The cowboy walked over to the bar in the Drifters Saloon and asked the price of a sandwich. The well dressed, beady-eyed banker watched him for a few minutes, then thought to himself, "just another worthless cowboy." After walking outside and spotting the ugly strawberry roan horse, he decided that both horse and its rider were worthless. The cowboy had a name. Jess Worth. He found a steady job there in Comanche, Texas, as a worthless deputy sheriff. Killings, a $50,000 heist and betting on worthless horses cost the beady-man and the sheriff twenty-two-thousand dollars that they didn't have....

Bill Owens is half owner of a large ranch in Medina County, Texas. He and his partner, who is his uncle as well as his stepfather, has agreed that they should find another ranch on a different location. Texas was being flooded with foreign money that was going to overgraze and ruin the land. Bill, his mother and partner agree that Bill should be the one to search and find a good place to start raising a heavy breed of beef cattle to meet competition in the market place.Bill starts out of Texas then has to return to help his partner with a rouge ranch boss who kills two of their riders and...

A rancher in South Texas had to sell his ranch because of his health. Charles Summers, his wife Ruth and son Wayne found the perfect place in Southern Colorado to build The Evergreen Ranch. The Federal Government owned all of the vacant land so the Summers purchased several thousand acres in the Weminuche Wilderness at the upper north end of the valley. A few people from the larger towns wanted to build their summer homes at the lower end of the valley. The little village of Cross Creek with a general store, a small livery stable and a nice small cafe made up the center of the town. A free...

Want a successful business? Get your mind right first.

That's the advice of Alex Alexander in his breakthrough book The Entrepreneur's Edge. That edge is the skill of entrepreneurial thinking and how "fixing your mind" can help you accomplish your business goals.

Success in business isn't quick and easy, no matter what the get-rich-quick schemes say. It takes knowing your mind and how it works, and identifying the ways it holds you back from making progress. With his step-by-step approach, Alexander teaches readers how to look back over their experiences, determine the...

Thomas McDuffie and his wife, Irene, are a young couple who leave their home in Ireland hoping that life in the United States will be better than the hardships they are facing. Working their way across the Atlantic Ocean they land in New York Harbor. Life there is good, but their longing and dreams of a ranch in the hill country of the new state of Texas sends them on another journey. This couple and their baby daughter, Catherine, have a lot to learn and are helped by friendly Texans. One of them is just a plain cowboy who helps the McDuffies make their dream come true. Just about anything...