Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls. In "Visitors in Cantera," the narrator receives a visit from questionable relatives. In "In the Breaks," a girl goes deer hunting with her grandfather and has to fend off unwelcome advances from a young man. In "Man of Trees," a homesteader helps solve the murder of an...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An aspiring Ohio transplant's dream of owning his own spread in turn-of-the-century Wyoming is put on hold due to a series of inconvenient murders. Earl Miner, who owns the Pick, makes no bones about insisting that every man who works for him file a claim to 160 acres under the Homestead Act and then sell it to him so he won't be troubled by competing ranchers in the Decker Basin. As soon as cowpuncher Reese Hartley bridles at that arrangement, foreman...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who is said to be a bank robber"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton’s ranch. Shortly after Dunbar’s arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard’s father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley’s wife, Louise, a beautiful...
6) Silver grass
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant is on his own when he meets a traveler on foot. The two arrive in the town of Silver Grass, where the other man finds work washing dishes. Wilsey goes out to look for work and meets an indentured servant girl, an orphan like himself. Before long, the fellow traveler turns up dead. Wilsey goes to work at the nearby Emerald Peaks Ranch, where he hears of ranch hands terrorizing the settlers, and he witnesses the shooting...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Del Rowland, working for Bill Overlin at the Spoke ranch, begins to doubt the boss's integrity when Overlin and others bully a homesteader named Holt Warren and goad him into a fatal gunfight. Dels curiosity increases as he gets to know Overlins stepdaughter, Lawna, and hears stories from saloon patrons. One of them is shot in the street at night. Meanwhile, the cattlemen step up their aggression by burning Holt Warrens buildings and running their...
10) Rancho Alegre
Author
Series
Jimmy Clevis westerns volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jimmy Clevis is out of work and needs some money. So when an old man named Tull asks him to do a quick job for him, Clevis agress. All Clevis has to do is head south to Paloma Springs to find Tull's son. Sounds like easy money, right? Wrong. Clevis isn't just riding into Paloma Springs--he's riding straight into a tangled nt of lies, stealing, blackmail, hidden identities...and murder.
11) Black Hat Butte
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Leisure historical fiction"--Spine. "A Leisure book"--T.p. verso.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devon Frost, an artist, has come to the isolated little town of Tinaja to paint the old church. However, he soon becomes caught in a web of passion, power, and murder. Devon believes an accused murderer is innocent and takes it upon himself to find the real killer. Original.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request