Washoe County Library System

Story of Mike Bastian and his adoptive father, the outlaw Ben Curry. When Curry wants to turn his legacy over to Bastian, Bastian must choose between his loyalty to Ben and his yearning for a different way of life.

In the 1860s and 70s, men still got up with the sun - and to young Jim Glenn, his father's phrase "sun on the wall" meant the boy was already late. Daylight, the time when an honest, small farmer could work, was precious. So when, as a very young man, Jim started wondering west, he stacked the raffish, brawling world exploding about him against values that left the West very much wanting. And Jim Glenn into a peck of trouble.

John Frederick Quincannon, a former United States Secret Service agent, and Sabina Carpenter, one of the first female Pinkerton operatives, joined forces to form the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Their various cases take them all over the American West in the 1890s. Now they're back in four new adventures. In "The Bughouse Caper," Quincannon matches wits with Sherlock Holmes to solve a series of burglaries and...

The odds were always against Big Ike. When he risked everything to start a new life in the gold fields of California. When he joined the Union Army and was wounded leading a charge at Shiloh. And more than ever, the odds are against him now, as he leads a wagon train through hostile Apache territory to establish a freight line in Arizona. Big Ike will finally face the greatest odds of his life. He has a gentle nun on one side of him, a reformed prostitute...

Former big-city detective John McBride is an easygoing man -- until people rub him the wrong way. So he's less than pleased when he sees three hanged men outside the town of Rest and Be Thankful, and the local lawman warns him to behave if he doesn't want to end up swinging right beside them. Driven by the plight of the terrified citizenry McBride vows to take on the fast-gun marshal, an evil mayor and his cruel son, and a small army of hired gunmen....