In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . . Wildfire. Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who...

Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write. When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Once there, Jackson...

The Call of the Canyon' is a novel by Zane Grey. It is the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran, who returns from the battlefields of World War I "shell-shocked and gassed", and otherwise incapacitated". It is set in the American West of the Roaring Twenties. Meanwhile his fiancée, Carley Bruch, lives with her family in New York. She receives communication through letters from Gleen but little by little these letters become more and more strange....

The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.

Carried away from her wagon train in Texas in 1845 by the old mare she is riding, a little girl is befriended by a white stallion.

The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague Charles Pomerantz have take the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the...

hey towered over the frontier: men like Hickok, Custer, Cody and Earp. From Tombstone to Abilene, on a sprawling, rugged frontier, they forged a life by their cunning and courage. And between these gambling men - some who lost and some who won - was a woman who carved out a legend of her own. A beautiful farm girl from Indiana, Mattie Silks traded her innocence from the West's wildest men. But then her trail of love and money took her to the boomtown...

A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master's writing career The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five decades-including the first story he ever published, "The Trail of the Apache"-Elmore Leonard once again demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that have made him one of the...

The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books,...