Hundreds of books are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most popular Western books for adults.
Big Sky Secrets
"Self-made tycoon Landry Sutton heads to Hangman Bend's Ranch to sell his land to his brother Zane. Though he's got cowboy in his blood, Landry plans to return to city life before the dust even settles on his boots. Of course, he didn't count on falling for Big Sky Country or Ria Mannnning."--Page 4 of cover.
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View Big Sky SecretsRogue Lawman: Gallows Express
The Tierney gang is spreading their terror throughout Trinity Ridge, and the town needs a temporary lawman to dole out justice--former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk. He won't rest until they're strung up from the gallows they once escaped.
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View Rogue Lawman: Gallows Express45-caliber Desperado
Cuno Massey killed a pack of deputy U.S. Marshals, but only because the men were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, Massey faces a death sentence--until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border.
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View 45-caliber DesperadoWinter in the Blood
Narrated by a young Native American living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, this is the unforgettable story of a man living out the tragedy of his people. Intelligent, sensitive, and self destructive, he is haunted by the untimely deaths of his father and older brother and the shards of his once proud heritage. He sleepwalks through his days working on his stepfather's cattle ranch and consoles himself with alcohol and women. An ironic epiphany provides a tie to the vast land of his ancestors and an alternative to despair.
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View Winter in the BloodSummer of the Drums
Life was hard on the remote farm on the Blue River in the Wisconsin territory of the 1830s, but to Kevin Trask it was a young man's paradise. But while Kevin and his family were at peace with their surroundings, the local Sac Indians were preparing to reclaim their lost homelands. (syndetics)
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View Summer of the DrumsThe Texas Gun
Sheep were on the move and the tempers of hard-pressed cowmen were on the rise. Drought had hit them hard, losses were high, and being sheeped out would ruin them completely. For reasons of their own, the U.S. Forestry Service wanted trouble stirred up between the beef riders and the mutton punchers. (syndetics)
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View The Texas GunTelegraph Days: A Novel
Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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View Telegraph Days: A NovelTrain From Marietta
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorKatherine Tyler's cross-country train trip is shockingly derailed when she is kidnapped and taken somewhere in the bend of South Texas. Only a cowboy named Tate Castle knows the territory well enough to find her. Even after Tate frees Katherine, their escape is fraught with hazards. With the kidnappers closing in, Tate and Katherine must risk everything in order to survive.Simultaneous Publication with Warner's Standard Print edition. (syndetics)
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View Train From MariettaBrokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is the story of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys who share a small cabin while working as herders and camp tenders during a summer spent on a range far above the tree line. They fall into a relationship that at first seems solely sexual-but then reveals itself to be something more. Both men marry and have families, but over the course of many years and frequent separations they find their relation- ship becomes the most important thing in both their lives, and they do anything they can to maintain it. Proulx's description of their bond is beautiful and haunting-and often brutal in its portrayal of the hardships, and ultimately the violence, they face. Perfect for both moviegoers and Proulx's already well-established legions of readers, this volume is a handsome and timely edition of one of the most talked-about stories of recent years. (syndetics)
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View Brokeback MountainThe Blue Mustang
Young Button Starbuck and his brothers had a mighty shock when their father had been killed in his own home, but Starbuck vowed to wreak his revenge - to trace Buchanan and kill him. Starbuck was a boy who had never aimed a gun in anger nor been more than a day's ride from his home in his life. That was about to change. (syndetics)
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