Central Kansas Library System

Will Dryden, the main character of Trouble at the Redstone, is well equipped with the ability to fight with his fists and with his six-guns. Like other traditional western heroes, he also gets thumped once in a while and has a knack for getting gonad-driven bad guys to want to kill him.

"No one outruns Fast Larry Shaw - especially when he runs with them. In the delirium of a mysterious head wound, Shaw stumbles upon Dexter Lowe's boys on the way across the border. They're about to meet with Cario's Black River Guerrillas and heist a U.S. armament in the Badlands. What better way to nab thieving scoundrels than to have them as your very own tour guides to the scene of the crime? But in his weakened condition, Shaw will need backup....

Eight years after breaking up a bank robbery during which one of the robbers escaped, Neal Clark is forced to confront a couple of shady characters seeking investors for a bogus irrigation project at the same time the robbery suspect returns threatening revenge.

A collection of three western stories includes "The Law Dodger of Windy Creek," in which Sam Leader escapes from prison and sets off to get revenge on Bill Orping, who allowed him to arrested on a false charge of murder.

From the blood he spilled during the Civil War to his beloved wife, who died in childbirth, and his daughters, who were taken by the flu, ex-Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe thought he had seen enough death for a lifetime. With an infant son and a heart full of pain, Wolfe is rejoining the Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion. But first, his captain needs him to escort Charlie Langdon to trial. The two shared history as both lawmen and soldiers, and...

Judge Roy Bean was the real-life Justice of the Peace and arbiter of frontier justice. Lillie Langtry was the "Jersey Lily" of the British stage, adored by English society. For more than twenty years, Bean wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress, and Lillie wrote back. They never met. Now award-winning author Loren Estleman brings to life their untold transatlantic love story.

Fort Worth and Dallas were rivals for the outstanding metropolis in the great Lone Star State; but to Jim Wayne, who knew Fort Worth as the end of the trail to which all the big ranches were sending their herds to sell them to the highest bidder, that town had the upper hand. With so much money changing hands, the town was a gathering place for all sorts of desperadoes. So when Wayne rode in with his longhorns, he found violence a constant companion....

Brady McCall and Franklin T. Stilwell, aged 10 and 15, witnessed their families die in a brutal attack. Orphaned and alone halfway across the frontier, with no time for mourning and only their horses for a lifeline, the boys embark on a journey that spans half a century. As old men, they reflect back on a friendship forged in blood and tempered in honor, and plan one more grand crusade before going quietly into a life where only memories define who...

Abandoned by his fiancée hours before their wedding, Walker McKay is determined to never let a woman near his heart again, but he needs an heir to inherit his ranch after he is gone. Courting someone new is out of the question, so he'll have to find a wife another way. Wealthy heiress Sara Livingston wants to be married, but her suitors are deemed unsuitable by her unreasonable father. When the opportunity to fill the bill for a mail-order bride...

In Shadow of a lobo, Cliff Jenson, a mercantile owner, finds his business crippled by usurious fees he has to pay to get supplies through a toll road. A new banker in towns wants to get rid of Jenson's store, but Jenson has other plans. In Beyond the law, Sherman Rawls, a brutal ranch owner, is pitted against Dane Devlin, a gunman hired by a woman to avenge Rawls' murder of her husband. But Devlin has his own problems, including Keno Kane, a man even...