Popular Western Books for Adults
Hundreds of books are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most popular Western books for adults.
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Outlawed: A Novel
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Whistling Season
Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
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Cities of the Plain
The conclusion of the Border trilogy describes the friendship of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys working on a New Mexico ranch in the 1950s.
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Wyoming Strong
When fate intervenes and brings them together on neighboring Wyoming ranches, archenemies Wolf Patterson and Sara Brandon cast their differences aside when they see each other in a whole new light as love takes root between them.
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Backlands: A Novel of the American West
Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
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When Hell Came to Texas
"In the days after the Civil War, a solitary rider travelled the open frontier--but he wasn't alone, for Death seemed to travel with him. Or maybe it was the Devil himself who gave him the lethal pistol shot that earned him the name 'Death's Acolyte.' And when the stranger with the scarred face, who calls himself Ken Casey, rode into the peaceful Texas town of Wardell, maybe peace--for his own ravaged soul--was all he wanted. But in Wardell, all hell is about to break loose. Awaiting a train shipment of gold, Angus Pugh and his army of outlaws, including notorious gunslinger Luke Draco, take the town hostage and kill a few innocent citizens as a lesson to any comers. Donning priestly vestments, Ken Casey, ordained man of the cloth, steps from the shadows to conduct the victims' funeral rites--and that's just his first revelation. For Casey can destroy souls as easily as he saves them, and earthly justice is delivered in gun smoke and blood"-- Publisher's statement from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/When-Hell-Texas-Robert-Vaughan/dp/1476715831/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368642230&sr=1-1&keywords=When+Hell+came+to+Texas.
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When Hell Came to Texas
A New York Times Bestselling Author, A USA Today Bestselling Author, A Spur Award- winning Author -- Ken Casey has a secret. His real name is Ded Ackerman, known as "Death's Acolyte" for his speed with a pistol. He's an ordained Episcopal priest who lost his way, and maybe his soul, during the Civil War. When Casey takes a job as a cook in the small, peaceful town of Wardell, Texas, Angus Pugh and his gang ride in and take the town hostage while they wait for a shipment of gold. Soon innocent blood is shed, and only one person can save Wardell. (syndetics)
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45-caliber Desperado
Cuno Massey killed a pack of deputy U.S. Marshals, but only because the men were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, Massey faces a death sentence--until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border.
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The Son
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
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Hard Country: A Novel
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory.
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