Westerns Books

Larry McMurtry's major bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece about the Old West, updated with a new preface for its 25th anniversary. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in...

Rancher and mountain climber Josh Conway has never backed down from a challenge. So when a photographer disappears in the wilderness during a blizzard, Josh answers the emergency call and leaps into action. Yet he's soon shocked to find the person in "distress" is doing fine-and she's a gorgeous blo...

No one outruns Fast Lawrence Shaw-especially when he runs "with" them. In the delirium of a mysterious head wound, Shaw stumbles upon the Dexter Lowe Boys on their way to steal some U.S. armament in the badlands. But in his weakened condition, Shaw will need backup. So U.S. Marshals Crayton Dawson a...

Canavan drifted down the valley and into a shooting war. The big ranchers were rustlers turned respectable. Now they were fighting with each other. In the middle were a small spread and a woman. Canavan had a mind to stay so he staked a claim. And when the gun hands were gone he'd have every thing h...

His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a v...

When Otis Chancy started out he had nothing. Then fate dealt him four of a kind - all bullets. The young drifter played his hand for keeps, taking his chances again st crooked sheriffs, deadly gunmen, and renegade Indians. Bu t the game was far from over. '

Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make ...

Folks tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. His pa was no quitter. Then the boy discovered that just before the bullet had found him, the elder McRaven had had a remarkable run of luck. He'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ran...

The men of the Tumbling B had survived stampedes and the Kiowa to drive their herd up from Big Bend. Now they wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the owner of the Tumbling B, had a better idea. She aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themsel...

Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo collect it. But when he and his men break out and head for the stash, they end up with a pair of unwelcome partners: Rodelo and a beautiful woman with a hidden past. To get fifty thousand dollars in gold across...

Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going back to where he began--Blewer County, Texas...Born deaf, lately widowed, Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her son's birthright, unaware that...

The epic novel of the violent west - a cult classic and a masterpiece. Based loosely on historical accounts of murder along the border between Tezas and Mexico in the 1850's. Author Biography National Book Award winner Cormac McCarthy is the author of the bestsellers Border Trilogy: The Crossi...

The extraordinary new Western from the New York Times- bestselling author, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited ...

"Tall, dark and eligible?" That's all that matters to the women of Jacobsville when it comes to handsome and aloof FBI agent Jon Blackhawk. But if it were up to him, he would never settle down. Luckily, Jon has a gatekeeper: his efficient and reliable assistant, Joceline Perry. Without her help, he'...

In a land of legends The Loner has nothing to prove. That's usually when violence finds its way to him...For a posse chasing a murderous band of outlaws, a quiet kid with a lightning fast gun is good company. And when the outlaws turn around and attack the posse, The Loner doesn't have a choice: he'...

In the Montana Territory, a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter, and a beautiful woman named Raven's Wing makes the sheltering even better - once preacher gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to lift his scalp. Across the border is another wanderer and ano...

A cowboy through and through, ranch owner Mallory Kirk knows what it means to put in a full day's work. But does his new cowgirl? He has his doubts that Morie Brannt will be able to pull her own weight, even if the petite young woman does seem to have a lot of spirit.As they spar over events at the ...

Sam Heller is a Yankee, a Kansas man who tries to live by the precepts of the Bible and the law but by doing so often finds himself on the wrong side of evildoers cloaked in the guise of authority. Johnny Cross is an outlaw and gunfighter who professes to believe only in his own raw nerve and lightn...

Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan and the current occupant of a cell in Hell Gate prison. The Loner's crime? He looked too much like an ou...

Lou Spencer, Dillard Sumner, and their fourteen Texas cowboys brought herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, through Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds pasts Fort...

Includes excerpt from: Slaughter of eagles (p. [285]-315).

There were a thousand ways to die on a trail drive through Mexico. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to li...

With his wife's killers dead and buried, Conrad Morgan - known as The Loner - is on his way to Mexico for some peace and quiet. But on the way he's sidetracked by some intriguing travelers who are hunting down a valuable golden artifact. They're not the only ones who want to get a hold of the treasu...

Before Conrad Browning can truly disappear, Kid Morgan has to figure out who was really behind the murder of his wife. He's sure a visit to his beloved's grave in Val Verde will draw them out. Reissue.

Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popular heroes in frontier fiction. His legendary exploits in books, movies, and on television have blazed a mythic and unforgettable trail across the American West. Now, in the last of four Hopalong Cassidy novels written by Louis L'Amour, the immort...

Conagher was the only man who could teach robbing, rustling Smoke Parnell and his murderous outfit the lesson the whole territory had been too afraid to give them. But when a woman steals his heart, Conagher has some lessons to learn himself.

In "Sackett," Louis L'Amour introduces readers to a wandering man with a desire to settle down and build a good life. Hard circumstances have made William Tell Sackett a drifter, but now he hungers for a place he can't name yet knows he has to find. South of the Tetons he comes upon a ghost of a tra...

One year after their sister rode off to avenge their father's death. Tim and Jed Strange are on the brink of losing the family farm. They head west hoping to find their sister, but find trouble instead. Accused of a murder they didn't commit, they're on the run, and seeking the true killers....

Ash Cordell was only ten when his parents had been murdered in cold blood and their home burned to the ground. The details of his own rescue were vague in his mind, but he remembered distinctly the valley he had known as a little boy -- and the unusual boot worn by one of the men who had pillaged th...

The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father -- that is, until he inherited half of Whisper Creek Ranch, one of the most prosperous in Parable, Montana. That doesn't...

If there's anything better than coming home to Texas, it's getting paid to do it. For Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, always on the hunt for funds, the job of taking three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Tyler, Texas, for trial is worth the risk. Little do they know that one of the criminals -- a be...

In the late 1860s following the Civil War, Texas was impoverished. No one had any money and business was at a standstill. No cattle had been sold for years, and ranges crawled with beef-on-the-hoof waiting for someone with the necessary guts and finances to get them to market. Meanwhile, out-of-work...

Trago was a man of the West. His Stetson was pushed back on his head, and his big shoulders sloped. A gun hung on his hip. Tom Trago was rough and earthy -- a product of the wild free land. Trago was also the last of a breed. The open country, which made men like Trago, was disappearing, parceled up...

Coleman has won the Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame three times, as well as two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.Wealthy archeologist Lawrence Haslett has located an important site for the artifacts of an ancient tribe of Indians in the Lost River Valley. He hires ...

Chet Byrnes is trying to hold his Texas family ranch together for one more winter and one more cattle drive. After he hangs three horse thieves on the banks of the Red River, a blood feud erupts. Original.

After a bizarre double killing forces her into exile, Rowena Jansen is living like a hermit in Keylock, Colorado, and concentrating only on survival. Travis Clay went off to war and witnessed the terrible suffering of men and his country. Afterwards, he joined his friend to work on a ranch, but when...