Resultados para "Ray" en Oeste americano

Snowbound in the high Rockies, Deputy Shorty McKay is given a simple task: deliver a payroll to a remote mining camp before dawn. But when pride outweighs good sense, Shorty refuses the safety of a mule—only to find himself robbed, captured, and riding one anyway…straight into disaster.

Bill Thompson had a reputation as a gunfighter, but in recent years he has been doing his killing on the side of the law. This is how he has come to be known as The Regulator. But there are those who questioned his practices, since Thompson is inclined to act as judge and executioner, trying suspects himself and disposing of them without need of a trial.

Adam Rait just wants to guide his crew across the state of Texas, deliver his cargo, and get paid. But his convoy is almost immediately joined by mysterious Mexican travelers - the beautiful and mysterious Angel de Acera and her brother, Bernal. When Kurt Hanover, the man running the deal and Rait's employer is murdered, Rait is left wondering what he should do with an entire wagon train of smuggled arms?

Into the Sun is the accompanying novella for Jensen, the fourth book in the Sovereign Mountain Series. It follows Jensen and Della years after their marriage and provides a glimpse into their family and future in Montana. This novella must be read after completing Jensen, but is not necessary to...

Red-headed Rann Tate, when he settled in the grim desolation of the Gallows Mountains, wanted only a chance to work his little spread alone and in peace. But even on that lonely rawhide frontier a man cannot cut himself off entirely from human friendship - although there might be a heavy price attached, brought about by the same forces that gave these mountains their dreaded name.

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

We want them all run out...gamblers, rustlers, gunslingers...every mother's son of them. They hired a legend to clean up their town - but he's old now. Can the Marshall still handle it - or is he headed for Boot Hill?

In this duo's title story, 28-year-old Dave Bradford is close to achieving his dreams. In an effort to expand his cattle ranch and marry Sirral Drury, Bradford plans to sell 400 of his cattle in Wichita. But JJ Farman, owner of the biggest ranch in the basin, calls a meeting and warns Bradford he best not try to take the cattle across Texas Flat, even though it's open range. Going around Texas Flat would add two hundred miles to the cattle drive, another 10-12 days to the journey.

Recently released from prison, Dade Lockett was serving time as an accessory to robbery. His partner in crime, Pete Dillard, was not captured. In fact Dillard abandoned Lockett during the chase, taking all the money with him. While on his way to confront Dillard and settle the score, Lockett witnesses a raid on a ranch defended by a young woman, her younger brother, and an old man. The last thing Lockett wants is to be distracted from his purpose, but his fundamental sense of decency compels him to act.

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of the small town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible loss and their place in it. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl's story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation - that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter’s rifle blew out Larry Zipoli’s brains - is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation shows that the shooter walked directly toward the road grader, in full view of the victim - who did nothing to defend himself.

In "Gunman's Bluff," Cheyenne was challenged to a shootout by Danny and Chuck Martin. He managed to kill Danny and wound Chuck, but before he could get away, Chuck got a shot off and hit Cheyenne in the shoulder. Now Doc Lindus has told him that it might be quite some time until he has use of his right hand again, so he'd better develop his left. With the Martins out for blood, how's Cheyenne to defend himself?

In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a competitor lands a lucrative freight-hauling contract, Buck vows to find Campbell's killer. But first he must win the race, a difficult task considering there's a saboteur among his crew and a hired gun out to take him down, plus the possibility that Campbell's killer is after Buck, too.

Billy Ray, self-taught itinerant preacher, former hardworking miner and Saturday night brawler, faces his own temptations in the wilderness of the Old West. Called to be pastor of a divided flock in a frontier town held in the grip of a lawless cattle baron, Billy tries to bring his parishioners together and repair the abandoned little church in the middle of town. Billy must win his place in a community that doesn't want any preacher changing things.

A brand new Mountain Man sequel from Charles Ray! Caleb’s new wife, Spring Flower, who now calls herself Flora in order to fit into Bear Creek society, finds a bear cub whose mother’s been killed by wolves. She takes it home and nurses it back to health, something that Caleb, uneasy about at first, comes to accept. They even give the cub the name Snuffy, and delight in how it becomes close with Dog. Later, while shopping in Bear Creek, Flora is accosted by three ruffians, and Caleb gives them a drubbing.

After saving former Confederate officer Ben Winthrop from a lynch mob, black mountain man, Caleb Johnson is talked into guiding him from Colorado to Oregon. He then lets himself be talked into spending two years there helping Ben get his ranch started. But he wants to get back to his little cabin near Bear Creek, Colorado, even though he’ll miss Ben’s wife, Wenona, the Shoshone princess, and her two sons. Finally, though, Caleb puts his foot down. He saddles his horse, named Horse, and calls his dog, named Dog, and sets off for home, a journey that is anything but routine—or peaceful.

He held her the night her mother died, taught her how to defend herself, and saved her from a raging bull. But when Kenzie Calhoun confessed her love for Chance just after her eighteenth birthday, he broke her heart and fled.

Life is hard for Sharkey and the other scrappers in Lawrence. After the Great Oil Crisis the Earth became a hot, wild, dangerous place. Those that could reach the portals left the planet long ago. Those left behind live a desperate and brutal existence, surviving on the bones of a ruined civilization, fighting and killing each other in a world taken back by the earth. But Sharkey has hope.

The Blackie Blackman Gang, volume 2 picks up the story as Will Cannon and Duke Wills are leaving Estilline to hunt down the rest of the Blackman Gang. Will is determined to cut down the odds against him by killing as many of the Blackman Gang as he can find before his final confrontion with the leader of the gang, Blackie Blackman. This audiobook ends the Will Cannon saga. The other Will Cannon, Bounty Hunter, novels are set during the 15 years between the Civil War and the day Will finally runs Blackman to ground.

Will Cannon rides to Texarkana, Texas in search of the Blackman Gang. He immediately becomes involved in a blood feud between the Monroe clan from Texarkana and the Larson clan from Arkansas. Will meets a beautiful young hillbilly woman named Billy Joe Monroe. Billy Joe is determined to make Will her husband and even though Billy Joe is a handful she does help Will bring the outlaw gang to justice.