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Preacher is heading home to the mountains when he’s approached by a wealthy European with an unusual proposition. He wants the legendary mountain man to track down his missing cousin—a reckless young woman who fled to America with her lover—and he’s willing to pay a small fortune to find her. Preacher isn’t one to get mixed up in the affairs of fancy foreigners, but he reluctantly agrees. The search is on. Striking westward from St. Louis, Preacher quickly begins to suspect that this search party is doomed. And this trail will lead to some very dead ends.

Teddy Andersen est une incorrigible optimiste qui fait toujours passer les autres avant elle-même. Mais dernièrement, son monde a été légèrement bouleversé: sa meilleure amie, Emmy Ryder, n'a plus beaucoup de temps à lui accorder, la santé de son père se dégrade et sa patronne lui annonce qu'elle ferme boutique.

The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay – Adapted and the David Lean Award for...

They were innocent men, slaughtered in the Rockies. A party of land surveyors who met their grisly fate at the hands of the Crow Indians—or so it seems. Some folks think the story is a lie. And now it’s up to U.S. Army Lieutenant Ron Stanton to figure out what really happened up there in those desolate, blood-soaked mountains. As his guides, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister agree to retrace the footsteps of the doomed party—come hell or high water—but first they’ll have to pass through a particularly nasty piece of purgatory known as Fort Buzzard.

The completion of a new railroad line from Colorado to Texas is a dream come true for Smoke Jensen and the other ranchers of Big Rock. But this dream turns into their worst nightmare when the first herd they load onto the train is stolen by a vicious gang of kill-crazy rustlers. This is no ordinary train robbery. It’s an inferno of slaughter that includes the friendly rancher who volunteered to take Smoke’s place on the trip. Now Smoke is saddling up and riding out—to get the prairie rats who murdered his friend.

The Oregon Trail stretched over two thousand miles—a brutal, unforgiving journey that took six grueling months. The first pioneers faced relentless hardships, burying their dead along the way. Without the mountain men who first blazed the trails, many would have perished. Zach Connors, better known as Grizzly Killer, and his partners agree to guide a group of missionaries to Oregon.

Es ist das Jahr 1861 in der ostfriesischen Hafenstadt Emden. Zwischen dem Kaufmannslehrling Jan Winter und der Bauerntochter Wiebke Onnen entspinnt sich eine junge Liebe. Diese wird jedoch auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als sich Wiebkes Familie entschließt, nach Amerika auszuwandern ...

A storm is coming to the Mojave Desert—and something in it is watching. Late at night on a desolate stretch of Interstate 15, travelers pass through the darkness without knowing what moves along the roadside. When a lone hitchhiker appears in the middle of a violent desert storm, the encounter seems like chance. But on this highway, chance has very little to do with what happens next. Hank has spent his life drifting from one bad decision to another, leaving destruction in his wake.

The Plainsman – The U.S. Marshal, chronicles Sam Jackson’s time serving as the U.S. Marshal for the western district of Texas. Sam and Nora move from Fort Apache to San Angelo, Texas. They find a home and get situated. Sam goes to investigate a complaint of a chicken thief. He follows the man only to discover that he has been captured by Apache. After putting the man out of his misery, Marshal Jackson goes after the Indians. Over the next couple of years, Sam tracks bank robbers, stagecoach bandits, and horse thieves. Along the way, a son, Cody, is born.

Zack's eighteenth birthday was tomorrow, but he wasn’t expecting a party. He needed to get away from the family cattle ranch as fast as he could. There was nothing for him at his home, and he'd prefer facing the unknown to staying. Yet he knew that in leaving, he was taking the easy way out and should stay to protect his stepmother and brothers. He may have rationalized that he could do more if he left, but that voice in the back of his head kept whispering “coward.”

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did not disappear into childhood legend. They grew up. Six years after losing track of one another, Tom and Huck meet again by chance aboard a Mississippi River steamboat. Their unexpected reunion sets in motion a chain of events that will test the very things they once held most dear—freedom, loyalty, friendship, and the meaning of becoming a man. Tom Sawyer is an eighteen-year-old professional con man, clever as ever and still tempted by the thrill of daring schemes.

Still working on securing the partnership with Grace Milligan for her fuel refinery while in Fairzie, Trader and Marsh cross paths with a scouting party that has followed stories about a fuel source. That’s only the tip of the spear. That scouting party has been sent by Ironhand Jackson, the boss of El Dorado. In El Dorado, Ant, a woman who works as an enforcer for Hoyt Lynch, the self-made lord of Boardwalk, arrives to kill Jackson. Lynch has learned of the fuel refinery’s existence and desperately needs it because his own fuel reserves are running out.

Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn’t always an entrepreneur. He’s more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk.

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait...

The Kerrigans have fought long and hard to carve out their own piece of heaven on the Texas frontier. And when evil comes knocking at their door, with guns blazing, there'll be hell to pay...It begins with a simple act of kindness—and ends in a shocking night of violence. A homeless family shows up on Kate Kerrigan's doorstep, seeking refuge from a vengeful rancher's wrath. Seeing their desperation—and fear—the West Texas matriarch welcomes the family into her home.

I'm willing to admit that I shouldn't read spicy scenes in public. But in my defense, the opportunity rarely rises elsewhere. As a single mom and farm owner, my time is stretched thinner than horse hair. Besides, I'd reached a pivotal peak in the story and couldn't put it down. That is, until someone bumps into me. My phone launches into the air like a base hit, but the device is caught before smashing into the ground. It comes as no surprise, considering the guy is a professional baseball star.

Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady…or that she has her own secret that no one living knows.

En un valle remoto, oculto entre la cordillera de los Andes, se encuentra «País de los ciegos»: un pueblo donde todos sus habitantes han perdido la visión. Cuando un aventurero llega a sus tierras, luego de una expedición fallida en las montañas, la vida de los pobladores—tan apacible y ordenada hasta ese momento—da un vuelco inesperado.

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

It’s an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is deep in the forest near Battle Mountain: shotgun in his left hand, his truck’s steering wheel handcuffed to his right – and Lamar Gardiner’s arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Joe knows that Lamar’s murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm mean he should get off the mountain. But he also knows this episode is far from over.