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  • Mose Cabot by R.O. Lane

    Mose Cabot by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mose Cabot leaves Virginia as a young man, gets jobs on steamboats and works his way to Fort Benton, Montana. Along the way, he runs into a lost little boy named Gabriel Allsop. Together they strike out and file a mining claim in Montana Gulch. They work for three years at their mining claim before settling on a homestead in the Bitterroot Valley, where they build a horse ranch...
  • Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nash Powell and Ewell Roberts take jobs Mariposa, Texas, to tame the town and bring law and order. It's a tough assignment, and both men escape with their lives repeatedly. Along the way, the men find love and romance. It's a story of two men who grow to respect one another because they always do their duty as their consciences dictate. Another exciting novel from the pen of R. O...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wilbur dreams of being a U.S. Deputy Marshal, and when he's old enough, he's sworn in and has a taste of the life. He's shot, recovers and goes after the outlaws with an Osage tracker to help him. Eventually, he captures the head of the outlaw gang and transports him back to Fort Smith to face Judge Isaac C. Parker, the hanging judge...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Poker Chip is another classic western with a bit of romance. Vance Brennan falls in love with Lexie Moody, but she marries someone else, who turns out to be a scoundrel. Jeff Warren bets his wife, Lexie, on a game of poker. The winner insists that Warren pay up, and he devises a scheme to have his wife kidnapped and taken to Mexico to pay off his gambling debt...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Joey couldn’t imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He’d been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow’s job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determined to do it right. He was immensely proud to be a Hogan, and his tough brothers were his heroes...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A young vaquero leaves a cattle drive to look for a woman stolen by Comanches. He spends months in Comanche country only the find that the Army will offer no help whatever. So he hires his own Lipan scout, and travels over much of Indian Territory and Texas to find the woman he loves...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • War Adams by C J. Petit

    War Adams by C J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Virgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Hank by R.O. Lane

    Hank by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Henry Hankins of the Tennessee Hankins rides west to find his elder brother, Seth, who has disappeared into the gold fields of Montana. Henry's search takes him to Virginia City and all over the mining centers of southwest Montana. Eventually it leads him to Nevada. On the trip he finds love and romance and adopts a little boy that he learns to love...
  • When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series , the Wild Horse Westerns Series , and the Hand Of Western Series comes When The Ties Bind , a story of loss, love, acceptance, and revenge! With the death of his pa, Wyatt Roundtree not only lost the last of his family, but he also lost their ranch at the hands of an unscrupulous banker and a vengeful rancher...
  • Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Navarro is a bounty hunter who stumbles upon a woman who has been kidnapped in the wilds of Colorado in 1877. He rescues her and befriends her, but she has enemies, lots of enemies. She talks Navarro into being her bodyguard, and he takes off after her enemies and the result is another exciting novel from the pen of R. O. Lane...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Texas Ranger Jubal Coe returns to the Texas Rangers and tackles one assignment after another. He goes after three escapees from Huntsville Prison and kills all three after they riddle him with bullets. He's assigned to Eagle Pass to stop the cattle rustling and murders of gangs on both sides of the border...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Frank Bannon: The Fixer: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Frank Bannon: The Fixer: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first book in an exciting series from C. Wayne Winkle! This is the start of a series of adventures about Frank Bannon—a man of action who keeps on the job until it is done.When your wife dies, somebody beats you up and steals your horse, then kills your dog, you go after them. At least, that’s what Frank Brannon did. He gave the rich man every chance to make things right...
  • Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller

    Grace on the Mountain Trail by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This epic journey is her last hope to find her lost brother—the only family she has left.When Lola Carson’s father died, his last words spoke of a half-brother she’d never known about. And now, to claim her own inheritance and come to terms with her father’s secret life, she must find this mysterious man—whose last known whereabouts are somewhere west of the wild Rocky Mountains...
  • Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Callum Devlin gets the assignment to accompany a rail car with $500,000 in gold double eagles from the San Francisco Mint to Kansas City. A gang attacks the train and dynamites the car with the gold and Devlin inside. The resulting fight is furious and deadly. Devlin decides to go to San Francisco and get revenge on the gang. On the trip, he unexpectedly meets a woman and falls in love...
  • Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Yavapai County in Arizona Territory was bigger than Pennsylvania, and Sheriff Sam Hicks and his three deputies were the only law that most of its residents knew. When China Joe's gang knocked off the huge cash shipment heading for Prescott, Sheriff Hicks left his office unsure if this would be his last job one way or the other...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Tate by C.J. Petit

    Tate by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Laramie had just been hit by the Clayton gang, leaving Sheriff Joe Tate without any deputies to serve the entire county. But, as bad as the gunfight had been, the visitor to his office to file a complaint for something that wasn’t even a crime turned out to be much more significant and life-changing...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Daddy's Sassy Sweetheart by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Daddy's Sassy Sweetheart by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When life knocked her down, Kiesha got right back up.Thing was, life seemed to knock her down a lot.There was only so much a girl could take before she got up punching.Only that would likely get her arrested. Not a good look when the sheriff was your pseudo brother and boss.Not that she put a lot of stock in following the rules . . . they were made to be broken.Most of the time...
  • The Taming of Jessi Rose by Beverly Jenkins

    The Taming of Jessi Rose by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No Man Could Tame Her Jessi Rose Clayton would do anything to keep the family ranch from falling into the wrong hands-even agree to take on a rough-and-tumble outlaw as her protector. With his rugged, handsome face and muscular bronze body, Griffin Blake can draw a sigh from a lady's lips almost as fast as his strong, sculpted arm can draw a gun from its holster...
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    humor  industrial-era  poc-mc  western  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • High Stakes by Freya Barker

    High Stakes by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her sister, Pippa, goes missing, Nella Freling tells her boss she’s taking time off from her job as a research librarian, hops in her sensible van, and heads south of the border to Montana. However, local police don’t seem too concerned about a missing woman living in her motorhome...
  • Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm

    Hand Of Fate by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bestselling Western author Duane Boehm has written another western novel with enough humor, heartbreak, love, and outlaws to keep you turning the page.While the ranchers around Trinidad are circling like buzzards in wait for Flannery Vogel to fail, the downtrodden widow with a young daughter refuses to surrender as she struggles to run the ranch that cost her husband his life...
  • Sarah Mayfield by J.S. Anthony

    Sarah Mayfield by J.S. Anthony

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An unexpected journey of the heart.The war is over and Sarah Mayfield has put the sorrows of her life in Virginia behind her. On the strength of three letters she has traveled by railroad, riverboat and stagecoach to meet her new life out west...
  • Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Joe Beck wasn’t listening as the minister eulogized his uncle but was already planning on what he would have to do as soon as they returned to the Quimby farm. He wasn’t welcome there even before his uncle had died and knew that his cousin John would soon order him to leave...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • The Ballad of Uriah: A Mountain Man Story by Mike Mackessy

    The Ballad of Uriah: A Mountain Man Story by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A brand new Mountain Man adventure from Mike Mackessy!This is a story of a young man, quitting school to run to the mountains and join the beaver trappers and Indian traders.  Understanding enough about himself, he realizes he is not yet prepared for such an adventure.  He prepares himself by working for three years on a railroad crew...
  • Healing of the Broken Dog by Mike Mackessy

    Healing of the Broken Dog by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A story of how the former captive and Indian slave Clint Hunter overcomes his past, shedding it for a future he makes and shapes for himself. Along the way his life affects almost everyone he comes in contact with, Texas Rangers, the cowboys that work his ranch, rustlers, outlaws, and Comanche Indians...
  • Ira: Son Of Mountain Man by Mike Mackessy

    Ira: Son Of Mountain Man by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The exciting new sequel to “Mountain Man” by Mike Mackessy! This is action, adventure and a Mountain Man looking for vengeance!Murder, mayhem, cattle and horse rustling. This is Ira: Son of Mountain Man as he finds himself in the middle of adventures and battles as a member of the Rangers, a Union scout, a US Marshal, an Indian fighter, and a rancher...
  • Beasts of Babylon by E.A. Copen

    Beasts of Babylon by E.A. Copen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gunslinger Anastasia Thorne won’t stay dead. Ten years ago, monsters murdered Anastasia and her children. Now, she’s back to hunt down the creatures responsible. She knows their names, their faces, and even where they’re hiding. There’s just one problem. No one in town believes her...
  • Embrace the Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Embrace the Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The American Civil War plunges Zeke and Abbie Monroe into violence and separation, danger and torn loyalties. Their first-born son, Wolf’s Blood, takes part in the Sun Dance, a tortuous ritual that initiates him into life with the Cheyenne. Then war forces Zeke to leave his family to join his white brother, Danny, in the conflict...
  • River of Love by Rosanne Bittner

    River of Love by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abigail Monroe had been pierced by an arrow as a young girl...and pierced even more deeply by the love of a half-breed Cheyenne brave named Lone Eagle. But now Abigail and Lone Eagle could lose everything--and each other. Trouble was coming across the Plains to challenge them and test their love. No longer could they hide in a paradise of their own making...
  • Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner

    Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    EAGLE'S SONG is the final book in the Savage Destiny series, taking readers into the lives of Zeke and Abbie's children and grandchildren. This very moving story depicts the emotional end of an era for a once wild and free People, America's Native Americans; and the sometimes traumatic changes in the American West as civilization moves in to tame a lawless land...
  • Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner

    Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this totally unforgettable sixth book in the Savage Destiny series, a relentless wave of frontier progress forces itself into the lives of Zeke and Abbie Monroe, threatening their many years of abiding love and forcing a separation unlike any other they have experienced...
  • Montana Mail Order Bride Box Set  Books 16 - 18: Historical Cowboy Western Mail Order Bride Collection by Linda Bridey

    Montana Mail Order Bride Box Set Books 16 - 18: Historical Cowboy Western Mail Order Bride Collection by Linda Bridey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now available as a Bundle Box Set, books 16, 17 , and 18 in the Montana Mail Order Bride series written by bestselling author Linda Bridey.(Historical cowboy romance)This sweet clean romance box set includes:Book 16 – Westward Joy.Rachel returns to Dawson after running away amid scandal and shame. Will Foster is the main reason she comes home...
  • RNWMP: Bride for George by Kirsten Osbourne

    RNWMP: Bride for George by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss Hazel has been alone for sixteen years following the death of her beloved husband. For more than a year, she has been finding brides for different Mounties, and it has mostly kept her fulfilled, but lately, she’s realized something is still missing from her life. For the first time since her wedding many years before, she takes off her wedding ring, and decides it’s time to live again...
  • Three Words by Kelly Moore

    Three Words by Kelly Moore

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What stopped me from saying the three words Ian wanted to hear? My stubbornness that protected my heart, that’s what.A handsome cowboy with a hot body and a sense of humor to boot, Ian Daughtry was everything a woman could ask for. He was downright pretty to look at. The day he left my world spun out of control. It changed me inside. I was no longer the sweet, innocent girl...
  • Betty's Books by Kirsten Osbourne

    Betty's Books by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that’s a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp...
  • Homecoming: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Homecoming: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The exciting fifth novel in the “The Adventures of Gunfighter Lucas Poteet” series from C. Wayne Winkle has arrived—this is gunplay, adventure and rip-roaring traditional Western action from one of the most exciting authors of today.On the frontier in the Old West, both men and women had to be tough to survive. Things happened to them sometimes in the blink of an eye...
  • Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane

    Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Most never get their heart’s desire…, But for a moment, Gus has his. On his own and chasing adventure, he is finally free. Be careful what you wish for. Raised to hate injustice and trained to use guns and fists, he can’t look away and ride on...
  • The Searcher: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    The Searcher: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The second book in the tremendous popular “Tennyson ‘Ten’ St. John Western” series from C. Wayne Winkle!Ten St. John continues his search for his father, this time heading for Las Vegas, NM, where he heard his father and a gunfighter, Noble Blake, were headed. But he doesn’t get there for a while.He runs across more trouble with Apaches and scalp hunters...
  • Nathan Gage And The Missing Woman: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Nathan Gage And The Missing Woman: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The second book in the tremendous “Nathan Gage” western series from C. Wayne Winkle! Ready yourself for blockbuster action, adventure and drama in the Old West!Every time Nathan Gage gets involved with a woman, it seems there’s more to it than what’s on the surface. This time, it involves a missing woman. A missing woman who might want to remain missing.But Gage has been hired to find her...
  • Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Breath is the highly anticipated fifth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, & Last Ride. Cattle are being rustled from ranches around Last Stand and seem to vanish into the night by the time they are discovered missing...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane

    First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gus craves adventure… A real-life challenge… Not a made-up obstacle course of ropes and tin cans. Bred and trained to be a warrior–up to now–boredom and hard work have been his fiercest enemies. The winter’s hay safely in the barn, he finally gets a few days of leisure with his best friends. They discover one of his father’s cows butchered and only the best cuts taken...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Trouble on the Western Plains: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Trouble on the Western Plains: A Western Adventure by C. Wayne Winkle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A brand new rip-roaring new Western adventure from C. Wayne Winkle!Nathan Gage left New Orleans after being hired by Charles Thomas to watch over his headstrong stepdaughter, Cassie Ryder. Gage thought the job would be a fairly simple one.He was wrong.Also watching Cassie was Wallace Bascom, one of those men who bluster a lot and dress well but have ulterior motives...
  • The Long Way Home by Sam Scott

    The Long Way Home by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the arid lands of Arizona, a guilt-ridden rancher protects a vulnerable young woman from a vicious outlaw. A year after burying the last of his family, Texan rancher, Newton Tanner, sets out for Arizona to buy horses from the legendary horseman, Joey Thunder. The trip offers Newt a respite, both from the past and from the lonesomeness of the Tanner homestead...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy

    Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A brand new Mountain Man series--- this is “Broken Dog Ranch” from Mike Mackessy! Ride with Clint Hunter, one of the most exciting Mountain Men of today!Clint Hunter the Mountain Man, army scout, soldier, Texas Ranger, and the friend to the Crow Indians is shedding the horrors of his past...
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    industrial-era  western  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can't get enough cowboys? Hooked on the McKettrick Men? Now get three McKettricks --Jesse, Rance, and Keegan --for one low price with the McKettricks Bundle! Bundle includes McKettrick's Heart, McKettrick's Pride, and McKettrick's Luck...
  • Cowboy's Bride by K.C. Crowne

    Cowboy's Bride by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • The Second Sight Bride by Emma Ashwood

    The Second Sight Bride by Emma Ashwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • When Justice Is Done, 1874 by Gary Church, Paul L. Thompson

    When Justice Is Done, 1874 by Gary Church, Paul L. Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's winter, 1874, when Johnny Black, traveling on a business trip, disappears six hundred miles from home. As he struggles to survive, his wife, Rosalinda, refusing to believe Johnny is dead, leads a search for him. Frantic efforts to find Johnny lead the searchers to suspect a powerful, evil man is responsible for his disappearance...
  • RNWMP: Bride for Gilbert by Kirsten Osbourne

    RNWMP: Bride for Gilbert by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madelyn White finds herself in a difficult position. She is living in a large city for the first time in her life, and her boss is showing a very inappropriate interest in her. When she meets Miss Hazel—matchmaker to the Mounties—she worries that she’s being too hasty by even talking to the woman...
  • Her Hell Yeah Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Her Hell Yeah Cowboy by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Years ago, he unknowingly rescued his soulmate, now she’s back in Texas and about to save his guarded heart. Unlike his twin, Texas National Guardsman Sgt. Logan McCall would rather march barefoot and blindfolded through a cow pasture than date the same woman twice...
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