Wildcard Westerns have hand-picked twelve outstanding short stories of the Old Frontier for this edition of western classics. Owen Wister, Bret Hart, Ed Garron and Andy Adams are among the contributors, all masters of western adventure. The stories take you behind the guns of a Civil War howitzer battery, into the Rocky Mountains in search of outlaws, and across the wild country of old Arizona in the midst of the Indian Wars. Not to mention an encounter between feuding landowners, and a wo...

This collection likely features a variety of stories centered around life on a horse camp, specifically the X-bar Horse Camp. The tales probably include adventures, challenges, and experiences of cowboys, ranchers, and their horses. The title story, "The Blue-Roan 'Outlaw'," suggests a focus on a particular horse that might be known for its difficult or wild nature, adding an element of intrigue and excitement to the narrative.Barnes's writing style is characterized by its authenticity, dr...

The Ultimate Horse Enthusiast's Compendium: 41 Books surveys the horse as working partner, athletic subject, cultural symbol, and imaginative companion. Its unusually broad archive moves among manuals of breeding, veterinary care, conformation, and training; histories of cavalry and travel; sporting narratives; and juvenile adventures in which equine loyalty structures moral education. Scientific investigations of animal perception and practical discussions of stock management sit beside f...

Heroes and Villains in Lawless Lands: 23 Books of Wild Justice gathers twenty-three narratives shaped by the volatile moral geography of frontier, outlaw, and adventure fiction. Its capacious selection moves among melodrama, historical romance, juvenile adventure, crime-inflected pursuit, and rural storytelling, tracing how "wild justice" tests the unstable boundary between lawful authority and personal vengeance. Episodes of capture, escape, retribution, and unlikely heroism emerge as com...

In "Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan 'Outlaw' and Other Stories," Will C. Barnes artfully weaves folklore and personal narrative to create a vivid tapestry of life in the American West. Through a series of compelling tales centered around the titular Blue-Roan horse, Barnes utilizes a rich, descriptive prose style, skillfully interlacing humor, adventure, and poignant reflections on the interplay between humans and nature. This collection not only serves as a nostalgic homage...

In December 1889 a group of ranch-hands and a country doctor are marooned for a long, cold night in a cabin. To pass the time, they each decide to tell a yarn or true story - and there are some excellent ones! An Arizonan cattle drive intercepted by rustlers, an encounter with Wild Bill Hickok, an Indian who catches rattlesnakes for a living, a gun-runner called Hookey Cross... not to mention the prospector who accidentally blew up a mountain. A quirky and often touching set of recollectio...

When Rem McAllister rescued Lisa Marabel from a gang of kidnappers, she threw her arms around him, and showed her gratitude is a most unladylike manner. He didn't expect the same sort of thanks from her father. But even McAllister was surprised when old man Marabel tried his best to kill him.

VENGEANCE. That was All Rem McAllister had on his mind.His wife had been foully raped and murdered by a band of convicts escaped from Yuma Penitentiary, they also killed his hired hand.McAllister and his stepson, Pepe, vowed to avenge their deaths and were prepared to hunt down the guilty men across three States into the impenetrable brush-country of Texas. They face a desperate bunch of cunning, ruthless animals in human form. Each man—Dean Rockwell, the Yuma Kid, Frankie Ro...

Sheriffs had been dying like flies in Handout … Until McAllister arrived in town.The townsfolk didn't like the way he carried out his brand of law but they were grateful of his help when the plague struck. Even more so when he went after the robbers who stole Army payroll from the Express office. That's when Rem McAllister was at his best … two fisted action and the whine of the seeking bullet.

Outlaw Matty McCray is young, arrogant and fearless - until he gets caught. As he discovers, there is only one thing more dangerous than being hunted by sheriff Luke Summers - and that is being recruited as one of his deputies! See Book One 'THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA' to find out what happens. If you like WESTERNS, and WESTERN FICTION this is the book for you. This is not your usual run-of-the-mill western... as usual, ED GARRON takes his readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the...

He had a federal warrant for a man who had committed an unknown crime. So McAllister set out to do what he was hired for.Well, he tried but the tables were turned on him: his horses were stolen, a confrontation with the Apache and became involved in a revolution of unprecedented ferocity.McAllister hated to be mystified even more than he hated to be suckered and he had a sneaking suspicion that he was being suckered. 'All I want is my horses and to ride back into good old Tex...

Yes, it's another another great selection of four western-themed books from Wildside Press! Here are:THE TONTO KID, by H. H. Knibbs ... Few Western novels present such a powerful and ruthless character as young Pete in The Tonto Kid. Like Billy the Kid, Pete started his violent career at an early age; by thirteen he was famous as a “killer.” His vivid life is a classic in Western fiction, written by a man who knows the drama of a colorful American era....