Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7095&N=3+7104+4294917369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676902 Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popular heroes in frontier fiction. His legendary exploits in books, movies, and on television have blazed a mythic and unforgettable trail across the American West. Now, in the last of four Hopalong Cassidy novels written by Louis LAmour, the immortal saddleman rides again?this time into a lonely valley of danger and death. Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friends has been murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, had vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he find that cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfully hers. Colonel Justin Tradwar, criminal kingpin of the town of Kachina, is the owner of the sprawling Box T ranch, and he has built his empire with a shrewd and ruthless determination. In search of Petes killers and Cindys ranch, Hopalong signs on at the Box T, promising to help get Tradways wild cattle out of the rattler-infested brush. But in the land of mesquite and black chaparral, Cassidy confronts a mystery as hellish as it is haunting?a bloody trail that leads to the strange and forbidding Babylon plateau, to $60,000 in stolen gold, and to a showdown with an outlaw who has already cheated death once... and is determined to do it again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676910 He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerlands finding her made Matts blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt had stepped in and stolen Kris away, would try to kill them both if given half a chance. Matt tried to convince himself that Neerland had returned to the East. But Matt was wrong. Miles away in the town of Freedom, Oskar Neerland was accepting a new job. In his first duty as marshal, he would lead the posse that was tracking down Matt Keelock. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703517 He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerlands finding her made Matts blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt had stepped in and stolen Kris away, would try to kill them both if given half a chance. Matt tried to convince himself that Neerland had returned to the East. But Matt was wrong. Miles away in the town of Freedom, Oskar Neerland was accepting a new job. In his first duty as marshal, he would lead the posse that was tracking down Matt Keelock. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703511 Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friends has been murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, had vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he find that cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfully hers. Colonel Justin Tradwar, criminal kingpin of the town of Kachina, is the owner of the sprawling Box T ranch, and he has built his empire with a shrewd and ruthless determination. In search of Petes killers and Cindys ranch, Hopalong signs on at the Box T, promising to help get Tradways wild cattle out of the rattler-infested brush. But in the land of mesquite and black chaparral, Cassidy confronts a mystery as hellish as it is haunting—a bloody trail that leads to the strange and forbidding Babylon plateau, to $60,000 in stolen gold, and to a showdown with an outlaw who has already cheated death once, and is determined to do it again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657100 With their texts restored to the state of their initial publication in magazines, here are three stories penned by Americas favorite Western author. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648530 On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men. One is dead, and the other badly wounded. Hopalong is determined to stop those responsible. But even the best gunfighter needs men he can trust to watch his back, men willing to risk their lives to do whats right. With their help, Hopalong fights to save the Rocking R, only to find himself the target of a ruthless gunman in a life-and-death struggle for frontier justice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657101 Nobody describes the life of the lone cowboy better than Louis LAmour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here are eight stories by Americas favorite Western author. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648531 Orphaned by murderers when young, Val Trevallion and Grita Redaway meet again as adults, he a hardened loner and she an aspiring actress, during the worlds greatest silver strike. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1479729 Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasnt looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasnt buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1479725 Hopalong Cassidy helps to free his friends held by trigger-happy outlaws and bring these men to justice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646717 Cattle rustler Jack Bolt has sent out his hardcases to take care of the only man who stands in his way--Hopalong Cassidy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648557 Cattle rustler Jack Bolt has sent out his hardcases to take care of the only man who stands in his way--Hopalong Cassidy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648586 Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his familys Malibu rance in jeopardy. The death of Seans father has pushed his mother to the edge of financial ruin, and now its up to Sean to find a way out. The rumor is that the elder Mulkerin found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681757 Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions grow, he realizes that he may be fighting on the wrong side of a land swindle. Disillusioned and outraged, Kedrick must take action against the very people who hired him--or be forced to witness the bloody massacre of innocent men and women -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648533 Novelist Dan Sheridan takes to the Old West to visit what is believed to be a ranch once owned by the famed Toomey brothers. However, he soon comes face-to-face with a duo of salty murderers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542465 Catlow. Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they became men, Catlow was an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Bens job to hunt him down. But south of the border, Ben meets beautiful Rosita Calderon, whose presence complicates an already dangerous situation. And soon Ben realizes that the price of getting Catlow home may be more than he,s willing to pay. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648534 Left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws, and raised by Native Americans, Johannes Verne is strengthened by his love for two women and his ambition to survive on the Palm Springs desert. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1320666 When Val Darrants friend and mentor Will Reilly is gunned down outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Val will need all his gamblers luck to find revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212662 Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery--but it turns out that his host isnt a fan of books, writers, or people who dont mind their own business... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648532 For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared-- and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn cant afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move could be their last -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375704 The story of the pioneering men and women who sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage and their blood, and how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and natures cruelty to win, for all time, the rich and untamed West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251204 A novelist and his old Korean war buddy investigate the murder of his buddys two brothers and the mysterious connection to the massacre of 27 men almost 90 years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574247 The story of the pioneering men and women who sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage and their blood, and how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and natures cruelty to win, for all time, the rich and untamed West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363503 Tells of the men and women who pushed relentlessly forward to claim the West, despite hardship and death at every turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251203 Left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws, and raised by Native Americans, Johannes Verne is strengthened by his love for two women and his ambition to survive on the Palm Springs desert. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335624 When Val Darrants friend and mentor Will Reilly is gunned down outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Val will need all his gamblers luck to find revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212659 The Lonesome Gods is Louis LAmours biggest and most important historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574743 When Val Darrants friend and mentor Will Reilly is gunned down outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Val will need all his gamblers luck to find revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142600 A girl, gold, and rich pasture beckons Matt Bardoul to a wagon train headed toward Big Horns and a pack of sidewinders. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657099 Louis LAmour, often touted as the greatest writer ever to grace the Western genre, presents a collection of action-packed tales, complete with outlaws, cowboys, and sixguns. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142601 Clay Bell had to fight to get his timberland, and he will fight Jud Devitt to keep it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648529 Clay Bells ranch is threatened by a speculator who wants to harvest timber from the land where he grazes his cattle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1428126 Louis LAmour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a big country needing big men and women to live in it. This volume presents seven of LAmours fine short stories. This is history that lives forever.Mistakes Can Kill You. Johnny ODay, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam Redlin from gambler and saloon owner Loss Degner in a fight over a woman.The One for the Mohave Kid ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044016 Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white mans world. Theyve both taken their share of hard knocks. Now theyre looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, whove been burned off their land. Its a fight Pike and Holt dont want, dont need, but dont dare turn their backs on -- especially when one of the perpetrators might be one of Pikes old friends. Hunted like animals across the frozen countryside, Pike and Holt will risk everything -- their reputations, their dreams, and their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147107 Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657098 Home in the valley: Steve Mehan can still recoup the money to save five ranches back home if only he can make it from Sacramento to Seattle on horseback and beat the steamer carrying some bad news--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1117994 The third volume in a collection of stories by Louis LAmour. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147051 Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter--until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party--gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldnt trust for a minute... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1648535 Promised a boat-load of gold and a chance to woo the girl of his dreams, gritty Matt Bardoul accepts a job to take a wagon full of goods out west. However, when the journey sours and someone tries to gun him down, Matt realizes that he may have been set up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1350015 Shot down over Soviet airspace and taken captive, U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack makes a daring escape into the Siberian wilderness. Accompanied by a fellow escapee, Mack must rely on his Native American ancestry and skills if he is to survive his long journey and elude his pursuer, the famous tracker known as Alekhin the Yakut. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703052 It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes. Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings, but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1118184 LAmour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where strangers may come to trust or kill one another; where old scores haunt new lives and the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims. Even at the best of times, this is a world in which every man and woman must be responsible for their own survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112148 Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251201 Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard boldly sweeps through the castles, villages, and galleys of twelfth-century Europe, in an adventure that takes him from the shores of Brittany to the steppes of Russia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212682 Here is an historic adventure of extraordinary power waiting to sweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writers of our time conquers new storytelling worlds. Louis LAmour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier -- the enthralling lands of the 12th century. At the center of The Walking Drum is Kerbouchard, one of LAmours greatest heroes... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1058200 In Shadow Trail, Rock Bannon steers an Oregon-bound wagon train away from a dangerous trail; in The Sixth Shotgun, Leo Carver fights to escape a death sentence for a murder he did not commit; and in the title story, Ward McQueen faces accusations of murdering a neighboring rancher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427965 In West of the Tularosa, Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K, is accused of killing a nearby rancher and hes going to need some help to prove his innocence. In Home in the Valley, Steve Mehan can still recoup the money to save five ranches back home if only he can make it from Sacramento to Seattle on horseback and beat the steamer carrying some bad news ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249593 Ward McQueen came to the high country to take legal possession of the Firebox range. An ugly sight greeted him when he arrived, the bullet-riddled body of its former owner. It was clear that the man went out fighting, for his killers left behind a trail of blood. McQueen followed that trail all the way into Pelona where double-dealings and trickery make finding the truth difficult, if not impossible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249588 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249601 Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie is called in when a ranch foreman disappears with $15,000. It appears, however, that the foreman may have been murdered. Bowdrie has to investigate the behavior of the new foreman and the ranch owner in order to solve the mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249603 Dramatizes the adventures and hardships of men and women facing the challenges of westward settlement in nineteenth-century America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249605 Presents a story about a newly hired marshals attempt to protect a stagecoach carrying a large amount of gold when it stops in the town he serves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249595 Ride with legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie as he tracks the killers of an infamous outlaw, Zaparo, and fourteen of his desperadoes. With no clue on where to look for the killers, he is led to the K-bar ranch and the beautiful girlfriend of the last living member of Zaparos gang only to find that his prime suspect is a friend of the Texas Rangers! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249607 Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldiers wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249591 Where the real frontier begins ... A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt ... A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge ... From purple sage to gamblers gold, from a seoritas tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive LAmour twist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029155 Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes--Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards--Strong-willed senoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit--Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith &Wesson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020164 LAmour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where strangers may come to trust or kill one another; where old scores haunt new lives and the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims. Even at the best of times, this is a world in which every man and woman must be responsible for their own survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029138 Leo Carver has been convicted of murdering two men and faces death by hanging. He maintains his innocence but an angry mob has taken up residence outside the jail demanding his death all while a beautiful woman starts asking the kind of questions that could uncover the smoking shotgun. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249590 A range war begins to brew when the scheming Lee Martin turns Bowen against his foreman and neighbors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1348962 Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335893 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805371 Louis LAmour brings you the Wild West as youve never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music and authentic sound effects, sweeps listeners back to the rough and ready days of Americas frontier, where a man had to live by his wits ... and his gun. Death is no stranger to Almagre, a rough boomtown in which the local cemetery, Boot Hill, is almost as crowded as the saloons. Almagre had sprung up in just under two years with a silver strike, and in that short time, it had buried three town marshals. Into this wild and bloody town rides Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, trailing a Pecos bank robber who left two men dead. All Bowdrie has to go on is an unconvincing eyewitness description, a name scrawled on a tattered post card ... and his own skills as a master tracker. But its his skill with a gun Bowdrie will need when he looks for answers in Almagre. For the town is gripped in a stranglehold by a ruthless cattle baron named Bonelli. To bring his quarry back, Bowdrie will pin on the marshals star to face down Bonelli and his gunmen--in a town where a badge is a death warrant. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805379 When his nephew is kidnapped by Apache warriors, Tell Sackett becomes the loneliest of men. No stranger to the cunning of the Apaches, Tell knows they can smell a white man a mile away -- and then shoot his eyes out at a dead gallop. Accompanied by John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and the half-breed Tampico, Tell is lured into the Apaches Sierra Madre stronghold, impelled by the pleas of his nephews mother. But as he searches for the boy, he begins to suspect that his deadliest enemy may not be the kidnappers. Could his nephews mother be inventing a rescue mission to deliver her brother-in-law into the hands of an ambush? When water runs thicker than blood, Tell has only his wits and cold steel to depend on. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805410 Twenty years ago, Orrin and Tells father set out on a journey and never returned home. In this continuation of the Sackett family saga, the two brothers, determined to find out what happened to him, travel to exotic New Orleans looking for answers. Enlisting the aid of a trailwise gypsy and a voodoo priest, they try to re-create their fathers voyage. But they encounter far more than they bargained for in this land of black magic and secrets someone will kill to protect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=742976 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=763475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765637 Trail to Pie Town: While on the run, Dusty Barron meets a pretty girl and helps her get the land thats rightfully hers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=788098 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541583 The brutal slayings of the Alverez brothers follow an announcement by western fiction writer Dan Sheridan that he is investigating the strange disappearance of twenty men and four thousand head of cattle ninety years earlier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=807546 Obsessed with avenging his parents murder by outlaws, Val Trevallion travels to Virginia City where the worlds largest silver strike is likely to attract the killers he is searching for. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187138 Drifter William Tell Sackett finds the home and the woman he wants south of the Tetons, but gold and violence may lose him both. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=888927 Trail to Pie Town: While on the run, Dusty Barron meets a pretty girl and helps her get the land thats rightfully hers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=791015 Big Medicine: a tough old prospector outwits the threatening Apaches and saves not only his life, but his gold as well. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816690 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805402 Tell Sackett was miles away from anyone he knew and he had no reason to think there were enemies nearby. But then Tell is shot without warning -- and when he finally comes to, he discovers that all traces of his life have vanished. His wagon has disappeared and his beloved wife, Ange, is missing. Sackett vows to stop at nothing to find out what became of her. But when the truth emerges, it is more terrifying than he ever imagined -- and it will take all his strength to find out once and for all why the forces behind the mystery wont stop until Sackett is dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805389 Louis LAmour is truly Americas favorite storyteller and the legendary voice of the American west. He was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his lifes work, and was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. Jim Gary had always tried to avoid trouble. But after he is forced to kill a Mexican gunman in a cantina showdown, trouble seems to seek him out. A shoot-out with the gunmans vengeful outlaw buddies sends Jim on the run, with an unwanted reputation as a dangerous gunslinger. And when he hires on as a cowhand for a friend, Jim risks being strung up as a rustler and murderer--unless he can use his wits as quickly as his guns. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805231 Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentrys G Bar ranch. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker, didnt believe in violence, and never carried a gun. His advice to Tack is to make tracks. But Tack has other plans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810332 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477739 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=764166 Trap of Gold: Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead before he finds his first color. The gold is located at the head of a fan that lies in a gigantic crack in a granite upthrust that resembles a fantastic ruin. This crumbling granite is slashed with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the granite upthrust is unstable, and taking out the quartz might bring the whole thing tumbling down. Trail to Pie Town finds Dusty Barron riding his steel-dust stallion at full gallop out of town. Back in the town a man lies bleeding on the floor of a saloon. Dan Hickman had called him yellow and gone for a gun. Dan was a mite slow, a fact that had left him dead on the saloon floor. Maybe if Emmett Fisk and Gus Mattis hadnt appeared just as he was making a break from the saloon, he could have explained himself, but they reached for their guns when they saw him, and he had wheeled his horse and hit the desert road. The dead man had several relatives in the area, and now it looked like he was going to be facing a clan war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805384 Louis LAmour is truly Americas favorite storyteller and the legendary voice of the American west. He was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his lifes work, and was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. Folks far and wide know that the Cactus Kid can handle a pistol with the best of them. But for all his skill and coolness under fire, theres just one small weakness he cant seem to overcome--and it may prove the death of him. LAmour brings you the Wild West as youve never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music and authentic sound effects, sweeps listeners back to the glory days of the American frontier, where great fortune awaited the bold and the lucky--and sudden death lurked at every turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=812321 Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=830165 Medicine ground is a short story from LAmours hardcover, Valley of the Sun. This stunning, full-cast dramatization features LAmours famous character, the Cactus Kid, and all the old-time Western gunslinging and rough riding you can handle. Complete with original music and sound effects. Louis LAmour is truly Americas favorite storyteller and the legendary voice of the American west ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=763307 It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling Bs owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves. With her rugged foreman, Conn Dury, at her side, the proud and beautiful woman might just stand a chance. Because Conn Dury knows all about revenge--and in Kates wild fight hes out to get some of his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805364 Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of Americas greatest storytellers. In Galloway, two brothers must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future. A desperate stand ... Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the Dunn clan, who had decided that the vast range would be theirs alone. Now Galloway and Flagan would face an enemy who killed for sport -- but as long as other Sacketts lived, they would not fight alone ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1347457 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=807972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=823803 Collects seven short stories set in the golden days of the American West, including the title story in which an easygoing young drifter decides to homestead an unclaimed stretch of land until a cattleman decides to teach him a deadly lesson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805393 Nolan Sackett is in a world of trouble. After shooting a man in self-defense, he runs for his life from a posse in hot pursuit. Always a fool for a lady in distress, he takes time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperadoes. It isnt until she bushwhacks him with a shotgun and tries to poison him that he realizes she is up to on good. No sooner than he shoots his way out or her clutches, he meets Penelope -- a lass with a sad story. But in helping her, he runs afoul of Penelope and her gang. As always, LAmours cowboy is sometimes forced into compromising situations, but his basic integrity wins our sympathy, since he is a man struggling to do right in the harsh Old West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=775382 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805391 Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didnt care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse, food, or his gold. Like the rest of his remarkable family, however, Tell Sackett was a survivor. He was going to get a horse and food, find the woman who had caused him so much trouble -- and most importantly, get his gold back. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805401 The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon -- who is even wilder than himself. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he cant help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=770793 After bringing an outlaw to justice, Major James Brionne is targeted by Allards family for revenge and loses his wife and home, and the enraged lawman begins a perilous westward journey to protect his son and stop the Allards. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194598 Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis LAmour weaves an unforgettable tale of a man who journeys to his homeland ? but discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible....Barnabas Sackett was leaving England forever to find his fortune in the New World... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=763306 Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangmans noose or an Apache bullet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805377 Johnny Buck is a young Texas cowboy of nineteen summers, working for the Bar W. In the process of roping an old stob-horned steer, Buck is thrown from his horse--and into a hidden cleft where he encounters the mystery of a murdered man and a bag of ore that just might be gold. The taciturn owner of the Bar W discounts Bucks story of the gold, but Buck soon finds that some of the shadier ranch hands are gunning for him. With a widows daughter, a lost mine, and a missing prospector in the balance, Buck has no choice but to solve the mystery--or die trying. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=805338 In McQueen of the Tumbling K, Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K Ranch, rides into town and is shot down by gunmen and left for dead. But they made a critical mistake because McQueen is not dead--and hes looking to get even. In Big medicine, Old Billy Dunbar has discovered the best gold-bearing gravel he had found in a year, but now he is lying face down in a ravine, hiding from Apaches. Hes going to need a good strategy to get out of this one alive. In Dutchmans flat, a six-man posse heads into the desert after a squatter named Lock who shot a man in the back. Once they catch him, there wont be any trial. But Lock knows the desert better than they do and knows how to pick them off one by one.