Western
The Long Hitch
If you want to know about managing mule trains in the Old West, this is the book for you. In…
Perhaps Tomorrow
Life has not been easy for Mattie Maguire. Since her husband died, she has struggled to keep the family’s business…
Journey to Riverbend
Sam Carstairs, founder of the town of Riverbend, has been kidnapped. Although many of the townsfolk actively dislike Sam, the…
A Port in the Storm
Boston socialite Margaret Ward jounces over the Wyoming landscape in a stagecoach in 1885. A scandal has led her father…
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
The term “mountain man” conjures up visions of doggedly independent and fiercely combative men more than capable of adapting and…
Written in Blood
It is 1877, and 16-year-old Jim Doolen has set out to find the father he hasn’t seen in ten years.…
Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West
Ellen O’Hara, at age sixteen, is being sent west from Kansas as a mail-order bride. Before she has the chance…
The Sisters Brothers
Editors' choice
Speaking as someone who won’t read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove because it’s a Western, won’t see the evidently delicious Coen…
The Bride’s House
The only way to get rich in a Colorado mining town in 1880 is to strike gold or marry a…
Child of the Fighting Tenth
This re-released memoir recounts the early life of author Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper Hooker, growing up in the frontier West. The…
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