Books in category Westerns

By Sorrow`s River

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9780743262712
In volume three of the Berrybender saga, as the family makes its way west, Tasmin`s husband has disappeared, her son Monty is being groomed--with difficulty--for the life of a gentleman, and Lord Berrybender has, shockingly, fallen in love with his mistress.

By Sorrow's River

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN : 9780743451437
A masterful blend of inspired fiction and fact, Larry McMurtry continues the compelling saga of the Berrybender family, who made their debut in his phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Sin Killer. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. At the heart of this stirring third volume is the beautiful, resilient, and stubbo

Virginian

Author: Margaret Sanborn, Charles M. Russell, Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, Thom Ross
Publisher : New Amer Library Classics
ISBN : 9780451528322
In the rugged land of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, a man must have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive, and the Virginian is the perfect example of this type of survivor--until he meets a woman who thinks she can tame his heart and teach him ways of peace. Reissue.

The Virginian

Author: Margaret Sanborn, Charles M. Russell, Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, Thom Ross
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780140390650
The foreman of a large cattle ranch on the Wyoming frontier lives by the honor code of the West even though it means helping lynch a friend or possibly losing the girl he is to marry.

The Virginian

Author: Margaret Sanborn, Charles M. Russell, Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, Thom Ross
Publisher : Pocket Classics
ISBN : 9780743436533
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2002, this powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology. Arriving in the Wyoming territory, the cowpuncher from Virginia sets out to win the heart of a schoolteacher and establish order in his new community. Includes an Introduction with bi

My Antonia

Author: Patrick Lawlor, Willa Cather, John J. Murphy, Alyssa Harad, Jeff Cummings
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN : 9781593082024
No romantic novel ever written in America . . . is one half so beautiful as My Antonia . --H. L. Mencken Widely recognized as Willa Cather's greatest novel, My Antonia is a soulful and rich portrait of a pioneer woman's simple yet heroic life. The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, te

Hayduke Lives!

Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN : 9780316004138
Abbey's posthumous novel is a sequel to his greatly admired anarchist-ecological work, THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG. Hayduke, presumed dead at the end of the earlier novel, is resurrected here, once again becoming a saboteur in order to save his beloved Glen Canyon from the evil Bishop Love.

The Sight of the Stars

Author: Belva Plain
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN : 9780440241249
New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us once again with a novel that explores the bonds that sustain families--and the lies that can shatter them forever. Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentieth-century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkable family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and unimaginable betrayal. Dr

Sin Killer

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Pocket Star
ISBN : 9780743451413
Jim Snow (Sin Killer is his nickname) falls for the daughter of an English lord who is visiting the Louisiana Territory on a shooting expedition. This is the first book in a projected four-volume series about the wealthy and slightly mad Berrybender family. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

The True Account

Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780618431236
Howard Frank Mosher introduces Private True Teague Kinneson, who sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, on an epic race to reach the Pacific before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis s expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high

Texasville

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN : 9780684857503
The sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW finds Duane in the midst of an oil glut, debt, and woman trouble. Jacy Farrow acts in B-grade Italian movies; Sonny, a sometimes amnesiac, is the mayor; Duane's son Dickie is a drug addict. The saving grace in Duane's life is his friendship with his wife Karla, which survives all forms of testing. This novel was made into a film in 1991, and included several of

Hombre

Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN : 9780380822249

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Author: David Case, Marc Cerasini, Tracy Christopher, Michael Ford, Sotir Gelev
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780679642572
Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre-Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the

The Mercy Seat

Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780140265156
An 1880s family saga set on the raw edge of Oklahoma's Indian TerritoryFew first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined not to repeat the crime t

North to the Rails

Author: Louis L`Amour
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN : 9780553280869
GUNNING FOR TROUBLETom Chantry vowed he would live his life without ever carrying a gun. But when he drives a herd of cattle north of Dodge, he discovers that life is treacherous for an unarmed man -- especially for one who's been branded a coward. On the drive, Chantry encounters some of the land's most dangerous characters -- from notorious gunman French Williams and the murderous Talrim brother

Buffalo Girls

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN : 9780743216296
This novel represents McMurtry's version of the Calamity Jane story. The framework of this novel is a series of letters from Calamity to Janey, her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. Buffalo Bill Cody is trying to put together Western oldtimers for his Wild West Show command performance for Queen Victoria. But Calamity Jane is a drunkard, and the others in the band are just as worn-out by their hard li

The Prairie

Author: James Fenimore Cooper, Noah Waterman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780140390261
Infused with imaginative vitality, James Fenimore Cooper's romantic tale of adventure was immediately successful when first published in 1824.

Folly And Glory

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN : 9780743451444
In this final volume in McMurtry's Berrybender Quartet, the haughty Lord Berrybender and his entire family are arrested in Santa Fe as war between the US and Mexico looms in the near distance. Forced into exile, the family (including servants) treks across the desert to Mexico--a harsh and exhausting journey that severely reduces their number. But Sin Killer, Tasmin Berrybender's husband, comes to

The Tale of Genji

Author: Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley, Royall Tyler, Edward G. Seidensticker
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780142437148
THE TALE OF GENJI, the world's first novel, was written around A.D. 1000 and has often been called Japan's greatest literary achievement. The author of this story of a Japanese prince and his many lovers was Shikibu Murasaki, the brilliant young governess to the Empress. The novel was read aloud at court and became wildly popular; its appeal has not abated in Japan, where it is still a good seller

Folly And Glory

Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9780743262729
As this final volume of The Berrybender Narratives opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next.I