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"During the Civil War, Texas Rangers Harp and Long John O'Malley patrol a vast, unguarded range, protecting the families of soldiers off fighting at the front. At war's end, the Rangers are disbanded, and the O'Malleys sign on with a cattle drive across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier from Texas to Sedalia"--
Winner of the Spur Award They had to fight for their land. But they needed someone to show them how… A QUESTION OF GREED Horse Creek, Montana, is under siege. A community of modest, family-run ranches, the town is a prime location for Rupart MacDavis’s ever-expanding cattle empire. With allies on both sides of the law working against the ranchers, MacDavis believes the water-rich land will be his in under a year’s time. AN ANSWER OF HOPE Now, Herschel Baker’s friend has been murdered in cold blood, leaving behind a widow and four children, and the sheriff refuses to investigate. Horse Creek’s residents know that the law belongs to men like MacDavis, and are too frightened to unite against the corruption and injustice that govern their lives. But Baker knows that if someone doesn’t take a stand, the next incident to befall Horse Creek may leave more than one body in its wake…
In the thrilling saga from the Western Heritage and Spur Award–winning author, Chet Byrnes stands his ground—with his courage, guns, and blood. For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water, and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tucson’s idle rich want to take it all away—and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border. Chet’s cowboys prove to be tireless fighters, going up against former Mexican military men, a powerful family with bad in their blood. Then Chet takes on the most dangerous risk of all: a bloody, all-out shooting war—with everything to lose, and one last enemy to kill . . . “Dusty takes readers into the real west at full gallop.” —New York Times-bestselling author Jodi Thomas “Dusty Richards writes . . . with the flavor of the real West.” —Elmer Kelton
Spur Award-Winning Author of The Sundown Chaser From Dusty Richards, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for The Horse Creek Incident, comes a story of a man who stood up for the law—and another young man who stood up for what was right... The road to manhood is long and hard… Seventeen-year-old Wulf Baker has been crossed by his cruel stepfather one too many times. Before he kills him and winds up at the end of a rope, Wulf decides to make tracks out of town. He heads for Billings, Montana, where his older cousin Herschel Baker keeps the peace as an ex- rancher turned lawman. Sheriff Baker is mighty glad to meet his young cousin—and to see he's good with a gun. Old Buffalo Malone has been robbed of his gold, and it's up to the sheriff to bring it back. He could use a good new deputy. Wulf is happy to pin on a badge and join the hunt, but once justice is served, he has a score or two to settle back home... "The author has a definite flair for details that put the reader right into the action." —Roundup Magazine
Herschel Baker left his life as a rancher to become the first sheriff of Horse Creek, Montana. Only weeks into the job, he’s about to find out what it means to bring the law to a lawless land. It’s up to Hershel to stop all forms of criminality—including the old vigilante justice that once ran the town. When the cowboy Billy Hanks is found hanging from a tree with the label Hoss Steeler pinned to his chest, the culprits must be caught whether or not the accusation is true. With nothing to go on but a dead body, a misspelled note, and a wounded horse, Herschel refuses to look the other way. Someone’s going to pay for this dirty deed—found guilty by the right and proper letter of the law.
As the electric cables are laid for a new telegraph system that will connect the settlers of the Arizona Territory to the rest of the country, rancher Chet Byrnes squares off with a gang of hired henchmen who would kill to sabotage the project, all while he deals with cutthroat rustlers on the Mexican border.
From acclaimed, three-time Spur Award-winning western author Dusty Richards, an explosive new novel in his O’Malley saga, the powerful story of a strong Texan family caught in the crossfire of rebels, assassins, and history itself… It begins with a spectacular train robbery—a brilliantly planned, brutally executed heist masterminded by a shadowy gang of conspirators with far deadlier motives than money or gold. Their mission: to steal the train’s shipment of powerful explosives. Their goal: to assassinate Mexico’s legendary resistance leader Benito Juarez—at a small stagecoach station owned and operated by the O’Malley family… As a lifelong patriot himself, Joe O’Malley understands the struggle for freedom. As a proud Texan, he knows the importance of fighting for your land and your liberty. But as patriarch of the O’Malley clan, he also believes that his family comes first—and that any outsider who brings their war into his home will have to face another deadly force of resistance…named the O’Malleys.
With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and two deadly family feuds. Spurned by the woman he loves, Chet sets off for new territory. The journey won't come cheap. Original.
From small towns like Metamora, Aledo, and Carthage to East St. Louis and Chicago's South Side, Illinois's high school football fields have been the proving ground for such future stars as Dick Butkus, Red Grange, and Otto Graham. In Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right, longtime fan and sportswriter Taylor Bell shares the stories of the greatest players, toughest coaches, most memorable games, and fiercest rivalries in Illinois history. Drawing on dozens of personal interviews, Bell profiles memorable figures such as Tuscola's record-setting quarterback Dusty Burk, Pittsfield's brutally demanding yet devoted Coach Donald "Deek" Pollard, and Evanston's Murney "Mr. Do-Right" Lazier, who coached ster...
A USA Today Bestselling AuthorA 2017 Spur Award WinnerThe Brandiron SeriesVince is a mustanger with a solitary camp high in the Hondo Mountains. When he comes across Julie, a saloon girl on the run from some pretty bad hombres, Vince takes her to stay at his camp while her horse heals up. But before he knows it, her fight is his fight, and he's looking forward to a life with her. They just have to survive a small war first.