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In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...

A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.

Opposites attract...but can they fall in love? Jake McGuire has worked hard to earn his success. The only threat to his peace is the last woman he should ever want. He knows Ida Merridan by reputation only, but the stories he's heard are enough for him to keep her at arm's length. Twice divorced and independently wealthy, Ida did nothing to deserve her bad reputation-except choose the wrong husbands. Live and learn in a small town, but after everything...

Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --

A descendant of the legendary McKettricks, Connor Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard working rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Small-town life isn't exactly his dream, but he owes a huge debt of gratitude to the man who took him in as a kid. When his identical twin, bad boy Brody Creed from whom Connor has been estranged for years, identity issues loom. Then Connor meets Tricia McCall, who knows a thing or two about...

When Tilden fails to reboard the train on time, he is stranded in Montana, and he meets a group of cowboys who tell him about a wild black stallion. He becomes determined to catch the horse in order to impress Rita, the daughter of a rancher.

Graduate student Charlie Banks travels to Wyoming to attend a seminar on horse communication given by Nate Shawcross, the famous "horse whisperer," but when she meets the handsome cowboy she begins to lose sight of her mission and becomes interested in an entirely different type of communication.

When Anna pretends to teach her toy dog, Toto, to swim, he is carried too far out by a big wave but a boy in a cowboy hat comes to the rescue.

Sent by his father to live with family in the West, Alfred Larribee is lazy and shiftless, spending most of his time in town drinking, gambling and cheating at cards. But that all changes with the appearance of Sky Blue, a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. His owner hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue, but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that, no one is willing to volunteer again ... except Larribee.