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41) Gather my horses
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Trouble's brewing. Big trouble. A couple of the big ranchers in the area have been bullying the smaller ones, and a few of them aren't going to take it anymore. Tom Fielding runs a string of packhorses and works for the big outfits, but that doesn't mean he's ready to stand by and do nothing. Folks have warned him not to take sides, not to make powerful enemies. But Tom knows when something is just plain wrong, you have to stand up against it ......
42) Long ride home
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has set out to destroy... Louis Gasceaux, the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. But the trail Theo's following is long and bloody... and Louis always seems to stay a few steps ahead. This...
43) Crimson harvest
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In the Indiana Territory at the beginning of the War of 1812, a powerful war chief of the Shawnee tribe clings desperately to his hold on all the lands he sees as his. He has a hatred for the American settlers that he sees as invaders. He sides with the British in the conflict and musters his warriors to battle. In one attack, the Shawnee swooped down on a small settlement, striking cabins where peaceful settlers went about their daily routines. In...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Large print edtion.
Language
English
Description
Buffalo trace: Hallie Mae Edson and her brother, Tom, join the newly formed Indiana Territorial Rangers. When another Ranger disappears, Hallie comes face to face with danger in a way she has never faced before. She not only has to save the Ranger, but herself, with skills, will, and courage she didn't know she had.
Two old Comanches: Imprisoned in a dark, damp and inhospitable Army post in St. Augustine, Florida, an aging Comanche warrior and his...
45) Apache lament
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing those very hostiles in 1881. He lives only for vengeance, and the fresh Mescalero trail in the snow is leading straight into the bitterly cold Sierra Diablo of Texas. In the Mescalero band is Nejeunee, a twenty-year-old woman with a baby. She has lost her husband to the Indaa, or white men, and she lives...
47) On Cimarron
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As weary settlers begin to infiltrate the Kansas area, a young family of pilgrims settles on a lower stretch of the Cimarron River. Elizabeth O'Day and her husband, Tom, virtually alone in the wilderness, have been told that the area is safe for whites. However, they soon discover a band of Kiowa Indians, their mood uncertain, living nearly across the river from where they plan to build a home. An uneasy peace endures between the people on each side...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. When they try to rob a bank and Duff shoots one and arrests Taylor's brother, the outlaw is outraged. He slaughters townsfolk, kidnaps a woman, and lights a fuse under Duff that's bound to ignite the biggest, bloodiest showdown in Chugwater history....
49) Wyoming showdown
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The High Plains of Wyoming's open range are a chance for men to make a killing--or just to kill. Rourke, a bounty hunter with a trail of graves and gunfights behind him, is drawn into a high-stakes game where the greedy and powerful want to exploit the West for their own gain, regardless of the rules. In a time and place where death and violence are as much a part of life as untamed herds of buffalo and the wild freedom of the raging winds, Rourke...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
""Too Much Dancing Going On" is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain of events that will ensure the little town of Burnt Creek...
51) Cross of gold
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Lucinda Barkley, a hostage of prison escapees, is rescued by part-time lawman Marc Charvein. Wounded in the resulting shootout, she feels due some compensation for her ordeal. So she secretly partners with gambler Sam Stonehouse to dig up a hundred pounds of stolen gold, half of it in the form of a gold cross. Ezra Pitney, the rightful owner, wrongly assumes it was taken by Marc Charvein, the man he hired to find it -- and from there the chase is...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature pioneering women of the West who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"January 29, 1863. United States Army troops attack a Shoshoni village on the banks of the Bear River in what is now southeastern Idaho. Four hours later, the army abandons the field, leaving behind the dead bodies of some three hundred men, women, and children. This all-but-forgotten massacre stands today as the worst killing of Indians by the military in the history of the American West. In the pages of And the River Ran Red, four-time Spur Award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on history and Apache culture, and told through his eyes using the truth from fiction, The Odyssey of Geronimo is a revealing epic of Geronimo's strengths, weaknesses, and character. As a prisoner of war for twenty-three years, Geronimo rose to become a national 'superstar.' During his captivity, Geronimo fathered two children, lost three wives, and married two more, and became an astute businessman. When he died from pneumonia after sleeping...
55) The golden spoon
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Eagle Bar, an outpost fabricated on dreams, gold, and greed. In this burgeoning boomtown, strangers become family, friends turn to enemies, and the fever pitch for gold permeates the air they breathe. Charlie and Cassie Vincent arrive to make their fortune feeding hungry miners at the Golden Spoon. Matthew Ramsey comes to prove greed has no hold on him as he gets sucked into building a gambling empire. And preying over it all like a black widow spider...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Deed Corrigan earned his reputation as a gunfighter the hard way. But now, after forging cattle trails and fighting off the Comanche, he's setting his sights on a brighter future. With the help of his older brother Blue, a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle, Deed turns the Rafter C homestead into a successful, working cattle ranch. But when a land-grubbing banker tries to wipe out the competition slaughtering ranchers, robbing farmers, and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1911, veteran army officer C. W. Langhorne accepts a clandestine assignment in revolutionary Mexico for the War Department along with Lieutenant Calvin Jester, a handsome young ladies' man. While Langhorne runs afoul of the Mexican secret police, Jester enjoys the attentions of both Fabiana Medina, a rich young beauty, and the poor but sincere Luna Garcia, while recovering from an injury. When danger closes in, both begin a breakneck race for...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
When Charlie Pike's old commanding officer call him to action, he cannot refuse. General Dryden was a blustery, demanding leader, and he saved Pike's life in the war. Now a judge in the wilds of New Mexico Territory, Dryden is dying--and he wants Pike to escort him back to his native Texas. But a powerful gang leader wants vengeance on Dryden, and Pike is about to find out that paying some debts can cost a man everything.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh out of the Territorial Prison, Tucker Ashley and his friend Jack stake a claim during the Black Hills gold rush. But it has been jumped by two men. Jack and Tucker are confronted by Rule Enforcers for the Mining District, Zell McGinty and his son, Trait, a gunman known for his ruthlessness. Tucker's gun handling skills have deteriorated in prison, and he and Jack are powerless to resist them and are forced off their claim. Miners all along...
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