Terence Aselford
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike."- Elmer Kelton
Hewey Calloway did not know how old he was without stopping to figure, and that distracted his attention from matters of real importance.
Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned at the age of seven and adopted by the Indians, Jamie Ian MacCallister grew into a man more at ease in the wilderness than among men. But when the westward strike drove him across the Arkansas Territory into Texas, he finally found himself a home--in the middle of a bloody war. Texans like Jim Bowie and Sam Houston were waging a fierce struggle against Santa Anna's Mexican army, and Jamie MacCallister made the perfect scout for the fledgling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way North to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family...
7) Kingdom come
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Like a murderous plague, a band of cutthroats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, rages through West Texas. They're slaughtering everyone in their path: men, women and children. They struck at Saragosa. Now they've taken over the town of Boracho. The Dallas newspapers call them the Kingdom Come Gang. In Chugwater, Wyoming, Duff McCallister calls them his enemy. Because one of their victims was family. Riding to Texas, Duff gathers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Yakima Henry may be the toughest man in Arizona Territory—but as a half-white, half-Indian, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Henry raises in the process lands him in jail—but opportunity is about to spring him out.
The wealthy Cleve O'Shannon, and his lovely wife, Anna have a proposition for Henry....
The wealthy Cleve O'Shannon, and his lovely wife, Anna have a proposition for Henry....
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Half Cheyenne and half white, Yakima Henry is used to receiving disrespect. But he won't tolerate incivility being shown to a lady, especially to widow Beth Holgate. She came to Red Hill to wed again, but her new husband is making her life hell. And Yakima is forced to help her, creating more enemies in town. But he has bigger problems - like his employer, voluptuous Rae Roman, who's hell-bent on ruining all the men around her and has the crooked...
Author
Series
Publisher
GALE CANGAGE LEARNING
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Half-white and half-Indian, Yakima Henry tends to mind his own business among folks who see him as little more than a savage. But when a man named Barstow—who's taking his dead daughter home for burial—is bullied by badmen, Yakima steps in and becomes a target of both bandits and lawmen alike.
Barstow's daughter supposedly shared a secret with her father—the location of the $56,000 her outlaw lover stole. Although Barstow...
Barstow's daughter supposedly shared a secret with her father—the location of the $56,000 her outlaw lover stole. Although Barstow...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone comes the fiery saga of Perley Gates, a legend born out of the brutality and violence of the American West. He's the son of a cattle rancher. A restless young dreamer who, under normal circumstances, would follow in his father's footsteps. Normal, however, is not his style. Like his famous grandfather and namesake Perley Gates--a hell-raising mountain man with a heavenly name--young Perley wants...
12) A reason to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
13) Winchester: 1886
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Winchester rifle stolen during a train robbery. A boy in Texas waits for the rifle, his Christmas present, while the rifle begins a long and violent journey of its own, from a notorious outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. A deputy U.S. Marshal hunts for the train robber, using the prized rifle as his only clue.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Andy Pickard felt ready to settle down, until the violent death of a good friend sends him on the road again, to bring a killer to justice. His trail takes him away from Bethel Brackett, but reunites him with old friends Rusty Shannon and Len Tanner. The bank-robbing fugitive he seeks may not even be the killer, but justice must be served. For many reasons, it's a hard trail to follow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's December 1890. A Texas Ranger named Big Ben Conyers has a deal with a Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with Indians and rustlers and a blizzard....
17) Shot in the back
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When a 95-year-old man walks into a recruiting office in 1942 determined to enlist and claiming to be the one and only Jesse James, the wildest story the West has never known begins, in an exciting new twist on the legend of the notorious outlaw who just might not have died on that fateful April 3, 1882.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"John Horton Slaughter fought on the blood-soaked battlefields of the Civil War. He drove thundering cattle across a dangerous frontier, and faced the deadliest outlaws as a Texas Ranger. Now, bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstone tell the story of this towering historical figure-the man who tamed Tombstone, Arizona. A HERO AS BIG AND TOUGH AS TEXAS Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Texan "Wild Bill" Longley has gunned down a dozen of his town's men in cold blood, ready to take over the job of sheriff. With his heart set on a beautiful young woman, he takes the whole town hostage until she agrees to marry him. That's when a cold-eyed stranger comes to town.