Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon ... and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn...
2) Hondo
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The year is 1874, and the whites have broken their treaty with the Apache Nation. Hondo, a U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider, encounters a woman and her son living alone in Apache territory, and leads them to safety, falling in love along the way.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tell Sackett has a healthy respect for the Apaches as warriors, but that doesn't stop him from crossing the border into the Sierra Madres to rescue his nephew. What bothers Tell more is the boy's mother. Could she be inventing a rescue mission that is really intended to deliver her husband's brother into an Apache ambush? Tell knows the only things he can depend on are his wits and cold steel, but this time, that may not be enough.
4) Dead river
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
5) Canyons
Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It starts with an unusual request: 'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
If anyone knows the road to purgatory, its Red Ryan. As a stagecoach guard, hes faced holdups, ambushes, and all-out attacks from every kill-crazy outlaw, Indian, and prairie rat. But even hes a bit reluctant to take on his next job: riding shotgun...
9) Galloway
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"In Galloway, Louis LAmour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future. Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their plan to...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
They rode into the heat and the blistering wind of the Arizona badlands, two young men bonded together by a Cheyenne ritual that made them as one. Know as brothers of the Wolf, Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves were hard on a trail that leads them deeper and deeper into the Apache territory toward the Mexican border where desperados were operating a gunrunning dodge and white slavery ring of kidnapped children. Matt and Sam hook up with two others along...
12) Buzzard bait
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
13) Judgment day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory--and lives every day as if it were its last...
Between newcomers and original settlers, the few hundred people who inhabit Fury, Arizona, know about survival. After all, if man or nature had their way, the godforsaken...
15) Murphy's ambush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico, retired sheriff Al Murphy pins on his badge again after a rancher and his family are murdered by a band of Apaches. By the author of Murphy's Stand.
16) Lawless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Half-Apache Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to an innocent, Jake was even more disgusted to find that he liked it.
17) Comes the hunter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"5 passengers. 400 miles. 1,000 ways to die. According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage's next--and possibly last--trip. The travelers are a small troupe of performers with dark histories of their own--a song-and-dance...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl, Willow's mother left their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. And with that, she and her daughter set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was devastated. Her eccentric mother believed in this new...
20) Taggart
Author
Language
English
Description
"Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious...