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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
  • Ronan O'Higgins by R.O. Lane

    Ronan O'Higgins by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ronan O'Higgins is assigned to clean up a vicious gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He and his fellow marshal, Clive Sutton, take on the gang and start arresting them. O'Higgins narrowly escapes death. The Irish marshal meets an Irish woman with a son, and they make a life together...
  • The Salvation of Eli Ussher by Sam Scott

    The Salvation of Eli Ussher by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Yavapai Gold by R.O. Lane

    Yavapai Gold by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kilcannon comes to the Mogollon Rim country of Arizona to help his friend, Lester Sutton, find buried gold in the Bradshaw Mountains. The two men are former Texas Rangers. Along with Sutton's daughter, the former Rangers ride into the Bradshaws with outlaws on their trail, who know that Sutton has a map to buried gold...
  • 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
  • Muddy Tilghman by R.O. Lane

    Muddy Tilghman by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • 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
  • Conn Jackson by C.J. Petit

    Conn Jackson by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This was supposed to be a journey to find his dream of starting his own spread. As he left the Bar L just northwest of Cheyenne and rode south into Colorado, Conn already knew where he wanted to build his ranch and had enough money to buy the land and get it started. It was just a hundred mile ride through open country...
  • 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
  • The Scalawags by C.J. Petit

    The Scalawags by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Union Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe...
  • 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
  • Charlotte by J.S. Anthony

    Charlotte by J.S. Anthony

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When the least likely person in your life becomes the one who means the most.Charlotte’s father left her alone on the prairie with the wagon, a team and the mare. She was to wait for Ellis Gray and the wagon train he was leading. Charlotte understood that her father was paying Ellis Gray to see her to Fort Randall where she would meet her uncle and go to live out in the desert with a new husband...
  • 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 Silver Widows by C.J. Petit

    The Silver Widows by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ada was angry as she prepared to go to see Mike Bergman, knowing he was doing nothing less than trying to steal their silver mine, and even though she knew that she, Elsa and Bridgette had little chance of standing against him much longer, she wasn’t about to give in...
  • Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm

    Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life...
  • Last Atonement by Duane Boehm

    Last Atonement by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Atonement is the highly anticipated seventh book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Westerns, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, Last Ride, Last Breath, & Last Journey.Sheriff Gideon Johann finds himself dealing with two murders in the town of Last Stand, Colorado...
  • Wild Horse On The Run by Duane Boehm

    Wild Horse On The Run by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wild Horse On The Run is the highly anticipated third book in the Wild Horse Westerns series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon in Westerns, Where The Wild Horses Roam and Spirit Of The Wild Horse...
  • Spirit of the Wild Horse by Duane Boehm

    Spirit of the Wild Horse by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Spirit Of The Wild Horse is the sequel to the Bestselling Western Where The Wild Horses Roam. Levi Bolander knows he needs to change his life and start over somewhere new. The problem is that he is forced to travel with the Pueblo Indian woman that he rescued...
  • Where The Wild Horses Roam by Duane Boehm

    Where The Wild Horses Roam by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the author of the bestselling Gideon Johann Western Series comes the new western Where The Wild Horses Roam. Caleb Berg is wanted by the law in Tennessee. The young widower is forced to leave behind his parents and sister to start a new life in the wide-open west. His adventures along the trail lead him to a horse ranch in the Wyoming Territory...
  • Trent by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Trent by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After his mother dies, Trent Donovan finds a letter she wrote telling him about his father—the father she had always said was dead. With the time to confront his father before him, he journeys to Clifton where he discovers his father no longer lives but has three sons—the Stone brothers.Nursing a broken heart, Delaney Gates takes up her aunt’s invitation to visit Clifton...
  • Riley by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Riley by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His father’s death may have brought Riley Madison home to Clifton but nothing is going to make him stay in a place filled with so many bad memories. He’s made a life in Texas and not even a beautiful woman with a little girl who melts his heart is going to make him change his mind. He doesn’t do relationships. Kaitlyn Garrett Parker is happy with her life since her husband’s untimely passing...
  • Oregon Disaster by Rachel Wesson

    Oregon Disaster by Rachel Wesson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pregnant and alone, Sarah Hughes finds herself in a village at the mercy of strangers. Along comes Bear who is determined to bring her home. She doesn’t want to leave but having killed a man she is left with little choice. On the run with an Indian who calls her a spoiled brat isn’t the best of starts to romance. Over time, she comes to see the person behind the stony face...
  • Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley

    Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Loss took everything, love gave him even more. It's 1800 Philadelphia, and the city cowers before a mysterious killer—Yellow Fever. Daniel Armitage and his family are respected members of Philadelphia society. But their status cannot save Daniel’s loved ones. His entire family succumbs to the horrifying disease. His mother’s startling deathbed confession, shakes Daniel to his soul...
  • 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...
  • Sweetwater Springs Christmas by Debra Holland, E. Ayers

    Sweetwater Springs Christmas by Debra Holland, E. Ayers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Come celebrate the holidays in 1895 Sweetwater Springs, Montana, as ten Western Romance authors join New York Times Bestselling author DEBRA HOLLAND in telling SHORT STORIES of love and laughter, heartbreak and healing, and most of all, Christmas joy. E...
  • 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
  • Last Journey by Duane Boehm

    Last Journey by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Journey is the highly anticipated sixth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Westerns, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, Last Ride, & Last Breath.Sheepherders bringing flocks from overcrowded California has the ranchers surrounding Last Stand on edge and ready to take action...
  • What It All Comes Down To by Duane Boehm

    What It All Comes Down To by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jude Meisner makes his living with a gun. He’s a loner – his job is his life. The one creed Jude lives by is to only take work from those being persecuted by the corrupt men of the world. When Eli, an old friend from the war, needs help with a ruthless rancher, he hurries to his aid...
  • 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
  • Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone

    Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scottish frontiersman Jamie MacCallister blazes through the Wild West.In peace and war, he was the soul of a nation—and the flesh and blood of the American Frontier . .
  • Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In name only? The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife's stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint's boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years before...
  • 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
  • War Wounds by Wyatt Cochrane

    War Wounds by Wyatt Cochrane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Thorn eared back the hammer on his Winchester. Today they would pay. Then she stepped into view and everything changed.  Beautiful and good, what could she be doing with these two? As her story unfolded, he knew that once she learned of their shared past, she would despise him...
  • Down From The Mountain: Clint Hunter Mountain Man by Mike Mackessy

    Down From The Mountain: Clint Hunter Mountain Man by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    By the time he was fifteen years old, Clint Hunter of Philadelphia, had graduated school and the University—twice. With degrees in both Medicine and Law, at the age of seventeen, Clint still felt empty and dissatisfied...
  • 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
  • Whiskey River Rescue by Justine Davis

    Whiskey River Rescue by Justine Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Still reeling from the unexpected sale of the land she and her horses live on, horse rescuer Kelsey Blaine is frantic when she comes home to find her possessions already boxed up and her house being bulldozed without any notice. Normally calm and kind, Kelsey becomes furious and impulsively cuts a privacy fence to confront the culprit–her mysterious neighbor, Joe...
  • Sunrise Canyon by Janet Dailey

    Sunrise Canyon by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the heart of Arizona's Sonora Desert, a little girl in need of her father, a woman in need of forgiveness, and a war hero in need of love come together to create a family . . . Before he left for Afghanistan, Jake O'Reilly had everything--a beautiful wife, a baby on the way, a wonderful life...
  • The Black Stallion's Shadow by Steven Farley

    The Black Stallion's Shadow by Steven Farley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It has all the makings of a glorious day--the Black has just won the America's Cup! But the fruits of victory quickly sour when it is learned that the Black's challenger, shying at a shadow on the track, has suffered a fatal fall. Now, the Black himself is hobbled by a fear of shadows, a problem that could end his brilliant racing career...
  • Black Hills Blood Hunt by William W. Johnstone

    Black Hills Blood Hunt by William W. Johnstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When President Theodore Roosevelt comes to Deadwood, the Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century unite three of their most legendary heroes - Hunter Buchanon, Frank "The Last Gunfighter" Morgan, and his son, Conrad "The Loner" Morgan - from three of their most popular series for one monumental new series spin-off!JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE MEN LIVE BY THEIR WITS--OR DIE BY THEIR IGNORANCE...
  • Saving Love: Brotherhood Protectors World by Jen Talty, Brotherhood Protectors World

    Saving Love: Brotherhood Protectors World by Jen Talty, Brotherhood Protectors World

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing Alabama Love wanted was to provide a safe home for her son, Wyoming, away from her abusive husband. When she landed in Eagle Rock, Montana, she thought just maybe, she might have found the perfect place to start her life over and give her son the kind of future he deserves. But sometimes the past has a tendency of catching up to the present...
  • Holt by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Holt by Susan Fisher-Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cancer stole the only woman Holt James ever loved. She still owns his heart, but now he survives without her. His business continues to grow, he spends time with friends, but life is lonely. Then one day on the road home, he inadvertently causes a beautiful green-eyed stranger to end up in a ditch and now, she occupies his thoughts as only one other woman ever has...
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