Central Kansas Library System

Meet Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, two amiable drifters and old pals. Veterans of cowboying, cattle drives, drunken brawls, and a couple of shoot-outs, Scratch and Bo are mostly honest and don't go looking for trouble--it's usually there when they wake up in the morning. Now, in remote Arizona Territory, they're caught up in a battle between two stagecoach lines. The owner of one, a beautiful widow, has gotten both Scratch and Bo hot and bothered,...

In the high mountains of Colorado, Clayton Taggart dreams of the day when he can leave the rough life of a mine surveyor to become a teacher. In the midst of his plans, he meets Jackie Fontaine, a newcomer from the East whose strongwilled spirit causes friction from the start. At first Clay gains more pleasure out of teasing Jackie than wooing her. Just as the spark of love ignites, tragedy strikes, leaving Jackie with a secret so terrible she would...

"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...

A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc. All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He's grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and...

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.

""Amelia had turned out to be one colossal nuisance. And the last thing Captain Morgan Kane needed was another headache." The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man in less time than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out, and they're about to be hauled off to jail. When the wagon carrying them falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Fortunately for Amelia, she finds herself hanging on...

The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revaltion. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...

"Silas Pine was about to turn fifty. That tended to start a man thinking, especially when the doctor told him he had a bad heart and he had to take it easy if he wanted to see his next birthday. What Silas wanted more than anything was one last chance to make peace with his son, who was marshal in the isolated town of Grafton, Wyoming. But arriving in the middle of a bank robbery wasn't the way Silas had pictured his reunion. Neither was leading a...

After being framed for a bad accident, Dev Devereaux had been falsely blacklisted as a train wrecker. But he'd set himself a mission to find the person who did it and choke the truth out of him. Now, jaws clamped together, he was riding as a passenger in the engineer's cab of The Limited. They were hurtling through the Wyoming wilderness far beyond Omaha when the engineer noticed a problem with the tracks ahead. Suddenly, Dev heard the engineer yell...

In "Gun of a killer," Luke Wade searches for the owner of the ornate, silver-inlaid .45 he wears. The man who once owned that gun murdered Luke Wade's father, and Luke cannot rest until he has tracked the killer down. But Luke needs money to stay alive while he hunts, so he takes a job guarding a cattle drive against rustlers. In "Panhandle Gunman," Mace Seevert returns to Panhandle Valley after the Civil War to rebuild his deceased father's ranch,...