18 books like Half broke horses

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The Man From Stone Creek Linda Lael Miller · 2006 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate There was trouble in Haven, Arizona, and Ranger Sam O'Ballivan was determined to sort it out. Badge and gun hidden, he arrived posing as the new schoolteacher, and discovered his first task was to bring the rough ranchers' children under control. So he started with a call on Maddie Chancelor, the local postmistress, and older sister of a young boy in firm need of discipline.It never occurred to… Shares: Arizona, Teachers, Westerns

Flip This Zombie Jesse Petersen · 2011 · ★ 3.9 Ever felt like your office colleagues might actually be zombies? Call ZombieBusters Extermination! The Zombie Apocalypse has been good to Sarah and David. Their marriage is better than ever. They communicate well, share responsibilities, and they've also started a business. ZombieBusters - for all your zombie extermination needs. There are lots of zombies and that means lots of customers…Except… Shares: Arizona, Married people

Evening Star Larry McMurtry · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Een ruimdenkende bejaarde dame uit Texas ondervindt de problemen van het ouder worden. Vervolg op "Terms of endearment." Shares: Texas, Families

Condensed novels Bret Harte · 1867 · ★ 3.6 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable.  On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

On the Frontier Bret Harte · 1884 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1946 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility; devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The story of California Stewart Edward White · 1927 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Contents The Sign at Six (1912) The Gray Dawn (1915) The Mountains (1904) Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life (1899) The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1908) The Westerners (1901) The Call of the North The Rules of the Game (1910) The Claim Jumpers: A Romance (1901) The Riverman (1908) The Land of Footprints (1913) The Forty-Niners (1918) The Leopard Woman (1916) Conjuror's House… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Texas! Chase Sandra Brown · 1991 · ★ 4.2 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Chase loses his wife and unborn child in a car crash. Marcie Johns had been driving the car when the accident happened, but she gambles her happiness to give Chase something to live for. Hating himself for it, Chase soon finds himself responding to Marcie's advances. Shares: Texas, Westerns

Wolfville Alfred Henry Lewis · 1897 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The old fellow had lighted a cob pipe and tilted his chair back in a fashion which proclaimed a plan to be comfortable. He had begun to tolerate—even encourage—my society, although it was clear that as a tenderfoot he regarded me with a species of gentle disdain. It came in easy illustration, as answer to my question, for the Old Cattleman to recall the funeral of a former leading spirit of… Shares: Arizona, Westerns, Social life and customs

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Texas! Sage Sandra Brown · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Jilted by her fiancé, Sage Taylor reluctantly accepts the help of handsome drifter Harlan Boyd when her family business gets in deep financial straits, and the two of them try to keep their passions at bay, but fate has a different idea in mind. Shares: Texas, Westerns

Lonesome Land Bertha Muzzy Bower · 1912 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek horses, and dazzling sunrises. If Val had known what was really waiting for her, she simply wouldn't have gotten off the train. Oh, the country was impressive, but it could be cruel in winter and… Shares: Ranches, Westerns

Irma Voth Miriam Toews · 2011 · ★ 3.6 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its head when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the strict religious community in which she and her family live. Shares: Self-actualization, Sisters, Families

Shadow on the Trail Zane Grey · 1946 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Challenging "The whistle of the Texas Pacific express train nerved Wade Holden to dare one more argument against the unplanned holdup and robbery his chief had undertaken. Standing there in the dark night under the trees with the misty rain blowing in his face and the horses restlessly creaking leather, Wade thought swiftly, realizing the peril in speaking ill of men Simm Bell chose as comrades for a job of… Shares: Texas, Westerns

Forgiving LaVyrle Spencer · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Moderate There's a place in every heart for forgiving.... SARAH She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose--to find her sister and mend the family tie that was severed years ago, when Addie left home with a hardened heart--and without an explanation. NOAH The thought of this headstrong woman turning his… Shares: Sisters, Westerns

Valley of Wild Horses Zane Grey · 1927 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The tall young cowpuncher known as Panhandle Smith had roped, gambled and fought his way from Montana to New Mexico, but Marco was the most lawless place he had ever seen. And when Panhandle faced down Dick Hardman, he knew he had to destroy Hardman to save his woman and his life. Shares: Westerns

Lost Pueblo Zane Grey · 1927 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A tale of romance in the Old West. The heroine is Jane Endicott -- a spirited young woman who travels to Arizona with her father. She falls in love with this rough and rugged frontier -- not to mention the eligible young cowboys. Her father, rushing in where angels fear to tread, tries to match her with the son of an old friend. Complications arise. Shares: Westerns

The Lost Wagon Train Zane Grey · 1936 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery.Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help… Shares: Westerns

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