Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Westerns - General

In a country where a man could die a hundred different ways, those who chose to stay faced daily trials: Indian raids, grizzly bear...

Erwin A. Thompson's Westerns paint a moral universe in which courage, humor, and wit triumph and love unites and conquers all. "Cattle Country" and "Back Trail"-both set in Wagon Wheel County, six years apart-show the threat of bloody range wars, powered by greed, and probe strength of individual integrity, romantic partnership, family, and community.

This is "Cattle Country"-where you find: The determination to fill a job that's too big for one man. The courage to defend a friend in a fight that's not your own. The frustration of Katherine Wade as she stamps her foot and chides, "Damn...

Instead, he is fighting for his life after his half-brother puts a price on his head. His vengeance turns to a desire to save Dogtown and aids inhabitants from disaster-something that will destroy the town.

A mysterious boss is trying to take control of...

Bull Bear, the son of the Indian Chief, has come to the town to reclaim the ponies, but the locals turn on him after he further incurs the wraith of the outlaws.

Will the townspeople take out their anger on Bull Bear, or will they see past their ethnic differences and work with the Indian to fight the common enemy?

The Civil War left the South devastated. Many Confederate soldiers returned home only to find their families destroyed and their land taken over by carpetbaggers. Confederate money was worthless. The soldiers could not pay taxes levied on their land, and if they resisted they were labeled renegades, outlaws, and killers. In some instances, those taking over the land used the power of the conquering army to force their will upon the vanquished. For many, the only thing left was to flee into the wild, unsettled West and hope to rebuild...

"Local Author Writes Jewel of a Tale
"Had I been given this book without a cover I would have guessed it was written by someone like Larry Mc Murtry, Louis L'Amour or perhaps even Ivan Doig or Will James. Instead, it was written by a native Oklahoman living in Mounds.""-Tulsa World Oct. 30, 2005. Review By: Mike Nobles, Co-Founder of "A Group of Writers"

""The book is an engrossing read, each chapter another slice of everyday life during a not so everyday cow-punching existence.""-Western Horseman, April Issue 2006, Bunkhouse Review

""A very impressive debut from an author I look...

When Shae turns thirteen, her world changes dramatically. The local minister wants to take Shae out of her deprived environment so that she can be raised as a lady. The new school director insists that Shae attend...

My second move with the staff was a forward thrust which sunk deep into the chest of the second. So sharp was my point that I ran him through. His movement forward had not been slowed, the force of which bowled me back. His falling club found my shoulder but the staff through his chest had lessened its...

Set in the farmlands of mid-America in the late nineteenth century, "Fallow's Field" tells the story of a man whose work is his only solace as he buries his emotions amidst the growing blades of golden wheat.

After the tragic deaths of his father and uncle, Ned Fallow grows into a silent young man, shut off from emotional ties and struggling to earn a living on a wheat farm in Midland, Kansas. He becomes obsessed with growing the perfect crop in the fertile Kansas soil and pays little attention to the world around him; yet the beautiful, intelligent schoolteacher, Lily Thomason, and the...

""A page turner," Jennifer Lynn, Middletown Books"

A portion of the proceeds of this book will benefit the St. Jude's Children's...