Arthur Henry Gooden
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
No one rightly knew her first name. Even if anyone had, they wouldn't have dared to have used it. She was one of the Territory's characters, square-built, granite jawed, tough as old boots. And she needed to be. She was V. Crumm to everyone, proprietress of the Santa Ysabel General Store and the Feed and Stage Stables, known and respected for a hundred miles in every direction, and she's already had one warning. She'd had it in a letter-- get out...
Author
Pub. Date
1940.
Description
When Jack Fielding, owner of the JF Ranch, found old Mark Severn, owner of the Bar 7, on the lonesome trail through Topaz Canyon, dying from a bullet wound, he knew there was going to be trouble on the Chuckwalla Range. Rustlers had been running off cattle, and Mark was going to do something about it. As he lay dying, Mark made two requests: that Jack take over operation of the Bar 7, and that Jack find Mary Cameron, the granddaughter Mark had never...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When Mark Destin arrived in La Cruz wearing a derby, he was taken for a tenderfoot dude. In a few hours, he had proved to that rough cow town that "tenderfoot" was not synonymous with "fool." He wore the clothes of a Bostonian, but his mind was as keen, his judgment of character as shrewd as any weather-beaten westerner's. Mark wanted to buy a ranch, and had been offered the Diamond D by A. B. Matoon, a land shark. He is considerably taken aback...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Shirley Benson was owner now of the beautiful Valle de los Reyes, mistress of the old Spanish ranch house and its faithful Mexican servants. On the night that her father was killed in a rustler's raid, she made the unpleasant discovery that the Box B ranch was heavily mortgaged and that most of her cattle had disappeared, stolen by the men who had murdered her father. With courage inherited from her pioneer forebears, she refuses to sign the quit-claim...
Author
Pub. Date
2013, c1934.
Description
Back in the early days of ranching, King Cole owned a million acres of grazing land and vast herds of cattle. His only daughter, Lylah, scorned the side-saddle of the period and boldly rode astride, making her the talk of the countryside. In addition to her independence of spirit, she had youth and the dark beauty of her Spanish mother. Life had always been exciting to Lylah, but when she discovered that Jeff Wayne, the son of her father's old enemy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
"Adam Marshall is chased into the Rio Grande by a danger that threatens his grandfather and the old JM ranch. The Marshalls always look trouble in the eye, and Adam finds himself with his hands full. Men in the border town of Dos Ríos need to explain themselves; an attempt has been made to blame Adam for the unsolved murder of Linda Seton's sheepman father. Adam now has a hardened resolve to find the man responsible."--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Allan Rand, looking for the missing heiress of a cattleman's fortune, rescues Poco Gato from cowboys set on a lynching. With Poco as a friend who would die for him, Rand sets out on a double quest through the rough and tough Roaring River district to stop the rustlers and to find the girl"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When Jim Chaine, owner of the Bar Chaine Ranch, was murdered, his son, Ross, was sent to live with an aunt. Shortly afterwards, Buel Patchen, manager of the Flying A Ranch, built a large dam in the valley, turning Alamos into a ghost town and destroying the Bar Chaine Ranch. Now a man, Ross Chaine returns to Red Creek Valley to find out what really happened to his father and to take possession of the Bar Chaine. Ross knows his return will likely have...