western stories

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

In Pre-Civil War Wyoming, a teenager's life is complicated when his strangely hostile father trades the boy's beloved horse to the Pony Express.

Sheriff Sally Gopher solves the mystery of the haunted dance hall in time for a special performance by the famous dancer, Miss Annie Field Mouse.

Recounts the experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

Hank the Cowdog gets into more and more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to his problems.

A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there.

Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman becomes the target of a murder plot when his father dies and leaves him the family farm, thwarting the plans of his cold-hearted stepmother.

Outlaw Haywood Beatty promises to take care of his brother's wife, Lily, while Marion is in prison and ends up falling in love with her.

A republication of a 1938 story in which Lee Weston, wounded in a gunfight with Harvey Dodge, the man he believes responsible for his father's murder, flees to the mountains outside Pecos, New Mexico, where he is found and secretly nursed back to health by Dodge's daughter Ellen, only to earn her scorn when he insists on continuing his plan of revenge.

A collection of short stories by Thomas McGuane that explore the power of destiny in the lives of ordinary people.