"Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in."--The New York Times Book Review

From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of...

-One of the best Civil War novels I have read.---James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom
From Chickamauga to Spotsylvania, from Gettysburg to Appomattox, The Barefoot Brigade is an unforgettable Civil War novel about the brotherhood of soldiers.
War has ripped Martin Hasford's nation apart, and like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his family and his sense of duty. Leaving his wife and children behind to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Hasford embarks on a path from which he may never return--and on...

-Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.---The New York Times

Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the...

Winner of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel

-Douglas C. Jones is one the great novelists of the American West, and Roman is one of his finest works--a hugely entertaining story with unforgettable characters.---James Donovan, Author of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn

Young Roman Hasford stood by his mother and sister on the family's Arkansas hill farm while his father was off fighting in the Civil War. Now that his father has returned, Roman heads west to blaze his own trail. Eager for adventure, Roman gets more than...