Jim Gough
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
(Pearl) Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. He became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller....
Author
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A classic portrait of America during World War I, from American author Zane Grey, famously known for his romanticized stories about the old West.
'The Desert of Wheat' (1919) sets the tone for a nation's anxiety at the brink of a century of change. It is a 20th century tale of romance and sabotage, describing the effect war has on a country and its people.
Grey has written a classic Western with a patriotic and anti-union propaganda twist, recounting...
Author
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A WORD FROM LOUIS L’AMOUR
“Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them, I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print. Proud
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Series
Riders of the Purple Sage volume 3
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost ninety years it existed in a profoundly censored version.
Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah's isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he's never met, is determined...
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Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Famed Western writer Zane Grey veers from his typical narrative trajectory and treads into topical waters in The Desert of Wheat. Honorable wheat farmer Kurt Dorn is torn over whether he should join in the fight against Germany or remain in the U.S. to protect his family and crops. Will home or the battlefield hold sway? Read The Desert of Wheat to find out.
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed Western writer Zane Grey used the Wild West as his creative palette. The novel The Rustlers of Pecos County focuses on the hard-living, hard-working cowboys and wranglers who cared for livestock—and sometimes obtained the animals by nefarious means—on the wide open plains of Texas.
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey's To the Last Man, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West.
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Publication Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of Northern Arizona's notorious Hashknife gang, Zane Grey's classic 1921 western novel tells the tale of Jean Isbel, a woodsman hailing from Oregon. Caught in a bitter feud between the Isbels and the cattle-rustling Jorths, Jean is dragged into a generations-long clash between the two families, both of whom have sworn to fight until no man on the other side is left standing. Amidst it all, Jean finds himself hopelessly in love...
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for "pulp" Western magazines. "I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print," he said. "I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did." So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length...
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Series
Kilkenny volume 3
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. Carley Burch, a young orphaned woman, is living a life of leisure in her family's New York City home. When her fiancé, Glenn Kilbourne, returns from France ill and broken after fighting in World War I, he heads west, drawn to the mountains and canyons of Arizona. Carley, after receiving a series of puzzling letters from her beloved, pays him a surprise visit. There,...
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Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
James Geraldi is one of the most legendary thieves in the West. But he is not a typical thief. Many an honest rancher or townsman has become a loyal friend when Geraldi rescues their savings, and many a bandit has been conned or bested by him. Having squared himself with the law, Geraldi is about to marry and settle down when his old friend Larry Burns rides in with a posse in hot pursuit. Without taking time to explain to his bride-to-be, Mary, Geraldi...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.
It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending
...Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.
It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending him to a...
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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Ride, You Tonto Raiders" Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter-but not a trouble seeker. But when Billy Curtin calls him a liar and goes for his gun, Matt has no choice but to draw and fire. To his surprise, the dying man gives him $5,000 and begs him to take the money to his wife, who is alone in defending the family ranch in the Mogollons. A combination of guilt, regret, and wanting to do the right thing leads Sabre to make that ride....
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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Louis L'Amour is now one of the most iconic western writers of all time, but once upon a time he was Jim Mayo, a regular writer for the pulps. And some of the stories he wrote in those days stuck with him enough that he revised and expanded them into novels. "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canon" first appeared in Giant Western in October, 1949. The text was expanded and substantially changed when it subsequently was published as an original paperback...
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Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Orphaned as a child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry, raised and trained to take over his empire of crime. Today, Mike is the quickest draw and the stealthiest tracker around, and Ben Curry is getting ready to retire. To test Mike's wings, he has set him a task: the planning and execution of a gold-train robbery.
Now, as he prepares for his first criminal job, Mike must decide whether to follow the path that has been set...
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Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Here are two exciting stories featuring Lance Kilkenny by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "A Man Called Trent," nester Dick Moffitt lies dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent"-an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter.In "The Rider of Lost Creek," Lance Kilkenny is the fastest gun in...
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Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Once, When We Were Young is the stirring story of a young Texan and his two friends who get caught up in the pre—Civil War excitement. From the formation of local military units to the great battles that decided the outcome of the war, Will's story is told in first person narrative, combining a fascinating, well-researched sense of history with a real feel of Texas pride and honor.
The three boys join the Texas State Militia in 1860, and at the...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider of the Ruby Hills" is the story of Ross Haney, who rides into Ruby Hills country hoping to settle down. What...