Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
Author
Series
Description
"When Martin Baron came to Texas, the cattle were fierce, and so was the thick mesquite brush that grew wild over the untamed land. Indian raids, flash floods, and lethal winds threatened his family's survival on a daily basis - as did the spearlike antlers of the Mexican longhorns. But, over the corse of the ... Grass Kingdom, The Barons of Texas, and The Baron Range, Martin Baron succeeded in building an empire. Now ... he must confront the bloody...
3) Bowie
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Chronicles the life of frontiersman Jim Bowie and discusses his childhood exploits, his relationship with Annie Christmas, the creation of the knife that was named for him, and other related topics.
Author
Series
Shortgrass song series volume 1
Description
Follows a Texas family in the 1800s through Civil War battles, buffalo hunts, barroom shootouts, Indian wars, blizzards, and trail drives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A New York Times Bestseller
Bestselling western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone take their best-known sharpshooter Smoke Jensen deep into the heart of Texas, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun . . .
Welcome to Texas. Now Go Home.
Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it's personal and it's bloody—and...
Bestselling western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone take their best-known sharpshooter Smoke Jensen deep into the heart of Texas, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun . . .
Welcome to Texas. Now Go Home.
Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it's personal and it's bloody—and...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"It begins with a spectacular train robbery--a brilliantly planned, brutally executed heist masterminded by a shadowy gang of conspirators with far deadlier motives than money or gold. Their mission: to steal the train's shipment of powerful explosives. Their goal: to assassinate Mexico's legendary resistance leader Benito Juarez--at a small stagecoach station owned and operated by the O'Malley family ... As a lifelong patriot himself, Joe O'Malley...
Author
Series
Ladies of Harper's Station volume 1
Formats
Description
No other will do by Karen Witemeyer (2016)Enjoy Bestselling Author Karen Witemeyer's Terrific New Romance! Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they might need a man after all. A man who can fight--and she knows just the one. Malachi Shaw finally earned the...
Author
Series
Lone star brides volume 3
Formats
Description
"In 1890s Texas when two very different men enter Jessica's life, will she choose to pursue her dreams of adventure or follow the gentle urgings of her heart?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Description
In 1824, when circumstances make it impossible for her to remain in New Orleans, Dorritt and her family head west to join Stephen Austin's settlement and recoup their fortune in Texas. Quinn is a man of the frontier who has made a name for himself as a peerless scout. But as he and Dorritt's party begin their grueling trek, the success of their journey is in doubt. With their lives joined in a land fraught with peril, can Dorritt and Quinn put their...
Author
Series
Description
"Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man's land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O'Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it's the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have the same pride and honor coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former wrangler married to a steadying force of nature. Joe's grandchildren...
13) Texas angel
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Taken to the frontier of Texas with her young daughter, Angela's fledgling faith becomes an inspiration to a struggling pastor.
Author
Series
Lone star legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Deborah Graham, mourning the deaths of her brother and father in the Civil War, accepts the offer of marriage from a distant relative in Texas, but her dreams of a happy life come crashing down when her husband is killed and she is sentenced to hang for his murder.