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.
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