"An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West. Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set...

A horse who had been bred to race escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom, but at a terrible price. Can he survive those who are trying to hunt him down? Nothing proves straightforward as the hunt closes in.

After suffering defeat in the Civil War, a young man struggles to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw and unsettled land. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived, leaving everything he owned behind, he knew his business would not be...

From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s. It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock was moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date on Sunday morning-until someone struck oil. Now the scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer, drifter,...

From the moment Panhandle Smith rides into a New Mexico town, he finds it without law, except that offered by the unscrupulous Hardmans through their puppet marshal. But Pan has been looking for the Hardmans so he can deal them his own brand of justice.

"When Dave Wall refuses to do Luke Lilavelt's dirty work any longer, Lilavelt makes good on his threat to reveal a secret from Dave's brother-in-law's past that could send him to prison or worse. Now Dave has to find a way stop Lilavelt's plans"--

Frank Claymore is not easy to like -- to admire, maybe, but not to like. He is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant -- the very qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattleman on the West Texas frontier. In one of his most memorable novels, acclaimed Western writer Elmer Kelton follows Frank Claymore's life from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th century -- through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the...

Agatha Downing was known in her 1880s frontier town as the picture of primness and propriety, although her green eyes could blaze with anger or sparkle with humor. LeMaster Scott Gandy was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong. He was comfortable running his saloon. They were enemies, until a grudging friendship forced them to admit each other's good points. Then the sweet innocence of a child...

With the two-million-dollar reward for the safe return of Ann Montgomery, who was kidnapped long ago, about to expire, R. J. Bannon, agreeing to take on this cold case, believes that talented local artist Erin Randall is Ann--a discovery that brings a legacy of lies and deception to a shocking climax.

In Loren D. Estleman's Stamping Ground, Deputy U.S. Marshall Page Murdock isn't happy when Judge Blackthorne decides to send him on an assignment to North Dakota. He passed through the territory once before and is not eager to return to a land of sudden blizzards and spring floods. And, to make matters worse he has been handed the nearly impossible job of apprehending the renegade Cheyenne leader Ghost Shirt, who is responsible for several massacres...