Wealthy rancher Barry Scrum dominated the valley and all the small ranchers in the area. When Ron Ward, a tough as nails rancher and his giant friend Once Dunn stopped by the area to look at horses, things began to change. Ward didn’t take kindly to bullies and Scrum was that and more. Ward and the few other ranchers were heavily outnumbered and out gunned. They would need to use their wits and patience to deal with this ruthless foe.

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Another wonderful story from this talented Calgary author.

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Tomboy, Ellie Fountain is determined to stop the conniving neighbors from their plot to take her father’s land. She’s an only child, Fountainhead is her legacy. The handsome ranch foreman, Tyler Bishop, is a burr under her saddle and a barrier to her future. Her pa treats him like the son he never had, and Ellie is jealous. She’s out to prove she’s as good as any man at ranching… but her biggest threat may not be the polecats that are killing the cattle and taking potshots at her….it might be her heart.

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A sassy heroine in the Wild West! A romance which allows you to discover western ranch life from Elle's point of view. It is a lively ride.

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Hattie Carson leaves an orphanage that has been her home for years to embark on a trip to California with the Franklin family. How can tending three children be as challenging as ten times that many? A passel of surprises await, including meeting the handsome young man Mr. Franklin hired as an extra hand. It doesn’t take long before Hattie’ll do anything for Billy Monroe, including jumping into a fast-moving river to escape death at the hands of Indians. Billie Monroe really expected to be overrun by a war party when he advised Hattie to swim for safety. Now she’s gone and it’s his fault. The life he planned with her in California is nothing more than a dream…the same dream Hattie’s having while she reads an old faded journal detailing the wagon train’s trip and the past she’s been convinced doesn't really exist.

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Ginger Simpson has penned a heart-warming, tender story filled with romance, adventure, history, conflict, and danger. The reader immediately cares about Hattie, the viewpoint character, and her eventual fate. The minor characters, especially the two heroes, also spring to life, practically jumping off the pages of the e-reader. This is a novel I couldn't put down. Bravo, Ginger Simpson!

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Chet Mitchell left the mines of California to pursue a wife and raise cattle. He had his eye on a seemingly inaccessible valley near the town of Tanning. The problem was that Dave Tanning owned the town and most of the surrounding land. Indeed, the whole Tanning family didn't take kindly to strangers ranching land they felt they owned. At first Everyone laughed at the thought of someone thinking they could access the valley surrounded by mountains and enormous rock walls. Many had tried. Many had died. Could Mitchell find a way to get cattle in to the valley? Jaws dropped and guns fired when Mitchel unveiled his surprise. Dave Tanning had always got his own way but now he had to face Mitchell, a man who knew how to treat a lady and how to handle trouble.

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This was a 5 star read

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When Ethan Caine pulled the unconscious woman from the half-frozen creek, he had no idea that his world was about to explode. Dressed in quilled doeskin of Iroquois design, she stirred up dark secrets from his past. At the same time, she was everything he desired. But she was more Indian than white, and on the run for murder. He needed to know the truth. He needed to find it within himself to trust her. Banished by the Seneca Indians who had adopted and raised her, ostracized by the whites in the settlement, Zara Grey wanted only to be accepted. “Ethancaine” treated her with kindness and concern. It was easy to trust him. But her Indian ways disturbed him, and her heart she would always be Seneca.

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Unique tale of a white child captured by the Iroquois in 18th century America, only to be ostracized by them in young adulthood. On the run, she is saved by a white man who carries a burden of guilt and shame from his past. Together they search for redemption and survival while pushing against the force of their love. Good historical detail of life on the frontier and finely drawn characters.

In California, shortly after Confederation, generations of two powerful dynasties fought, loved and died for the land as children are born, grow, intermarry, rebel and form new links to the California dynasties. his fast moving drama about the people Spanish, Anglo, Mexican and Native Americans who fought for California and the future of their children, will keep you spellbound and turning the pages as generation after generation of two powerful dynasties followed their destinies to the powerful conclusion of this dramatic saga.

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A multi-generational saga from Confederation to the 20th Century. Excellent read.

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The return of the western — with a definite Canadian twist. The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend.

The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.

In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces – derelict, homeless and one-eyed – in a San Francisco jail cell. And a failed journalist named Barrington Weaver conceives a grand redemptive plan. He will write Purcell's true-life story. All it requires is a final act…

What unfolds is an archetypal saga of obsession, lost love, treachery, and revenge, told in Ian Weir's trademark funny, fast, wickedly intelligent style. A deadpan revisionist Western, refracted through a Southern Gothic revenge tragedy, The Death and Life of Strother Purcell is a novel about two cursed brothers, a pair of eldritch orphans, the vexed nature of truth, and the yearnings of that treacherous sonofabitch the human heart.

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"A fascinating and insightful commentary on how stories are built and on our determination to see them come to light. Strother strides on the page — epic and tragic — a man trapped in the myths of manhood and gunslinging, a man of a bygone era who cannot allow bygones to be just that."

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"Masterfully crafted storytelling, witty and pacy and scratchy with grit. When it comes to the "Canadian Western," Ian Weir thrills and heartbreaks in similar ways as Guy Vanderhaeghe, and if that all sounds like a good time, it is."

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"A literary exegesis on truth disguised as rollicking, tragic Western entertainment. Cain and Abel and the Sisters Brothers got nothing on towering Strother Purcell and his club-footed half-brother. When lies are this well loved, they transform into truth and truth into history."

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"Weir takes every trope in the Western's playbook — the one-eyed avenging lawman, the feckless brother, tarts both with and without hearts, gunslingers, gimps, and gamblers — and makes of them something new and utterly wonderful. This wildly entertaining and witty yarn made me gasp, hoot, and holler."

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Die Höllenmeute von El Diablo

von Alfred Bekker

In der Nähe von Jefferson, Arizona wird die Postkutsche überfallen. Dabei werdensämtliche Insassen getötet. Dahinter steckt die Bande von Doug Warren, der auch unter dem Namen El Diablo bekannt und berüchtigt ist. Sheriff John Read stellt ein Aufgebot zusammen und macht sich an die Verfolgung der Bande. Darunter ist auch der junge Billy Coburn, dessen schwangere Frau bei dem Überfall getötet wurde. Nach dramatischer Jagd geraten sie in eine schier ausweglose Situation.

Clint Bennet hat sich jede Menge Ärger eingehandelt. Es begann damit, dass er in Notwehr einen Spieler in Pueblo erschoss und deswegen flüchten musste. Kopfgeldjäger verfolgten ihn seitdem. In Leadville fanden sie Bennet wieder und versuchten ihn zu stellen. Aber Bennet konnte nach einem dramatischen Schusswechsel entkommen.

Marshal Clay Caldwell ist jetzt auf Bennets Fährte, und er wird nicht locker lassen, bis er den Flüchtenden gestellt hat. Tage später gelingt ihm das auch – aber damit beginnt der eigentliche Ärger erst. Denn nachdem Caldwell den Mann verhaftet hat und ihn zurück nach Leadville bringen will, stoßen der Marshal und sein Gefangener auf eine Kutsche, die von einem Trupp Banditen überfallen wird. Caldwell greift ein und kann die Halunken vertreiben – aber sie werden wiederkommen. Denn diese Männer suchen nach einem Lageplan, auf dem eine Goldmine eingezeichnet ist – und sie glauben, dass einer der Reisenden diesen Lageplan bei sich trägt ...

Dieses Buch enthält folgende Western:

Pete Hackett: Wie ein Rudel Bluthunde

Pete Hackett: Nimm den Stern, Shannon

Die Sonne brannte vom Firmament und verwandelte die Main Street von Clovis in eine Gluthölle. Im knöcheltiefen Staub glitzerten winzige, silberne Kristalle. Dud McPherson, der Sheriff der kleinen Stadt, trat mit dem Gewehr in den Fäusten auf den Vorbau seines Office. Er hielt die Winchester schräg vor seiner Brust. Seine Hände hatten sich regelrecht daran festgesaugt. Der hagere, falkenäugige Mann schaute sich um. Jeder Zug in seinem zerklüfteten Gesicht verriet Anspannung.

Jeden Moment mussten Jesse Elliott und seine beiden Kumpane auf der Straße erscheinen. Und dann würden die Waffen das letzte Wort sprechen ...