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Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Here, for the first time in book form, are three of Bonham's best Western short novels. 'The Sin of Wiley Brogan' is the good-humored tale of a young horse-breaker fed up with his lot in life, whose chance meeting with an entrepreneurial postal official leads him into a riotous new profession involving stagecoach competition for the delivery of mail in eastern Oregon. 'Texicans Die Hard' has a south of the border locale and an intricate plot in which...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This collection of seven stories includes the tale of a young mustanger taking a wagonload of eligible young women with matrimony in mind to Oregon; a captain in the Second Texas Dragoons, has to prove himself in battle against Mexican irregulars; Lyle Kearny fights Gus Stoneman's plan to improve life for the settlers of the San Augustin Plains by building a dam on Kearny's land; a traveling handyman decides to help the attractive owner of a struggling...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"'The Texan Buys a Gun-Bride' is a powerful historical tale set in the Republic of Texas in 1841. Rich in the lore and language of the period, it features a fiddle-playing, bullwhip-wielding hero caught up in land squabbles and land fraud among ranches, cavalrymen, and a group of feisty Scottish emigrants. Oregon's rough-and-tumble Rogue River mining country is the scene of 'Whiskey Creek Stampeders, ' the chronicle of one man's struggles to compete...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"'Brand of the Bear Flag Mutineers' chronicles a bitter and bloody confrontation between U.S. soldiers and Secessionist troops in California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains during the Civil War. In 'The Dark Border' a pair of adventurous cowmen win a hardscrabble ranch in a dice game in the south Texas badlands, and their subsequent involvement in the illegal running of cattle across the Mexican border leads to hard lessons learned for both.......
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