Showing results for "Thomas Peters" in Westerns

Lou Prophet's life as a bounty hunter has taught him one rule: You don't stop riding 'til the job is finished. Louisa Bonaventure gives that rule a whole new meaning. After seeing her family slaughtered by Dave Duvall and his Red River Gang, she and Prophet have tracked down and wiped out every last murderer - except for Duvall.

Most of bounty hunter Lou Prophet’s man-hunting jobs have been purely business transactions that he’s carried out with cool professionalism. He’s seldom seen the depravations his quarries have committed to earn a price on their heads. But when the Red River Gang raids the town of Luther Falls, Prophet witnesses it in person - and can’t do a thing to stop it. It’ll be days before anyone can organize a posse - and a small girl has been kidnapped by the cold-blooded outlaws. Prophet will have to go it alone.

For the legendary mountain man Preacher, times are lean. Trapping is a thing of the past. Only a handful of men cling to the old ways, trading pelts to a market with little demand. Thus it is that Preacher, along with his old friends Three Sleeps Norris and Antoine Revier, grudgingly accepts a commission from the War Department to act as trail guide and scout for a regiment of Dragoons.

A gunshot wound has robbed Audubon, Texas, of its top lawman at the worst possible time. Clete Lanagan and his band of outlaws have hatched a scheme to plunder the town bank of a small fortune in railroad money. When the acting sheriff, Dalton Conyers - half-brother of Smoke’s niece Rebecca - is unable to raise a posse to hunt down Lanagan’s gang, he calls on Smoke for help. But with so much cash at stake, Lanagan won’t go down without a fight.

Mexiko im Bürgerkrieg um 1910. Kurz vor ihrer Hinrichtung werden der Freiheitskämpfer Jim Davis und vier seiner Männer vom dubiosen Geschäftsmann Emmet Crawford freigekauft. Als Gegenleistung sollen sie Crawfords Frau Rachel in einem Sonderzug über die Grenze ins sichere Texas bringen. Doch wer ist Rachel wirklich? Als sich obendrein während der Fahrt herausstellt, dass auf dem Zug 3 Millionen Dollar in Gold versteckt sein sollen, auf die es eine Bande brutaler Desperados abgesehen hat, gerät der Auftrag zu einem Himmelfahrtskommando.

A spellbinding novel of a diverse trail crew’s fight for new and limitless grasslands in the boundless western plains, the source of constant conflict, at times ending in victory, and sometimes with great loss.

Larry Scott is branded an outlaw, framed for murder and accused of cattle rustling. It would seem the only course open to Scott to prove his innocence is to find those really guilty. But that objective is unlikely in the extreme, after he is arrested, charged, and jailed.

Bill Ash, an escaped convict returns to find his father murdered.

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.