Lane Weller is a man who is looking for something bigger than himself to believe in. He finds it with Cora McGavin, a woman who is also looking for something more than she has in life now. Unfortunately, Cora is married, and her husband is a bullying sort who always wants things done his way. As a result, Lane becomes something of an outcast, riding the lonesome range. Through the course of events, he has to decide whether his love with Cora is the real thing or just something to lie about. This is a bold novel, written along classic lines, about a man and a woman who fall in love in...
Lane Weller is a man who is looking for something bigger than himself to believe in. He finds it with Cora McGavin, a woman who is also looking for so...
When Henry Sommers declines to take part in a neighbor's swindle of branding and selling unbranded calves as their own, trouble stalks him. Henry only wants to be left to work his homestead claim and do his job on the ranch. But there seem to be no hard feelings when Van O'Leary, the neighbor, asks him to look after his place while he's gone on a business trip. Henry feels he must oblige-O'Leary's wife, Dora, will be left alone and vulnerable. While O'Leary is away, Henry learns from Dora that her husband has a checkered past. When O'Leary comes back, he makes insinuations about Henry's...
When Henry Sommers declines to take part in a neighbor's swindle of branding and selling unbranded calves as their own, trouble stalks him. Henry only...
When Clay Westbrook stakes his own claim in the rugged Wyoming Territory, he hopes to run few cattle on it while he continues to work as a cowhand. But when a Mexican sheepherder, Tony Campos, is bullied by local land baron Theodore Sutton and his hired thug, Clay is fired from his job for defending Campos. Though Clay thinks that he's seen the worst of things, he quickly discovers that Sutton is behind a corrupt land grab and irrigation scheme-and he means to take Clay's homestead as part of his plan. Clay realizes he is fast falling in love with Campos's spirited niece, Lupita, and is...
When Clay Westbrook stakes his own claim in the rugged Wyoming Territory, he hopes to run few cattle on it while he continues to work as a cowhand. Bu...
When Zeke Hill returns home, his brother Gene is glad to see him-despite some troubling changes. As Zeke's true character comes out, Gene realizes that his brother doesn't have a strong set of moral values. When Zeke resumes a deadly feud with Charlie Bickford, and then Charlie's brother, Chet, Gene has no choice but to stick by his own brother. But at what cost? Danger stalks the Hill brothers, and Gene's budding relationship with a pretty young ranch girl, Katharine Rose, is at stake. Blood's thicker than water...but trouble is here to stay. "A traditional western that depends more on...
When Zeke Hill returns home, his brother Gene is glad to see him-despite some troubling changes. As Zeke's true character comes out, Gene realizes tha...
This is a survey of lesser-known works of Wyoming fiction from the 1880's to the 1980's, covering the dime novel, the popular novel, the historical novel, and the literary novel. This entertaining and informing study is written by a well-known scholar of Western and Wyoming fiction and an acclaimed writer of Western fiction himself.
This is a survey of lesser-known works of Wyoming fiction from the 1880's to the 1980's, covering the dime novel, the popular novel, the historical no...
Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures he might as well accept. The Norden boys are nice enough and they just bought a small ranch nearby. All things considered, Atkins could do worse. But gradually, as time goes by, Atkins begins to notice things. Small things, but troubling. Some of the folks in town don't seem too friendly to anyone from the Norden ranch. And some of their neighbors are downright rude and insulting. Small things have a tendency to become big things, though, and it won't be long before Tom Atkins...
Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures he might as well accept. The Norde...
Men and women, guns and horses, tough situations and no easy solutions-these are the features of a dozen new stories by one of the most acclaimed writers of Western fiction today. John D. Nesbitt shows once again why his work is consistently praised for its evocative setting, realistic characterization, tight prose style, and thought-provoking story lines. The stories in this collection are original, and like Nesbitt's novels, they are classic in form and style. What unifies this collection, in addition to its details of time and place, is its view of life, in which men and women have to make...
Men and women, guns and horses, tough situations and no easy solutions-these are the features of a dozen new stories by one of the most acclaimed writ...
This collection contains seven works of fiction ranging in length from short story to novella. The stories take place in rural California from 1964 to 1970, and they continue the mystery/noir style in which John D. Nesbitt has gained recognition. The world of these stories is born out of a vision of hard-edged realism, in which decent characters struggle with the circumstances of a hard-working life as well as with amoral drifters, opportunists, and criminals. The romance is spare, and the sex is not always pristine. But the main characters persist and survive. John D. Nesbitt's work is...
This collection contains seven works of fiction ranging in length from short story to novella. The stories take place in rural California from 1964 to...