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“The only way to cut these Kiowa down to size is to hunt ‘em down to the last man!” On the Kiowa reservation at Bald Peak, someone was smuggling liquor to the Indians – but lips were tightly closed to all enquiries. A Kiowa raiding party had broken out of the reservation and made a murderous...

"Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves the day at the last minute. The author describes him...

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected...

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun," declared Robert Service as he related the fulfillment of a dying prospector's request. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" was based on one of many peculiar tales he heard upon his 1904 arrival in the Canadian frontier town of Whitehorse. Less than a decade...

The Astoria Expedition is all but finished. The few remaining men start moving west.  Fortin's furs are still on the other side of the Divide, and with the spring thaw coming, now is the time to get them. Others have the same idea.

Becky and the Mountain Men continue to fight over the railroad, and a new threat arrives in the form of something otherworldly living in Flathead Lake. Becky starts a restaurant chain, and has a very interesting encounter with a cow.

“Truly mysterious—informed by Western legend, steeped in Indian superstition . . . Riding with Du Pré is some kind of enchantment” (The New York Times Book Review).   A rumor circulates around academic circles that the long-lost journals of Meriwether Lewis are in the possession of a hard-bitten...

“[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans” (Booklist).   The news is bad: five young women—so far—raped, tortured, and left in the Montana wilderness...

Gabriel Du Pré is back in action, coming to the aid of a whistleblower on the run, in this all-new novel in a “wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series” (Booklist). When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is...

In modern-day Montana, brushfires, meth dealers, and murder challenge a deputy in a mystery that’s “a pleasure to read” (Publishers Weekly).   In the midst of a drought in Toussaint, Montana, Métis Indian tracker and cattle investigator Gabriel Du Pré learns that Maddy Collins has been killed—and...

Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Gustave Aimard (1818/1883) war ein französischer Autor von Abenteuerromanen, der ähnlich wie...

“With his distinctive, minimalist prose . . . Bowen’s writing is lean. . . . An unsentimental, galvanizing portrait of life in small-town Montana” (Publishers Weekly).   For generations, the Messmers have raised cattle in the rough country of eastern Montana. When the current owners die...

Auf einer Winterreise lernen der Ich-Erzähler, Sappho genannt, und sein Freund Carpio, zwei Gymnasiasten, im böhmischen Falkenau die Auswandererfamilie Hiller kennen und helfen ihr in einer Notlage. Viele Jahre später trifft Sappho, längst zum berühmten Old Shatterhand geworden, in Amerika...

Upper Missouri River, 1825 Against the wild grandeur of the Rocky mountains and a richly woven tapestry of Indian cultures--Sioux, Mandan, Crow, Shoshoni--Coyote Summer unfolds into an unforgettable tale of love and reconciliation, destiny, and the indomitable spirit. No two people could...