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In a North American British province, a group of Norweigan settlers have carved a life for themselves in a lakeshore village called Skarkavik. Hunters and fishermen, they raise their families in peace under the natural cover of the surrounding forest. Decker Galloway believes the land's natural resources are being wasted on the few when so many have a greater need. Having made his fortune logging the wilderness of the eastern provinces, he wants to turn his axes and saws loose on the untouched western region. And no villagers are going to stand in his way.

This is a rollicking, fast-paced Western setting double-crossing mayhem set against the colorful background of the Yukon gold rush.

Grizzly Killer must live up his name yet again! Two families from the East want to make a new life for themselves in the Rocky Mountain. They think they can handle whatever the wilderness throws at them. They are wrong. Something is after them. Hunting them. Stalking them. Killing them one by one. Enter Nate King. The Mountain Manknown as Grizzly Killer. He is their one....their best....hope to survive. But even being the best isn't always enough.

A kill-crazy butcher is loose in the Arizona territory and only one man is bold enough to end the mayhem. Luke Jensen joins a posse of misfits and greenhorns on a murderous manhunt that’s doomed from the start—and there’s no turning back. Someone is terrorizing the Arizona border. Burning down ranches. Butchering travelers. Blazing a trail of bloodthirsty raids and robbing the railroads blind. His name is Melichus. 

Der Winter des Jahres 1866 hat den Oglala-Sioux einen ersten Erfolg im Kampf gegen die Blauröcke gebracht. Nach dem Fetterman-Massaker ist es im Frühjahr 1867 still geworden am Bozeman Trail. Auch die vielen Goldsucher, die noch im Jahr davor zu Tausenden durch das Sioux-Land nach Montana gezogen sind, warten erst einmal ab. Sie wollen ihr Leben nicht riskieren. Darin sieht der Oglala-Häuptling Red Cloud eine weitere Chance. Erneut richtet sich sein Zorn gegen die verhassten Blauröcke Sein Ziel ist jedoch nicht direkt Fort Phil Kearny, sondern ein befestigtes Holzfällerlager einige Meilen außerhalb.

All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884 Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in Hell on the Border, the infamous federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn't be his last mistake or trial by fire. In The Forsaken and the Dead we meet Reeves again. In the 1890s, past his prime, Reeves proceeds through the valleys and shadows of Indian and Oklahoma Territories. 

First introduced in Vaughan's A Rambling Man, Lucas Cain is back in the saddle, searching for some peace of mind and some solace after the loss of his wife and newborn child. He has continued his traveling from town to town, an itinerant lawman focused on capturing the bad guys for whatever amount is on the wanted papers for them. Local sheriffs and marshals, though initially wary of him, come to love him because does what he does without pay—other than the reward money.

On entre dans ce roman comme dans un western : des portes qui claquent, des vies qui se renversent et des combats menés au nom de la liberté...

Six decades of history unfurl on a Wyoming ranch. Journey to untamed Wyoming where four generations of women experience love, loss, grace, adoption, struggles with the law, relationships with natives, and through it all, family bonds.

Matt Severance was accused of stealing a mine payroll with his older brother, Roy. Bloody Joe killed Roy, but the other rider got away. Folks believe Roy hid the money before he died, and they think Matt has returned to retrieve it though Matt insists he's only back to clear his name and to take over his dead father's ranch. Matt faces harassment from all sides, and its Mannion's job to keep the young man, whom he comes to like, alive and to retrieve the hidden loot.

Explore the untamed American West through the vivid storytelling of Walt Whitman in The Half-Breed. This audiobook offers a thrilling narrative that delves into the rugged frontier life, cultural clashes, and the complex relationships that shaped this iconic period in American history. Whitman's vivid descriptions and rich character development paint a vivid picture of a changing and often lawless land. The Half-Breed is a captivating blend of adventure, exploration, and a deep exploration of human nature and morality.

Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother, devoting herself to music and art. But at eighteen Abbie found a different dream, turning away from the promise of a comfortable life as a doctor’s wife to marry handsome, quiet Will Deal. Together, they eagerly accepted the challenge of homesteading in Nebraska territory, where the prairies stretched as far as the eye could see, and only the strongest survived for long.

Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and almost 1,500 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which has a capacity of just under 400 passengers. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift.

Žádný z rudých kmenů dosud nevykopal válečný tomahavk. Komančové a jejich náčelník "Černý mustang" si však zahrávají s ohněm – snaží se přemoci Vinnetoua a Old Shatterhanda, překazit stavbu železnice a přepadnout bělošskou osadu. Skvěle napsaný román, v němž se to hemží lumpy, padouchy, ale i chrabrými chlapy a čestnými gentlemany, vyšel v češtině poprvé v roce 1908 a od té doby stále fascinuje čtenáře v mnoha opakovaných vydáních.

Jedno z nejznámějších děl Karla Maye se odehrává v pustině Llano Estacado na pomezí Texasu a Nového Mexika. Vystupuje v něm řada známých postav Mayova Divokého západu – Vinnetou, Old Shatterhand a k potěše čtenářů i další oblíbení hrdinové jako Hobble Frank, Dlouhý Davy, Tlustý Jimi či „duch prérie“ Bloody Fox. Ti všichni bojují s padouchy, kteří kradou tyčky, jež ukazují správnou cestu pouští, a přesunují je jiným směrem, aby své oběti zahubili žízní a mohli je snadno oloupit.

X Caliber is the famous age-old tale of King Arthur and Excalibur rebranded as an American Western. A story of growth, unity, family and survival in the harsh badlands of the old West.

Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion and his close friend, Wells Fargo detective Flint Henry, are on the trail of some of the most vicious killers Mannion has ever faced. Flint is killed so it's up to Bloody Joe to single-handedly retrieve the loot the gang stole from a train. He manages to take down the gang and secure the loot only to find himself facing yet another band of vicious killers who want to lay their own grubby hands on the cash. Bloody Joe, however, has other ideas . . . and this ain't his first rodeo.

The owner believes his Colorado ski villa is being built in accordance with sacred Navajo traditions. The contractor has to get the roof and walls closed in before autumn snows invade the house and ruin it. The building inspector has figured out who the crew really is and demands a bribe or he’ll stop work on the project. Jacek has met a woman who makes more sense than any of this and he wants to take her home with him, to the Tatra Mountains. The house, if it is ever finished, won’t protect anybody, not actually.

Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregon and her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, welcomes Nest Feather, a twelve-year-old Apache girl, into womanhood in Aravaipa Canyon.

After a series of heroic feats of capturing and killing infamous outlaws—most notably Jim Webb—and an introduction to Belle Starr, Reeves finds himself in the Fort Smith jail, charged with murder. This second book in the Bass Reeves Trilogy investigates what really happened when Reeves made the greatest mistake of his life on the heels of his greatest achievements.