Adventure fiction: Westerns Books

Just when she thinks she's defeated the past, it returns with a vengeance. Fighting to keep her late husband's dream alive and her land-grabbing neighbors at bay, Laurel Tillman longs for a peace she knew before the war. But when her skill with a rifle...

"A heartfelt story with well-developed characters. Deeply moving, Tomorrow's Shining Dream is beloved addition to a much-loved series." -Melissa Jagears, Carol-award-winning author of Engaging the CompetitionIn 1880s Texas, a spirited rancher's...

Adéntrate en una emocionante aventura en el corazón del siglo XIX con "Los Piratas Del Mississipí...", una novela del aclamado Friedrich Gerstäcker. Navega por las traicioneras aguas del río Mississippi, donde los piratas acechan en cada...

"A likable cast of characters and strong plotting distinguish this romance." -Kirkus Reviews"A well-written narrative with memorable characters, a sweet love story, and a fascinating storyline." -Roseana M. White; Christy award winning author of A...

This Book contains McCracken's Land and two other stories.When Bill McCracken was murdered his brother Bob came to bury him and find his killer. His sister in law Phoebe didn't seem to want his help, but he was not leaving until he finished his job. When...

The dark reverberations of a wrong never made rightNebraska Territory, 1841. Born at the scene of an atrocity, an infant-the sole survivor of his family's slaughter-is rescued and fostered by settlers traveling west. A letter written in blood in a...

This book contains four exciting stories of the old west covering a long search for gold, a family story from Tennessee to Colorado, a misguided trip into the wilds of Mexico and a bank robbing brother.Badger's Folly: Badger McCoy was young and most...

Nothing will keep her from settling in the Oregon Territory.1850, Independence, Missouri: When Hope Waters gets the chance to move west to Oregon, she doesn't hesitate. Her husband and all six of her grown children (plus their spouses) dive headfirst...

Longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize for FictionNew Mexico Territory. 1910.  Julia Halley, unlikely owner of the Many Springs Canyon Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation, has attracted a small but devoted circle of friends-her "gathering"-both...

Fall 2024 The BookFest Second Place Award for Young Adult Historical FictionFor decades, mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River, and Jubilee Walker, to the dismay of his fiancée, Nelly Boswell,...

He rescued her once, but a chance at love will require the ultimate sacrifice.   Alexander Morris bears the childhood scars of the Long Canes massacre that killed his brother and father. Forced by his dark past into the lonely life of...

Wyatt West is a fictional Character in realistic situations. Most of the stories are from memories of my family and friends. Ranch and farm life is a totally different life from that of a kid that lives in a city. So with the Wyatt West series, people...

I have been lost in this life. Too often I've ridden down the wrong trail--sometimes because I didn't know better but occasionally even when I did. One day a surprising thing happened. Without knowing why, I sat down and wrote the first draft of Dusty...

In 1861, Jimmy Carl Gray and Lew McManus travel west to escape the horrors of the American Civil War and to seek silver, wealth, and peace. Their plans are changed, however, when the Texas Brigade invades the New Mexico Territory. The ambitious miners...

The tragedy known as the American Civil War had left a bad taste in the mouths of folks old enough to remember it, but that was a long time ago. It wasn't the kind of thing that many people up north would pay any mind to at all, let alone during the turn...

What is truth?For nineteen years, Joshua Webb has been asking that question in the pages of his newspaper, The Paradise Ledger. He's been called a madman, a lunatic and an anarchist, but now he has stumbled upon a story so huge that it could shake the...

Since Martin Teebs drove out of Lincoln, NM for the final time, he's paid a 35 year penance for his role in the events of July 14, 1881. While most people believe he was lost to history, he lived a quiet life just up the road from Billy the Kid's famous...

Martin Teebs is having a bad day. A really bad day. He's having an affair with a women who's been dead for 140 years. He's got a son who died on the very day Martin was born. He's killed a deputy over 100 years before Martin was even born, and he just...

Man no longer occupies the top of the food chain.James Johnson, illegitimate son of the legendary Wyatt Earp, joins the Phillips Mining Company with his mentally disabled friend, Carson. The trail takes them across the Shasta Mountains into the Redwoods,...

Dark forces collide in the O.K. Corral.James Johnson, illegitimate son of the legendary Wyatt Earp, strikes out on his own with his mentally disabled friend, Carson. They travel to the legendary Tombstone, Arizona where fortunes are made or men die in...

This twisting tale, the sequel to the author's "Ring Around the Sun," takes Coot Boldt and Narlow Montgomery back to their childhood in the wilds of the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico Territory and west Texas. The story tracks their days tending...

Historical Fiction At Its BestRay Comfort and Anna Jackson have crafted a compelling novel of mystery and romance that breathes with suspense and intrigue. Greed over gold, a cold-blooded murder, overwhelming bitterness, abiding faith, romantic love,...

Can a movie star really find happiness in a small town?Billionaire actor Brent McKasson is tired of being typecast in the same action roles. Wanting something different, he decides to take some time off to think. However, when his car breaks down in the...

In one day, everything in Melanie Baker's life fell into shambles. What was a woman to do? City slicker, Melanie, packed up her one-eyed Beagle and what was left of her pride in a retreat to see her best friend. She didn't make any plans beyond that,...

Travis Yancey, newly installed U.S. Marshal, has been asked by President Andrew Johnson to take on a special assignment. One of the president's friends and campaign contributors, Henry Waring, has recently died under suspicious circumstances, and Travis...

Sarah Johnson estaba empezando una nueva vida.Llegó a Brookdale, con la promesa de casarse con el Sheriff local mientras esperaba desesperadamente que nadie, especialmente su prometido, descubriera quién era realmente. Nació como...

What do you do when the past is your future? Eleven years ago Delilah Allen was in love, but he left her heartbroken and alone. To survive the pain, she threw her passion into becoming one of the top nurses in San Antonio. The Happy Hearts Therapeutic...

Pinkerton Agent John Yancey is hired by Noah Harper to find his half-sister, Cecelia Powell, who he claims stole part of his inheritance. An agent who always gets his man, or woman, Yancey tracks Cecelia to San Francisco, but as he gets to know her,...

Just pause for a moment and ponder over a tale that reads like a cross between Lonesome Dove and Twin Peaks. Bass Clayton is a bounty killer turned professional drunkard. Silver Grimes is the man who inadvertently turned Bass Clayton into a drunk...

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The Missing Rubies V3: A Novel is a book written by Sarah Doudney and first published in 1887. It is a work of fiction that tells a story of mystery and intrigue. The plot revolves around the disappearance of a valuable set of rubies, and the efforts of...

""Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady: A Modern Story"" is a novel written by Dudley Costello and published in 1859. The story follows the life of a young man named Guy Livingstone, who is born into a wealthy family and enjoys a life of luxury and privilege...

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This is in no way meant to be an accurate description of Tom Horn's life. Rather, it was written as a novel about a man named Tom Horn. Some of his deeds are factual, others based on fact, while others were pure products of the author's imagination. My...

"Residing in rural southern Oklahoma, it has only been within the last seven years that Thomas Kidwell has come to fully express his passion for writing. In his novel, Beyond Absolution, he writes about the disassociation with God that is experienced by...

After setting out from the only home he knew, Jody Wells fought to make his way west, where trouble and danger were daily occurrences. Only to end up serving four years in the penitentiary for a robbery he didn't commit.

Of all the outlaw gangs of the Old West, perhaps none was more notorious or feared than the Dalton Gang. Known for their daring attempt two rob two banks at once in broad daylight, the gang was wiped out on that day when the townspeople of Coffeyville...

Martin Teebs is desperate. Rosita Luna, The Belle of Lincoln has given birth to his son and his friend Billy the Kid is on a collision course with Pat Garrett. Martin must find his way back in time to help Billy and to protect his family. In his...

She doesn't know where she's been, these last few years, or how she came by the scars that mark her body. She can barely remember who she is, a lot of the time.But Sasha knows Salvation Spring, the tiny nowhere town out in the middle of the desert that...

Royce Falco is scheduled for execution in the Hayworth Penitentiary. His usual confidence to slip from such situations is crushed when a mysterious visitor brings news that his demise has been orchestrated, but also brings an offer to alter his fate.....

A novel of wild women, the bonds of friendship, a harrowing road trip, and help found in the least likely places.In 1905 Kansas, ex-dancehall girl and outlaw Ruby Calhoun has settled into a (mostly) quiet and (mostly) lawful life. But out of the blue her...

"Evans paints marvelous word pictures of a land and people he knows extremely well."--Booklist"As always with Evans, written with a good sense of the times and place."--KirkusFirst published in 1999, Faraway Blue is based on the...

The Penny Brothers, Alex, Jeff and Billy, were the sons of dirt farmers in Missouri and after the war all they wanted was a peaceful life raising crops in the good black earth of their hometown of Sedelia. That was until a no-good, lowdown Northern...

Julius Rubicon Hawk, a ruthless Union colonel, fights with the "hard hand of war." An ex-minister, he sees himself as the arm of the Lord come to punish the wicked.Johnny Collins is a seventeen-year-old boy growing up in war-torn Alabama. He dreams of...

Set in the American wilderness, The Leather-Stocking Tales follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman who embodies the spirit of the American West. In The Pathfinder, Natty embarks on a perilous journey through hostile territory to rescue his...

Ein Abenteuerroman über die Prärie und Indianer, voller Spannung, Überraschungen und Wendungen.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the...