Adventure fiction: Westerns Books

As sheriff of Rankin County, Axel Cooper holds the distinction of being the first elected Montana County Sheriff not born in the state in the last sixty years. Unfortunately for Cooper, he'll soon be known for much more than that. Montana's governor has...

""Tom Quick or The Era of Frontier Settlement: Notes and Supplementary Facts Suggested by the Legend of the Delaware"" is a historical book written by William Bross in 1888. The book is centered around the life of Tom Quick, a legendary figure in the...

The Forked Tongue is a novel written by Robert J. Langstaff De Havilland and was first published in 1885. The story revolves around the life of a young man named William Dalton, who is the son of a wealthy businessman. William is a talented and ambitious...

Rigel: An Autumn Mystery is a novel written by Charles Francis Keary and first published in 1903. The story is set in the autumn season in England and follows the protagonist, Rigel, as he embarks on a mysterious adventure. Rigel is a young man who is...

Eight award-winning authors, members of White County Creative Writers group, share tales of adventure in the American frontier. These historical fiction stories set in the 19th century reflect the strength and resilience of the men and women who lived in...

Times are changing for the Kiowa tribe.It is the late 1800's and the tribe is caught in the middle of a challenging period in history. They are caught between their sworn enemies the Osage tribe, and white settlers who are slowly encroaching more and...

Morgan James rode onto the lonely T-Bell ranch just north of McKeon, TX, ahead of a necktie party. There, he found that the spread was owned and run by a strange and quiet woman, whom the local children said was a witch. Morgan didn't believe that story,...

US Marshal Harry Finch had received a ten dollar counterfeit note and his assignment was to find out who had been passing them around. Upon examining the bill, Harry noticed a distinct resemblance to a counterfeit bill his dad had been given years ago,...

This a collection of short stories set in the old western. The stories inlude gunfighters, lawmen and outlaws. All the characters have a connection to R.B. Colby, a U.S. Marshel who maybe the fastest gun in the west.

Sam Turley had only been asleep for a short time in a foul-smelling hotel room. Sounds of gunfire brought him out of bed. Not fully awake yet, but his instinct had already kicked-in, he grabbed the Colt from his holster.Slowly edging toward the hotel...

A racist killer uses the resources of his Aryan gang to falsify an innocence claim, intending to use fraudulent evidence to gain his release from prison. Only the original trial team, cowboy detective E.J. Kane and his former prosecutor ex-wife Rebecca...

 Holly Crawford has never felt at home. Left under a holly berry bush when she was just a baby, she struggles to find her place in this world, and what little hold she has on it is ripped away when her Pa decides to move them out west on the Oregon...

Emma Rosales is the heiress to the largest ranch in Texas-The Thorn. All of the responsibilities of managing a million acres now fall into her fifth-generation hands.  A task Emma could handle with her eyes closed... if The Thorn was any...

A Drifter, A Hero, A DreamIn the year of 1882, a small group of individuals shaped part of our nation’s history. In the decades that followed, our history books had nothing more than a paragraph detailing these events. Students were left to...

GRAVES’ RETREAT Les Graves has been running from his past until he finds Cedar Rapids and a respectable job at a bank. He even finds a bit of local fame as the local baseball team’s star pitcher. But when his brother T. Z. comes to town...

Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A...

FEAR OF THE GUN: In February 1849, Lorenzo, a Mexican American war veteran, walks west from Albuquerque toward the Alta California gold fields. Lost in the Ponderosa Pines of the San Francisco Peaks mountain range, Lorenzo is saved from hypothermia and...

Jacob Kelly is the only white man recognized by his neighbors, the Comanche, as being of one spirit with the horse.Will his Comanche name Squaw Pony be enough to protect his young family and the families of his closest neighbors?It's thirty miles to his...

THE REMINGTONS #1: The Town KillersA big army payroll has been stolen, every soldier in the detail guarding it slaughtered by an army of killers whose lust for gold is exceeded only by their passion for bloodletting. The garrisons along the turbulent...

A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. Will and Gid are looking forward to a quiet rest in the tiny town of Sulphur Springs. But Will's female companion offers more than he bargained for when she says her brother was...

In this contemporary western romance, the ultimate questions is: wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone had the courage to follow their wild heart?Finally settling into life on a Texas cattle ranch, Carli Jameson feels as if there is still...

LOVELY LADIES, EXTREME WEALTH AND INCREDIBLE DANGER IN THE AMERICAN OLD WEST!An outlaw gang is ravaging the small White Pine County mining camp of Ward, Nevada. The sheriff is grievously wounded in a battle with the gang and puts out the call to near-by...

A man with no nation will fight for a woman with no hope... Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach.But what...

Jacoba and Charlie DeGroot come west intent on homesteading on the newly opened Coeur d' Alene Indian Reservation. Providing Charlie's name is drawn in the land lottery, that is. But on sign-up day, a head-on collision between two trains nearly derails...

Best-selling author Robert Vaughan shows the human side of the wild west.Riding through Texas, Will and Gid Crockett approach a cabin with the hope that the occupants will be friendly. But their welcome is rifle fire. Forced to return fire, they kill...

SADDLE UP FOR THE WILDEST, SEXIEST, BLOODIEST PETER BRANDVOLD SERIES YET!Half Indian and half white, Yakima Henry considers himself lucky to have any job - even if it means just sweeping up the local brothel.But when four hombres attempt to carve up one...

A GRITTY, ACTION-PACKED WESTERN ADVENTUREMonths have passed since five ruthless men killed Lone McGantry's partner and stole the horses from their ranch. Now, finally free of obligations that have kept him from taking up pursuit sooner, Lone has set out...

With former Pinkerton detective Sarah Watson firmly established as Wells Fargo Detective John Pope's partner, the two are dispatched to Wyoming Territory to investigate a series of stage and train robberies.The first problem is: one gang, or two? Using...

HIS RAGE HAS NO LIMITS AFTER AN ATTACK ON A PEACEFUL UTE VILLAGE. Bounty hunter Brodie Pike cannot see all the good he has done, only the infrequent mistakes. So he decides to get away from people. Little does he know when he finds a beautiful...

B.N. RUNDELL KEEPS YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE IN BOOK THREE OF THE FAST-MOVING STONECRAFT SAGA.Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from...

When Sheppard saw Blackwell and the gun in his hand, the boy's face turned white. He swallowed with difficulty and began to tremble. "Where are you heading, kid?" Blackwell asked. "Nowhere in particular. I'm just running...running away from you." "Are...

THE MASKED RIDER #2: HAUNTED MESA -- Haynes North, rancher, rode hell-for-leather through the Haunted Mesa. For the first time in his life he knew fear as he fled an angry, kill-hungry lynch mob. He could not believe that his friends and neighbors had so...

Can their hearts heal and the truth set them free to start fresh? The fun town of Dew Drop, Texas embraces Suzie and her son, they see a future of a family as sparks radiate from Tucker, their hometown fella...the man who deserves a happy-ever-after...

Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people's weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as the West ever was, during the heyday of the badmen and...

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE VIOLENT, SEXY, HARD-DRIVING WESTERN!The sixth novel in the hard-boiled, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Shambeau, finally had...

MASTER OF THE OLD WEST, MCKENDREE LONG, IS INTRODUCING EX-RANGER BRODIE DENT IN THIS EPIC WESTERN ADVENTURE.Brodie Dent wakes up in a brothel in Sweetwater, Texas, to learn that a robbery and murder have occurred downstairs. The young ex-Ranger is...

The beautiful mountain range known as the Hand of God framed the lush valley below. The valley glowed with pink and purple as the deep red sun slowly sank behind the mountains in the distance. The river below sang a pleasant watery song as it meandered...

When Brent Stoddard, frontier Marshal, discovered the body of Pierre Villers, murdered Southern planter, he found a locket containing the picture of a beautiful girl. That locket led him to Mississippi and a romance; and the fact that he caught Viller's...

Welcome to a Texas Boom Town —Where outlaws ride roughshod and lawmen are laid low!Where a vicious gang, greed-crazed for gold, guns down anyone who stands in their path!Where Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, is marked for...

Here is the exciting biography of one of America's greatest folk heroes, said to have killed 21 men-- one fo each year of his life. The trail of Billy the Kid, traced against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest range wars in the history of the Old...

Fen Yont wanted it all—all the cattle, all the range, the biggest part of Arizona Territory.One man stood in his way: Rufe Rogers.Rufe knew that when the cards were down he would have to kill Fen Yont—or be killed.So, gun in hand, he went...

This book is the story of an orphan boy who is befriended by good people who teach him good manners and justice. He becomes a lawman and proves himself many times as an efficient gunman, but finally wants to give it up and become a rancher. After saving...

This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now...

In 1859 South Carolina stood on the threshold of war. The end to an eraboldly knocked on every Southern door until even the peacemakers had norecourse but to allow its entrance. Without mercy, the war changed Southernlives forever. No amount of blood...