So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look back. From Louisville past the Chickasaw bluffs and the Natchez Trace all the way to New Orleans, he plunges into the rough-and-tumble life along the banks of the Mississippi: a volatile, violent country of boatmen and river bandits, knife fights and Indian raids, strong liquor and stronger women. Yet beyond the great river stretches the vast, unexplored expanse of the Great Plains. And it is here that young Titus will seek his future, and risk everything to seize it.

    But the real challenge is the cowboy who's guiding her to it.

    

    Through the persona of Tap McCoy, larger-than-life narrator, tales of buckin' horses, a horse falling into and hanging upside down from the branches of a pine tree, eccentric cowboys ..., spontaneous rodeos, and horse wrecks are spun. A cast of real to life characters parade through the exploits of Tap and Dean. Practical jokers, stoic Indians, burly, reclusive buckaroos, egomaniacs, and ladies of the evening - all sides of human nature are examined through the unrelenting yet forgiving eyes of Tap McCoy. "This is a side of the West that only buckaroos have known in the past - rollicking, gritty, dusty, dangerous, nerve-wracking" - TRUE WEST Magazine

    First published in 1925, the seven stories collected here revolve around the adventures of a lanky cowboy named Bill whose drifting takes him throughout the West as he lives the hard life of a working cowboy.

    Sanford Colston left his hometown of Saints Roost to hire its school a new teacher—but instead found himself stuck at the Dallas train station, robbed of the clothes off his back. It was clear to Ford that this thief wasn't your ordinary outlaw—and he was right. Hannah was a beautiful woman on the run, desperate for a disguise that would help her escape her dangerous past. But when fate forced their paths to cross again, Ford couldn't let Hannah get away twice. Ford wanted to help his charming young bandit, but didn't know how—until she had a most exciting idea. Hannah could hide in Saints Roost. Back in the strict little town, Hannah made quite a first impression...and, with Ford at her side, learned that sometimes life offers second chances...

    He spent two hellish years in a Colorado prison, falsely accused of horse stealing. Once he was released he swore he'd never go back to jail again and set out for the New Mexico Territory to make a new start. Yet it wasn't long before his dreams of a peaceful life were shattered by a Colorado prison guard and a federal marshal with an extradition order. But Toby wasn't about to pay for someone else's crimes again...and this time he had friends who were ready to move mountains to help him. This time Toby would fight the law. This time he'd push back.

    a towering tale of dreams unfettered, of mustangs running free, and of young men riding hell-bent-for-leather into Indian country for no other reason than they were young, brave and wild.By 1900 the Old West was vanishing, but the man many called its fastest gun was still alive.  By then Car Brules had shut himself and his secrets away in a cabin on Colorado's Lone Cone Peak.  Only one person knew his real story, a boy of eleven who became his friend and heard his extraordinary tales in 1909.  The Scout is that unforgettable story, just as young Steven Cartwright heard it, just as Brules told it: hard and gritty, wry with a cowboy's humor, and true to the spirits of all those who loved the west--and died for it--from Custer to Crazy Horse.Many hard, hurting things had driven Cat Brules to become the man he was.  The death of his beloved Shoshone bride, Wild Rose, was one of them.  Months after Brules lost her--brutally and far too soon--Wild Rose still came to him in his dreams.  With a void in his heart and a reckless spirit, Brules signed on as a Scout for General George Crook, whose cavalry was headed into the Badlands. Then, the U.S. Army still didn't know that there were fifteen thousand Sioux and Cheyenne in those Wyoming foothills, and under chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, every one of them was willing to fight to the death to live free.Brules's account of the violence that ensued, told with eyewitness immediacy and chilling authenticity, is one of courage and shame as he rides the trail toward the Little Big Horn and the battles that followed.  Seeing for himself the dying of a way of life, Brules tells a searing truth about America's history: the betrayal of Custer to the Sioux, the hunting of Geronimo, and the U.S. Army's cruel pursuit of Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce.  And here too are the women who loved Brules: White Antelope, the gentle Indian maiden who wanted what Brules felt he could never give again--and Melisande, the saucy Mormon girl who might be too much for even Cat Brules to handle.Debunking the myths of the Old West and the romanticism of movies, renowned Western writer Harry Combs creates a vision at once more complex, magnificent and genuine--from the make of the rifle to the caliber of the bullet that cut Custer down.  A novel unmatched in excitement and adventure, The Scout lets you smell the cordite, feel a man's hard need for a woman, and discover that the real flesh and blood inhabitants of those legendary days were tougher, bolder and more fascinating than we ever dared to imagine.

    But when tragedy strikes, he loses everything and together with his young granddaughter, he embarks on a journey that will change her future.Sparked with authentic details, these grand adventures fill the imagination with vivid characters.

    Professional fighting man Carter O’Brien could stick around Scot’s Post, California, and risk taking a bullet in the back from a bully-boy with a score to settle … or he could ride up into the treacherous, winter-locked mountains on an impossible mission of mercy.They both came down to the same thing – almost certain death. But because O’Brien had never been one to pass up a challenge, he chose the mountains.The dangers were plenty – ambushers, marauding Indians, the worst kind of weather imaginable and a silent, deadly killer. If he were to survive all that, O’Brien learned pretty quick that the job he’d signed on for would require all the cold steel he had in him."A superb, natural story-teller," -- Twentieth Century Western Writers"Ben Bridges is arguably the best western writer Britain has ever produced," -- Steve Hayes, author of Viva Gringo!

    Seeking vengeance on the rebel renegades who murdered his family, Civil War veteran Nathan Stone sets out on an odyssey that will take him throughout the United States and across the paths of the West's most famous--and infamous--characters, including Jesse James, "Wild" Bill Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin.

    Here he started a new life of hard work, and plans for the future. Eventually settling in Scituate, (he was one of the founders) he marries Damaris Torry. But the new colony faces its perils, from disease, to pirate raids, to the King Phillips War, the greatest Indian War in American history. Richard, like so many of the other early settlers, had the courage and tenacity to stake his claim in the new world, and start a legacy that, today, includes 30 million American descendants.

    Woolard’s classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . .Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeking fresh scalps. When he spied Zelda Shaw struggling for her life with a Shawnee brave, he could stay hidden no longer. But saving her life meant two people had to be protected from the cold, starvation and those who would kill them both. And Matthan was taking Zelda home, dowMatthan Hannar that to survive the harsh, untamed wilderness of the OhioValley in 1790, , it’s best to avoid all contact with settlers (likely to hang you) and Indians (even more likely to slaughteryou). Success on those fronts means he might not starve, drown, or freeze to death. But while he’s winding his way upriver as stealthily as he can, he stumbles across Zelda Shaw furiously fighting off a ferociousShawnee brave. Breaking his own rules means Matthan Hannar has s now got to keep Zeldab alive, too, or face the wrath of her kinfolk.In order to do that he’ll have to kill off a hell of a lot more . . .

    The discovery of rich lodes of gold in southwestern Nevada drew mobs of dreamers and entrepreneurs, out to get rich quick.