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The Texas range wars of the 1880s, starringBen Hawkins, a Civil War veteran. He is one of threecowboys searching for winter work, only to discover thatranchers are not hiring hands, but guns. So the triobecome gunmen and end up fighting on opposite sides. By the author of Kerrigan.

Twenty true adventure stories by noted Western authors on the Alamo, the gold rush, Geronimo and the Lincoln County War, etc.

Here at last are the collected stories of one of America's most distinguished and admired writers. In addition to his honored works (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners), Stegner is widely known as one of America's finest teachers of writing. He has taught at Harvard, Wisconsin, and Iowa and has lectured widely.

Hopalong Cassidy tries to save the Rocking R Ranch, only to find himself accused of murder and the target of a ruthless gunman.

"Zane Grey was the father of the Western... To learn more about nature, the uncompromising force that shaped the characters he devised, he became an explorer, a hunter, and a champion fisherman. [Gruber] had access to the incomplete manuscript of Grey's own autobiography, his private diaries and letters, and the family's memories and records. The full chronicle is here: The Ohio boyhood in the 1880's, college days as a University of Pennsylvania baseball...

This is an as-told-to profile of Texas cowhand Ed "Fat" Alford, related as a string of yarns you might hear told around the campfire or the bunkhouse at the end of a hard day's work. Fat was the oldest of a large family of siblings, never married, who gave his life to cowboying and whatever else in the way of work he could scrounge up during the 1920s and 1930s.

"These are pieces of prose which concern that vast area between the Sabine and Colorado rivers: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizone; the prose writing which I happen to like, that is, and do honestly and joyfully commend to your attention. If there is any other rule of thumb by which these selections were made, I suppose it is merely the requirement that the work be honest, interesting, and, as far as possible, inspired." -- p. vii.

An account of the history of the High Plains of Texas and Oklahoma, based on personal accounts of old-timers in the region.

This work includes three categories of place-name information: well-known places; repeated names which appear in many localities; and unusual names. Following each of the 12,000 entries is the name derivation, the state where pertinent and explication with historical, geographical and/or folk interpretations.