Central Kansas Library System

Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun--which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes....

An extraordinary saga of the trailblazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great Frontier.

Fictionalized biography of Colonel Charles Jesse Jones ("Buffalo Jones"), 1844-1919, a frontiersman and wild game hunter. Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo,...

As the father of a young Crow tribesman, Preacher would like nothing more than to see the long-time natives and newly arrived settlers live together in peace. Then the killing starts. As a family man and frontiersman, Jamie Ian MacCallister is more than happy to help the officers at Fort Kearny negotiate a peace treaty with the Crow nation. Until it all goes to hell. This is not the American dream they were looking for. This is a nightmare. A brutal,...

It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned...

Tom Shanaghy is tough, but when he becomes marshal, he will have to prove he is tough enough to overcome the resentment of the townspeople and outwit gold thieves.

A collection of 25 digitally remastered John Wayne movies.

When Emerton Martin discovers that his purchase offers for a rich oil field have been rejected, he recruits local outlaws to employ terror tactics. Their first target is to be the Sloping-S, run by Jefferson Ward. Events gather momentum when Evelyn's father, Jefferson Ward, is murdered, her brother is missing, and their ranch destroyed ...

Two classic films featuring John Wayne. El Dorado: An alcoholic sheriff (Mitchum) fights ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen" with the help of an old gunfighter friend (Wayne). Hatari!: Wayne's character heads a group of highly-skilled professional African game hunters who capture ferocious big game with strong rope, sturdy vehicles, and cameras for zoos and circuses.