Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Westerns - General

The railroads are expanding to link the nation, with the celebrated golden spike marking the spot in Utah where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific would meet. Published in 1918, The UP Trail became a bestseller for Grey, and was made into a film in 1920, starring Roy Stewart and Kathlyn Williams.

Lane, Maynard and Payson stand on deck as the ship glides toward New York, in the shadow of Liberty -- a war-weary trio of soldiers, home at last.

Time has marked them, and the battles of France have left them disabled . . . but what awaits them on land, beyond the empty dock? Who will be there for them, at home? And will they ever be able to lead a normal life?

Zane Gray (1875-1939), master storyteller of the frontier and the outdoors, in "The Day of the Beast" gives tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great...

Kenneth wants nothing more than to be a forester. Lumbermen have been wiping out the timber and never thinking of the future: he knows that. The time has come for forestry to take a bigger role, out in the Alleghenies and farther west -- and he wants a part in it.

But he has to convince his father, who wants to see his son become a doctor -- and prove it is more than just wanting to hunt bears and the big cats -- more than just embracing the joys of outdoor life,...

The deep shadows were lightened by shafts of sunshine which, here and there, managed to pierce the canopy of foliage . . . Kenneth wants nothing more than to be a forester. Lumbermen have been wiping out the timber and never thinking of the future: he knows that. The time has come for forestry to take a bigger role, out in the Alleghenies and farther west -- and he wants a part in it. But he has to convince his father, who wants to see his son become a doctor -- and prove it is more than just wanting to hunt bears and the big cats -- more than just embracing the joys of outdoor life, of...

Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874 well. Ben would fall in love for the first time that summer during one of the last great rushes of the nineteenth century, a rush that could not have come at a better time for the riverboat community of Port Caddo.

Just a few months earlier the town had been dying. The railroads that were cutting across the country made the riverboat meaningless, and those same railroads didn't stop anywhere near Port Caddo. By the end of the summer, the pearl rush was over, and the mystery about who killed Judd Kelso, a local riverboat...