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Focus Fiction: Texas Fiction - Westerns

Frederic Bean - Tom Spoon [WESTERN BEAN (also LARGE PRINT FICTION BEAN)]

  • Released after 12 years in prison, Tom Spoon wants to put the past behind him, but finds a reason to pick up his gun when the railroad rides roughshod over his friends.

James Carlos Blake - The Pistoleer [WESTERN BLAKE]

  • The wild days of John Wesley Hardin's life are related through the voices of those who encountered him during his 42 years.

Sam Brown - The Long Season [WESTERN BROWN]

  • While trying to retrieve some of his stray cattle, Jesse Coldiron rides into the middle of a war between cowboys and ranch owners.

Nancy A. Collins - Walking Wolf: A Weird Western [FICTION COLLINS]

  • The story of Billy Skillet, a white child raised as a Comanche brave, friend to Chief Sitting Bull, sidekick to a vampire gunslinger, and a werewolf!

Robert J. Conley - Killing Time [WESTERN CONLEY]

  • Bluff Luton, an easygoing Iowa marshal, heads for Texas to face the men who killed his brother and are now trying to kill him.

Jack Curtis - Pepper Tree Rider [WESTERN CURTIS (also LARGE PRINT FICTION CURTIS]

  • Alone on her ranch during the Civil War, Elizabeth Hamilton has signed over hundreds of cows to the bank and now must hold on until her husband returns.

Zane Grey - Shadow on the Trail [WESTERN GREY (also LARGE PRINT FICTION GREY)]

  • An account of what might have happened to Jackson, the only outlaw in Sam Bass's gang to survive a bank robbery in Mercer.

Fred Grove - Deception Trail [LARGE PRINT FICTION GROVE]

  • Dude McQuinn is set to win a hatful of money with Judge Blair, the fastest horse in the west, until someone horsenaps the Judge.

Elmer Kelton - Honor at Daybreak [WESTERN KELTON]

  • Overnight, Caprock has gone from a sleepy ranching center to an oil boomtown and Sheriff Buckalew fights an uphill battle to keep the town free from crime.

Richard Matheson - The Gunfight [WESTERN MATHESON (also LARGE PRINT FICTION MATHESON)]

  • After killing a young outlaw in a gunfight, Texas Ranger John Benton swears never to wear a pistol again. Then a 16-year old boy challenges him to a gunfight over an imagined slight to his girlfriend and John begins to regret his decision.

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove [FICTION MCMURTRY (also CASSETTE MCMURTRY)]

  • The story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana led by former Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and W. F. Call.

George W. Proctor - Before Honor [WESTERN PROCTOR]

  • Aging rancher Clint Wayford learns some hard truths about the contemporary West when he hires Miguel Ramos, an illegal alien, to help him work his land.

Kevin D. Randle - Spanish Gold [WESTERN RANDLE]

  • After learning the secret of a lost Spanish gold train, David Travis and a murdered prospector's daughter set out to find the gold, only to be confronted by the prospector's killers.

Gene Shelton - Last Gun [WESTERN SHELTON]

  • Historically authentic novel about real-life gunfighter John Selman, the man who killed John Wesley Hardin.

Jory Sherman - Grass Kingdom [FICTION SHERMAN]

  • A legendary Texas cattle empire, Grass Kingdom is also a house divided by ambition and torn by its families' fierce desire to dominate the country's cattle business -- and to ruthlessly crush any who get in their way.

Donald E. Worcester - The War in the Nueces Strip [WESTERN WORCESTER]

  • In 1874, Captain Leander H. McNally and his Texas Rangers struggle to bring law and order to the treacherous Nueces Strip.

Updated: 9/29/04

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