western stories

In 1900, out-of-work butcher Pat Crowe kidnaps and ransoms the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon. After receiving $25,000 in gold and releasing the boy, Crowe makes his way across America and beyond, bank-robbing, safe-cracking, burgling, and bond-jumping his way into the public eye. The manhunt that followed became the thrill of the nation.

When fifteen-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.

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.

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.

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.

Best friends Lennie and George take a job at the Tyler Ranch in Depression era California, but their simple world is ripped apart by tragedy when there is an accidental death.

Jacob Wheeler leaves his family and friends behind in Virginia to seek a new life and adventure in the unsettled West in the early nineteenth century, while young Lakota holy man, Loved by the Buffalo, is haunted by a vision of the destruction of his people.

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.

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.