Resultados para "Jane" en Oeste americano

The old Apache sat quiet as stone - until a local tough challenged him. Big mistake. Never mess with a battle-tested warrior.

It’s been years since the brutal ordeal that earned teenage Jane Fury the nickname The Comanche Kid. Her violent, tragic past is a secret now, one she’s tried to forget herself. Then a simple chance encounter in a small Texas town brings it all back in ways she never expected. To save everything and everyone she holds dear, Jane straps on her guns again and rides into Mexico with an inexperienced posse, a handful of Texas Rangers, and her head-strong, fifteen-year-old daughter.

Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she'd never before encountered - the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans.

Gold, gunfire, and horseplay make for a dangerous and exciting mix for Jane, a newcomer to frontier Montana. The neglect of her parents gets her nicknamed “Calamity”, but her fearless nature and skill at the gambling table makes her the toast of the town. At the same time, robbery and murder escalate, resulting in the loss of a friend - and Jane knows who leads the gang. But can she rally the town and bring the killers to justice?

Jane Gilmore Rushing has been a celebrated Texas author for more than 50 years and she is a recipient of such accolades as the Texas Literary Award for fiction. In this novel,R ushing captures intimate family life on the West Texas plains. Granny Albright’s time has come and relatives have gathered to say goodbye to the matriarch. Linda Kay has recently married into the family, and tries to do her part to help. But when Cousin Herman arrives, feelings of resentment and heartaches from the past come to the surface.

In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered in the East Texas town of Cold Springs. Now—34 years later—rumor has it that the sole suspect in these murders has returned. While the response to this report ranges from giddy excitement to vile loathing, another dead body turns up.

On a rainy afternoon in 1877 Flossie Carmichael, who had tried to kill herself and her husband, was released from the State Asylum for the Insane. Now she is determined to do something perhaps no less insane, homestead in a remote part of Arizona Territory. An abandoned child, a dangerous gang of rustlers, and a lone wandering Apache challenge any hope she might have had for a tranquil life.

She was Wyatt Earp's woman. He tried to protect her, but the battle at the OK Corral was the beginning of the end.

Abandoned to starve or freeze, young Nell had to be tougher than most men and bolder than most women, otherwise death was certain.

To Old Pete's owner, it had always seemed that Pete would be the first to go. At 30 years of age, it even appeared likely. Now Old Pete's owner is confined to a hospital bed, though, and Old Pete is still going strong. But there might be some way that they could get together again for a last ride, prospecting up a mountain, just the two of them, who would have been together for a longer time than most married folks.

One crazy morning in the deadest place on earth, the local bum shows up with a gangly underfed horse and challenges all comers to a race! Only an old drunk will bet on him. What could she know?

Billy the Kid was hiding at the Maxwell Ranch at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when Pete Maxwell, concerned by the attentions being paid to Billy by his sister Paulita, got a message to Pat Garrett who's hunting Billy. Garrett learns that not only gunfighters were loyal to the Kid.

“Sometimes,” the legendary outlaw Belle Starr reflects, “you got to use your brains. Sometimes you got to go for the dream and never mind what anybody thinks or says. Life's pretty short. If I don't break my neck on a green horse, or get hanged, or shot, I'll sit on my porch when I'm old and remember the good times, all of 'em, and how every once in a while, I found glory.”

She ran her husband off the ranch; put the kids to work - now Addie needs more cattle. She can't afford them, but there's another way.

The trains don't stop anymore in Lick Log Station, as once they did. It was on one of those trains that Phin Montana first came to Lick Log so many years ago. Young Glory's mother was only 19 then, the day she first met Phin Montana, and it seems to Glory now that her mother has never been alive since the day Phin Montana left, the same way he had come.

Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in "Corrido for Billy". "Lady Flo" is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. "Moving On" depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And "Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?" is the winner of the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction.

In the desolate and dangerous expanse of the American frontier, Silver Canyon stands as a beacon of civilization, albeit a fragile one. Here, the rules are different: women hold the power, men are forced into subservient roles, and survival is a daily battle. Justine, a skilled and enigmatic gunslinger, arrives in town just as it is plunged into chaos by the merciless Wildfire gang. Led by the ruthless Lena, the gang leaves devastation in their wake, threatening to tear apart the fragile peace of the valley.

Jennifer Jane Watson has spent the past 10 years in a maximum security prison. The last thing she expects is to get early parole along with a job on a secluded Canadian cattle ranch serving dinners to three of the sexiest cowboys she's ever met! Rafe, Brady, and Dan thought they were getting a couple of male ex-cons to help out around their secluded ranch. The last thing they expect is an attractive and very appealing woman fresh out of prison. In the snowbound wilds of Northern Ontario, female companionship is rare. It's a good thing the three men like to share.

Joanna O'Keefe sells off the family holdings in Texas to go find her husband in New Mexico territory. He went with John McLeod, dreaming of a cattle empire with millions of acres for the taking. On her way, Joanna meets Angus McLeod, bound to join his brother. When they arrive at the Circle MC they learn Alex has been murdered by unknown assailants.

Pearl Taylor left her conventional home and life in Toledo, Ohio, to take up gambling on the Mississippi. She survived life in a boom camp in the Arizona Territory and ultimately became an outlaw. Once caught, she awaited trial for an armed stagecoach robbery, while reporters dubbed her "The Bandit Queen".