"When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn?t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn?t the only one after her grandfather?s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly...

"The composite '1787 Census of Virginia' - made up of the tax lists of all the counties - is an invaluable tool in locating early Virginia ancestors. The individual county lists ... goes further than the composite, however. The lists are given twice in the individual county books - once in the original order, than again rearranged by the date on which the commissioner had visited each taxpayer. This second list makes it possible to tell who the neighbors...

Selected narratives and photographs provide a composite view of cowboy life in late nineteenth-century Texas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas, illuminating the persisting mythic image of the cowboy in American culture.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...

Twenty true adventure stories by noted Western authors on the Alamo, the gold rush, Geronimo and the Lincoln County War, etc.

Ben, an innocent idealistic teen, wants more than anything else to be a cowboy, but when he lands a job as a cook's helper, he's soon surrounded by the rigors and realities of trail life. It's a dusty, brutal experience in which men drink and fight to escape the tedium, and survival depends on how quickly (and willingly) one can pull a trigger.

James Geraldi has always stolen only from other thieves, but he had decided to marry and settle down when an old friend rides into town "with a posse in hot pursuit. Without taking time to explain to his bride-to-be, Mary, Geraldi takes Larry's place and rides off to lead the posse astray."--Jacket.

Hank the Cowdog goes to the rescue as a wild, one-eyed horse creates havoc on the ranch but some of his outrageous stunts get him into more trouble than he bargained for.

When a popular rancher is murdered and the mayor of his town forms a posse, two travellers join in and are swept up in their mission to seek vengeance, even upon those innocent of any wrongdoing.

Everyone knows that bears live in the mountains...and there are no mountains in the Texas Panhandle. So, when Slim claims to have seen a bear cross the road, no one knows what to believe. It must have been a burro. That's it, it was a donkey. But then, Deputy Kile reports that there really is a bear on the loose in Ochiltree County! With news like this, the ranch's Security Force goes on Red Alert. Will Hank be able to defend the ranch from a raging,...