Del Norte Public Library

"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...

When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hellhole like Bitter Seeps or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.

Seven deadly men ride into the quiet town of Genesis, a peaceful place that is growing and prospering. John Fontana is a strong and capable marshal and he's had no trouble preventing lawlessness until this strange group appears. The deadly seven kill, rape, and plunder before riding out of town. The savagery of their violence quickly becomes legendary. There is only one way to stop them-someone has to track them down and slaughter them one by...

Ignacio Ortiz, a Mexican orphan and a runaway searching for his past, lives through eras of intense change, including revolutionary upheavals, two world wars, and the beginning of the modern west during New Mexico's last territorial days. As these turbulent events serve as a backdrop to his life, Ignacio's own loyalties will be tested by the passions of his tempestuous employers, the MacAndrews clan.

Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth... Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...

It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will of his father, Web Catton, an enigmatic mountain man. Among the papers are instructions that Ab must reassemble his family--brothers and sisters he can barely remember, that separated after the death of his mother. The race is on to locate Web Catton's legacy--and alude those in pursuit of the fortune.

"On Hank Littleton's first assignment as a Texas Ranger, he shows how his crack-shot aim can stop the careful escape plan of a group of prisoners being escorted to Austin. Then his captain again pairs him with war veteran Joe Casebolt on a do-or-die assignment: catch the notorious band of robbers led by former lawman Isom Whitaker that is working the stages and rails near San Antonio. The two Rangers soon conclude that this wouldn't be such a tough...

Bored at home with his family, Les Tarron goes looking for adventure. He meets Doran, who is later murdered. After Doran's death, he assumes Doran's job, and tries to avoid being killed in the process.

Sixteen-year-old orphan Tyrell Breen leaves South Carolina and heads west, hoping to make it to his uncle's ranch near San Antonio, Texas. It's 1874, and Ty means to become a cowboy -- although his idea of what that entails comes from half-dime novels. On the way, Ty is robbed of his money and his horse by a gambler named Rip Ford, and arrives at his uncle's ranch a sorry sight ... but not as sorry as his uncle, who has been neglecting everything...