C.G. Fewston’s Cowboy or A Communion of Saints takes place in Texas in 1901, where a fifteen-year-old boy is left orphaned when his father dies several years after his mother and baby sister. Calling himself Cowboy, he leaves the family’s Pine Creek Ranch outside Brownwood...

David Z. Pyke’s All Hot and Bleeding is set in the Republic of Texas in 1840, where sixteen-year-old Silas Grant returns to his family’s Brazos Valley homestead after an expedition into Mexico leaves him wounded and haunted by the men he killed. Silas hopes to...

In Kevin Michael Flynn’s West Of Man, a twelve-year-old Irish boy arrives in America in 1908 and eventually becomes The Carpenter, a war veteran raising his son Michael in Old Town during 1929. When a secret organization operating through the city begins targeting his family,...

Once Upon a Time in a Spaghetti Western, Desperado Cowboy Shoot-'Em-Up Moving Picture Cinematic Feature Film by Steve Hanisch is a satirical western set in the 1880s Old West about the outlaw Hammerin’ Hank ‘Haywood’ Posey. Hank sets out to rob a town, only to...

In David Fitz-Gerald’s Rathuun: King of the Prairie, the titular Rathuun is born on the prairie into a buffalo brum, whose safety depends on old migration paths. As a calf, he is saved by Na-Muh, a human boy whose kindness marks him for life. Years...

What does freedom really mean when others won’t let you be who you are? In Mountain Freedom by Johny Weber, Molly is living what appears to be a comfortable life on a successful Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1880s. She’s married to the driven Jackson,...

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

Nick Drake is a war veteran turned ranger and game warden for the US Fish and Wildlife Service stationed in Harney County, Oregon. He was on Malheur Lake trying to catch a bird poacher when he witnessed a fighter jet pilot fall into the water....

In 1876, eighteen-year-old Loren Ardoin left his home in Louisiana, escaping from the lingering aftermath of the Civil War, heading west with only his worn guitar. After days on the railroad and drifting through towns with his music, Loren ends up in Nogales. In this...

In Silver by Daniel Logue and Stephen Logue, danger arrives in Oak Bluff in the form of a mysterious stranger. Lucas, the sheriff of Oak Bluff, notices the stranger walking into the saloon. Jake, still carrying the trauma of a few years back, is drawn...