Finalist for the Spur Award: The thrilling adventures of an American icon come alive in this vivid and authentic retelling of his remarkable story From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David “Davy” Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character.
From the master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.
In 1875, nearly forty years after the Mexican War, Mexicans and Texans are still spilling blood over ownership of the Nueces Strip--a hot, dry stretch of coastal prairie that bushwackers and horse thieves have turned into a lawless hell.
"e;One of the best of a new breed of Western writers"e; delivers a classic novel of an old school cowboy struggling against the closing of the frontier (The New York Times).
Seventeen tales of untamed spirits in the newly expanded edition of the Spur Award finalist from the "e;custodian of the twilight zone"e; (Southern Living).
Two novels from seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton, "e;truly a Texas legend"e; (former Texas Governor Rick Perry), After the Bugles and Llano River.
In Doug Bowman's The H&R Cattle Company, when Zack Hunter and his best friend Brett Rollins first hit Texas, they are near-penniless men, looking to get a stake in life.
A family as raw and unyielding as the soil of the Virginia farm they left behind, they pursued their dream, journeying west across the American continent.
The Texas Frontier, 1865The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country.
The Spur Award-winning author's literary portrait of a West Texas cattle rancher who lives to see the end of the Old West-and the demise of his own legend.
When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago.
A gripping tale of mystery and justice in the wild west, where Texas Rangers Andy Pickard and Logan Daggett must navigate a complex web of cattle thefts, murders, and masked vigilantes.
Seventeen tales of untamed spirits in the newly expanded edition of the Spur Award finalist from the "e;custodian of the twilight zone"e; (Southern Living).
Sam Morgan, once a young runaway from Philadelphia, now a seasoned fur trapper and mountain man, faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life.
In this brilliant sagathe final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own rightLarry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with ';wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West' (The New York Times Book Review).
UNDER TROUBLED SKIES, the third volume in the Western Quest Series, follows Aaron Turner, his family and friends, through the tumultuous years culminating in the War for Texas Independence from Mexico.
From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States.
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of historical sagas offers "e;a superb anthology"e; of one hundred years of western short fiction (Publishers Weekly).
First published in 1977, Robert Days The Last Cattle Drivean instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selectionis now a modern-day Western classic.