Best of
Western

1990

Heaven Sent


Pamela Morsi - 1990
    The Bible had Ruth meeting Boaz on the threshing field. If that worked for Ruth, couldn't it work for Hannah? It did. It all went perfectly, except the wrong man got snared.Henry Lee Watson likes his life—without a wife. He makes the finest corn liquor in the territory. A good business on Saturday night, does not always make a good marriage to a Sunday morning kind of woman. But it's a shotgun wedding and he's thinking that the starchy preacher's daughter is maybe she's not so starchy after all. Pamela Morsi writes with great tenderness and insight. — Luanne Rice, NYTimes Bestselling Author Read all the Small Town Swains! Book 1: Heaven Sent Book 2: Something Shady Book 3: No Ordinary Princess Book 4: Sealed With a Kiss Book 5: Garters Book 6: The Love Charm

The Changing Wind


Don Coldsmith - 1990
    He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known.  The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum--a mystical power as old as the land, as primeval as primitive man himself.  But even as he fought to lead his people out of the darkness of the Stone Age, his world trembled on the brink of a great and terrible transformation.  It would be a century swept by the inevitable winds of change; a time when ignorant, evil men like the warrior Gray Wolf of the Head-Splitters would seek bloody vengeance, and when once man would fight against all odds to save his tribe and his heritage from brutal destruction.

Grub Line Rider (Louis L'Amour)


Louis L'Amour - 1990
    Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight. When cattleman Jim Targ challenges Sartain's right to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow, Sartain decides he'll do better than ride through: He'll put down stakes there and homestead the land. Soon there's more at risk than land and pride when Targ hires a gunman to teach Sartain a permanent—and deadly—lesson.

Montana Horseman


John S. McCord - 1990
    Darnell had raised his boys to shoot fast and work hard and treat a lady with respect. But living day-to-day, never settling down in one place, takes a toll on the strongest of men. And surviving on the frontier is a long, lonely battle...Most of the stories folks told about the Baynes boys weren't even half true. But it was true they could fight-and fight hard. It was the only way they could stay alive in the lawless West. So when Joe Thackery and his pretty daughter Kit were ambushed by thieves, it was the Baynes Clan who came to their rescue. And when young Ward Baynes fell in love with Kit, he was more than ready to marry her and plant some roots in the rugged Montana Territory. He figured he'd had adventure enough for three men's lifetimes.But now Kit has been kidnapped. And the Baynes Clan has one more fight to finish...

Sioux Dawn


Terry C. Johnston - 1990
    His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.The Civil War was over, and a great westward march began. Settlers and soldiers poured out of the East along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, there would be no choice but to fight for their ancestral rights.Seen through the eyes of gruff Sergeant Seamus Donegan, here is the historically accurate tale of a tragic opening to the war between two great civilization: the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.

Open Range


Lauran Paine - 1990
    Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas throughout the West. Spearman had no quarrel with that, but he wasn't about to let anyone intimidate him or attack his men without putting up a fight. So when Denton Baxter's threats turned to murder, Spearman knew he had to get justice—any way he could.The basis for the movie Open Range, starring Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, and Annette Bening!

Blueberry: The End of the Trail


Jean-Michel Charlier - 1990
    It follows the further adventures of aging cowboy Mike Blueberry.

Bill Carey Rides West / The Town No Guns Could Tame (Louis L'Amour)


Louis L'Amour - 1990
    Bill Carey Rides WestLife on an Ohio farm couldn't hold young Bill Carey.  He wanted the adventure he knew waited in the territories to the west.  He'd drifted into the outlaw life, and now he found himself shot up, a lawman on his trail, holed up on a small farm near the lair of Tabat Ryerson.  Ryerson, the man who'd introduced him to cattle rustling and bank robbery, a cold-blooded killer.  The man who'd turned the sweet young woman who'd saved Carey's life into an unwilling accomplice.  On a remote little farm, Carey's caught between both sides of the law, and he finds a reason for staying alive in a rancher's pretty daughter.The Town No Guns Could TameOverrun by hard-bitten miners, gamblers, and the kind of no-account drifters that follow the gold camps, Basin City is a place where no respectable citizen feels safe.  That's why three of the town's foremost businessmen have gone and hired a new marshal.  Tomorrow he'll be in charge of protecting a stagecoach carrying over a quarter million dollars in gold as it moves out of the Basin City depot.  Tonight he'll be defending his life--For Perry, a gunfighter on the run, this job should have turned his life around.  Instead, it's landed him in a peck of trouble.  And now, unless Perry uncovers the motives of a mysterious saloon owner and gets wise to a double-crossing, he's headed for a lynching--he own.