Best of
Western

1930

Lone Cowboy: My Life Story


Will James - 1930
    The narrative of Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy, Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone--on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives as he moves toward his remote objective: becoming an artist. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Long Rifle


Stewart Edward White - 1930
    Stewart Edward White's tale of young Andy Burnett, inheritor of Daniel Boon's own long rifle, is as powerful and moving today as it was when written in the 1930s. It is the timeless story of maturing youth, backdropped by majestic Rocky Mountains and Set in the early nineteenth century fur-trade era. "The Long Rifle" recalls a time of endlessly expanding horizons, of oneness with nature, of refreshing innocence. Enjoy!

The Stingaree


Max Brand - 1930
    Most people thought Joe was just an easygoing tramp who would do anything to avoid a fight. Stanley Parker, however, suspected that the stranger was more dangerous than he pretended to be. Ever since Parker had won fame and fortune by gunning down the notorious Bob Dillman, he had been expecting the outlaw's partner, the deadly Stingaree to show up. And Parker knew he would have to kill Stingaree if he could! Here is a fast-moving story of a man of many names and many skills who found that his ordeal had just begun when he met his enemy. Ahead of him lay the perils of hired guns and wilderness traps and a bitter conflict with his own code of honor.