Best of
Western

1989

Josey Wales: Two Westerns


Forrest Carter - 1989
    His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri--men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge.Josey Wales and his Cherokee friend, Lone Watie, set out for the West through the dangerous Camanchero territory. Hiding by day, traveling by night, they are joined by an Indian woman named Little Moonlight, and rescue an old woman and her granddaughter from their besieged wagon. The five of them travel toward Texas and win through brash and honest violence, a chance for a new way of life.

Blood Bond


William W. Johnstone - 1989
    Beneath the Montana big sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together—and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them…Blood BondTensions in the territory are running red hot, what with Lone Dog and his band of renegades scalping settlers by the dozen. Meanwhile, in the town of Cutter, greedy rancher Tom Thomas is recruiting an army of gunhawks to steal Indian land. War is brewing, and it seems Bodine and Two Wolves are going to be forced to choose sides. Because General Armstrong Custer and his men are riding fast toward the Little Big Horn River. And there’s only going to be two kinds of folk in the bloody battle that’s about to begin—the kind that kill…and the kind that die.

Texas Kingdoms


Robert Broomall - 1989
    Will is poor and determined to make something of himself; Chance is a gambler, determined to separate fools from their money. The two men are attacked by Comanches, and Will is so badly wounded that he can travel no further. He and Chance are forced to winter where they are, and by the time spring comes, they've decided to stay in Texas and make their fortunes there. Will painstakingly begins to catch the wild cattle that roam the brush, while Chance sets up a tent by the road where he sells whiskey to travelers and takes their money at cards.Settlers arrive, among them the beautiful Hope Sommerville. Will and Chance both fall in love with Hope, who will get pregnant by one man and marry the other. As the years pass, Will's handful of cows becomes a cattle empire, and Chance's tent becomes Kingdom, wildest town on the Great Western Trail. Will, Chance, and Hope face Indian attacks, war, the loss of children, and the lawlessness of the post-Civil War West. Will's love for Hope drives him to do great things, while Chance's love casts him into a vortex of self-destruction and crime, and Hope learns what true love really means. Then one shocking act threatens to destroy them all.Spanning the period from the Comanche wars to the coming of the railroad and the end of the great cattle drives, Texas Kingdoms is a saga of love and friendship and the limits to which people will go for each one.

Outlaw


Warren Kiefer - 1989
    Whether during war or peace, he's killed a few men, loved a lot of women, and made and lost millions. Here's the saga of one of the last great heroes of the Old West.

Sons of Texas


Elmer Kelton - 1989
    The expedition proves fatal for Mordecai and leaves the Lewis boys in peril on both sides of the border: with a murderous Spanish officer in Texas and a blood vendetta with the Blackwood clan, a neighboring Tennessee family.

Sun River


Richard S. Wheeler - 1989
    Skye's biggest problem is protecting people from themselves. Mister Skye has agreed, reluctantly, to lead a party of missionaries to the Blackfoot Nation: to get there, they must pass through land controlled by the Crow and patrolled by the Cheyenne. To get there, they must also stop fighting among themselves, fighting about everything: about the Roman Catholic priest who joined their party, about Mister Skye's two Indian wives who are traveling with them, about the items Mister Skye insists must be left behind. To get to where they are going, the missionary party will have to survive, and without Mister Skye - drunk or sober - they have no chance at all.

Forbidden Legacy


Barbara A. Masci - 1989
    Sarah Clarke travels to her inherited ranch to discover it may not be hers, and finds deceit, danger and true love.

Walking Hawk


John S. McCord - 1989
    A rugged and unforgiving frontier where justice was just one man's dream. A dream he would fight for - and if need be, die for. Dan Walker is running for the Canadian border - and away from the law - when he saves Alice Martin's life. The daughter of a prosperous and ailing Montana rancher, Alice asks Walker to stay on to protect the M Bar M. Someone's been rustling her cattle. Someone who may put Alice's life in jeopardy again. Someone who doesn't like Dan Walker interfering...

Showdown At Six-Gun Mine


John Legg - 1989
    What he got instead was caught in the middle of a feud between the miners and the owners of the Squaw Gulch mine. He did not want to take sides, but you can push a man like Charlie McLeary only so far before he does choose, and the losing side will pay a heavy price.

The Oregon Legacy


Dana Fuller Ross - 1989
    . . a season that will test and change their lives forever. The launch novel of the brand-new series following Wagons West.