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Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Master storyteller Don Waters returns to the desert in his third book set in the American Southwest. With the gothic sensibility of Flannery OConnor and emotional delicacy of Raymond Carver, these nine contemporary stories deftly explore the lives of characters losing or clinging to a fleeting faith and struggling to find something meaningful to believe in beneath overpowering desert skies. Soldiers, seekers, priests, prisoners, and surfers pursue...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as asuperior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 666
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
8) Early dawn
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson lights up the Old West with a tale of love, danger, and redemption featuring the ancestors of her beloved Coulter family. After breaking off thier engagement, Eden Paxton's fiance spreads so many rumors about her that she is forced to leave San Francisco. Her pride bruised, an angry Eden heads for the wilds of Colorado to live with her half brothers. But murderous outlaws cut the trip short when...
10) The shootist
Author
Series
Shootist volume 1
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
''The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter at the turn of the twentieth century who must confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death. Most men would end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a gunfighter has a third option, one that Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner. As word spreads that the famous assassin has incurable cancer, an assortment of human vultures gathers to feast on the corpse--among them...
12) The hope within
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father, but after the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone. There, blizzards devastate the area, trapping a now pregnant Dianne at the ranch. Through...
Author
Series
Double S ranch volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In spite of their differences, Trey Walker Stafford knows he owes his life to cowboy and legendary rancher Sam Stafford—the uncle who rescued him after his parents’ death. Trey had left the Double S Ranch to pursue music against Sam’s wishes, but returns to central Washington when he learns he’s the best match for a procedure that could save Sam’s life. Although Trey’s found country music fame and success,...
17) The wild west of Louis L'Amour: an illustrated companion to the frontier fiction of an American icon
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A commemoration of themes and characters found in Louis L'Amour's books. Explores geography of the west, lone heroes, gunfighters, mining and ranching, women, Native Americans, food, and transportation as portrayed in L'Amour's books"--
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