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1) Foxfire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1951 [c1950]
Description
Anya Seton's Foxfire makes the desert Southwest of the Great Depression come alive in all its rich strangeness and passion-filled glory.
Amanda Lawrence, a charming, sheltered New York socialite, falls in love with Jonathan Dartland, a part-Apache mining engineer who belongs to the vastness of the Arizona desert. Amanda responds to his strength and self-reliance, but has nothing and nobody to guide her when she follows him to the grim town of Lodestone....
4) Hombre
Author
Description
Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as one of the very best crime writers ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American western fiction to his credit-including Hombre, the basis for the classic Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman. Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised...
Author
Description
The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies -- and the wrong enemy -- they won't be getting out alive.
8) Apache dawn
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015, 1960.
Description
"When an Apache chief determines to wipe out the settlers in Eden Canyon, Jerd Galway is determined to save as many as he can even if most won't trust him because he's a fugitive and blood-brother to the Apache chief"--
9) Chiricahua
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The only individual standing between the white settlers and fierce Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Geronimo and Chatto is Pa-nayo-tishn (The Coyote Saw Him), a man of peace who forever alters the fate of the Apache"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight hears an Apache has murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and the locals want to lynch him, Daniel rushes to help a fellow Indian. Although he has no jurisdiction there, Killstraight sets out to prove the wrong man has been accused in this town that hates Indians"--
11) Damnation road
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider and outlaw. Nearing 50 and broke, Jacob bends his rule about train robbing. But when he reaches the payroll safe on the Rock Island train, he finds another thief there with a bullet in his head. Caught holding the bag, Jacob is turned into a hero. A broke hero. Then he meets beautiful Olivia Weathers, who knows of a treasure hidden in a cave. Jacob follows Olivia into Canyon Diablo, where few come...
12) Lawless
Author
Description
Half-Apache Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to an innocent, Jake was even more disgusted to find that he liked it.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Set in New Mexico, this novel explores the complexities of mothers and daughters, the uncertainty of second chances, and the courage to stand on your own two feet"--
As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. They found a new life in New...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In "Renegade Rifles," the hostile Apaches have attacked a wagon convoy at night, a time when traditionally the Apaches do not fight. In "Trouble Weather," the herd being driven from Montana to make up the beef ration for the local reservation has been unaccountably delayed, causing a possible uprising. Cattle thieves in the Old West were never easy to apprehend, but when, as in "Rain Valley," they are protected by a mountainous terrain, a lawman...
15) Taggart
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Series
Formats
Description
Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. When Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty...
16) Elatsoe
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
17) Crimson desert
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Ben Lyman, son of Quakers and friend to the Indians, was looking for contraband guns. Better than anyone, Ben knew what possession of these weapons could do. More than anyone, he wanted to prevent an outbreak and the massacre that would follow. But nobody trusted Ben - not the Indians, because he was white; not the Army, because they knew he liked the Apaches; not the settlers, because Ben was a "loner;" and certainly not the men who were busy trying...
18) The law of love
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Lawless: "Half Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. But beneath Sarah's ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a woman he yearned to make his own."--P. [4] of cover.
The law is a lady: "Once Phillip Kincaid fixed his mind on something, he set about getting it. And as soon...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
20) Close to you
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Mind over matter: "David Brady has found the perfect star for his documentary: Clarissa DeBasse, a psychic with ties to an infamous kidnapping. Unfortunately, no-nonsense talent agent A. J. Fields is fiercely protective of her client. David is a skeptic, and A.J. isn't going to let him ridicule Clarissa for the sake of his ratings. The enigmatic agent's icy exterior may just be a front, but David knows it's going to take a lot more than charm to get...
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