Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron. (Amazon).
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louis L'Amour's short stories are the bedrock of his enduring popularity. It was with this quintessentially American form that he first found success as a writer, and the great themes that would infuse all of his work first surfaced in unforgettable tales like these - legends of honor and betrayal, greed and sacrifice, cowardice and courage. These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing...
4) Hondo
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hondo Lane was a big, strong man, a tough man, unstoppable in a fight, but he was not a cruel man. Now, with the Apaches on the warpath, he finds a young woman and her son living in a ranch that is slowly going to pieces. Her husband is a degenerate who spends much of his time at the local fort cheating at cards and rustling cattle. Hondo must deal with the Indians, good and bad, in an effort to save the young woman from their depredations - half-Apache...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alton Burwick was itching to make a big land grab at Yellow Butte. But first, he had to drive the tough band of squatters from the range. So he rounded up a bunch of killers for the job, and hired Tom Kendrick to ramrod the crew, never mentioning that they would be fighting innocent men and women. Suddenly Kedrick realized he would have to do something fast--before Burwick's mob turned Yellow Butte into a wasteland.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 6
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 1
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills. Declared an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. The ruthless piracy of the open seas and the unknown dangers of the savage American wilderness lay before him. And so did the thrill of discovery and the chance to establish a bold new future if he survived.
10) The empty land
Author
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
Matt Coburn was going to bring law and order to Confusion, even though he had to face every kind of gunman, knife artist, and dry-gulcher there was.
11) Dark canyon
Author
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck. But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and keep...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
The Sackett Brothers didn't know what brand of trouble had Cousin Logan stirred up, but he needed beef cattle badly. So with Tell Sackett ramrodding, Tyrel, Orrin, and Cap Rountree ride north to the wild country, pushing 1100 head of fat steers across the wide Dakota plains toward the mountains of far western Canada. Past Sioux, past Logan's treacherous enemies, through trails no cattle had ever crossed, the Sacketts drive on. Because when you step...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 12
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They are fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him full of lead if they can't.
16) Catlow
Author
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance....
18) Borden Chantry
Author
Series
Talon and Chantry volume 6
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Functioning as the marshall of a small and violent town in order to support his family, ex-rancher Borden Chantry investigates a series of murders and comes face-to-face with an outlaw who harbors a desperate need for revenge.
20) Lando
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 8
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
"For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. the second was to return to his father. And the third was to find gin Locklear. but the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened physically...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request