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GUNSMOKEWESTERNSHARDCOVER BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES

NEW TITLES JUN-SEP 12

JUNE 2012JULY 2012

Max Brand®The White IndianRusty was a child when Cheyenne Indians killed his mother. Raised by Spotted Antelope and Bitter Root, Rusty – now known as Red Hawk – refuses initiation into the tribe and is abandoned.

Rusty’s father has dedicated his life to killing Cheyenne warriors and the Cheyenne call him Wind Walker. Red Hawk, who has no recollection of his white father, wants to rejoin the only family he has ever known . . . he’ll kill Wind Walker, the bitterest enemy of his people.

isbn 978 14458 87272 336 pp

Louis L’AmourRiding for the Brand: A Western TrioIn The Lion Hunter and the Lady, Cat Morgan is trying to bag a mountain lion to sell to a circus. In The Trail to Peach Meadow Cañon, Mike Bastian has been raised by an outlaw chief. And in Riding for the Brand, Jed Ashbury was stripped and forced to run the gauntlet by Indians.

isbn 978 14458 87302 192 pp

Wayne D. OverholserChumley’s Gold: A Western DuoHigh Valley is set in the Colorado Rockies, where Grant Talbot works as ramrod for the Wagon Wheel spread. The owner has died and his widow is attracted to Grant. If he doesn’t return that affection, she’s prepared to sell out.

In Chumley’s Gold, young Dan Larsen learns after his mother’s death that his father was a bank robber, and may have stashed stolen loot.

isbn 978 14458 87296 320 pp

Lauran PaineThe MustangersMark Lane and Reg Bachelor have been partners for some time, working as ranch hands. In the fall of 1935, they travel into northern Arizona, then south onto the Navajo Reservation, where they are hired to trap horses in Mexico. But old Honorio Calderón detests everything about gringos, and the mustangs have run free on his land for a long time. Gringos have been known to quietly disappear on the Calderón estate . . .

isbn 978 14458 87319 224 pp

Cherry WilsonOutcasts of Picture RocksFor many years the Picture Rocks Basin has sheltered the Jore family from the law. The basin also shelters a fabulous Palomino stallion called Black Wing, descended from champion thoroughbreds. The Jores have left him to run free with the wild herd, but Race Coulter has a different plan.

isbn 978 14458 87326 240 pp

James C. WorkRide South to PurgatoryWhen Pasque Pendragon comes to live at his uncle’s ranch in the Wyoming Territory, his mission is to track down the killers of his brothers.

Everything changes with the arrival of a stranger at the ranch. This giant of a man issues a bizarre challenge: he will fight a duel in which any man may fire three shots at him point-blank. But if the three miss, he may be able to do the same to him in a year’s time.

isbn 978 14458 87289 256 pp

T. T. FlynnThe Devil’s LodeIn Gallows Breed, the short novel which opens the book, young Jerry Carson watches as outlaw Don José de Gama y Lopez murders his father. The outlaw then decides to raise the boy as his own.

Old Hellcat is the story of a widowed rancher who has retired to allow his daughter and son-in-law to run the ranch which took his lifetime to establish. The final and title story tells of the Concho, a high-grade gold mine just north of the Mexican border.

isbn 978 14458 87340 272 pp

Fred GroveInto the Far MountainsAfter two daring paramilitary rescue missions for the U.S. Army, Jesse Alden Wilder wound up in Tucson in Arizona Territory, exhausted from fighting. Mrs Susan Andrews Lattimore is familiar with Jesse Wilder’s reputation, and has decided he is the man to help rescue her young son from the Apaches, who killed his uncle and abducted him from a stagecoach.

isbn 978 14458 87357 288 pp

Will HenryTumbleweeds: Frontier StoriesAmong the stories included in this collection of frontier tales are three about the lives and times of Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger and his brothers, all frontier outlaws whose exploits have become legend. Home Place is an early episode in the life of Ben Allison, a character who has figured in a number of Henry’s novels.

isbn 978 14458 87364 256 pp

Ray HoganGuns of FreedomThese two Western novels are both crafted with Ray Hogan’s compelling style – depth of character combined with an emotionally involving narrative. In Fire River, Joel Kane is returning to the ranch in New Mexico he left at fifteen, when his mother died.

Guns of Freedom is set in Cuba in 1851. American adventurer Cain Ruby is hired by commercial interests in New Orleans to assist in General Lopez’s invasion of the island.

isbn 978 14458 87371 288 pp

William MacLeod RaineSons of the SaddleGord Stone is an ex-convict hell-bent on revenge, viciously gunning for the cattle king who’d framed him. He had been a reckless, wild kid when Gilbert framed him on a rigged murder rap and robbed him of his ranch. But the eight years he’d spent in jail had sharpened his resolve to get even, strengthened his determination to clear his name.

Now he was free to put his plan into action – free to make Gilbert crawl for mercy, beg for death.

isbn 978 14458 86978 176 pp

Les Savage, Jr.The Bloody QuarterIn Wyoming, new land is being opened for filing by the federal government. Paul Hagar is able to file on the most important section, which serves as a gateway for the surrounding ranchers to summer graze their herds in the high country – and it’s sought by the most powerful rancher in the state and the gambling syndicate in War Bonnet, the boom town that is the county seat.

isbn 978 14458 87388 192 pp

AUGUST 2012SEPTEMBER 2012

Verne AthanasPursuit: Western StoriesWith concern for the complexities of the human condition and care for the accuracy of historical detail, Verne Athanas wrote about the truly timeless themes: the passions and fears of men and women as they faced life on the American frontier. These seven stories bring some of his finest work together.

isbn 978 14458 50672 224 pp

Jackson ColeTrouble ShooterThe name of Jim Hatfield, a tough, two-fisted undercover man of the Texas Rangers, is enough to send fear into those who plot evil. His nerve is iron hard, his draw a blur of motion. The sight of him riding into town on his great sorrel horse, Goldy, has meant the beginning of the end of many a reckless career of lawlessness.

Jim has never faced a deadlier assignment than when a crime-ridden corner of Texas is torn apart by vicious killings and a railroad war . . .

isbn 978 14458 50658 128 pp

E. E. HalleranSmoky RangeBorn to the saddle, Frank Burdick came home from the East with an M.D. tacked onto his name. He meant to establish himself in Big Hole Basin as a respected physician. But he found the Basin hardly the ideal place to settle down. Frank’s uncle had been murdered, and everyone – including Frank himself – was a suspect. Before it was over, young Dr Burdick was thankful he could still handle a six-gun as well as a scalpel!

isbn 978 14458 50696 192 pp

Nelson NyeBorn to TroubleMine owner Roy Jones stared around him at the ring of cold-eyed killers. Unknown to him, a tall stranger was observing the tense scene calmly. The mine owner stumbled forward, half-paralyzed with fear. ‘Hold it, mister!’ came a slow drawl from the shadows. Half a dozen hands leapt toward guns. The game always got fast when Ranger Jim Trammell dealt himself in!

isbn 978 14458 50665 160 pp

Bradford ScottGunsmoke on the Rio GrandeIt was a mighty dangerous gunsmoke riddle that Ranger Walt Slade had to solve. Who was behind the night-riding terrorists who had driven a dozen families from their small, poverty-stricken ranches – and murdered those who defied them?

Who would want these worthless, arid sections of land, anyhow? And who was El Cascabel, the mysterious ‘liberator’ from across the border?

isbn 978 14458 50702 144 pp

Lee E. WellsThe Naked LandHal Graydon got the message: a lot of powerful people didn’t want him to take on the job of fencing the greatest cattle range in all the Southwest. A fence meant war, something a fence-man could live without. So Hal was ready to call it quits . . . until the fence-haters made one wrong move too many – they killed Hal’s best friend. That’s how the fence-haters got their war . . . and a lot more they’d never reckoned on.

isbn 978 14458 50689 160 pp

Curtis BishopReach For Your GunsJonathan Corey stood big and white-haired, holding the trumped-up warrant for Cameron’s arrest in his hands. Not a breath could be heard from the watching town. Jim Cameron faced down the biggest man in Texas – father of the girl he loved – and suddenly he knew one of them had to die for it.

isbn 978 14458 50832 160 pp

Dan CushmanThe Pecos Kid: A Western DuoThe Pecos Kid is former Confederate officer Bill Warren, a Texan who has earned himself a name from Montana to the Rio Grande. He is sided by two partners on the trail: Hernandez Flanagan, half Spanish and half Irish, and Big Jim Swing, a huge cowboy with a mass of hair only partly hidden by his California sombrero. Heading into Yellowstone country with a Wyoming stocker herd of four hundred head, the trio finds themselves in the midst of a raging conflict.

isbn 978 14458 50818 240 pp

Wade EverettTemporary DutyLieutenant Linus McCaffey was a determined and efficient young man with ambition, humour, a brand new wife and a great deal of courage. The combination proved to be an explosive one – especially when it came to rebuilding a fort in the heart of Apache country. Tucson and Arizona Territory discover that Lieutenant McCaffey is not a man to compromise on any issues whatsoever.

isbn 978 14458 50849 144 pp

Chad MerrimanNight KillerHack Sumpter had no right to be alive. He had been bushwhacked, robbed and left for dead in the desert. Silver City was an uneasy town. There had been a lot of robberies – and dead victims couldn’t identify their murderers. It could be anybody. The citizens of Silver City walked soft, kept their mouths shut, and locked their doors as tight as their suspicions. It looked as though Hack would have to find the killers by himself.

isbn 978 14458 50863 144 pp

Stephen OverholserCold WindWhen a hired hand vanishes with his daughter’s pony, Gideon Coopersmith goes after him. He is run off by the man’s mother, Ruth Logan, cigar-smoking owner of the Miner’s Delight Saloon. A vigilante group is also searching for the hired hand – apparently successfully, since he is found lynched. This news brings Ruth Logan on a mission of vengeance, and, as the hangings continue, Gideon fears for the safety of his family.

isbn 978 14458 50825 272 pp

Eleanor StewartThe Fair VisionThere were 102 passengers on the Mayflower and their goal was to attain freedom – personal, social, economic and, above all, spiritual. With little understanding of the local wildlife, little skill at hunting, fishing or growing food in the new land, the colonists had somehow to make peace with the often warring Indian nations if their colony was to survive.

isbn 978 14458 50856 224 pp

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JUNE 2012..........Max Brand® The White Indian 978 14458 87272 ..........Louis L’Amour Riding for the Brand 978 14458 87302 ..........Wayne D. Overholser Chumley’s Gold 978 14458 87296..........Lauran Paine The Mustangers 978 14458 87319..........Cherry Wilson Outcasts of Picture Rocks 978 14458 87326..........James C. Work Ride South to Purgatory 978 14458 87289

JULY 2012..........T. T. Flynn The Devil’s Lode 978 14458 87340..........Fred Grove Into the Far Mountains 978 14458 87357..........Will Henry Tumbleweeds 978 14458 87364..........Ray Hogan Guns of Freedom 978 14458 87371..........William MacLeod Raine Sons of the Saddle 978 14458 86978..........Les Savage, Jr. The Bloody Quarter 978 14458 87388

AUGUST 2012..........Verne Athanas Pursuit 978 14458 50672..........Jackson Cole Trouble Shooter 978 14458 50658..........E. E. Halleran Smoky Range 978 14458 50696..........Nelson Nye Born to Trouble 978 14458 50665..........Bradford Scott Gunsmoke on the Rio Grande 978 14458 50702..........Lee E. Wells The Naked Land 978 14458 50689

SEPTEMBER 2012..........Curtis Bishop Reach for your Guns 978 14458 50832..........Dan Cushman The Pecos Kid 978 14458 50818..........Wade Everett Temporary Duty 978 14458 50849..........Chad Merriman Night Killer 978 14458 50863..........Stephen Overholser Cold Wind 978 14458 50825..........Eleanor Stewart The Fair Vision 978 14458 50856

RECENTLY PUBLISHED..........Max Brand® The Survival of Juan Oro 978 14458 81409

..........Tim Champlin Lincoln’s Ransom 978 14458 81416

..........Walt Coburn The Secret of Crutcher’s Cabin 978 14458 81478

..........Jackson Cole Massacre Canyon 978 14458 86886

..........Jane Candia Coleman The O’Keefe Empire 978 14458 81485

..........Eli Colter Canyon Rattlers 978 14458 87173

..........Peter Dawson Angel Peak 978 14458 81423

..........H. A. DeRosso Riders of the Shadowlands 978 14458 87197

..........Robert Easton To Find a Place 978 14458 81492

..........Allan Vaughan Elston Hit The Saddle 978 14458 86947

..........Wade Everett Fort Starke 978 14458 87210

..........Cliff Farrell Desperate Journey 978 14458 86954

..........Bennett Foster The Mexican Saddle 978 14458 81430

..........Arthur Henry Gooden Roaring River Range 978 14458 81508

..........E. E. Halleran Outlaws of Empty Poke 978 14458 86961

..........Peter B. Kyne Lord of Lonely Valley 978 14458 81447

..........Louis L’Amour Glory Riders 978 14458 81515

..........Bliss Lomax Riders of the Buffalo Grass 978 14458 87234

..........T. V. Olsen The Lost Colony 978 14458 81522

..........Lauran Paine Man Without a Gun 978 14458 86985

..........William MacLeod Raine Fighting Tenderfoot 978 14458 87333

..........Roe Richmond The Wild Breed 978 14458 87258

..........Lee E. Wells Gun for Sale 978 14458 81461

..........Gordon Young Tall in the Saddle 978 14458 87265