Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Jake Paynter volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train...
Author
Description
"No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling the highs and lows of cowboy life in these sixteen stories, collected together for the first time"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Will Clayborn never thought he'd ever be going back to the Anvil Ranch at Three Forks. Old Riley Adams, who owned the Anvil, had taken him in and treated him like a son. But then Riley had taken it into his head to run Will off his ranch for some cattle rustling he hadn't done. When Will heard that Riley Adams was dying, he came back to a town that hated and feared him. But it was too late to see Riley: Instead, there was young Wes Adams waiting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Rascally cowboy Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado on a horse drive for an old friend when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Hewey, the worst pistol shot in the West, is deputized to bring the criminal to justice, bestowing him with a weight of responsibility he's long avoided and leaving him to wonder if even the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers learn about the West, its location, history, demographics, geography, climate, and other defining features. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about this region. A Take a Look! map highlights the region's location, while an additional infographic shows the region's top industries by state. Sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an At a Glance...
Publisher
Shout!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In the lawless West, The Cowboys a notorious brotherhood of killers and thieves reigned over the land with brutal fists and fast guns. Fate had finally caught up with them ... and now the merciless gang has but a single surviving member. When a deputized gunslinger takes up the call to hunt down the last Cowboy, the chase is on and the bullets fly and only one of these hardened men can survive.
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...
8) Western USA
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Lonely Planet's Western USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise down coastal highways, soak up Seattle's culture, or be awestruck by the Grand Canyon; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Western USA and begin your journey now!
Author
Series
Smoke Jensen novel of the West volume 5
Description
Building a branch takes heart and grit, and Smoke and Sally Jensen are capable of meeting the challenges of the land. When Smoke learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he saddles up and hits the vengeance trail with fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk. The town of Desolation Creek in Montana Territory has been taken over by Vernon "Venom" McFadden and his men, harassing terrified homesteaders and townfolk to get his hands...
10) Patron
Author
Series
Stanton saga volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 2004
Description
"Tito Stanton knew he had left his boyhood behind forever when his father gave him the gleaming Navy Colt with its belt and holster, and told Tito he would need it now to protect what was theirs. He learned the talent he was gifted with when the legendary gunfighter named Kinchloe taught him how to use a gun as very few dreamed it could be used. Tito had his gun and he had his choice. He could use it to back up the law. Or he could use it to go the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"As both a former Confederate guerilla and Texas Ranger, and now a U.S. Marshal, no one knows the dangers of the frontier and cowtowns like Marshal Samuel Pritchard. A couple of wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trail have vanished and Pritchard's got miles of bad road across hostile territory to investigate. But he must also reckon with a price on his head. Bounty hunter Captain Laird Bonner is the greatest manhunter throughout the west- and he's...
12) The lonely law
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 1985.
Description
"The Lonely Law was Jim Larribee, Sheriff of Pinnacle County. Larribee had been befriended in many ways and had finally been helped to his office by Big Dan Sharples, and rumor had it that Big Dan owned Larribee from ears to hocks, and the star with him. But Larribee felt different. He knew that the star built a wall around a man -- that he was in a damned lonely corner. But the middle of the road was where he would stay, playing no favorites, and...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 1937.
Description
"Red Clark had heard Juilos County was "bad, plumb bad," so he had come to nose around and get himself a job. Chock-jam-packed full of bad men, this border country was -- or so he had heard. He hadn't seen any that looked bad; plenty that needed haircuts or sobering up, including the potbellied, red-nosed sheriff himself. Disgusted with what he is seeing, he befriends Zee Hill, a journeymen printer who wants the chance to get out a real paper -- one...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Mulvane rode out of the mountains and up the main street of hell. He was a tall man, riding easy, but there was the proud, watchful look of a hawk in his eyes and a steel-spring force in the way he moved. The hardcase toughs and killers of Grand Junction watched him carefully, and even before they heard his name, they sensed he was a man born to violence, a blood-brother to sudden death. They knew, and they warned their boss, Boyd Maddock, to beware...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Mark Hudson is worried by the growing depredations of a mysterious gang of rustlers in the San Carlos Country. He learns that his friend, Sam Brice, has been warned to leave the territory. And it is Mark's resolve to save Brice and his daughter, Ellen, with whom he has fallen in love. Mark has reason to suspect that Reeve Bett, a newcomer to the town, is the arch-plotter. He also finds that the jealousy of a neighboring rancher's daughter adds to...
16) Panther Gap
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
17) Range boss
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 1977
Description
"Rick Thompson had come to Willow Crossing because he had a chance to buy a ranch cheaply and because his brother Les was buried there. Rick was just a kid when Les was killed. Les was some years older and wild. Legendary town tamer Vince Kirby had claimed to have caught Les robbing an express office. But from what Rick learned of Kirby after arriving in Willow Crossing, he began to wonder if Kirby was lying about Les's death. Now an old family wound...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough roadbed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder, the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 1962.
Description
" "This Town's Gone Bad--We'll Build a New One!" With one bold stroke, Slade cut to the heart of the problem. The cowtown of Maley was rotten to the core. Cranton Ames seemed to own even the law. While the sheriff refused to act, killers stalked the streets and terrorized the people. Slade drove to build a new boom town, fast--and in a matter of weeks Bang Town was a reality. But only Slade knew it was to be a death trap for the sinister gunman who...
Author
Formats
Description
"Deserting to escape the horrors of the Indian Wars, two Irish brothers seek peace with the woman they love. For fans of Cormac McCarthy. Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but younger brother Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a stream down off the Bozeman Trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter....
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion