Best of
Western

1996

West Texas Match


Ginger Chambers - 1996
     At eighty-one, Mae is the matriarch of the Parker family and is accustomed to bending everyone to her will. Everyone, that is, except her great-nephew, Rafe, who runs the huge family-owned operation and is equally as iron-willed. Rafe is not at all happy when he learns that his great-aunt has picked out a wife for him...and invited her, after a recent accident, to recuperate at the ranch. All his life he’s watched Mae manipulate people. He’ll be damned if he’ll fall in love on her order! The Parker Ranch, run by Parker sons and daughters since before The War Between the States. Tough, rugged, fiercely loyal...to each other and to the people they let into their hearts. The West Texans, a 7-book series.

Always to Remember


Lorraine Heath - 1996
    To Meg, who lost her husbands and brothers in the war, Clay's presence was a constant offense. As punishment, Meg commissioned Clay to create a memorial for the town's war heroes. But as she spent months watching him, Meg's feelings began to change.

Tame the Wild Wind


Rosanne Bittner - 1996
    Settlers had murdered his Indian wife and child, and now revenge was all he lived for. Riding westward with a renegade Sioux band, he became Tall Bear, a warrior with a wounded soul, a man with an anger and grief that tore away his gentleness and dreams—until a raid on a Wyoming stagecoach station brought him face-to-face with a feisty, red-haired beauty who would change his life...Faith Kelley had run from her strict, pious upbringing toward the freedom of the frontier and a reckless husband. All too quickly, tragedy left her alone with an infant son and shattered plans. But Faith had drawn strength from the soaring hills, and her tough-minded courage flared when Indians attacked the stage stop that had become her home. She never guessed that Gabe Beaumont, the handsome, dark-haired cowboy who later rode into the station, was the Sioux warrior who had led that raid.  He had changed worlds to claim the woman who was his destiny—and to fight for her love against the shadows and the danger that lurked in his wild heart.

Not Between Brothers


David Marion Wilkinson - 1996
    The novel unfolds through the eyes and experience of Remy Fuqua, an orphan whose understanding of his fellow man is almost as great as his predilection for battle and his fierce national pride. When he marries a well-born Tejana, Beatriz Amarante de la Cruz, Fuqua is tempted to abandon the world he comes from until a tragic loss catapults him straight to the front lines in the battle for Texan independence.

Texas Love Song


Jodi Thomas - 1996
    Sloan Alexander is a Galvanized Yankee, a Confederate soldier who changed sides. McCall Harrison is the widow of a well-respected Confederate officer. And although the Civil War is over, it lingers in the hearts and souls of many, destroying lives. Sloan and McCall, both at emotional crossroads, come together to help a band of Cheyenne children and in turn find love and a future together. Texas Love Song is a poignant and remarkable love story that you will long remember.

The Outsider


Frank Roderus - 1996
    Leon was black & he knew he had to prove that courage knew no color.

Buckskin Vengeance (Buckskin Series Book 2)


John Legg - 1996
    Alex Campbell swore vengeance on the men who killed his trapping partners, then stole their furs, horses and women out of winter camp.

Keegan's Lady


Catherine Anderson - 1996
    and an adversary.Ace Keegan has returned to No Name, too late to enact a rightful vengeance on his most hated enemy. The man who put a hole in Ace's life is dead, leaving a daughter behind to run the family enterprise. Though proud and strong as well as beautiful, Caitlin is caught off guard when Ace's calculated anger inadvertently destroys her good name. But Ace Keegan is a man of honor, determined to make amends by marrying the enchanting lady he wronged—and to nurture patience and love the light she guards in her damage heart until it blazes with the power of a thousand suns.

Callie's Honor


Kathleen Lawless - 1996
    Until a handsome stranger arrives on the scene. If it’s not bad enough he’s there, her life is further complicated when someone drops an infant at her door.Not the drifter he pretends to be, Rafe Millar is a man with a mission, seeking revenge for his brother’s death. Callie’s ranch is the perfect location to carry out his plans and then he’ll be on his way.Except something about Callie’s proud, defiant green eyes makes him care more than he wants to or should. ‘Specially when her home goes up in flames and it’s his fault.Everyone Rafe has ever loved has died. But can he leave Callie to the mercy of her unscrupulous neighbor? Not to mention there’s the baby to consider.This one has it all. A marriage of convenience, a secret baby, a reluctant hero and plenty of sexual tension. Grab it now!“A tantalizing western adventure set in rural Oregon, 1868.” Rawhide and Lace“This heart-warming Western adventure demonstrates convincingly that love is always a risk worth taking.” Romantic Times

The Mackenzies: Luke


Ana Leigh - 1996
    She had spent her last dollar buying a riverboat ticket and now she didn't have one coin to rub against another. So when asked to take the place of a mail-order bride with cold feet, the bold and unfettered blonde didn't hesitate to play the part. But when she realized her game was going arwy when she rushed headlong into the arms of the law.Sheriff Luke MacKenzie had sent for a bride, a demure, motherly type, someone who would be able to take good care of his child. But when he saw the gleam in Honey's eyes, he knew he was in trouble.

Hunter's Bride


Jessica Wulf - 1996
    There, she intended to marry her childhood friend. But when Sarah arrives at Fort St. Charles, she meets Orion Beaudine, a rugged scout who wins her heart with his kisses.

North to the Bitterroot


Ralph Compton - 1996
    Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the touch-as-leather men who carried supplies, guns and gold into the untamed frontier.Dutch Siringo rose from modest beginnings and proved his skill with a team of horses and a gun. Betrayed by a woman, hunted by a desperate man, Dutch led a group of hard-fighting teamsters where no other shippers would go-through the heart of the Sioux territory, into the teeth of winder along the murderous Bozeman Trail. Now, between Fort Kearny and the mining camps in the Bitterroot Mountains, Dutch and his teamsters faced Montana blizzards, hungry wolves and the kind of enemies you have to bury to outrun.

Texas Glory: An Epic Saga Of The Alamo


Robert Vaughan - 1996
    They came with long guns and dreams, and called themselves Texans. They fought to get there. They fought to stay. Now, they would fight to the death. With names like Crockett, Houston and Bowie, they fought and clawed their way to an adobe-walled fortress called the Alamo. There, the small army of Independence stood in the way of Santa Anna's best troops. Outnumbered forty-to-one, they came to the Alamo to die, and their fight would live forever... Robert Vaughn master Western storyteller, tells the ultimate American frontier epic, the saga of the men and women whose destinies met at the Alamo, and the courage that shaped a legend and a land.

Yesterday's Reveille: An Epic of the Seventh Calvary


Robert Vaughan - 1996
    Serving in the Seventh Cavalry under George Custer, young officer JoeMurchison rises through the ranks while fighting against anunpredictable enemy, who makes him believe that his training will never be sufficient.

Frontier Destiny


William W. Johnstone - 1996
    Preacher, The Epic Continues.Omnibus edition.A man learning as he grows, and fighting as he learns, Preacher builds a frontier legend in two classic bestselling novels in one: Forty Guns West and Blackfoot Messiah.Forty Guns WestDuring a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher’s wrongly accused of murdering wealthy landowner Elam Parks—and there’s a $5,000 reward. The fortune in blood money has dispatched a small army of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, and Preacher can’t think of a more scenic place to pick them off, one by one .Blackfoot MessiahA messiah shall lead them . . . to an early grave.In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary mountain man Preacher, it isn't a promise—it’s a threat. But being out-numbered in a savage frontier means justice will be as hard-earned and uncertain as . . . survival.With a loyal Cheyenne as his guide, and a spirited Dragoon squadron for cover, Preacher forges up the treacherous Santa Fe trail. But the only way to win this war is to unmask the hell-raising Messiah whose godforsaken message is leading a desperate people into certain massacre.. .

While The Rivers Run


Wynema McGowan - 1996
    Spanning more than half a century, it is a big-hearted novel that brings to vivid life the grit and grandeur of the old West – and a woman who became a legend.

The Pumpkin Rollers


Elmer Kelton - 1996
    But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence and death from outlaw Jarrett Longacre, a man who will plague his life at every turn.

The Blood Oath


Tom Austin - 1996
    He leaves for the plains of Kansas, determined to seek blood and revenge. Blood he finds, indeed.He joins an unusual band of men who want a quiet place where they can live and forget the war. But there is nothing quiet about Kansas just after the Civil War. Matthew and his new friends create the first Texas cattle drive, build a hotel, own a farm, teach school, and fight to the death for what is theirs. Then Matt meets Lee. She can drive a stagecoach, shoot with either hand, and ride a wild horse. When Falcon Beck, Matt's blood enemy, swears to have Lee as his own, Matthew faces a test of courage and commitment that will determine whether he lives or dies.