western fiction

Fresh off his new job as sheriff of Santa Fe, Dead-Eye Dan Crowley finds his vacation to New Orleans interrupted when he witnesses a brazen kidnapping. As Dead-Eye Dan follows the clues, he finds himself drawn deeper into the shadowy underworld of the Big Easy, and into the path of one of his oldest adversaries, Blackjack Billy Perkins, who claims to have gone straight from his life of crime, but seems to know more than he is letting on about the kidnapping. Is Blackjack Billy really as reformed as he seems to be? What is his connection to the powerful sugar baron Maximilian Beauchamp? And what other secrets lie deep in the Louisiana swamp? This pulse-pounding follow-up to Dead-Eye Dan and the Cimarron Kid plunges the fearless frontier lawman into unfamiliar surroundings with new challenges to his courage and values in a can?t-miss adventure.

In the nine months since Tumbleweed Thompson left the town of Rattlesnake Junction, Colorado, for life on the road with the Coyote Pete Frontier Show, Eugene Appleton has found himself yearning for a taste of the adventures he imagines his new friend having on the American frontier. Life at home changes in an instant when Tumbleweed once again finds a way to interrupt Eugene?s life to ask for his help in solving the sudden disappearance of his father. And so, the two set off on a life-changing quest in search of the fabled treasure of the Sangre de Cristo mountains.

Dead-Eye Dan Crowley is a United States Marshal and a frontier legend. He?s gone toe-to-toe with the most fearsome outlaws in the West and brought them all to justice. But when Dead-Eye Dan finds himself alone on the banks of the Cimarron River in New Mexico with no idea who he is, or how he got there, he must confront his most formidable challenge yet. Can Dead-Eye Dan find a way to remember? Can his memories be trusted? And can he discover himself in time to make things right? In this thrilling tale of heroism and justice set in the frontier world of Tumbleweed Thompson, readers will find a new hero for the old West.

In this companion collection to The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson, readers will travel back to the town of Rattlesnake Junction to encounter ... A silver mine guarded by a mysterious Man in Black! ... The famous herd of Chester Willoughby's Miracle Cows! ... The deadly super-skeeters of Kingman Hill! ... and an unflappable school teacher and her prank-filled first day on the job! ... PLUS a bonus story, Dead-Eye Dan and the Laramie Seven. These are the legends that built a town. These are Junction Tales.

After a stagecoach robbery goes wrong, Cody is arrested and his evil father gets away--but a mysterious man who seems to have magical powers gets him out, and he embarks on a strange journey involving a map to the fabled city of El Dorado, pursued by the Wolf tribe, the Tatanka, his father, and others, all of whom want the map.