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With a lot of
rustling going on in the area, tensions are high and
rumors are flying. Word is going around that some of
the larger ranchers have hired a gunman named Wolf
Carlton to stop the rustling and protect their cattle.
And now a couple of the small ranchers have been found
shot to death. Unfortunately for Spencer Prescott, some
of the rumors are about him. Some people think that
Spencer, not Wolf, is the one killing the competition.
Even worse, some folks think Spencer is behind the
rustling—and that means trigger-happy Wolf will be
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2010 SPUR AWARD
WINNER!
When Edward
Dawes is a little boy, a stranger comes to the ranch and
kills Pa-Pa, an older man who cares for Ed as a father
would. Ed remembers the killer, and when he grows up
and sees the man again, he goes on a search to find out
who the man is, where he comes from, and why he would
kill Jake Bishop, or Pa-Pa. Ed’s quest takes him first
to a ranch where he learns to be a ranch hand, and then
it takes him to Thunder Basin, where he lands a job on a
big ranch where the killer works. Ed also meets a girl
named Ravenna, an orphan like himself, who doesn’t
believe people should get away with injustice. It takes
Ed a while to get to the bottom of things, and whoever
was behind the killing of Jake Bishop still has things
to keep hidden. |
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2009 SPUR AWARD
WINNER!
Will Dryden
gets bailed out of jail by a woman who is looking for
her husband and would like Dryden to find him. Will
agrees to look for the man, and his search leads him to
the Redstone Ranch, where a young cowhand has been
recently murdered. As Dryden continues to search, he
looks for connections between the missing husband, the
dead cowhand, and a couple of more bodies that turn up.
He makes a few friends along the way, not least among
them an older ranch hand and a girl who works in the
kitchen, who help him learn more about what might be
behind the Trouble at the Redstone. |
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When Wilf Kasmire is asked to guide some hunters on a
newcomer’s ranch, he doesn’t think anything is up.
After all, he wants to try to make a living as a guide
and outfitter so he can enjoy the outdoor life he loves.
As he goes about his work, he is nagged by the
disappearance of a young woman he used to spend time
with, and no one seems to be trying very hard to find
her. Ultimately, the two questions come together:
does Wilf want to keep on selling the gifts of nature to
arrogant clients, and what happened to Heather Lea? |
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Devon Frost is
an artist who has come to an isolated place in New
Mexico Territory to take impressions and make sketches
of old buildings. As he does so, he gets caught up
in a local intrigue in which the master of a hacienda
intimidates the suitors of his stepdaughter. One
of the suitors turns up dead, and even though it becomes
evident that the young woman’s stepfather has an
obsession for her, suspicion falls most strongly on the
other suitor. Nobody seems to want to scratch very
deep, however, until Devon takes the initiative to help
the man he thinks is wrongly accused. | |
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2008 SPUR AWARD
FINALIST!
This is the third in a
mini-series about Jimmy Clevis, the good-natured
narrator who appeared earlier in
Rancho Alegre
and Red Wind Crossing.
In this novel, Jimmy sets out to find a missing man.
His travels take him to Wyoming, where he comes to the
small town of Raven Springs and a couple of roadside
inns. People seem to disappear in this place, and
in the course of Jimmy’s stay, he has to untangle the
threads of missing persons, altered identity, greed, and
murder. | |
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Lane
Weller is a man who is looking for something bigger than
himself to believe in. He finds it with Cora
McGavin, a woman who is also looking for something more
than she has in life now. Unfortunately, Cora is
married, and her husband is a bullying sort who always
wants things done his way. As a result, Lane
becomes something of an outcast, riding the lonesome
range. Through the course of events, he has to
decide whether his love with Cora is the real thing or
just something to lie about. This is a bold novel,
written along classic lines, about a man and a woman who
fall in love in
Wyoming. | |
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This is
a book of hard-crafted fiction set in the contemporary West,
stories about life and love, loss and death, with a few laughs
along the way. In selections such as “Cowboy Heart,”
“Ice on the Doorstep,” “Chokecherries Are Free,” “Drunk on
Christmas Day,” and “Dusk on the Rangeland,” the book captures
the spirit of people who tough it out in a world both modern
in its problems and timeless in its landscape. This
collection has all the fine features that have won praise for
John D. Nesbitt’s earlier novels and short stories.
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Jimmy
Clevis is out of work and needs some money. So when an
old man named Tull asks him to do a
quick job for him, Clevis agrees. All Clevis has to do
is head south to Paloma Springs to
find Tull’s son. Sounds like
easy money, right? Wrong. Clevis isn’t just riding
into Paloma Springs—-he’s riding
straight into a tangled net of lies, stealing, blackmail,
hidden identities . . . and
murder. | |
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Vance Coolidge always said a man should have a chance to get
even when he's been done wrong. And he's certainly been done
wrong in his life. So when his friend Tip asked for his help
in going after the men who killed Tip's brother, Vance
agreed to join him. But Vance doesn't completely trust some
of the other men riding with them, and as the chase wears on
he'll find out that vengeance and righting wrongs can be a
tricky—and dangerous—business. | |
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Clevis
always says that when he sees a pretty girl walking down the
street and looking over her shoulder, he pays attention,
especially if she is walking fast. From the time he sees Helen
hurrying down the street, Clevis knows she is in some sort of
trouble. First he is curious. Then he wants to help. But
helping Helen is no simple matter, as he soon finds out. She
is trapped in a dark web of lies, deceit . . . and murder. And
the more he tries to help her, the more the sticky strands of
that web snare Clevis too. Clevis knows there has to be a way
to free both of them. He just has to find it while they are
still alive.
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Braden
isn't looking for trouble. He is just a ranch hand, out
looking for stray horses. But trouble finds him. He hears
about someone doing something pretty low and getting away with
it, and it starts to work on his mind. Then the man who told
him is found dead. Lots of folks would just turn away from it,
forget about it and move on. But Braden isn't most folks. No,
he has to look into it a little. That is his first mistake.
The more he looks, the more he finds—and the more trouble
finds him. Till pretty soon, all his digging uncovers a lot
more than he ever imagined. And a lot more than some powerful
people think is safe. | |
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Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers
ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures
he might as well accept. The Norden boys are nice enough and
they just bought a small ranch nearby. All things considered,
Atkins could do worse. But gradually, as time goes by, Atkins
begins to notice things. Small things, but troubling. Some of
the folks in town don't seem too friendly to anyone from the
Norden ranch. And some of their neighbors are downright rude
and insulting. Small things have a tendency to become big
things, though, and it won't be long before Tom Atkins
realizes exactly what he got himself into when he hired on to
work for the Norden boys. | |
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