Western
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DEAD MAN’S TRAIL – Nate Morgan
Carson Stone has had a rough life. He’s a wanted man, a former thief, but what he really wants in life is to build his own ranch house and live a peaceful life. To help him earn his stake for a piece of land, he heads west to claim the bounty on a claim-jumper. Carson Continue reading
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LONE WOMEN – Victor LaValle
Adelaide Henry is heading to Montana, a state where a woman can be a ‘lone’ woman and own her own parcel of land. She leaves California behind by burning more than bridges and she’ll carry her family curse with her … both of these, literally. She leaves California by saying goodbye to her parents – Continue reading
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TREASURE STATE – C. J. Box
Business is on the rise for private investigator Cassie Dewell and she now finds herself working two different cases simultaneously. First is the case of the hidden treasure. Taking the nation by storm is the account of a millionaire who claims to have buried a chest full of treasure worth a million dollars or so. Continue reading
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AXLE BUST CREEK – John Shirley
Axle Bust Creek is a new mining town in Nevada. Towns such as this don’t usually have law enforcement until the lawlessness gets out of hand. Cleve Trewe is a former Union officer who feels it’s his family duty to help his uncle (who was almost killed defending his gold mine from claim jumpers). Although Continue reading
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SHADOW’S REEL – C. J. Box
I’m a latecomer to the Joe Pickett series of books, but that’s okay – you really don’t have to know much about the characters in this book. Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is called to ranch to investigate what might be an animal carcass out by a distant fence. It turns out to be the Continue reading
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BAD RIVER – Ralph Cotton
Ranger Sam Burrack is on his way south in search of a notorious gang of bandits. He’s gotten a tip from Escalante – a prisoner in the Yuma Penitentiary – that the Cowboy Gang are holing up along Bad River. The mayor of the nearby village is as corrupt as the gang and if the Continue reading
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LAW OF THE LAND – Elmer Kelton
In the 1950’s (and a few decades prior) it was pretty easy to find and read some short western fiction if that was your literature of choice. There were scores of western pulps. Today, western readers are generally limited to a few publishers of western novels by a very few western writers. Law of the Continue reading
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RALPH COMPTON STAGECOACH TO HELL – Terrance McCauley
This is EXACTLY what I want to read when I pick up a book of western fiction. U.S. Marshall for the Arizona territory Ed Frost, gets the drop on Tom Clay – a wanted murderer and member of the infamously nasty Clay family. Locking Tom Clay up in the town jail, Frost sends a wire Continue reading
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DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING STAR – Craig Johnson
Jaya Long is the Lame Deer High School basketball superstar. She leads the Lady Stars in nearly every category and the team is on the road to a State basketball championship, thanks to Jaya’s play. But Jaya is receiving death threats – threats which are taken seriously since Jaya’s older sister went missing a year Continue reading
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GUNPOWDER EXPRESS – Brett Cogburn
Everyone in the Arizona Territory who eyes an easy way to make a payout knows that Vulture City is the home to a prosperous gold mine. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail–a trail known as the Gunpowder Express. No one wants to ride Continue reading
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NEXT TO LAST STAND – Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire is still taking it kind of slow after his ordeal in Mexico (book #14 in the series) but as long as he’s still sheriff, he’s got some work to do. Walt pays visits periodically to the folks over at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, so he’s familiar with resident Charley Continue reading
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DARK TERRITORY – Terrence McCauley
Dover Station, Montana is a boom town. Railroads tracks have been laid and the train will be going through town, so anyone already with property is bound to make a profit. A growing city brings a lot of different kinds of people, including those looking to take advantage of others, and a sheriff in a Continue reading
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