Titoli in Western

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. We offer now some samples of his diversity in a collection of his short stories: “The Outcasts of Poker Flats”, “Tennessee’s Partner”, “The Idyl of Red Gulch”, “Brown of Calaveras”, “Muck-A-Muck”, “The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen”, “Mr. Midshipman Breezy”, “The Legend of Monte Del Diablo”, and more.

This was the first effort by Frederick Faust aimed at writing a Western, and he used the pen name of Max Brand to produce it. There was a different style of literary focus, a variance that brought forth feelings of melodrama. However, as the story developed, that impression was changed drastically with startling examples of action, conflict, and revenge that set it apart. It was regarded as one of his most successful efforts in a career that produced perhaps as many as 25 to 30 million words, resulting in well more than 500 novels and short stories.

Caleb Marlowe carved out his own legend as frontier scout and lawman before arriving in the Colorado boomtown of Elkhorn. Famous for a lightning-quick draw and nerves of steel, he is mysterious, guarded, and unpredictable. Now, he wants to leave the past behind. But the past has a way of dogging a man.... When Doc Burnett, Caleb's only friend in town, goes missing, his daughter, Sheila, comes seeking Caleb's help. Newly arrived from the East, she hotly condemns the bloody frontier justice of the rifle and the six-gun. But this is outlaw country.

Dave Cray and Gramps, after the end of the Civil War, moved east from Oregon to settle a new and bountiful territory. What they did, they did with their hands, but they had no money. Smiling Jim Sully opened a store there, and he had money but allowed the farmers to barter hay for goods. But Smiling Jim had other ideas; he wanted the farmer's lands. Dave Cray had his desire: Smiling Jim's daughter, Ann. It was a spark and a fire that brought all sides into a heated confrontation. How will anyone come out of it alive?

Evil is as old as man. Dick Starr was exiled by his hellcat grandmother for not following her orders. Now, after an absence of one year, he is returning to his love, Lannie. Fearing that Dick's brother, Mike, would ambush and kill him, will Lannie be able to save Dick's life?

They sing songs about Matthew Johnson. The hero of dime novels, Matt won national fame during a range war in Idaho when he shot and killed an outlaw - and former saddle pal. But the past 17 years have been an alcoholic blur rather than a heroic journey. Gone are the days when he was a free-wheeling cowboy, swapping poems with his best friend on the cattle ranges. The West has modernized - and practically disappeared - when Matt arrives in Denver in 1894 as the newly appointed US marshal for the state of Colorado.

This second volume of How the West Was Read, features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio and delivers more of the best of contemporary Western writing.

The drought is killing everything. There is a way to save the herds but half will die, maybe some ranchers too. But, are they desperate enough?

He took one step forward and smashed Ramsey to his knees. A dark train roars over a rain-soaked bridge while two men fight to the death in the rocking, rattling caboose. Mexican treasure and a kill-crazy gang wait for the winner.

Larry Kehoe had been sent to prison for having killed a man with his gun. Now he has been released and is determined never to use a gun again for any purpose. What he hasn't learned is that sometimes in order to have peace, using a gun becomes necessary.

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

Tom Buckner returns to the town of Luna, only to realize that Susan Todd, the woman he loves, is not the puzzle he thought - that he's the puzzle. Before, he didn't care what happened to himself. Now he does, and it's too late.

Southerland enters the Valley of the Damned to find his brother’s murderers. Will he survive?

Julia's daddy was the judge in town. He used to be impartial, but recently it seemed that he had changed. What cost to the town folks would there be?

All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone is the rollicking adventure story of Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the 20th century who thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century. When he gets his heart broken by a sweetheart who doesn’t appreciate his anachronistic tendencies, he does what any sensible young romantic would do.

Walt Hodge had delivered 80 horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army, and he wasn’t in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: “Trouble, mister. Bad trouble.”

As a successful Boston lawyer, Madison Randolph is more at home in the courtroom than in the dusty frontier town he's escaped. But when his brother is accused of murder, he heads to Texas to clear his family's name despite the dark secrets that still haunt him.

The Golden Age of radio had incredible Western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear Western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress.

They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of Chief Arapooesh offered rest, healing, and home to the mountain men. Then a misunderstanding over a beautiful Crow woman drove the friends apart, propelling Scratch into the unforgiving wilderness on a lonely, dangerous quest. Paddock, too ill to travel, was at first unable to follow, unable to explain.

The Golden Age of radio had incredible Western shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear Western heroes catch the bad guys and save ladies in distress.