Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentry’s G Bar. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker,...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
- Author:Glover, RuthSummary:
- Author:Brand, Max.Summary:
The day Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The big event of the festival was a high-stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. But it didn...
- Author:Andra-Warner, ElleSummary:
The early history of the Hudson’s Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers...
- Author:Mulford, Clarence, E.Summary:
Hopalong Cassidy, the iconic western cowboy hero conceived by Clarence Mulford, was immortalized in a highly popular film series starring William Boyd from 1935-1948. A tough-talking and violent character in print, Hopalong Cassidy was...
- Author:MINIFIE, James M.Summary:
Based on his own boyhood experiences and the stories his father told, Minifie recounts the perils and pleasures of growing up on the Canadian prairies prior to and during the "dust bowl" period of the 1930's. He later...
- Author:Siringo, Charles A.Summary:
History of the American outlaw Billy the Kid.
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
The Healey Dramatic Company is an itinerant theatrical troupe struggling to stay one step ahead of the bill collector as it travels from mining camps to cow towns. When the troupe decides to head to their next show during a snowstorm,...
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the...
- Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:
Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Blevins offers a tribute to the "first Westerners" who explored the Great American West. Stories include those of John Colter, who escaped captivity by the Blackfeet Indians, and Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear...
- Author:Bonham, FrankSummary:
A collection of 2 stories. "Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" is set in eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular Army during the War between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of fifty-seven men,...
- Author:Monson, MarianneSummary:
Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West. All of them overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world--inspiring examples for the modern woman.
- Author:Mather, KenSummary:
Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south...
- Author:Wheeler, Richard S.Summary:
To launch his own newspaper, Sam Flint must face competition from the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat.
- Author:Wheeler, Richard S.Summary:
As newspaper editor of the Payday Pioneer, Sam Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war for control of the town, putting his life on the line for what he believes in.
- Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:
The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and...
- Author:Gwynne, S. C.Summary:
S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price....
- Author:Lazurko, AnneSummary:
Housekeeper or whore? A dollybird is either or both in the vocabulary of the prairie west in 1906, leaving the community to draw its own conclusions about who and what Moira is and isn't. Determined to find redemption in the midst of...
- Author:Abbott, John S. C.Summary:
A biography of the American frontiersman David (Davy) Crockett.