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Schussdetonationen rissen mich hoch. Von Westen jagten die mexikanischen Skalpjäger heran. Die Einschläge ihrer Kugeln wirbelten rechts und links von mir Staub auf. Ich rannte auf die roten Felsen zu, hinter denen die anderen Apachen Deckung genommen hatten. Meine Haut war von der Sonne verbrannt. Wäre nicht mein blondes Haar gewesen, hätte man mich nicht von ihnen unterscheiden können. Ich war jetzt einer der Ihren. Ich hatte für sie gekämpft. Entweder überleben oder zusammen sterben.

Dumpfer Hufschlag. Das Trommeln eines monotonen Todesmarsches. Zum ersten Mal ritt ich in einem richtigen Angriff der Apachen mit. Ich stieß lautes Kriegsgeschrei aus, wie die Krieger neben mir. Ich war ein Apache. Ich kämpfte für mein Land. Für meine Freiheit. Für unsere Art zu leben. Plötzlich traf mich eine Kugel und riss mich aus dem Sattel. Ich stürzte zu Boden. Das Tagebuch eines Mannes, für den Blut, Leid und Verzweiflung zum Alltag geworden waren.

Ich saß in der Falle. "Lass das Gewehr fallen", sagte der Mann hinter mir. "Du lebst nur noch, weil du blondes Haar hast und kein richtiger Apache bist. Weil ich dich brauche." Ich sah, wie die Krieger starben, meine Brüder, die mich hätten befreien können. "Du bringst mich hier raus. Wenn ich sterben muss, stirbst du mit mir", sagte der Mann. "Wenn wir überleben, hole ich mir Ihren Skalp", antwortete ich. Das war ein Versprechen - und ich würde es halten. Das Leben als Indianer lag hinter Ronco. Zum zweiten Mal verlor er seine Heimat.

A rare breed of bulldog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific—a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack. But chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O'Brien means that Starbuck must follow him into the vice pits of the notorious Barbary Coast. Getting inside this hellhole of crime is easy if you make the right moves. Make the wrong ones, and getting out could be murder.

Die Ermordung seines Vaters Mangas Coloradas in FortMcLean bestimmt das Leben des jungen Mimbreno-Apachen Delgado. Aufgenommen und geschult vom erblindeten Schamanen der Yavapai-Apachen, sehnt sich Delgado nach einem friedlichen Leben. Doch in der Apacheria, dem heutigen Arizona, tobt ein erbarmungsloser Krieg. Die Bürger der entlegenen Stadt Prescott stellen eine Schutztruppe auf, die das Land mit brutaler Gewalt vor den heidnischen Barbaren säubern will.

Chato half, Geronimo und seine Rebellen aufzuspüren. Doch die Weißen dankten es ihm nicht. Zu spät begreift Chato, dass es ein großer Fehler war, den Weißen zu vertrauen. Als Lebensmittelrationen von einem gewissenlosen Indianeragenten unterschlagen werden und die Apachen hungern, weiß Chato, dass er handeln muss.

They killed his father and chased a widow and two kids from their home. That was 20 years ago. He had returned to take back what was his. He had hated Bull McDermott most of his life and eagerly sought revenge. Then he met the granddaughter. How could he kill Bull and then ask Lucy to marry him?

The Lovely Bones meets the wild, Wild West in this haunting tale inspired by a true story. Pregnant out of wedlock, 16-year-old Annie Moore is sent to live at a convent for fallen women. When the nuns take her baby, Annie escapes, determined to find a way to be reunited with her daughter. But few rights or opportunities are available to a woman in the 1860s, and after failing to find a respectable job, she resorts to prostitution in order to survive.

You won’t find the place on any map. It’s somewhere else, hidden away in a wondrous parallel reality of mystery, awe, and terror. This both is and isn’t the “Old West”. They share the same stark and unforgiving terrain and exist in the same timeframe, primarily the 1800s. But there the similarities cease. In Spirit County, for example, death is often not the end, but the beginning. Sometimes even the middle. Mythological creatures prove real...and deadly. Towns can disappear by daylight and return with the setting sun.

Rosie Stanton climbed on a westbound train to answer his ad for a wife and mother, everything she wants to be. But Tom Harris lied. He doesn't want a wife, merely a mother for his two abandoned children and a cook and cleaner for his ranch. Betrayed once, he's vowed never to let another woman into his heart. Sexy Rosie upsets all his plans and threatens to invade his scarred heart. How will he maintain his vow to keep his hands off her as she charms his children, his cowhands, his life?

In Tame a Wild Wind, an exciting, sensual, historical Western romance, Sam Colter is running from his past as a Texas Ranger, from the pain of losing his wife and daughters, from his own broken soul. He finds peace running a ranch and minding his own business until the beautiful, widowed ranch owner, Cassie O'Malley, offers him a devil's bargain...to become her lover with no strings attached. Trouble is, once he's tasted her fiery passion, he wants it all....

Caught in a blizzard, a handcart company desperately needs help, food, and supplies. They will send ahead three men to seek assistance at an old army fort, only to discover that the fort is not only abandoned, but also locked from the inside. Through an unfortunate accident, one of the men becomes injured, requiring them to stay at the old fort. Over time, they will piece together the horrendous history of this place and discover that all is not as it appears to be.

Keeper of the peace, enforcer of the law, Buck Trammel has faced every kind of killer, outlaw, and prairie rat that’s crawled from the depraved depths of America’s western frontier—with a quick draw and a clean conscience … “King” Charles Hagen is dead. The empire he carved out of Blackstone, Wyoming, by hook and by crook now lies in the hands of his children. Caleb Hagen has long stood in his father’s shadow, ambitiously plotting, and ready to stake his claim.

When they crossed Reuben Cole, they signed their death warrant. Reuben Cole is not the sort of man they should have messed with, and breaking into his home proves a bad idea. After his friend, Sheriff Roose, hunts down the robbers who took everything of value, the reasons for the burglary are revealed and a crooked railroad magnate's ambitions exposed. Cole's enemies are about to learn that the ways of the Old West, despite it being a new century, are not quite over yet.

If we transport livestock over the roads today, could it be possible that aliens did too when we humans were in our Wild West period of development? What if it were true, and one alien cargo ship broke down around Earth, suffered a malfunction, and a weird animal creature catapulted to Earth in a broken containment cell? Now imagine it was found by the most contradictory of outlaws in the West, with a shady past and a wicked sense of personality yearning for redemption. Now pretend the aliens are forbidden to enter Earth, to retrieve the animal, because of a law in the galaxy.

Six-Guns Blazing contains two explosive short novels featuring historical figures from the Old West in wildly fictional new adventures. The first, Wyatt Earp and the Devil Incarnate, pits the legendary lawman and his right-hand man, Doc Holliday, against a deadly serial killer leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake. The second novella, Emmett Dalton Rides Again!, imagines notorious bank robber Emmett Dalton picking up his guns as an elderly man in 1933 and robbing banks alongside the likes of John Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly.

The Ancient One warned the tribe that the Fire Huntress would burn the prairie. "I smell her in the air. She will devour all who stand before her. Nothing can stop her. She will eat the land, destroy what few buffalo and animals are left. She will consume the very soul of the Earth." In Chesterville, Wyoming, others were also worried about the prolonged drought. What would they do if the prairie caught on fire? Could they save the city? Jamie Larson decided to buy a hand fire pumper, but that would protect his Lead Sky Livery and Dray and Sherman's Hotel and Bar. What about the town?

The marshal’s name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he’s buried a few men in this two-bit cow town—every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest assignment of his life—find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town . . . one by bloody one.

Unsurpassed wilderness soon to become a battleground. A lone warrior has harnessed the raw, natural power of one of the greatest predators of all time. And the land to which he has kinship will no longer tolerate its desolation and decimation. War has been declared, and a zoological superweapon has been unleashed. As ranchers begin to lose their cattle, their lands, and their lives, a small community reaches out to the only person who can help: Thomas Walker, a hunter turned conservationist. He will soon discover that the creature is more familiar to him than he ever thought possible.

Marshal Jack Branson rides into Pueblo, hot on the trail of Caleb Risley and his gang. Risley's gang has kidnapped a wealthy businessman's daughter, Sally, and Branson's job is to bring her back alive. Risley's men lay traps to stop Branson on his ride from Pueblo to Cherry Creek. When Branson finds an ally in Cherry Creek, the two men form a united front, arriving at Risley's hideout and planning a surprise night attack. The only thoughts in Branson's mind are getting Sally safely home, and taking down Risley and his gang of thugs forever.