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Lin Chase was aptly named as he’d chosen the profession of bounty hunter. This chase was to apprehend or kill the notorious Whitacre brothers, and he was getting close. They were just a few hours ahead of him now after more than a week and a half of tracking. He was the best at what he did and had never even felt the bite of a bullet and didn’t expect this to be any different. But it wasn’t the Whitacre brothers who would cause the enormous shift in his life. That would come two days later and would start at a peaceful family farm that held more promise than it did danger.

July McCray, whose mother had nicknamed him Boots, left home to get away from his abusive father. When his sister pulled Boots back home from the Rocky Mountains, he found his mother near death and his two sisters and a brother starving. His Cheyenne wife nursed his mother back to health and he took his family to the mountains. The family found a new, happier life at an outfitter’s post at the base of the Rockies. Outlaws hid from the law in the mountains, and Boots came in contact with them while trying to protect his family.

Wagon trains, one after another, for the past sixteen years have beaten ruts into the prairie beside the North Platte, scarring the land and driving the buffalo away from the Cheyennes’ ancestral hunting ground. Chief Gray Eagle has vowed to stop them and sends his Dog Soldiers to attack. Captain Irving Wheeler is leading a patrol of the 2nd Cavalry to locate the Cheyenne before they can attack the next wagon train. Scout Caleb Miller finds the Cheyenne but not before they attack.

Senator George Hearst has hired former Major Neville Stryker to collect on a bet. Hearst won the San Francisco Examiner in a poker game and wants to give the paper to his son, William, but the owner is reluctant to settle the debt. Hearst enlists Stryker’s unique, persuasive skills. Letters have worn off the stamped name on the saddle skirt of the ex-officer, and what remains best fits the man. Evil Stryker.

April 1891, as the dusty frontier city of San Diego recovers from a collapsing real estate bubble, residents look forward to the arrival of Benjamin Harrison, the first US president to visit their city. Little do they suspect that some of their citizens are planning an attack on the president and his train.

Set against the Rocky Mountains, this emotionally charged Western noir explores themes of fathers and sons, men and masculinity, and religion and spirituality through the lens of an unimaginable act—one best friend murdering the other “Langsfeld’s writing hits like a brushfire: sparks that...

A young Black man rises from the brutal depths of slavery to deliver a long-overdue reckoning in this relentless Western classic. When Pinkney sells Coal's mother and sister, Coal draws faster than his teacher—and leaves him dead in the dust. Fueled by a determination to free the enslaved and protect the innocent, Coal rides across the frontier with an unerring aim and a reputation that grows with every encounter.

Fast, sharp, and tinged with irony, Just a Bit Too Fast is a classic slice of late-1920s pulp crime fiction from Hal Moore—where bluff, disguise, and nerve matter more than careful planning.

Upon returning from his latest assignment, Marshal Jake Timber comes home to heartbreak and loneliness. Drowning his sorrow in a bottle and a deck of cards, he seems to have lost his way. Then he is sent on an assignment to investigate suspicious activity in mining country. This unfamiliar territory brings new challenges and dangers to Timber as he investigates the murders and shady business dealings surrounding the Lucky Streak mine.

A fifth Western adventure in an exciting series from Ronnie Ashmore! Bo Hawkins is still on the trail of the remaining Evans brothers, but a chance meeting finds Hawk leading a family of immigrants in search a better life. A game of cat and mouse between the hunted and the hunter has Hawk confused and at a loss. Any choice he makes could put the family in danger, but making the wrong choice could lead to a dead man’s hole.

When an ancient, bloodthirsty force descends upon the small southern town of Clarke, Sheriff Walter Brady and a defiant band of survivors must wage war against a terror unlike any before. As the body count rises and the streets run red, they’ll have to outthink, outfight, and outlast creatures who see them as nothing more than prey. Burn This Town is a savage blend of horror, dark comedy, and twisted romance, where survival isn’t guaranteed, and the only rule is kill or be eaten.

After escaping from her abusive, rich, oil-tycoon husband, Selina heads off into the Wild West—alone, disoriented, and in search of a better life. When she delightedly discovers Amos, whose devoted companionship leads them both into the journey of a lifetime, she’s drawn with him into the beatific mystery of Erland: a town of exquisite lushness, where the rich scattering of native plants and hardy wildflowers—squeezed into every crack, every inch of the city—is sustained by the vivacious gardeners who spend every waking hour attempting to recreate the garden of Eden.

Keith watched his young cousin ride away and shook his head. He would be leading a party into the wilderness which was what they both did for a living. But Angus wasn’t escorting a typical hunting party. He was taking a newlywed couple into the deep forests of Washington Territory because they wanted to find a fabled sasquatch.

The Plainsman – The Wagon Train Scout is the 2nd book in the Plainsman series. Sam Jackson was to wear many hats during his life: freight wagon driver, wagon train scout, Deputy town Marshal, Deputy Sheriff, scout for the 9th and 6th Cavalry, and U.S. Marshal for the Western Division of Texas. Sam responded to a newspaper ad asking for someone to scout for a wagon train bound for Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Trail. Sam sent a telegram and surprisingly was hired sight unseen. He traveled from Texas to Independence, Missouri.

Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. Fitz wastes no time in blackmailing Jessie and involving her in his business of horse-rustling and cattleduffing. When Fitz is wounded in an accident he hires an Aboriginal stockman, Jack Brown, to steal horses with Jessie. Soon both Jack Brown and Jessie are struggling in the oppressive and deadening grip of Fitz.

John Griffith London nació en San Francisco el 12 de enero de 1876. Hijo de un astrólogo ambulante, al que no conoció. Su madre era espiritista; se casó con John London unos meses después del nacimiento del niño, de quien el escritor tomó el apellido. Realizó estudios secundarios mientras trabajaba. London fue una gran autodidacta. Se formó leyendo incansablemente libros en la biblioteca pública de la ciudad. Realizó multitud de oficios que le resultaron muy útiles para sus novelas.

Hunter Krause knows better than anyone that running a ranch is hard work. Wranglers are hard to find, and even with Hunter’s foreman and entire extended family on hand, the busy ranch is constantly short-handed. So when horses go missing, Hunter’s brother-in-law hires a man Hunter would never have considered: Grant Jarreau, a man Hunter can't forgive for leaving Hunter’s best friend Gable after an incapacitating accident.

Flynn Tomlinson has drifted for several years, working odd jobs when he needs the money and moving on when he doesn’t. He’s content with his freestyle life, not tied down, not responsible for anyone but himself. Then he comes across a Help Wanted ad in a post office in Idaho and meets Gable Sutton. Gable can’t pay Flynn until he sells his horses, but a serious accident has left him unable to work his ranch alone. Working with horses beats stacking shelves at the supermarket, and so Flynn agrees to Gable’s terms.

Situada en 1949, en las tierras fronterizas entre Texas y México, Todos los hermosos caballos se centra en el personaje de John Grady Cole, un muchacho de dieciséis años, hijo de padres separados. Tras la muerte de su abuelo decide huir a México en compañía de su amigo Lacey: allí se encontrarán con un mundo marcado por la dureza y la violencia.

It's been fifteen years since the tragedy that took not only the life of Ellison Wilson's father but her entire world. Since then, she's done everything she can to separate herself from the thing they both loved: rodeo. But each year, on the anniversary of his death, she makes an exception for her mother and goes back to the place her heart once belonged.