Carson, a ten-year-old boy was on the run for his life. His Pa had told him his mother and grandfather died while he was fishing for supper. The boy figured it was another lie until he found their graves in the backyard. When his pa drank himself into a stupor, the boy filled a sack with apples and potatoes, got his Pas rifle, saddled his horse Lucky and rode away. He had no idea where he was going but knew he would be dead before morning if he stayed.

In 1916 Lizbeth Whalin, a widow, is running her cattle ranch in Colorado with the help of her sons. Her greatest fear is that her three youngest will be called to duty in the Great War taking place in Europe. She is brokenhearted at the prospect. Adding to her agony her daughter rode off on her horse and has been missing for 6 months. Life has taught Lizbeth to hide her feelings, put a smile on her face and soldier on, which she tries to do with the support of her remaining children and her o...

Lizbeth Whalins boys were finally home from the Great War and her heart was filled with joy. After a few weeks at home, Ira, the son that she felt most loved the ranch, told his mother he was going away. Lizbeth bid him a tearful farewell and watched as he rode his horse Raz out of sight. Ira rode for a month before arriving in the small cattle town of Payson, in the mountains of Arizona. He hoped to find peace there; rid his dreams of the atrocities of war. He wanted his life back.

This story is based on the life of a seventeen-year-old boy who joined the Navy against his parent's wishes. While on furlough he has a car accident that leaves him paralyzed from the chest down. He develops a remarkable spirit with which he leads the remainder of his life. It tells of his emotional and physical trials that he endures while energizing himself to live a normal life outside the hospital setting. He marries his nurse and she encourages him to fulfill his life's dream of travelin...

Ranchers, Indians, Six-guns, and Horses, Strong Women, Orphan Children and White Slavers. They come together in a mix for an exciting page turner. Carol Davis Lambert takes you back to the Old West for a spine tingling read.

Though he went on to write dozens of other novels over an almost 40-year career, his debut work--this 1920 detective mystery--is considered by many to be Crofts’ masterpiece. A cask supposedly containing statuary is accidentally damaged when it’s being unloaded in London. Its contents are a surprise, and a mystery! Will Inspector Burnley be able to solve it?

The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—one to fight for, be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead person. Allen Ring was another: He’d won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses’ troubles, the characters in these classic Louis L’Amour short stories are all “riding for the brand”—staying loyal to what...

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: a land where for every frie...

With over three million copies sold, this collection of cowboy wisdom and words to live by is "worthy of a book rustler" ( South Bend Tribune).In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, Don't Squat with Your Spurs On takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It's filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: "Always drink upstream from the herd" and "The easiest way to eat crow is while it's st...

In this first of four classic frontier novels, Louis L'Amour adds his own special brand to the life and adventures of one of America's favorite fictional cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy.In The Rustlers of West Fork, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan. When he arrives at the Circle J, he discovers that the rancher and his daughter, Pam, are being held prisoner by a desperate ba...

A bride on the run doesn't expect a kilted outlaw to come to her rescue...When Lady Mairiana MacKerrick witnesses her fiancé, Alec Lindsay, committing a murder three days before their wedding, she decides she must run away. Darack Grant, secretly an outlaw MacGregor, is on a clandestine mission, but when he finds Mairiana hiding in the stables, he knows he must help her escape. He remembers the lovely lass from their one meeting a few years before. Though he was dra...

As ranchers and homesteaders go to war in Wyoming, a new lawman faces a trial by gunfire in the New York Times–bestselling author’s Western series debut.Lawmen don’t last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a hangman’s noose, and one more was backshot by the hired guns at the Circle L Ranch. But the town of Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man known as Cotton, who aims to take the badge for the ne...