western stories

Ten-year-old Amelia keeps a journal of the summer car trip she takes with her mother and sister to Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and their California home town to visit Amelia's best friend.

Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African-Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.

A tenderfoot lawyer is determined to rid a small town of a gunslinger named Liberty Valance and is aided by his friend and protector, Tom Doniphon.

Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner Railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.

A widow and her two children head for gold rush territory in Idaho, hoping to find jobs and a new life.

Fictionalizes the travels of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their westward expansion of the United States.

In his own modest way, Hank the Cowdog recounts how he barely escaped crazy Slim and his tail-eating vacuum sweeper and single-handedly saved the ranch from a huge catastrophe.

Carried away from her wagon train in Texas in 1845 by the old mare she is riding, a little girl is befriended by a white stallion.

Nine desperate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.

When outlaws steal an Army shipment of guns for a Mexican general, they are pursued by merciless bounty hunters. The aging desperados must come to terms with the end of the Old West and the dawning of a new era.