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American West: Twenty New Stories from the Western Writers of America. 813.0874 Ame
A collection of tales from some of the best modern writers of Westerns.

Michael Blake, The Holy Road.
In a sequel to Dances with Wolves, a former Union army officer who joined the Comanche must help his new people resist being driven from their land.

Mike Blakely, Comanche Dawn.
The Comanche encounter horses for the first time and become masterful riders.

Max Brand, Stolen Gold: A Western Trio.
A man is enlisted to retrieve a hidden treasure of gold not knowing it's stolen goods. Also includes Sheriff Larrabee’s Prisoner and A Shower of Silver.

Matt Braun, The Wild Ones. Paperback Fiction
A troupe of actors from the East embark on a tour out West and encounter a variety of adventures.

Sam Brown, The Big Lonely.
Trouble arises when a cowboy refuses a bribe to turn a blind eye to cattle rustling.

Frederick Chiaventone, Moon of Bitter Cold.
As the U.S. Army expands across the Great Plains, Red Cloud assembles 3,000 warriors from different tribes to try to stop them.

Don Coldsmith, The Elk-Dog Heritage.
A Plains tribe living in peace is drawn into conflict when some young warriors attack another tribe.

Ralph Compton & Joseph West, The Man from Nowhere. Paperback Fiction
When Apaches besiege a town in the New Mexico Territory, a drunkard and other misfits are banished into the wild to conserve supplies.

Kent Conwell, Chimney of Gold. Paperback Fiction
A man seeking vengeance on the Comanchero who murdered his family encounters two greenhorns looking for gold in the Red River.

Will Cook, The Rain Tree.
During a drought, a rancher bargains for a tree rumored to draw water from the ground but he changes from an honest man into a murderer.

Jack Curtis, Pepper Tree Rider.
A Civil War soldier fulfills a promise to a dead comrade to help the man’s wife run a ranch and learns her brother is plotting against her.

Pete Dexter, Deadwood.
Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charley Utter arrive in the Black Hills town of Deadwood and find an eclectic cast of characters.

Ivan Doig, English Creek.
In 1930s Montana, a boy’s family is at a turning point when the older brother he idolizes makes a decision that affects them all.

David Anthony Durham, Gabriel’s Story.
After the Civil War, an African-American boy accompanies his family out West for a fresh start but soon runs away with cowboys to Texas.

Tom Eidson, St. Agnes’ Stand.
A man fleeing from vengeful cowboys stops to help a wagon train filled with nuns and orphans.

Loren Estleman, The Master Executioner.
An executioner in the Old West who spent 25 years perfecting his craft learns a devastating truth and knows himself for the first time.

Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women.
The journal of a pioneer woman married to a Cheyenne man.

Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country.
A grieving widow remarries and accompanies her husband on the Oregon Trail, where she meets a trapper mourning his children.

Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage.
A gunslinger arrives in a remote Utah town just in time to save a young and beautiful rancher from having to marry against her will.

Fred Grove, Into the Far Mountains.
A boy is captured during an Apache raid on a stagecoach, while his family tries to get him back.

Oakley Hall, Warlock.
A newly hired gun-slinging lawman tries to restore order to the silver-mining town of Warlock.

Stephen Harrigan, Gates of the Alamo.
An epic account of the siege of the Alamo.

Bret Harte, Stories of the Early West.
Seventeen tales by the classic Western writer.

Will Henry, The Bear Paw Horses.
A horse thief helps an old man and his grand-daughter carry out Crazy Horse’s last wishes.

Steve Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range. Mystery
Cowboy brothers in the Old West who are fans of Sherlock Holmes stories try to solve the mysterious deaths of two men at a ranch.

Dorothy Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
A man rises to fame and fortune after he is credited with killing an outlaw in a gunfight. Includes three other western stories.

Terry Johnston, Carry the Wind.
A young man gets in trouble and runs away to the mountains, where a trapper teaches him the ways of the Mountain Men.

William Johnstone, Wrath of the Mountain Man. Paperback Fiction
Mountain man Smoke Jensen’s wounded friend is taken hostage as a ploy to lure him into a trap.

Elmer Kelton, Sons of Texas.
A young man seeks to avenge the death of his father at the hands of a ruthless Mexican officer.

Louis L’Amour, The Daybreakers.
A man who was forced to kill another heads West with his brother where they try to bring justice to an untamed land.

Alan Le May, The Unforgiven. Paperback Fiction
A family in the Texas Panhandle are confronted by claims that their daughter was stolen from the Kiowa as a baby.

Elmore Leonard, Complete Western Stories.
Western tales by the popular author.

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses.
A 16-year-old boy leaves his Texas home and rides with a friend to Mexico, where he has a variety of adventures and an ill-fated romance.

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove.
A portrait of a Texas town inhabited by an assortment of heroes, outlaws, and settlers.

Earl Murray, The River at Sundown.
When a man sets out to make his fortune mining gold, his wife and son follow him but are captured by the Sioux.

David Nevin, Dream West.
The story of famed explorer John Charles Fremont and the journeys he undertook in the West.

Stephen Overholser, West of the Moon.
A man who witnesses a clandestine meeting during the Civil War becomes a rancher but finds the past comes back to haunt him.

Ann Parker, Silver Lies. Mystery
In a Colorado silver-mining town, a saloon owner investigates the discovery of a frozen corpse.

F. M. Parker, The Shadow Man.
A retired trapper settles with a new family in the Pecos River Valley, but a greedy senator’s ruthless gang starts seizing ranches.

Robert Parker, Appaloosa.
In a ranching and mining town, a new marshal and his deputy take on a corrupt rancher who ordered the murders of the previous lawmen.

Charles Portis, True Grit.
A girl convinces a U.S. Marshal to help her hunt down the outlaw who killed her father.

Bill Pronzini, All the Long Years: Western Stories.
A collection of 14 Western stories.

Michael Punke, The Revenant.
A scout for a trapping party is mauled by a bear and is left to die, but he manages to survive and seek revenge on those who abandoned him.

Lucia St. Clair Robson, Fearless.
After her husband dies, Sarah Borginnis Bowman remains with Zachary Taylor’s army and proves fearless during the Mexican War.

Jack Schaefer, Shane.
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a conflict with a bullying rancher forces him to act.

James Alexander Thom, Panther in the Sky.
The epic story of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee, and his quest to unite his people and save their land and way of life.

Nancy Turner, These Is My Words.
The diary of a pioneer woman in Arizona.

Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing.
In the 19th century, two brothers travel the prairies of Canada seeking their missing brother.

Richard Wheeler, The Deliverance.
A man agrees to help a Cheyenne woman whose children were stolen by the Utes.

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