western stories

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The land of curiosities

adventures in Yellowstone, 1871-1872
2007
Siblings James and Alice move to Yellowstone with their mother and encounter bison, prospectors, and the Bannock tribe while learning to protect each other and the environment against Billy "Bloody" Knuckles.

Folly and glory

a novel
2004
Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.

Boone's Lick

a novel
2001
Wild Bill Hickock, U.S. Army colonel Fetterman, and other American figures appear in this historical novel of the nineteenth-century West, in which a woman named Mary Margaret treks across the country with her family to confront her traveling, philandering husband.

The shadow riders

1986
After the Civil War, Dal and Mac Traven return home to find the aftermath of a guerrilla rampage of terror. The raiders have the Travens' sister and Dal's girlfriend, Kate, held captive. Now the Travens' are on their trail.

The Cherokee trail

1982
Leaving behind her Virginia home burned to ashes during the Civil War and a husband shot and killed on the way to Colorado, Mary Breydon and her young daughter come to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail.

Calamity Jane at Fort Sanders

a historical novel
1992
Fired from her job and run out of Piedmont in the Wyoming Territory on account of her unladylike manner, Martha Jane Cannary saddles up and makes her way to Fort Sanders.

Tackett

1993
Del Tackett sets out in pursuit of rustlers and murderers who are trying to ruin a ranch owned by a young woman.

The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog

2012
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.

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