Washoe County Library System

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has spent weeks on the hunt deep within Mexico's Sierra Madre. His quarry: Luis and Teto Torres, the notorious leaders of the ruthless Gun Killers Gang. Little does he know that an ambush is waiting for him in the town of Wild Roses. Only the courageous actions of beautiful Erin Donovan keep the ranger from meeting his end. Indebted to the young lass, Burrack allows her to ride alongside him. But what he doesn't know is...

True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her fathers blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and...

Yuma, Arizona, in the early 1880s. When U.S. Marshal Dale Posey needs help bringing notorious outlaw Tom Spooner to justice, he turns to the one man he knows who can deliver: the former leader of Spooner's gang, a man now serving a lengthy sentence at Yuma Prison, Jack Posey, Dale's younger brother. Dale has a deal for Jack: a full pardon if Jack helps Dale capture Spooner and his gang. Jack doesn't exactly jump at the deal, but he does accept it,...

"Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn't always an entrepreneur. He's more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain...

This duo combines two book-length Western stories by the incomparable Lauran Paine, marked by his characteristic authenticity and strong characters. In "Outlaw's Hide-Out," drifter Hap Thompson has lived in a secluded valley since robbing a bank made him a wanted man. But his tranquil life is interrupted when he discovers a strange horse and tracks it back to an injured young woman. Wesley Potter is the "Sheriff of Hangtown," and friend to Dick Ruffin,...

Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and...

After foiling a train robbery in Colorado and receiving a public reward from the governor, Matt Jensen must once again go up against the frustrated outlaw and his murderous posse when they kidnap the governor's niece.

Battle-hardened Tom Kedrick is hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws from his land, but soon Kendrick suspects that he is fighting for the wrong man and that he is the only one who can stop a massacre of innocent men and women.