An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling the highs and lows of cowboy life in these sixteen stories, collected together for the first time.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

At one low price, two complete novels by "one of the greatest and most gifted of Western writers." (Historical Novel Society) Bitter TrailTough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend—his former partner and brother of the woman he loves. Barbed WireIrishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red-painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land-hungry thugs. This fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school, open-range baron of the huge R Cross spread. Rinehart wages a barbed...

An anthology of three novellas, by three of the best western writers of yesterday and today.

Five short stories from some of the most notable names in the Western genre. Also, a bonus from author and literary scholar, L. D. Clark. A portion of the profits from the sale of this book go to support the ReadWest Foundation, Inc.

Collected for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Wild West From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton offers us tales of the American West, both modern and mythical. Readers will meet a rodeo clown who seeks redemption through romance, a recently-released prisoner trying to reform himself via ranch work, and an embattled veteran with just enough courage left to conquer his last foe—when a town and the love of his life are at stake. Every bit as important as the men are Kelton's powerful women—a cattle buyer's daughter who can hold her own with any man on the trail, a renowned outlaw who rules her gang with her gun, and a judge's daughter who is determined to end local mob rule now that "the day of the gun is almost over." These are characters whom you'll never forget, every one of whom shows us how life was back then: simpler, but harder, with danger always...