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It’s 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis “Bone” McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent rolling prairie: the Santa Calina range teeming with wild mustangs, cattle, and eighteen-thousand acres of lush promise.

If anyone can smell an investment opportunity, it's railroad men and big city bankers. They're not the kind of folks that Sheriff Mackey is used to dealing with. But greed is greed, and if anyone knows how money can drive men to murder, it's the sheriff of a boomtown like Dover Station. But when Mackey is forced to gun down a pair of saloon rats, it brings a powderkeg of trouble - with a quick-burning fuse of vengeance named Alexander Duramont. This bloodthirsty psychopath wants to kill the sheriff for killing his buddies.

Majestically it rose from the icy waters, the gateway to the awesome wilderness of Alaska. Sitka drew all brand of adventurers, con men, criminals, and pioneers—men such as trail-tough, battle-hardened Jean LaBarge. He left the swamps of the Susquehanna behind for the rugged beauty—and deadly challenges—of this frozen frontier. But the empire-hungry Russians had already established a foothold in Sitka and they wouldn’t give it up without a fierce and treacherous struggle that stretched from San Francisco to the palaces of St. Petersburg.

The Mountain Man books are one of today's most popular Western series. USA Today best-selling author William Johnstone packs each adventure with plenty of action and danger. Rancher Smoke Jensen hoped he was through with Sundance years ago when he shot the the gunslinger's ear off. But now Sundance has gathered a bloodthirsty gang and is headed for Smoke's spread.

Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones, and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn that even the best choices involve some kind of sacrifice.

Legendary hero Smoke Jensen comes to the rescue once again when a crew of crooked outlaws attempts to rob the town's bank. After Smoke puts a damper on their plans, leader of the pack, renegade Jack Tatum, is determined to seek vengeance. Little does Tatum know - no one mistreats Smoke's family or friends and gets away with it.

Six-year-old Danny lost everything in a single night of blood and fire. Rescued and raised by the Comanches, he grows up caught between two worlds—never fully trusted by either. When sickness hits his tribe, though, he is given a task no one else can fulfil… Sent into a hostile town for medicine, Danny meets Esther, the brave daughter of the town doctor. But their mission turns deadly when they uncover a plot against tribal leaders and their sacred land. With betrayal closing in, Danny must choose where he belongs—and how far he’ll go to stop a war. With his step-brother at his side...

Wyatt Cole never stayed in one place for long. As a hired gun, he lived by his own rules… ride into town, take a job, and move on. Red Hollow was meant to be no different. But then he met Abigail, the rancher’s daughter with the smile that made a man question his path… Before he could decide whether to stay or go, Abigail vanished. Everyone in town knew who was behind it; Jasper Kane, a ruthless gambler who didn’t take no for an answer. Desperate, Abigail’s father turned to Wyatt—the only man reckless enough to take Jasper on. With time running out, Wyatt follows the trail, ...

Wes Callahan leads the Frontier Express stagecoach, a hard and dangerous job he does well. But behind the reins, he wrestles with the bottle and doubts his own worth. Only Carla Monroe, a resilient widow, makes him believe there might be more to life. On his final run for the company, Wes carries a ring in his pocket and a proposal on his mind. Riding alongside him is Greg, the boss’s son and Wes’s childhood friend. But what starts as a routine journey soon turns into an onslaught neither man is ready for. When dangerous outlaws target the stagecoach and kidnap Greg, Wes takes it upon ...

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.

A Rocky Mountain winter has left Breck reeling from the carnage unleashed by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan - and readying a quest for vengeance as ruthless as their prey. It gets even deadlier when Carnahan lays siege to a trading post on the Yellowstone River. He's left the owner dead and kidnapped a pretty hostage who can turn a nice profit once he puts her to work.

There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown - even if it turns into a gun-blazing showdown. Smoke and Sally Jensen are delighted that their son, Louis, is marrying the lovely widow he met during a perilous stagecoach journey through the Donner Pass. The whole family welcomes the bride and her young son with open arms.

In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republica, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.

A blizzard traps a stagecoach and its passengers at Willow Creek Station—but the real danger isn't the storm outside. Samuel "Hawk" Harrison, a former Pinkerton with a scarred past, recognizes the signs of an ambush just in time to stop it. What waits at the station is worse: veiled threats, strangers with secrets, and eyes that never stop watching. Catherine Powell runs the station with grit and a rifle, refusing to be driven off the land she fought to keep. She's wary of Hawk—too guarded to trust, too smart to be charmed—but she sees something in him she’s not ready to name. As ...

Justice is Samuel Kerrigan’s weapon, fighting for the weak and the downtrodden, often at the cost of his own needs. But when his father is murdered, he’s forced to return home, where the law he serves and upholds may not be enough. Eugene Kerrigan came back from war broken, scarred inside and out, with nothing but bitterness to show for it. Missing an arm and his faith in the world, he sets out with Samuel to uncover the truth behind their father’s death. The brothers want justice, each bringing their own skill set to the fight. This time, they must set aside their differences, ...

It is 1884 and Caleb O’Rourke leaves his home in Connecticut to seek his fortune. Still enamored with his dime novel visions of the “Wild West”, he drifts westward over the next couple of years, acquiring experiences that prepare him for life as a cowboy. Eventually arriving in Montana, he is “found” by rancher Matthew Rangely, and achieves his goal on the Circle-T Ranch. Five years later, much to her parents’ objections, a young, willful, well-to-do, city-bred Marie Devereux, boards the new westbound Northern Pacific train to take a position as a schoolmarm in Missoula, Montana...

Martin Poole walked away from bounty hunting for a quieter life in Tom’s Creek, Wyoming. Owning a saloon and building his own cattle ranch were supposed to be his next chapter, but peace doesn’t last long in the West. When his bartender is attacked, Martin is dragged back into a world he swore off… Jessica Kent is no stranger to hard fights. She’s spent her life watching the powerful crush the weak, and she’s determined to change that by studying law. While working at Martin’s saloon, violence erupts and she is caught in the storm. The town she thought was safe soon becomes a ...

After years of war and months in a prison camp, Jed Markum returns to Dry Gulch with hope in his heart. But his hometown is dying, the land scorched and the people broken. What was once home now lives in the grip of a ruthless man. Mary Beaumont has lost everything to a villain determined to claim what little she has left. Desperate and alone, she plans to fight, though deep down she knows it is a battle she cannot win. Then Jed walks back into her life, and for the first time in years, she dares to hope. Bound by a common enemy, Jed and Mary join forces against the man who destroyed their ...

Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Red has a feeling they're playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war.

Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of 25 armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back.