The reality of frontier life in Kansas becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old James Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped and he is taken prisoner by hostile Indians. Escaping with the aid of an Indian friend, Coady finds himself with a buffalo sharpshooter that he imagines is the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a role in which the circumspect Griffith feels himself totally inadequate.

Five Star First Edition Westerns - The Big Fifty

Literature & Fiction

Johnny D. Boggs

Genre Fiction

Five Star

In his younger days Ben Cameron had been a Texas Ranger and then a town-taming lawman. Riding into the dying mining town of Purgatoire, Cameron stops by The Texas House for a drink, but these days he always ends up blurry-eyed drunk. Amie Courtland works at The Texas House and is very interested in Cameron because she's heard that he was the last person to see her brother alive. When a series of murders begins in Purgatoire, many of the townspeople begin to look upon Cameron as a potential protector. 
 In addition to writing Western novels, Johnny D. Boggs has covered all aspects of the American West for newspapers and magazines on topics ranging from travel to book and movie reviews, to celebrity and historical profiles, to the apparel industry and environmental issues. He was born in South Carolina and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Lisa Smith, and son, Jack.

Five Star First Edition Westerns - Purgatoire

A Spur Award-winning Author The reality of frontier life in Kansas becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old James Coady McIlvain after his father is scalped and he is taken prisoner by hostile Indians. Helped to escape, Coady finds himself with a sharpshooter that he imagines is the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody. Boggs has created a gripping Western story that juxtaposes the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers with the often brutal realities of frontier life.  Available only in Western 14.

The Big Fifty: A Western Story

Thorndike Press

A Spur Award-winning Author By the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid was thought to have killed a man for every year he'd been alive. He evaded the law more times than anyone could count and proved that no jail could hold him. But Sheriff Pat Garrett finally caught up to the Kid on December 23, 1880, and brought the desperado to trial for the murder of a sheriff two years prior. Now - before judge, jury and the entire country - it is time for him to answer. Billy, however, has other plans. . . .

Law of the Land: A Guns and Gavel Novel

A Guns and Gavel Novel
A Spur Award-winning Author Winner of the Western Heritage Award for Best Western Novel of 2003
 The citizens of Jack County, Texas, live in fear. Kiowa and Comanche warriors who refuse to adapt to reservation life are slaughtering settlers in brutal raids. Instead of unleashing the Army against the tribes, General William Tecumseh Sherman makes a monumental decision - to bring Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree to trial for the murder of seven cowboys.

Spark On The Prairie: The Trial Of The Kiowa Chiefs

A Spur Award-winning Author The side-wheel steamboat Mittie Stephens was lost on a dark night in February 1869 on Caddo Lake near the Texas-Louisiana border. Of the 107 people on board, sixty-one perished. Unbeknownst to almost all of them, the Mittie Stephens had been selected by the army to secretly transport a payroll in gold. In pursuit of its cargo, a group of ex-Confederates worked out an elaborate strategy to seize the boat.

Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens: A Western Story

The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman is the sequel to Hannah and the Horseman, which is also available from AVALON.

The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman

United States

AmazonEncore

Opening The Heart: The Life And Art Of Gib Singleton

John Goekler

Singleton

Commentary By. Foreword By John Goekler. Introduction By Paul Zueger. Essays By Scott Peck

American Design Ltd

West Texas Kill

Recorded Books - Western Audio

[Read by Chris Abell]A disgraced Confederate soldier and two impressionable youths come up with a plan to organize a militia and give the Yankees a taste of militia warfare. William Clarke Quantrill was a hated name during the War Between the States by the Federals of the Union Army as well as by many non-combatants. Even the high command of the Confederacy distrusted him. But there were others who were passionate sympathizers. He was both friend and mentor but also manipulator and opportunist. Alistair Durant was someone who came to know him in all these guises. Durant was a young Confederate soldier captured by the Yankees and released when he took an oath never again to bear arms against the Union. He had a long walk back to his home in Clay County, Missouri. It is on this trek that Alistair meets another youngster Beans Kimbrough. The two become companions and then friends on the way to Clay County, and it is there that Beans will introduce Alistair to a man calling himself Charley Hart. Hart has a fantastic plan -- to organize a militia to fight against the Federals.

Wreaths of Glory: A Western Story

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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