In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.
Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly, lured in by a fight manager who knew he had a devastating punch. So Harry drifted into a life of crime, culminating in the theft of the great stallion, Crusader, a horse that no one but he could ride.
Many a rancher or townsman has become a loyal friend when James Geraldi rescued their savings, and many a bandit has been conned or bested by him. But just when he is to marry and settle down, a rash move has made Geraldi a wanted man.
"This is vintage Brand, and it's certain to please fans of the traditional western."-Booklist
Ross Hardy had made a decision about his life, a life that had been rich in the hard-fisted experience of cold winters and dusty cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers and hunted buffalo and horse thieves, but now he would to ride for himself, and fight for himself.
When John Curry, galloping across the desert to save the life of an Indian child, was thrown from his horse and badly injured, he was rescued by a woman whose husband became his deadly enemy.
In 1829, life west of the Mississippi was filled with constant peril and hardship. At any moment, a settler might find himself threatened by a murderous Indian or a deadly beast. Only rugged mountain men like Nathaniel King had the courage to challenge the unknown dangers for the freedom the wilderness offered. But when Nate and his mentor Shakespeare McNair made enemies of two Flathead Indians, their survival skills were tested as never before. If either man made one mistake, both would suffer merciless deaths.
Thomas Savage, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, has long been a critically acclaimed author. The New Yorker calls him "a writer of the first order." This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma's daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth's secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.
USA Today best-selling author and former Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton ranks among the best Western writers of all time. With over 25 novels under his belt, Cotton writes tales that are popular for their brand of frontier justice. He spins a yarn of intrigue and suspense in Dead Man's Canyon. Ranger Sam Burrack is hot on the trail of identical twin outlaws, but only one is alive when he catches up to them. Could Abel have killed his brother in self-defense as he claims? It seems the manhunt has only just begun.
Prospecting was a lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and more. She knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan, from the scorching heat and poison air of Death Valley to the blinding blizzards of Arizona's mountains. Jenet tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repaid her loyalty with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit.
Kidnapped women, a forced marriage, mysterious Mormons, a defrocked minister, and a heroic quest to Utah's Surprise Valley form the basis of this thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage, presented for the first time in its uncensored version.
"In The Desert Crucible, we have restored Dad's original title as well as his original text for this story. It surely deserves to be read as Zane Grey wrote it." -Loren Grey, from the foreword
Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. His struggle to come to terms with his deepest beliefs and his place in the world are at the root of this passionate tale.
In September 1870, Truman Everts was separated from one of the first exploratory parties in what is now Yellowstone National Park. With little food, equipment, or cold-weather clothing Everts spent more than a month wandering the wilderness before two mou
