L. P Holmes
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In Black Rock Desert, when Lee Cone is hired by Braz Boland to choose a herd of horses from Carbide Junction into Maacama Basin through Black Rock Desert, he has no idea that it will reignite the old enmity between himself and Tasker Scott. Cone had left the basin two years earlier, when the girl he loved married Scott. When the horse herd reaches Antelope, the basin's town, Boland refuses to pay Cone because of a horse stampede that happened going...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as a rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so he headed there. Along the way, he met up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night the Pickards clubbed him to death, stole his money and his horses, and left his body behind. Only Roswell wasn't dead. And now he has a score to...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns all the way from Texas to California, believing there is a fortune to be made by transporting the cattle by river boat to San Francisco. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef. Kennett has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver. But Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe and his partner, Noah...