western stories

Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.

When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat, " knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.

Ten-year-old Teddy Hansen is forced to live in the 32nd Street Orphanage after his mother dies of pneumonia, where he meets other children who have been left behind.

"When Callie rides into the town of Mean and Messy Corners, she comes upon a group of scaredy-cat townsfolk, thanks to a mean bunch of banjo-stealing bandits! Will Callie and Sparky be able to tame this Wild West town and find a place to settle down? Yee-haw! Come along for the ride and see!"--Back cover.

Pru, friend of Spirit the mustang, is worried about doing her clown act at El Circo dos Grillos when another girl claims she can do better.

Lonesome Bob and Granny Apple Fritter have to get to Red Rock by two o'clock or Lonesome will miss his wedding, Railroad John has never been late so nothing will keep him from pulling the train in by 1:59.

Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-Crosserosis.

Fourteen tales of the West.

When 15-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.

Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.