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NEW TITLES JUN-SEP 13

GUNSMOKE WESTERNS HARDCOVER BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES

Action and adventure from the best western authors!

JUNE 2013

Max Brand®

Will Cook

Peter Dawson

The Wolf Strain

Until Shadows Fall

Claiming of the Deerfoot

These three short novels – each carefully restored to Max Brand’s original versions – show a master storyteller at the peak of his ability. Each of these novels features a man trying to survive in the wild, untamed West, determined to live his life as best he can despite the dangers that Fate may place in his way. Each has the grit, determination, and guts to stand up and fight. But will they have enough to win?

1874. Now that peace is established between the US Army and the Comanche nation, citizens who lost children to Comanche raids over the years are pressuring Congress for their return. The task is delegated to Colonel Frazer at Fort Elliott. Iron Hand is the principal chief of the Comanches, and Frazer dispatches Lieutenant Jim Gary and Sheriff Guthrie McCabe to negotiate for the release of all white prisoners.

Here are two of the finest short novels of one of the Western genre’s classic writers. The title story finds Ed Thorn, ostracized from stage driving, arriving in the mining community of Ledge.

There the Deerfoot Stage Line is being harassed by outlaws trying to loot the miners’ gold dust.

And In Barbed Wire, Jim Lance tries to occupy a homestead he won in a poker game.

isbn: 978 14713 21108

224 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21092

296 pp

William R. Cox

Wayfaring Strangers

Gunfight at Razor Edge

When gold was discovered in California in 1849, the news spread like wildfire. There were three ways to get to those gold fields: by ship around Cape Horn; stern-wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico and overland to the Pacific; or overland by wagon train, horse and on foot. Those who survive their arduous journeys meet in California with unexpected results.

Sam Booker was a drifter with at least one killing to his credit. Piney Talcot was a black barber from New York. For both men, Razor Edge was a chance to be free. But Razor Edge became the object of a giant land grab. The men who wanted to take over reckoned without Sam and Piney’s strength, however. Both men have tasted freedom – and would die rather than give it up!

320 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21139

Wild Horse Valley

128 pp

Tonto County’s idea of a joke was the election of former vaudevillian Henry Conroy as sheriff.

But when a cowboy was killed by a ghostly blonde angel and the millionaire Beloits were robbed, the citizens stopped thinking that the sheriff’s clowning was funny. But the event that really touched off the fireworks was an attempt by outlaws to kidnap the sheriff. Henry Conroy rammed into six-gun action with amazing results.

isbn: 978 14713 21122

JULY 2013

Johnny D. Boggs

William Heuman

Robert J. Steelman

The Lonesome Chisholm Trail

Heller From Texas

Cliff Rynders had built quite a reputation as a trail boss in his time. Neighbour Doug Simpson, an affluent cattleman in danger of losing everything to plunging beef prices, asks Cliff to boss the trail drive and get his beef to market early. Cliff knows that when he accepts the job, it will force him to quit drinking and tend to business, facing the plentiful obstacles encountered along the trail.

He rode into Rawdon with the look of a hunter . . . a tall man sitting loosely in the saddle with eight hundred miles of trail dust on him. He had come to kill a gun named Fogarty. When that was done there was the matter of his brother’s ranch, of the beautiful woman who ran it now, and of the son of a reptile who ramrodded her crew.

The Great Yellowstone Steamboat Race

isbn: 978 14713 21177

272 pp

128 pp

Wayne D. Overholser

Jackson Cole Again and again, the ruthless Mexican bandit, Pedro Cortina, and his raiders swooped down onto Lone Star soil and left a wake of robbery, arson and murder, until the Rio ran red with blood.

Outnumbered 100 to 1, and with time running out on the men on the side of the law, Ranger Jim Hatfield plunged into savage pursuit of the border killers, to pit his guns and fists against the cruellest foe in Texas.

128 pp

Married twice, Ruby Prentiss was frequently the subject of town gossip. Del Delaney walked her home, but when she asked him into the bedroom, he felt trapped and left. Next day he was charged with rape by Sid Blackwell, a deputy sheriff and Ruby’s boyfriend. Because Blackwell’s father is the local judge, Del does a desperate thing: he flees the state. Soon he sets about helping two wanted men plan a bank robbery . . .

isbn: 978 14713 21160

208 pp

192 pp

Alec Munro is a stubborn Scot who piloted the fastest stern-wheeler in the Territory. His latest mission is the delivery of a stockpile of supplies to Fort Mahone, six days upriver. Two hundred miles of treacherous water lay ahead – with murderous Sioux at every bend and a vengeful skipper steaming along in his wake, hoping to see the Rose of Dundee at the bottom of the Yellowstone.

isbn: 978 14713 21290

The Outlaws

Gun-Runners

isbn: 978 14713 21313

isbn: 978 14713 21306

208 pp

W. C. Tuttle

Tim Champlin

isbn: 978 14713 21078

isbn: 978 14713 21085

192 pp

James C. Work

The Tobermory Manuscript 1874. Trapper James Nugent was shot and killed. A manuscript he had been working on disappeared.

A hundred years later, a Colorado college professor becomes interested in the manuscript, and in the mystery of Nugent’s murder. He follows the trail to Tobermory, Scotland, to find British travel writer Isabella Bird. Could Nugent have sent her his manuscript before his death?

isbn: 978 14713 21146

304 pp

James B. Hendryx

John Prescott

In The Hills of Monterey

The Stampeders

Ordeal

In Spanish California, Ortiza Tarabal is the most beautiful ingenue. Her father has sent to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his daughter, and Francisco Valdez has arrived in the Bay of Monterey on the Fortune. The young Spanish don is accompanied by his magnificent stallion, Sanduval. When Sanduval attempts to swim to shore, there follows an intriguing tale of alliance, misalliance, adventure and romance.

Adventure is where you find it – and young Til Carter found it in a hurry when he headed north into the toughest country in Alaska. He also found a beautiful redhead named Julie Condon, who wanted him to settle down and buy into a safe claim, but Til was on hand when the big strike came, and the stampede that followed proved to Julie and all the other sceptics that gold – like adventure – is where you find it.

Six people rode the stage from Tucson bound for San Diego. Attacked by Apaches, the stage overturned and the driver was killed – and the party was set afoot in the desert, miles from water or help. Under the stress of desert heat, fatigue and sniping by Indians, the real personalities of the men and the girl begin to emerge. Old hatreds flare; guilty secrets, as well as hidden heroisms and loyalties, come to the surface.

isbn: 978 14713 22143

240 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21337

224 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21344

192 pp

Jack Curtis

D. B. Newton

Jon Tuska (ed)

The Mark of Cain

Guns of the Rimrock

The Wild West: A Western Trio

Long before he branded the West with his tough frontier justice, Sam Benbow had a dream of starting a cattle ranch with his brother Buddy.

When the town fathers of Elk City, Montana, promise to deliver that dream – by offering him some land in exchange for a season’s service as a marshal – he grudgingly agrees to keep the peace with his sidekick, Skofer.

Donover Valley was a fertile rangeland, and old Bob Craig’s Question Mark spread was the pride of Donover. Craig was inclined to blame homesteaders for the beef raids, but foreman Ray Evart suspected some more powerful and more sinister figure was responsible. And when his boss was killed, Ray took it on himself to unmask the desperado who was laying waste to the land.

A celebration of the Western short novel, a genre form that flourished during the heyday of fiction magazines. Too short for book form, and long enough to unbalance anthologies, here are three stories to delight Western fans: Riders of the Storm

by Robert J. Horton, The Texas Hellion by Walt Coburn and The Cayuse by Cherry Wilson.

isbn: 978 14713 21368

192 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21351

256 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21320

304 pp

William MacLeod Raine

Lewis B. Patten

Grey Sage

Gunsmoke Trail

The Woman at Ox-Yoke

This dramatic novel gives a picture of the modern West, where rodeos have replaced the round-up.

It is a story of men and women who risk their lives on outlaw horses for the entertainment of a fickle audience – the Cross Anchor dude ranch and its jealous owner, the gypsy-like wanderings of the riders from Salinas to Calgary, fatal spills and courageous rescues that mark the bewildering changes in their crowded lives.

As a boy he was timid and shy. As a young man, even though toughened by war, Peter Moran was still no ruffian, no dime-novel hero. Then came the day when, riding shotgun on a cache of greenbacks, he was gunned down by a vicious gang of killers and left for dead. Now, fierce with determination, Peter Moran heads for the raw oil town of Petrolia to haul the outlaws to justice – and be called coward no more.

The Salt Creek Valley in Colorado Territory is the setting for The Guns in Greasewood Valley, where brothers Tom and Dayton Roark share a small ranch. In the title story, Dan Iles is sent by his father to Ox-Yoke Ranch to see how much of their water John Mallory is diverting through his floodgate. Dan’s presence provokes John Mallory to violence, which escalates to murder.

256 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21412

176 pp

Philip Ketchum

Lauran Paine

Apache Dawn

The Grand Ones of Ildefonso

Before the dawn the settlers crowded into the one house still standing and counted their dead. There were pitifully few of them left, even including the women and children. The settlers’ last slim hope lay in the guts and cunning of one man, Jerd Galway. And they knew him as a gunfighter with a price on his head – a blood-brother of the Apache chief who’d sworn to wipe them out!

A small border town in New Mexico, San Ildefonso had survived a lot. But now, renegades from south of the border are attempting to seize the village itself, in search of rumoured conquistador treasure. The answer may be an old cannon, housed for years in the mission . . . but is there someone among the villagers who knows how to aim and fire it?

isbn: 978 14713 21429

160 pp

isbn: 978 14713 21405

isbn: 978 14713 21382

208 pp

Les Savage Jr

In the Land of Little Sticks

224 pp

This collection brings together all the short fiction that Les Savage Jr set in Canada, Alaska or the Arctic. Among the eight selections is Mush Fast or Die, the harrowing tale of a journey into the Barren Lands of the Arctic Circle. Death Rules the Wilderness, a long novella, opens at the Peace River post, where ten-year-old Celeste Manatte witnesses the murder of her parents by a group of brigands.

isbn: 978 14713 21375

304 pp

SEPTEMBER 2013

Francis W. Hilton

isbn: 978 14713 21436

AUGUST 2013

Max Brand®

AudioGO

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ALL TITLES PRICED AT $24.95 JUNE 2013 ...........Max Brand® The Wolf Strain 978 14713 21108 ...........Tim Champlin Wayfaring Strangers 978 14713 21078 ...........Will Cook Until Shadows Fall 978 14713 21092 ...........William R. Cox Gunfight at Razor Edge 978 14713 21139 ...........Peter Dawson Claiming of the Deerfoot 978 14713 21085 ...........W. C. Tuttle Wild Horse Valley 978 14713 21122 JULY 2013 ...........Johnny D. Boggs The Lonesome Chisholm Trail 978 14713 21177 ...........Jackson Cole Gun-Runners 978 14713 21306 ...........William Heuman Heller From Texas 978 14713 21306 ...........Wayne D. Overholser The Outlaws 978 14713 21160 ...........Robert J. Steelman The Great Yellowstone Steamboat Race 978 14713 21290 ...........James C. Work The Tobermory Manuscript 978 14713 21146 AUGUST 2013 ...........Max Brand® In the Hills of Monterey 978 14713 22143 ...........Jack Curtis The Mark of Cain 978 14713 21368 ...........James B. Hendryx The Stampeders 978 14713 21337 ...........D. B. Newton Guns of the Rimrock 978 14713 21351 ...........John Prescott Ordeal 978 14713 21344 ...........Jon Tuska (ed) The Wild West: A Western Trio 978 14713 21320 SEPTEMBER 2013 ...........Francis W. Hilton Grey Sage 978 14713 21436 ...........Philip Ketchum Apache Dawn 978 14713 21429 ...........William MacLeod ...........Raine Gunsmoke Trail 978 14713 21412 ...........Lauran Paine The Grand Ones of Ildefonso 978 14713 21405 ...........Lewis B. Patten The Woman at Ox-Yoke 978 14713 21382 ...........Les Savage Jr. In the Land of Little Sticks 978 14713 21375

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