Linda Broday

The back of the book has a little friction smudge from being packed together with other books I bought in bulk, but overall in excellent condition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Bestselling author Linda Broday sweeps readers back to the wild and untamed West, where men became the stuff of legend, with: Two young lovers ripped apart A family feud turned deadly A secret waiting to be unearthed And a passion no one could ever deny Crockett Legend has always loved Paisley Mahone, but a family feud sure can ruin a romance. When her father turned against the powerful Legend clan, she took her family's side and broke Crockett's heart into pieces. Now her father's dead and Paisley and her last remaining brother are convinced the Legends are to blame. If only he can find a way to prove his innocence... A chance meeting throws the two warring hearts together, and when their train is held up by outlaws, Crockett and Paisley have to team up to save a young boy from dying. A tenuous truce is born. Together they may have a chance of bringing the truth to light...if they can get to the bottom of who's been trying to turn the two powerful families against each other. With so many secrets to unbury, it isn't long before Paisley finds herself in the crosshairs, but Crockett vows there'll be hell to pay if anyone hurts the woman he loves--or stands in the way of a Legend in the making. Runs deep with emotion.--Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author, for Texas Mail Order Bride

A Man of Legend

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Texas

A Novel

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.

News of the World

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Louis L'Amour

Jubal Sackett: the Sacketts

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Paul Howarth

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy. An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and Thieves is a gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to vivid life a colonial Australia that bears a striking resemblance to the American Wild West in its formative years. It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy. Thirsting for vengeance against the man they believe has wronged them—their former Aboriginal stockman—the distraught brothers turn to the ruthless and cunning John Sullivan, the wealthiest landowner in the region and their father’s former employer. Sullivan gathers a posse led by the dangerous and fascinating Inspector Edmund Noone and his Queensland Native Police, an infamous arm of British colonial power charged with the "dispersal" of indigenous Australians to "protect" white settler rights. As they ride across the barren outback in pursuit, their harsh and horrifying journey will have a devastating impact on Tommy, tormenting him for the rest of his life—and will hold enduring consequences for a young country struggling to come into its own. Recreating a period of Australian and British history as evocative and violent as the American frontier era, Only Killers and Thieves is an unforgettable story of family, guilt, empire, race, manhood, and faith that combines the insightfulness of Philipp Meyer’s The Son, the atmospheric beauty of Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist, and the raw storytelling power of Ian McGuire’s The North Water.

Only Killers and Thieves

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Miralee Ferrell

Arkansas

"Second chances aren't easy to come by in a town named Tombstone. When Christy Grey receives an urgent summons to Tombstone, Arizona, she reluctantly leaves her new life in California for an uncertain future. She finally arrives in Tombstone to find her mother ill and her brother trapped in a life of gambling. Desperate for money to support her family, will Christy bow to pressure from local saloon owners and return to a life she thought she's given up for good?"--Page 4 of cover.

Love Finds You in Tombstone, Arizona

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Oakley M. Hall

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The adventures of a tenderhearted lush who talks to horses, a red-headed stinkpot brat, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, an army of dark, violent riders, and perhaps even the Devil himself-- all are part of the magic of The Coming of the Kid. In this salty and irresistible fable, Oakley Hall pays homage to the legends of the Old West, serving them up with subversive good humor. This is the story of how the marvelous and long-awaited Kid, preceded by a host of phonies, is finally summoned to rescue the Territory from Big Mac, the outlaw king, and his corrupt followers. A gathering of unforgettable characters is heard from ; each tells his share of the tale, and each vivid new voice puts a new and uncanny angle on things. There is Henry "Holdfast" Plummer, the dark and puritanical marshal and whorehouse bounce; J.D. Dockerty, who falls off a horse with the glorious Milady-- with the golden Florrie as a consequence; the gentle Lieutenant Grace, who runs out of luck and is struck as blind as Oedipus; and there is the marvelous Kid-- found as a babe (some say) floating down the river in a coffin. With the abundant humor and skeptical affection that characterize the work of Mark Twain, Hall delivers a wonderfully gritty frontier landscape of dusty mesas and rockstrewn peaks, fabulous lost mines and Victorian castles. It's landscape peopled with sad, drunken cavalry and crazy Kimanches, shadowy madams and virginal schoolmarms, Chinese cooks and Frenchmen named Frenchie, and the ghosts of some wonderful characters that fans of the classic Warlock and The Bad Lands will recognize. A bawdy, magical and thoroughly engaging novel from the author of The Downhill Racers and The Children of the Sun -- Book jacket.

The Coming of the Kid *First Edition*

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Whitman Publishing Co, Publisher; Illustrated by Erwin L Hess; 1945; 248 pages; Writing on first two pages, may possibly find small pencil marks on pages; tape on inside front cover; wear and tear to spine and edges of cover; a few small tears on a few pages.  

Illinois

Roy Rogers and the Gopher Creek Gunman

Mike Wales

Leatherhand

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Beau L'Amour

North Carolina

Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2

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William W. Johnstone

J. A. Johnstone

Johnstone Justice. Making the West wild again.

Keeping the peace in a West Texas town like Buffalo Peak should be easy for a legendary frontiersman like Marshal Elwood "Firestick" McQueen. He's got his longtime buddies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks as his deputies-not to mention the famous rifle that earned him his nickname. But when Firestick learns that their ornery old friend "Rip" Ripley just rode into town, all bets are off. It's darn near impossible to keep the peace when Rip's specialty is disturbing it. Firestick finds a decade-old wanted poster for Rip-the reward is one dollar.

Firestick uses it to toss Rip into the clink till he decides to leave town. But Ripley's still up to his old tricks-he has a new gang of cutthroats coming to Buffalo Peak to steal a king's ransom in gold in the town bank. Firestick, Beartooth, and Moosejaw become pawns in what just might be the heist of the century. Because Rip's kill-crazy pals will have to bust him out of jail first...


Dead for a Dollar

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Wisconsin

Last of the Plainsmen

Winter Roses 

I have had this on my shelf for a while and it is in amazing shape. Take a little goo gone or undu and you will be able to perfectly remove the target sticker on the dust cover. 

Minnesota

James Patterson presents a bold new heroine--a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great.... In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity's struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot.

Gunslinger Girl

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This publication, a true history of the life adventures, and tragic death of William H Bonney, better known as Billie The Kid whose dating deeds and bloody crimes, have excited, for some years last past the wonder of one of the half of the world and the admiration or destination of the other half￼. 

The Authentic Life Of Billy The Kid 

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Phantom waltz

Sun kissed 

A sequel to 10,000 white women. Not factual history but a good western story that illustrates how horrible women and natives were treated early on in this country, but shows how we can overcome and persevere the worst with some determination. 
#paperback #history #historicalfiction #jimfergus #western #nativeamericans #womenwarriors #warriormothers 

Montana

The Journals of Margaret Kelly and Molly Mcgill: a Novel

The stunning sequel to the award-winning novelOne Thousand White Women:A Novel.

"Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." --The Denver Post

"A gripping tale, a history lesson infused with both sadness at the violence perpetuated against the Cheyenne and awe at the endurance of this remarkable group of women." --Booklist, starred review

9 March 1876

My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance...

So begins the Journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the U.S. government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for One Thousand White Woman to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses. These "brides" were mostly fallen women; women in prison, prostitutes, the occasional adventurer, or those incarcerated in asylums. No one expected this program to work. Andthe brides themselves thought of it simply as a chance at freedom. But many of them fell in love with their Cheyenne spouses and had children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves.

The Vengeance of Mothers explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable." What does it mean to be white, to be Cheyenne, and how far will these women go to avenge the ones they love? With vivid detail and keen emotional depth, Jim Fergus brings to light a time and place in American history and fills it with unforgettable characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate to even today.

The Vengeance of Mothers

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK "A masterpiece." - R.O. Kwon The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she’s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.

Outlawed

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Robert Knott

Dust cover has some shelf wear, nothing serious like a rip or tear or last copy bookstore dots or sharpie slashes. 

California

"Itinerent lawment Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a new installment of the series created by Robert B. Parker"--

Robert B. Parker's Bull River

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Michael Punke

A Novel of Revenge

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

The Revenant

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Ralph Compton

A woman sates her lust for vengeance in this Ralph Compton western...

Waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws, Daniel Strange's lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail, packing Strange's trademark twin Colts, and answering to the same name.

With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won't stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth- that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive-and killing...

More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

Death Rides a Chestnut Mare

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Johnstone Country. Try Not to Get Killed.

In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War . . .

GET OUT OF JAIL FREE-OR DIE

Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren't for the fact that the man who framed Hank Fallon and murdered his family could be inside The Walls, Hank would never step one foot in that heinous helltrap-let alone go undercover as an inmate. But this isn't just another assignment. This is his chance for revenge . . .

Inside The Walls, Hank quickly discovers who's boss-as well as judge, jury, and executioner. The only relief from the gang fights and guard beatings is a prison work program that allows inmates to leave The Walls to work for plantation owner J.J. Justice. Hank figures it can't be any worse than jail. But it is. Seems that Justice is ordering the men to commit robberies and murders. He's stockpiling weapons. Building an army. And planning to restart the Civil War-all in the name of Justice . . .
Live Free. Read Hard.

Dead Time

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Books 1-3 have more spine damage (pictured above) #paperback #fiction #romance #western #lindalaelmiller 

Iowa

In Paraable, Montana, things get complicated when rancher Walker Parrish is confronted with two teenage children he didn't know he had. Original.

Parable Montana novels

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Books 2-8, titles include: Vengeance Trail, hostile country, blood trail, War scout, end of the hunt, winterhunt, Oregon Trail

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Linda Broday

A Man of Legend

Paulette Jiles

News of the World

Louis L'Amour

Jubal Sackett: the Sacketts

Paul Howarth

Only Killers and Thieves

Miralee Ferrell

Love Finds You in Tombstone, Arizona

Oakley M. Hall

The Coming of the Kid *First Edition*

Don Middleton

Roy Rogers and the Gopher Creek Gunman

Mike Wales

Leatherhand

Louis L'Amour; Beau L'Amour

Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2

William W. Johnstone; J. A. Johnstone

Dead for a Dollar

Zane Grey

Last of the Plainsmen

Diana Palmer

Winter Roses

Lyndsay Ely; James Patterson (Foreword by)

Gunslinger Girl

Pat Garrett

The Authentic Life Of Billy The Kid

Catherine Anderson