dakota plans toward Canada, weathering adversity along the way.

The adventures of Flagan Sackett and other members of his family in the frontier West.

The first book in a brand new Mountain Man adventure series from D.M. Haggard! Half Jicarilla Apache and half white, Wilder Hawk has one foot in the Indian and Anglo worlds, but doesn’t fully fit in either. His father, a mountain man who married an Apache chief’s daughter, died in a hunting accident before Wilder was born. Now eighteen and a man grown, Wilder chooses to leave his tribe and roam the West, going wherever the spirits lead him in...

Members of the Sackett family come from all parts of the West and converge under the Mogollon Rim to help Tell Sackett who is trapped and hunted by gunslingers from the Lazy A.

A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

"Todd Duncan barely escapes a lynch mob who believes he murdered the express agent in town. The only way to convince them that he's innocent is to track down the real killer"-- Provided by publisher.

The Wyoming territory is vast, rich with grasslands, and largely lawless. So when a conflict arises over whose herd gets to graze in those grasslands, then it's more likely to be settled with a shootout than a lawyer. The cattlemen believed their cows ought to have free grazing. It had been a long winter and the herd was hungry. But that means the sheep ranchers would have to move on, at gunpoint if necessary. But the way the sheep ranchers see things,...

"Ace and Chance Jensen usually spend Christmas at the Sugarloaf Ranch. But this year, the brothers are heading to Death Valley to claim Chance's prize in a poker game: the deed to a silver mine. Sure, the mine is probably dried up and worthless, but what they don't realize is that half the deed belongs to a ruthless outlaw named Foxx, a rich vein of silver hasn't been tapped yet, and another wealthy mine owner is trying to crush the competition-by...

Frank Claymore is not easy to like -- to admire, maybe, but not to like. He is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant -- the very qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattleman on the West Texas frontier. In one of his most memorable novels, acclaimed Western writer Elmer Kelton follows Frank Claymore's life from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th century -- through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the...