In the summer of 1879, young Ben Drake travels to the town of Mason in New Mexico. The 18-year-old aims to find out the truth about his father's death at the hands of a lynch-mob, but soon the events which led to his father's death cast his own life into hazard. Drake finds himself drawn into the Mason County War, in which a band of young men challenge the iron rule of businessman Angus McBride who seems to have the authorities at his beck and call. The confrontation culminates in the youngsters...
Dead Man's Boots (Black Horse Western) (Linford Western Library)
by Edwin Derek
A lynch-minded posse is hot on the trail of the outlaw Jack Crow who discovers the body of a Texas Ranger new to the area. In order to shake off his pursuers, Jack decides to swap his identity and must wear the distinctive boots of the dead man if his deception is to succeed. Jack becomes accepted as a ranger and finds himself upholding the law from which he has so often run. This means siding with homesteaders and Mexicans against the mighty Lazy Creek ranch and a gang of gun-runners. A bloody...
North from Idaho (Black Horse Western) (Linford Western)
by Jeff Sadler
The minute Anderson landed at the remote Idaho rail station, he knew he'd find trouble. Some people out there were expecting him and wanted him dead. They'd started with a bushwhacking at the station house. And when that didn't work they kept right on trying. Just like he knew they would. When he woke up in a funeral parlour after a saloon gunfight, Anderson thought it couldn't get much worse, but pretty soon he realised he was wrong. From Idaho the trail led north into the Canadian wilderness,...
Longarm’s got a target painted on his back. The powerful Ramsey family is seeing red after favorite son Horace Ramsey is gunned down by none other than Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. Never mind that Longarm killed him in the line of duty to stop him from assaulting Mrs. Rose Delamonte. Ramsey blood has been spilled—and both Longarm and Mrs. Delamonte must atone. The beautiful, redheaded Rose Delamonte is a widow, her husband and in-laws murdered by the Ramseys back in Santa Fe for their r...
Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis, 1897. In the stifling jungles of a small South American country, Robert Clay works as a civil engineer at a mine. With two American assistants, he attempts to reap all the rewards found in this challenging environment. But he also has a secret history as a mercenary, fighting for whichever side will pay him the most. Clay finds himself in love with Alice Langham, the daughter of the wealthy American owner of the mine. His competition for Alice is Reg...
Zombies have taken over a small town in America's Mid West. Only one man can save the day.
Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgivi...
Seasons of the Gun (Black Horse Western) (Linford Western Library)
by Paul Wheelahan
Duty ahd brought Duane Everson from the warm south back to cold Montana where he'd never expected an arrogant father and suspicious siblings to make his homecoming anything but tough. But the reality was worse thatn he could ever have imagined, for evil was abroad in the high country.