Best of
Western

1999

The Great Trek


Zane Grey - 1999
    But the shooting that made him an outlaw was one he didn't do. Though it was his cousin who pulled the trigger, Sterl took the blame, and now he has to leave the country if he wants to stay healthy. Sterl and his loyal friend, Red Krehl, set out for the greatest adventure of their lives, signing on for a cattle drive across the vast northern desert of Australia to the gold fields of the Kimberley Mountains. But it seems no matter where Sterl goes, trouble is bound to follow!One of the finest novels of Zane Grey's career, The Great Trek has never been available in paperback as Grey wrote it—until now. Faced with war-time paper shortages, his publisher cut the novel to barely one-third of its original length and published the result as The Wilderness Trek. Now, finally, Grey's epic full-length novel has been restored and can be read the way it was meant to be.

Blood Mountain


Peter Brandvold - 1999
    Violence is their currency and cruelty their creed. And they've just found a whole wagon train of settlers who are about to become their newest victims. A man of vengeance without pity... Nordstrom was a simple man of the West who helped the settlers find their way. The relentless outlaws repaid him by destroying everything he had lived, worked and fought for. Now he is going to show them what one man can do...when he has nothing left to lose. Blood Mountain is a wild western adventure that has it all – humor, violence and romance!

Texas Proud


Constance O'Banyon - 1999
    With one shot, she would have her revenge on the man who'd killed her father. She'd known that one day he would return to Texas. But Texas wasn't big enough for the two of them, and now her moment of truth had finally arrived.So what was stopping her from pulling the trigger? Perhaps it was the memory of Noble's teasing voice, his soft smile, or the way one glance from his dark Spanish eyes had once stirred her foolish heart to longing. Yes, she had loved him then...as much as she hated him now. One way or another, she would wound him to the heart—if not with bullets, then with her own feminine wiles. But as Rachel was soon to discover, sometimes the line between love and hate is too thinly drawn. Sometimes there is no stopping a deep, smoldering anger from erupting into flames of desire.

The Fisher Lass


Margaret Dickinson - 1999
    The groom marries the girl his parents chose, but Jeannie cannot forget him, even after she marries Gracie's brother.

The Ghost with Blue Eyes


Robert J. Randisi - 1999
    Eyes that looked up at him as he fired the shot that killed her. He hadn't meant to do it. Why did she have to get in the way just as he drew down on the man he was hired to kill? He asked himself that question every day, but he never found the answer, or a way to forgive himself. Even before the girl's body was cold, Lancaster hung up his guns and picked up a bottle. But even the booze couldn't get those blue eyes out of his head. And when he found another little girl who needed his help, a girl as desperate and sad as the one he'd killed, he knew he'd finally found a way to regain his soul...even if it cost him his life in the bargain.

Wilderness: Winterkill/Blood Truce


David Robbins - 1999
    And any greenhorn unlucky enough to get stranded in a wilderness blizzard faced a brutal death. Settlers like Nathaniel King had the survival skills needed to live through the fierce winter storms, and they willingly helped any stranded traveler. But when Nate took in a pair of strangers who had lost their way in the snow, their kindness was repaid with vile treachery. If King wasn’t careful, he and his young family would not live to see another spring. Blood Truce Under constant threat of Indian attack, a handful of white trappers and traders lived short, violent lives, painfully aware that their next breath could be their last. With only raw courage to aid them, Nathaniel King and other pioneers braved the savage Rockies to claim the freedom they found there. But when a deadly dispute among rival tribes blew up into a bloody war, Nate had to make peace between the enemies—or he and his young family would be the first to lose their scalps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David L. Robbins was born on Independence Day 1950. He has written more than three hundred books under his own name and many pen names, among them: David Thompson, Jake McMasters, Jon Sharpe, Don Pendleton, Franklin W. Dixon, Ralph Compton, Dean L. McElwain, J.D. Cameron and John Killdeer. Robbins was raised in Pennsylvania. When he was seventeen he enlisted in the United States Air Force and eventually rose to the rank of sergeant. After his honorable discharge he attended college and went into broadcasting, working as an announcer and engineer (and later as a program director) at various radio stations. Later still he entered law enforcement and then took to writing full-time. At one time or another Robbins has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. He spent a year and a half in Europe, traveling through France, Italy, Greece and Germany. He lived for more than a year in Turkey. Today he is best known for two current long-running series – Wilderness, the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his Shoshone wife – and Endworld is a science fiction series under his own name started in 1986. Among his many other books, Piccadilly Publishing is pleased to be reissuing ebook editions of Wilderness, Davy Crockett and, of course, White Apache. Check us out at www.piccadillypublishing.org

The Difference


Charles Willeford - 1999
    

When We Were Wolves: Stories


Jon Billman - 1999
    Or they would have named it for you, a permanent mark, just for being here."From a new talent that Annie Proulx has called an "important emerging writer" comes a surprising and expansive collection of stories, steeped in the lore of the frontier but unmistakably fresh and of our time.         When We Were Wolves roams over a West we never knew existed--colonized by rogues and tricksters, Custer impersonators, firefighters with a weakness for arson, and the other rootless folk who come to rest under the vast and forgiving desert sky. Jon Billman writes about accidental lives: people who are trapped in unsuitable marriages, impossible situations, but who handle them with the odd grace of those who are determined to live by their own strange code. He mingles the skewed humor of David Sedaris with the loping, rough-edged appeal of Tom McGuane. This is a beguiling new entry on the map of American fiction.

Born to Rope


Lee Nelson - 1999
    The flinch in a horse's, the drop of a boy's eyes: This is a rare book, attentive to the simple detail out of which great stories flow. From mustang bands sweeping up the bands sweeping up the hidden draws and ridges of the high, desolate San Rafael Swell to a horsetrading oasis hidden deep in an autowrecking yard on the outskirts of Spanish Fork, Utah, Nelson finds voices, elegant in their terseness, of people you never knew but should know. This is the story of Michael Diamond's coming of age, of finding grace in tragedy.

The Black Hawk Journey


Lee Nelson - 1999
    Their leader was Black Hawk who vowed to never cut his hair until the Mormons were driven from his land. The U.S. Army refused to get involved. The Mormon leader mustered his own illegal army--the Nauvoo Legion--setting apart two thousand young men to put on the armor of God. They were to do battle with the evasive Black Hawk who was arming his men with Civil War surplus Henry, Sharps and Spencer rifles. Lee Nelson spent five years researching and writing The Black Hawk Journey. Riding horseback to the locations described in the story, and digging through dusty journals were part of the preparation in bringing to life a fascinating, but tragic episode in Utah history.

Joe's Wife


Cheryl St. John - 1999
    Nothing will stop her from saving Joe's dream. The war has taken nearly all the able-bodied men--and a devilishly handsome bad boy seems her only choice. Town pariah, Tye Hatcher has a reputation as a hell-raiser, but he's looking to prove himself and has his own plans for the land. Meg's proposal might be too good to be true, but he's willing to take the risk, even if the risk is his heart. Struggling with guilt and the rejection of the townspeople, Meg must learn that her convenient husband is a man who takes risks and does what's right for the sake of others. Her vulnerable dreams and their hard work will be for naught unless she and Tye reveal their secrets and face what they're both coming to understand--they can't change the past, but the future is in their hands

The Finding of Jasper Holt; the Mystery of Mary; and Phoebe Deane (Grace Livingston Hill Collection)


Grace Livingston Hill - 1999
    

The Trailrider's Fortune


Shannah Biondine - 1999
    He rides into some of the West's rowdiest towns, taking care of problems for men willing to pay top dollar, and has earned a chilling reputation.By chance outside the Wichita saloon called The Scarlet Lady, he meets Sparkle LaFleur, a beautiful tarot card reader. From that fateful encounter, destiny takes the reins. Will a man who's lived by his gun be doomed to die by it, or can love be the redemption for both the gunfighter and his enigmatic lady?This book is an Old West adventure, with colorful period language. The atmosphere is sensual and gritty. A dark story nevertheless touched with humor, this is a historical romance for readers seeking a tale that spans a range of emotions and characters they won't soon forget.Note: Taken from inside cover of the Kindle Edition (ASIN B00A2V7P96)-Copyright 1999 Shannah BiondineAll Rights Reserved(Originally Published as Impassioned Vagabond)

Light in the Crossing: Stories


Kent Meyers - 1999
    We meet a woman who returns home to care for her family's farm, a man whose obsession with bow hunting affects his life in complex ways, and a farmer's son who plays a dangerous game of drag-racing roulette. Light in the Crossing is a beautifully crafted portrait of the relationships people in farming towns build with one another and the land on which they depend.

Riders of the Shadowlands: Western Stories


H.A. DeRosso - 1999
    There are illustrations depicting the experts' view of what these ancient animals looked like and the shape of the world they inhabited, as well as replica skeletons and fossilized remains. Acting as an identification guide, the text has been thoroughly checked in all areas.

Weird Western Adventures of Haakon Jones


Aaron B. Larson - 1999
    Over the course of forty years, Haakon faces every weird menace from the walking dead of the Caribbean to the Big Foot of the Northwest.Here are 36 "stories of science fiction, fantasy & horror" written by author Aaron B. Larson. These tales were originally printed in Classic Pulp Fiction Stories, Double Danger Tales, Of Unicorns and Space Stations, and Trails. Larson dedicates his first collection to the memory of Robert E. Howard. Enjoy the adventures of adventurer Haakon Jones set in times past throughout the Continental United States. Trade paperback, drawing on cover.

The Wolfer


Loren D. Estleman - 1999
    But in his latest mission, he takes on a wolf named Black Jack -- and he'll be lucky to get out alive...