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Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 150472576X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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The Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won’t soon forget. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and Blackfeet. But the old ways of the hunter and trapper are disappearing as Europeans flood the ranges with vast herds of cattle. With an aging roan gelding named Albert as her closest friend, Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population, both native and white, as she stubbornly pushes back against the invading aristocracy.
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 150472576X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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The Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. It is a novel you won’t soon forget. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and Blackfeet. But the old ways of the hunter and trapper are disappearing as Europeans flood the ranges with vast herds of cattle. With an aging roan gelding named Albert as her closest friend, Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population, both native and white, as she stubbornly pushes back against the invading aristocracy.
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1645401170 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He’d lost just about everything he owned when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever and only recently healed from a gunshot wound, he was seeking a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing the surrounding Ensillado Basin was about to be plunged into a range war, or that the man whose bullet he’d carried was also in the Ensillado, leading an army of hired guns to rid the valley of its homesteaders. Barely recovered, Gil is hired by the town to bring order to the basin. But there’s more at play here than he originally realized, and Gil soon finds himself in the battle of his life, the stakes a kindly doctor’s loyalty and a good woman’s love . . . assuming the town doesn’t turn on him when the bullets start to fly. MICHAEL ZIMMER - Winner of the 2015 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel for The Poacher’s Daughter
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1645400867 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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An American Legends Collection The novel is rife with gun-smokin’ action, and Hud is the perfect, back-country narrator for this story of social injustice. His wizened, grizzled point of view flirts with the possibility of a tragic flaw in the evasive character of Billy Pinto. Hands-down a gripping read!—Historical Novel Society In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free because the judge and prosecuting attorney don’t believe they can successfully try white men for killing an Indian. Stunned by the court’s decision, Billy decides to take justice into his own hands. He ambushes the three killers outside of town, then impulsively kidnaps the judge’s granddaughter before fleeing into the remote San Pedro Mountains. With Billy’s actions setting off a massive manhunt, it falls to San Pedro County Sheriff Hudson Pratt to locate Billy before he’s cornered in the high country by a growing army of bounty hunters. With an aging mountain man and his surly dog as guides, Pratt sets out to rescue the kidnapped child—and to stop the rising tide of bloodshed that threatens to plunge San Pedro County into a full-fledged Indian war. MICHAEL ZIMMER - Winner of the 2015 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel for The Poacher’s Daughter
Author: George T. Arnold Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1645401197 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family in the town of Wyandotte and influential throughout the state of Nevada. To J.D. Rohr, who has no money and few prospects, bound is a hopeful force, driving him to Wyandotte, where he assumes the identity of Jesse Bodine in a desperate attempt to live in obscurity, hiding from his reputation as one of the West’s most feared gunfighters. For Dr. Frederick Albert Carlisle, an aristocratic Boston physician who becomes Jesse’s friend despite their romantic rivalry, bound is a magnetic lure that compels him to abandon his Beacon Hill mansion, his upper-class privileges, and his affluent patients in a quest to give meaning to his life by serving poor westerners sorely in need of his healing knowledge. As for Honoria Lowell Blaire and Lillian Tomlinson Wellesley, blue-blooded descendants of two of New England’s oldest and most distinguished families, bound represents the chains that will bind them to “a God-forsaken wilderness” if they choose to live with the men they love instead of clinging to their pampered lives among America’s nobility. And for the incomparably beautiful Jolene Lloyd, being bound is the same as virtual imprisonment when she is coerced into saving her family from financial catastrophe by being shackled to a ruthless, emasculated tyrant driven by hatred and bitterness to take control of Wyandotte and force the mighty Van Sheltons to grovel at his feet. These and the other men and women of Wyandotte, the good and the bad, battle for a quarter of a century to determine their region’s fate during the fading years of the Western Frontier.
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 164540420X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
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Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront the son of the county's richest man. He just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. But now Henry is dead, and Gage is on the run from a gang of vicious bounty hunters hired by Henry's father, Linus. With nowhere else to turn, Gage flees to the far-flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to survive on a lawless frontier, to stand up against a kill-crazy buffalo hunter and the men Linus keeps sending after him. Realizing he can no longer live this way, Gage finally returns home to face a cowed town, a gang of hired gunmen, and to complete a journey he began on the night he killed Henry Kalb. MICHAEL ZIMMER - Winner of the 2015 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel for The Poacher’s Daughter
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157984 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 329
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Most of the ranchers around Sand Creek had brought cattle up from Texas when free grass opened in Nebraska. It was tough, but eventually Ben Wyatt's Bar-W and the other ranches began to prosper. And so did the shantytown of Sand Creek. The town's old sod buildings were replaced by plank structures and the riffraff that seemed to thrive in the lawlessness of a hide-town gave way to honest merchants. Its very existence depended upon the cattle business. When the ranches hurt, Sand Creek hurt—and the ranches were hurting bad in 1876. The discovery of gold in nearby Black Hills brought thousands of people to the area and soon put a strain on the food supply. At first, there were random rustlings. But now it was no longer just a few head stolen to feed a mining camp. The thievery was too widespread—there had to be some kind of organization behind it. So the Cattlemen's Association hired Luke Howard and several others to put a stop to it, using whatever means they had to employ to get the job done! "This stark, realistic portrait of Nebraska in the 1870's recreates a time and place where some of the villains carried sidearms but the real crooks packed fountain pens." —Booklist
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157615 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 616
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In the classic tradition of The Big Sky and Carry the Wind, an epic adventure of the rugged West “AS BOLD AND TOWERING AS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS THEMSELVES.”—John Legg, author of the Mountain Country Trilogy FROM THE RED-TINGED SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS TO THE SNOWS OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE, THEY TOOK THEIR DREAMS, THEIR SECRETS, AND THEIR COURAGE INTO THE UNFORGIVING LAND. They plunged into a pristine wilderness, pursuing a rich man's vendetta and a missing trove of beaver pelts. Among the high, harsh peaks and embracing valleys they would fight, hunt, and die, pulled into an epic confrontation with the warriors of a murderously mad Indian renegade; an outlaw mountain man, and a traitor within their own ranks. In the tradition of Lonesome Dove, FANDANGO is the gripping, beautiful, and vividly realistic saga of men who gave their blood and tears to a country as wild as their souls. "A SPLENDID, TAUT, TOWERING NOVEL. ZIMMER WRITES WITH GRACE AND POWER. THE STORY RESONATES AND BECKONS TO THE HIGH, LONELY UPLANDS OF THE HEART. ONE OF THE BEST MOUNTAIN MAN STORIES EVER WRITTEN."—Richard S. Wheeler, author of Goldfield "FANDANGO is a magnificent novel of sweeping proportions. Zimmer's characters are superbly drawn, and live way beyond the ordinary imagination. He takes you back in time to an exciting era in U.S. history so vividly that the reader will feel as if he has been over the old trails, trapped the shining streams, and gazed in wonder at the awesome grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Here is a writer to welcome into the ranks of the very best novelists of today or anytime in the history of literature."—Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157968 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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WHERE THE LAWLESS STAY ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE LAW SANCTUARY OR TRAP? The stage is only an hour from Cottonwood Station when the Cheyenne strike. The driver, the shotgun guard, and the passengers are doomed until Clint Dawson appears with his long-barreled Whitworth—the rifle that can throw a slug eight hundred yards. With two injured and the Cheyenne howling at their heels, they have little choice but to risk a run for it. But with Rusty Cantrell and his vicious gang of killers holed up in the isolated outpost and the Cheyenne rallying for a new attack, only one man knows why Medicine Wolf is willing to go to any length to get the revenge he wants . . . and only one man knows what it will take to keep the innocent alive. ZIMMER’S STYLE IS NEAT AND SPARE, HIS CHARACTERS PEOPLE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT, AND THE SETTING ONE OF GREAT INTEREST TO READERS OF WESTERN HISTORY.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157941 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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When Jesse Ross was eighteen he was forced to learn firsthand that a person's life could be changed irrevocably by one deed—and the endless chain of events this original act sets into motion. That was something Jesse's neighbor Gray Fletcher had experienced years before when he was with the Texas Rangers. Gray had joined to seek retaliation against marauding Indians who had killed his wife and one of their children. Now Jesse had killed a Union soldier to protect his family and was on the run. His one hope was to join other Missourians in Slaughter's Rangers, an underground outfit. But revenge had not been enough to sustain Gray years ago; how long would it be enough for Jesse?
Author: Michael Zimmer Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157070 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 476
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MICHAEL ZIMMER Winner of the 2015 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel for The Poacher’s Daughter HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, WITH FREEDOM FLOWING IN HIS BLOOD... Born a slave on an East Texas cotton plantation, Clay Little Bull was captured by the Kiowa as a small child and raised among the wild tribes. But at the age of twenty, he left the only home he'd ever known and began a journey in search of freedom. Now, an outcast among whites, blacks, and Indians, Clay came face to face with the hypocrisy and lawlessness that ruled the West—and drew first blood when he escaped from a band of Kansas slave hunters. Joining forces with an adventure-seeking buffalo hunter named Ty Calhoun, he led a band of freed men and a beautiful young Indian woman across the great, windswept Western plains in search of a place where he belonged. But with every mile he traveled, Clay moved closer to a truth he was born with: that freedom isn't found in a place or a people, but in a man's willingness to love, fight and die. An epic novel of friends, enemies, blood feuds and the yearning of restless souls, WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM is rare, sweeping western adventure in the classic tradition of Lonesome Dove.
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: George T. Arnold
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer
Author: Michael Zimmer