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Autumn Lover Elizabeth Lowell · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home-though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who lives for revenge alone. Hunter Maxwell has suffered from the savagery of outlaws and the faithlessness of a… Shares Westerns, Romance & Relationships, Historical Fiction, Romance

Chancy Louis L'Amour · 1968 · ★ 4.2 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground. Chancy needed a spare and, after stowing it in his bedroll, forgot about… Shares Cowboys, Western, Westerns

The Thundering Herd Zane Grey · 1924 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Great classic western! Subject matter appropriate for ages 12 up. Description: Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest’s inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white… Shares Western, Westerns, Romance

The burning hills Louis L'Amour · 1956 · ★ 4.5 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Moderate L'Amour's protagonist, Trace Jordan, makes a hard but honest living. Unscrupulous thugs kill his partner and steal his horses. But crime doesn't pay for the villains of this fast-paced western drama. Not only does Trace get the better of the bad guys, he finds love in wide empty spaces of Arizona - New Mexico. Shares Cowboys, Ranch life, Western, Westerns

Cattle Brands Andy Adams · 1906 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate From the book:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five other herds waiting for the river to go down. This river had tumbled over her banks for several days, and the driftwood that was coming down… Shares Cowboys, Ranch life, Westerns

Matagorda Louis L'Amour · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery--and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or… Shares Western, Westerns

Kilkenny Louis L'Amour · 1954 · ★ 4.5 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Western, Westerns with this book.

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 545p · ≈ 18h · Moderate No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard's Western oeuvre.In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two "pointless" stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one,… Shares Western, Westerns

Rivers West Louis L'Amour · 1974 · ★ 4.1 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman’s search to find her missing brother, and a ruthless band of renegades. Led by the brazen Baron Torville, this makeshift army of opportunists is plotting a violent takeover of the Louisiana Territory.… Shares Western, Westerns

Buckskin Run Louis L'Amour · 1981 · ★ 4.5 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A Collection of Short Stories. Louis L'amour, Nuff Said. Shares Western, Westerns

Flint Louis L'Amour · 1960 · ★ 4.3 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated.Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed… Shares Western, Westerns

Rider of the Ruby Hills Louis L'Amour · 1986 · ★ 4.5 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Western, Westerns with this book.

Tucker William johnstone · 1971 · ★ 2.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to join their gang. But now, with his father gone and the… Shares Western, Westerns

The proving trail Louis L'Amour · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch.Not yet eighteen,… Shares Western, Westerns

The Trail to Crazy Man Louis L'Amour · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels'. In creating them, I became so involved with my characters that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared became collector's… Shares Western, Westerns

Riding for the Brand Louis L'Amour · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home--a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Ashbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses' troubles, the… Shares Western, Westerns

Utah Blaine Louis L'Amour · 1954 · ★ 4.2 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a noose–and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher’s own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has a unique proposition:… Shares Western, Westerns

Chasing Charity Marcia Gruver · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Charity Bloom is left stranded at the altar after her best friend takes off with her fiance. How will she ever show her face in town again? After a tall, handsome stranger, Buddy Pierce discovers oil on the Bloom property, he realizes the real treasure may be above ground-in the form of Charity Bloom. Can he strike it rich in Charity? When her ex-fiance decides he wants her back, whom will… Shares Texas, Romance & Relationships, Historical Fiction, Romance

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