Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Westerns - General

Some men lead, some follow. Matt Landry was a born leader, he couldn't be anything less. Matt was raised by Jake, a righteous man that only recognized right or wrong, never any gray area, and Matt had Jake's values deeply ingrained in his sole.

Matt's younger years were spent with one dream in mind, he was determined to breed the best horses in the state of Texas; but dreams don't always play out the way we want. Matt's future was predestined to becoming a lawman. He would reshape the way Texas handles law-breakers.

As Matt struggles with bad luck, hardships beyond compare, and...

Cattle stealing Daniel Kroff did not like especially on the ranch where he worked

"He ain't that fast...is he?" Dave asked.

"Pretty fast." Scooter warned.

"I wouldn't try if I were you, Dave." Was Daniel's response.

Skeeter sweated, his cheeks twitched, his lips tight. He was nervous. Scooter being unsettled exposed shock. I stared at them sternly. (The brothers had seen that before) My eyes steadfast, my blood flowed fast through my body. Calmly waiting for their first move. It happened, Dave went for his gun. My pistol cleard leather and fired instantly...

A gunfighter, wishing to retire, attempts to pose as a schoolteacher. Initially, he is successful but circumstances force him to, once again, take up his guns.

"Wes Fairly: Gunman" is somewhat of a love story but with plenty of action.

From the Cumberland Mountains of 1858 Kentucky comes a young man forced by circumstances to start killing men at an early age. Adam Payton thereafter cannot escape the continual life of a skilled gunman as he moves along the road to adulthood.

Later drawn into the Civil War, Payton and a small detachment of determined Confederate cavalry are constantly faced with challenges from Yankees, Indians, and each other. Ultimately the tightly-bonded knot of survivors overcome the odds against them, but after the war still find themselves facing an uncertain future.

Across the country and into...

"The Reckoning," written by Ginny Berry, author of "Wild Horseracer's Race," is a fast moving, hard hitting western.Mark, an eight-year-old boy witnesses his father being shot down in cold blood. Mark makes a vow to find and kill the man who did this to his dad.For ten years Mark planned on how to even the score with the cowardly man who shot down his father. He learned to hand a gun and his fists and he was motivated by hate.When Mark turned eighteen he contacted two of his friends and they went on a man hunt to locate Joseph Buckley, the killer, and all of them had killing on their mind.

In the exciting, fast-paced Western adventure sequel to "Escape from Hell's Corner," crazed killer Amos Clarke (aka Amos Watson) will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his father.

"Amos Watson's admiration for his father and almost worship of the blacksnake-whip were all that remained from outlaw Watson Clarke's horrific reign of terror inflicted on the people of southwest Texas during Amos' formative years. During his youth, Amos developed a seething rage and designed an insidious plan to avenge his father's death. His hatred of those responsible for killing his father included three...

Get ready to ride the range of humor in one of the most entertaining westerns to come down the trail in quite a spell.

The year is 1888, and Johnny Hightree and his cousin Asa Maynard are two old ex-buffalo hunters and frontiersmen who have temporarily settled in the small town of Ralston, Kansas, not far from Dodge City. They are both serious elbow-benders and seem to be in a constant state of semi-inebriation. Johnny, however, has endeared himself to the town's residents with his far-fetched windies and good nature, thereby getting himself elected mayor.

When a fatal shooting occurs...

Set on the banks of the Rio Grande River in the old New Mexico Territory, Simon ran his infamous resort-brothel which brought him his tainted fortune and perceived power over the people of Taos. It was virtually impossible to stand up to this sadistic tyrant and his ruthless band of thugs. Even the church, who exercised a strong degree of power and influence in those developing years of western expansion, could not influence his depraved course.

He was an ambitious man with the amoral attitude of the local rattle snakes that were indigenous to the region.

Each of the numerous visitors...

Comanches and rustlers are wreaking havoc on the settlers of the Nueces Strip... the Texas no-man's land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is assigned to a company of Rangers with orders to bring the renegades to justice... or die trying.

"BORDER RAIDERS" is a gritty, action-packed tale of the Texas frontier, when a few brave lawmen brought justice to the far reaches of the Lone Star State.

Jim Blawcyzk, Winchester now empty, charged across the camp, Colt in hand, Sam, his veteran war horse, twisting and turning, making the horse and his...

In 1888, at the behest of his dying mother, Jacob Rocker, a young Jew, sets off on a journey from New York City to California. He endures the hardships of shipboard life passing through New Orleans and Galveston. He learns about the frontier as a freight hauler traveling through a chain of Texas army posts from San Antonio to El Paso. His journey through wilderness, the notorious Jornada del Muerto desert and the New Mexico mountains, involves struggles with his past and conflicting prospects for his future. He faces deprivation, bigotry, pain and pleasure. Jacob encounters some dynamic...

Faro Bantry is the young son of a wealthy New York financier. River Rapids is a Choctaw Indian. The two happy-go-lucky drovers pair up in Blackwater, Kansas, at the end of a long trail drive. On their way home to Paramour, Texas, the two men manage to get into a number of scrapes, and somehow they cheat death without ever knowing how.

But Faro and River can't avoid the shear horror that awaits them when they meet up with Cecil "S.O.L." Boyd-a tobacco chewing, Adonis-bodied ruffian who's never lost a gunfight-and his gang. It is then that they learn what the real Wild West is about, as they...

Many were the hard Western men who blazed the trails. We have all heard their stories. We even believed a few. Few still were the women on those western slopes. Their stories might have some merit. But both factions, men who would lie and did, women who were few and quiet, agreed campfire to campfire, "Lema" did not pack water for any man.

"The Hanukkah Gun and Other Secondhand Sol Old West Tales" is a collection of short stories about a nontraditional, Jewish hero in the late 19th-century Arizona Territory.

A seller of secondhand goods, Solomon Pliskin is closer to 5-feet-4 than the classic height of heroes, 6-feet-4. Slight and self-deprecating, balding and bearded, he wears a wool suit, not buckskins and chaps. He dons a bowler, not a Stetson. Faith and family, not firepower, are his best defense against the dangers of the frontier.

With a gun molded from Hanukkah gelt, he foils a bullying bigot; trying to do a mitzvah...

In the small, friendly Oregon town of Lone Oak, seemingly untouched by time and the modern world, a fundamentalist minister thinks the town's secular activities have summoned the pale horse of the apocalypse.Believing he's been called to become the town's savior, Reverend David Phillips strikes out at the scantily clad girls at track meets, the blasphemous talk among the town's eccentric cronies in the barber shop and gas station, and the growing population of Latinos, among whom he sees a teenage boy Jesus Martinez as the Antichrist.The minister, empowered by his religious beliefs, is a...

Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is hunting for outlaw Ned Scanlon. In order to track down the wily renegade, Blawcyzk will not only have to use all of his skills as a lawman, but will also have to confront the ghosts of his own past.

"Trail of The Renegade" is a fast-paced novel of frontier Texas, where the Texas Rangers matched wits with outlaws throughout the length and breadth of the Lone Star State.

Saunders rose from his cover, raced to the end of the building and leapt for the next roof. Jim spun and fired; his snap shot finding its mark, as the bullet ripped into Saunders side...

U.S. Treasury agent Jack Wood is trying to find the source of counterfeit money appearing in Texas border towns when he suddenly disappears in El Paso. The U.S. deputy treasury director informs a select group of President Ulysses S. Grant's advisors of Wood's disappearance and of Mexico's possible involvement with the counterfeit money.

South of El Paso, Mexican mercenaries assemble with orders to destroy the town, seize Dallas, and hold Texas hostage until Grant exchanges the state for thousands of American lives. Grant hesitates. His administration, fraught with scandal, is not...

A new century is coming, but Arizona is not ready to enter the 1900s. Rampant lawlessness is preventing it from attaining statehood, and the local law cannot contend with the rustling and killing. Into this chaos comes a man dedicated to his badge and an honorable pursuit of justice. Events are soon to compromise his personal code, however, and he's drawn into a dark crusade of revenge and retribution. There are men who need killing, and it's time to take off the badge.

"When Good Men Ride" is a tale of vast proportions, running the gamut of action and emotions found in a cast of...

Campfire tales, true-life experiences, gripping adventures, "Stories of the West," has something to offer even the most casual of western readers. From the finding of lost treasure, to a young cowboy's first rodeo, to the finding of an old man, living in a swamp, Dave spread his talent to entertain all those who yearned for more stories of struggles and humor in the old west.

Roy Schneider is the author of many newspaper columns under the title of 'HOME GROWN TALES' "Just Ol' Roy."

"Faith Rides A Western Trail"

A Novel from the 'Just Ol' Roy' lore files

Jay Monroe is a man on a mission to explore the unsettled west. His venture starts out as he encounters and befriends a young Mexican boy named Chico, who has no home or family, and Mel Stanton, a well educated cowboy who is interested in traveling west and documenting his journey. These three new friends find that they share similar values and respect for life and others as well as an interest in heading...