Search this site      By Sorrow's River Author: McMurtry, Larry ISBN: 0-7432-3304-2 Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: November 4, 2003 Condition: good Price: USD $2.49 From Publishers Weekly: In this third volume of McMurtry's Berrybender Narratives, Lord Berrybender and his obnoxious, sniveling brood are, surprisingly, still alive on the dangerous Great Plains of Wyoming and Colorado. The wry story of mountainman adventure and European stupidity, set in the 1830s, is just as wacky and gruesome as its predecessors, Sin Killer and The Wandering Hill. Lord Berrybender is a pompous, lecherous, drunken, one-legged English aristocrat on a hunting expedition in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by his four willful and opinionated daughters, inept servants and a haughty mistress, he is protected by an accompanying group of unwashed mountainmen and trappers. His eldest daughter, the vulgar and loudmouthed Tasmin, is married to Indian fighter Jim Snow, aka Sin Killer, and their marital relations are anything but blissful. In this installment, the hunting party slowly travels from its winter camp in the north, southward toward Santa Fe, on a journey filled with seduction, infidelity, short tempers, heat, thirst, Indian attacks and ever more lusty copulation. The sudden and unlikely arrival of two European journalists in a hot air balloon brings more tragic comedy to the prairie soap opera; other irritants include a smallpox epidemic, a mysterious Indian who cuts off the ears of sleeping white men and a murderously insane Mexican army captain. McMurtry's Europeans are all idiots, while the Indians and mountainmen, including Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick and Hugh Glass, are portrayed as honorable men. The Berrybender clan is so annoying one wishes they would all be massacred by the Indians, but enough of them survive to ensure there will be plenty of Berrybenders to kill off in the next installment. One can only hope. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. COMANCHE MOON Author: McMurtry, Larry ISBN: 0-684-80754-8 Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: November 6, 1997 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Amazon.com: In a book that serves as a both a sequel to Dead Man's Walk and a prequel to the beloved Lonesome Dove, McMurtry fills in the missing chapters in the Call and McCrae saga. It is a fantastic read, in many ways the best and gutsiest of the series. We join the Texas Rangers in their waning Indian-fighting years. The Comanches, after one last desperate raid led by the fearsome-but-aging Buffalo Hump, are almost defeated, though Buffalo Hump's son, Blue Duck, still terrorizes the relentless flow of settlers and lawmen. As Augustus and Woodrow follow one-eyed, tobacco-spitting Captain Inish Scull deep into a murderous madman's den in Mexico, their thoughts turn toward the end of their careers and the women they love in remarkably different ways back in Austin. What's amazing about McMurtry's West is that he sees beyond the romance. Neither his Indians, his cowboys, his gunslingers, nor his women act the way they did in either Zane Grey novels or John Wayne movies. Incredible beauty and lightning-quick violence are the bookends of his West, but it is the in-between moments of suffering and boredom where McMurtry shines. The suffering is poignant and heart-rending; the boredom tempered with doses of Augustus McCrae's sharp humor. Don't be surprised if you find yourself crying and laughing on the same page. From Library Journal: This prequel to the classic Lonesome Dove (LJ 7/85) follows Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae through their years as Texas Rangers as they create legends for themselves fighting the Comanche to open west Texas for settlement. For 15 years, the Rangers play cat-and-mouse games with Buffalo Hump, Kicking Wolf, and other chiefs as they pursue, attack, and retaliate their way through the Comanche wars. Ironically, Blue Duck, Gus McCrae's nemesis in Lonesome Dove, is Buffalo Hump's son, carrying on the tradition started by his father, even though father and son hated one another. Considered together, Dead Man's Walk (LJ 4/15/95), Comanche Moon, and Lonesome Dove create a monumental work that has few equals in current literature. Essential for all libraries. -Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale  Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Maximilion's Treasure Author: Roberts, J.R. Roberts, J.R. ISBN: 0-515-12534-2 Pages: 181 Format: Paperback Publisher: Jove Published: July 1, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.29 From the Publisher: The Gunsmith's friend, Pete, seems to draw trouble--and women--like a picnic draws ants. But when the mayor of a tiny Mexican town catches Pete with his daughter, all hell busts loose. The mayor ends up dead, the townsfolk form a lynching party, and Pete's running for his life. The Gunsmith? He's at the end of his rope... * #210 in the popular action Western series Synopsis: The Gunsmith's friend, Pete, seems to draw trouble--and women--like a picnic draws ants. But when the mayor of a tiny Mexican town catches Pete with his daughter, all hell busts loose. The mayor ends up dead, the townsfolk form a lynching party, and Pete's running for his life. The Gunsmith? He's at the end of his rope... Streets of Laredo Author: McMurtry, Larry ISBN: 0-671-79281-4 Pages: 589 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: August 1993 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 From Publishers Weekly: Those who have been waiting, through several comparatively disappointing novels, for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunner. Captain Woodrow Call, Gus Macrae's old partner from Lonesome Dove , is long in the tooth but still a legendary hunter of outlaws when he is called upon by the head of one of the railroads now crisscrossing frontier territory to bring to book a young Mexican train robber and killer, Joey Garza. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. Along the way he manages to slay Mox Mox, a fellow whose specialty is burning his victims alive, but with his arthritic fingers and failing eyes Call is no match for the alert, ice-cold Garza. How Pea Eye eventually gets his man, and how Call, terribly injured, slips into the shadows is the stuff of this sprawling but minutely detailed yarn. As before, McMurtry's empathic way with strong women--Lorena as well as Garza's gallant but despairing mother Maria--is as beguiling as is his way of bringing to life both dark-dyed villains and courtly heroes. As in some great 19th-century saga, the story has more than its share of improbable coincidences--people meeting fortuitously in thousands of square miles of empty territory, hearing vital news at appropriate and inappropriate moments--but these seem only mild contrivances to shape a story packed with action, terror, humor and pathos. Laredo is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable feat of reconstruction and sheer storytelling genius. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: In this sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove ( LJ 7/85), McMurtry once again uses the plainest of prose to tell a story that seems at once to be, for lack of any other word, a classic. Captain Call, now an old man, is hired by the railroad to hunt down a young train robber from Mexico named Joey Garza, who was raised by Apaches and who strikes targets well into Texas. The cast of characters includes a Yankee accountant sent to keep track of Call's expenses and Pea Eye, Call's longtime deputy, now settled down to a farming life with Lorena, a former prostitute who is the region's schoolteacher. As always, McMurtry somehow imbues even the least significant of his characters with individuality, and the notorious Judge Roy Bean and John Wesley Hardin make appearances. McMurtry unflinchingly explores the human capacity for evil and heroism in the face of it. Essential for all libraries. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Cowboys Author: Time-Life Books with text by William H. Forbis ISBN: unknown Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Time-Life Books Published: 1973 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 The Gunfighters Author: Time-Life Books Trachtman, Paul ISBN: unknown Pages: 238 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Time-Life Books Published: 1974 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Bibliography: p. 234-235. Includes index. The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories Author: Pronzini, Bill / Greenberg, Martin H. ISBN: 0-87795-439-9 Pages: 455 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Arbor House Published: 1982 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 Telegraph Days Author: McMurtry, Larry ISBN: 0-7394-7016-7 Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: May 30, 2006 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 From Publishers Weekly: McMurtry's latest skips through western lore with a wry smile. Marie Antoinette "Nellie" Courtright and her brother, Jackson, bereft of family after their Virginia clan dies off one by one, arrive in Rita Blanca in 1876, in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle, to remake themselves. Jackson is made a deputy sheriff and Nellie takes over the telegraph office. In short order, Jackson shoots down an entire gang of outlaws, and Nellie promptly writes it up to launch a lucrative literary career. Other adventures await: she becomes manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, boldly faces down Jesse James's attempt to rob her and witnesses the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. She becomes mayor of Rita Blanca, a mother of six and, later, friends with Lillian Gish and William B. Mayer. Beautiful and sexually insatiable, Nellie is a witty, sophisticated, accomplished, cunning, impudent and highly improbable woman--more than a match for any man she meets, which isn't saying much, since they're all idiots. She also is little more than a reworking of several previous McMurtry heroines, especially The Berrybender Narratives' Tasmin. This tale is contrived, episodic and lacks cohesion, and its constant comedy is self-conscious. But most readers won't be able to help cracking a smile over McMurtry's 38th book, as purposely over-the-top as an episode of South Park. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From The Washington Post's Book World: Easterners write literature; Southerners write literature; Westerners write Westerns. For years, that adage was a burr under the saddle of writers west of the Mississippi -- until Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove and moved the Western out of the genre category. With Telegraph Days, the prolific Texas writer of fiction and nonfiction, who also won an Academy Award for the script of "Brokeback Mountain," has done a bit of backsliding. Telegraph Days is no Pulitzer contender, but it's still a darn good read: an entertaining spoof about the Wild West that brings alive the romance of outlaws, gunfighters and shootouts. McMurtry parts with the real West right there, of course. Dying in the West was no more romantic than dying anywhere else. The real West was a sober place, peopled by fortune hunters, psychopaths, charlatans and a few decent people. But how much fun is that? In Telegraph Days, McMurtry puts aside the history of greed and conquest to recreate the West of the dime novels and Wild West shows, the land of bigger-than-life characters -- an era more Cat Ballou than Clint Eastwood. The heroine is Nellie Courtright, a very forward young lady -- actually, a bit of a slut. (She's already canoodled with Wild Bill Hickok and George Custer.) In her own words, she's "twenty-two, kissable, and of an independent disposition." Nellie and her brother Jackson, 17, are orphaned after their father "hung himself to death." This is not an introspective book, so we're not sure why their father committed suicide, but the deaths of a wife, six children and various servants in the days since they all left Virginia for a better life in the Cimarron country might have had something to do with it. Besides, death is no stranger in Texas. When a neighbor hears of their father's demise, he says, "Damnit! I expect you'd welcome breakfast." The orphans spend little time mourning. Instead, they rush off to the nearest town, Rita Blanca, where Nellie convinces the sheriff, one of her paramours, to make her brother a deputy. Nellie takes over the telegraph office. Jackson has barely strapped on his gun before the six dreaded Yazee brothers ride into town, murder the sheriff and are about to club Nellie and Jackson. When Nellie commands her brother to shoot, he fires six bullets, each one striking the heart of a Yazee. "That makes you the biggest hero in the whole West!" Nellie tells him. Journalists and others, including Buffalo Bill Cody, descend on Rita Blanca to interview the boy-hero. The Hanging at Leadville Author: Judd, Cameron ISBN: 0-553-28846-6 Pages: 240 Format: Paperback Publisher: Domain Published: September 1, 1991 Condition: Price: USD $1.29 Book Description: With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd is one of today's foremost authors of the American West. Here Judd pens a compelling historical novel with the elements of mystery, ghost story, and Western woven brilliantly together. Welcome to Leadville. A melting pot of Irish and Swedes, steelworkers and scam artists. Growing faster than it can bear, tainted by the soot of smelters and the smell of whiskey, Leadville is the town where two reporters carrying pencils, pads and six-guns will meet their match. Brady Kenton, America's foremost traveling reporter, has come to the violent mining town to sniff out a story for Gunnison's Illustrated American. Alex Gunnison, son of the famous publisher, comes along for the ride, as Kenton's assistant and to keep the trouble-seeking journalist out of harm's way. But with a dead body found and lost, and an innocent boy running from a killer, the two men have more than a story on their hands. They're searching for a Civil War criminal who may be alive and well in Leadville-and up to his killing ways again... Edge #14: Tiger's Gold Author: Gillman, George G. ISBN: 1-55817-331-5 Pages: 148 Format: Paperback Publisher: Pinnacle Published: April 1, 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Cheyenne #1: Arrow Keeper Author: Cole, Judd ISBN: 0-8439-3312-7 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Leisure Books Published: September 1992 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Raised among white settlers on the Wyoming frontier, Matthew Hanchon grows up to despise his adopted people, who call him a savage, and flees into the wilderness to seek his own people. Original. Ryder #8: Blood Vengeance Author: Weston, Cole ISBN: 0-8041-0053-5 Pages: 218 Format: Paperback Publisher: Ivy Books Published: September 12, 1987 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Trailsman #142: Golden Bullets Author: Sharpe, Jon ISBN: 0-451-17753-3 Pages: 176 Format: Paperback Publisher: Signet Published: October 1, 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Cheyenne #2: Death Chant Author: Cole, Judd ISBN: 0-8439-3337-2 Pages: 176 Format: Paperback Publisher: Leisure Books Published: November 1992 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Feared and despised by settlers for his native American heritage, a Cheyenne returns to his people, but he must prove his loyalty to them before they will accept him as one of their own. Original. The Gunsmith #207: Kansas City Killing Author: Roberts, J.R. ISBN: 0-515-12486-9 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Jove Published: April 1, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  From the Publisher: A store featuring racy undergarments in its window is causing a scandal in Kansas City--and raising the blood pressure of a few local citizens. Especially businessman James Wonderly, who is determined to buy it out--with money, bribes, or bullets. It's up to the Gunsmith to cut the lowlife down to size--one way or another. The Gunsmith #208: The Last Bounty Author: Roberts, J.R. ISBN: 0-515-12512-1 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Jove Published: May 1, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  From the Publisher: When Clint Adams learns that his old mentor has cancer, he agrees to grant the dying man's last wish, and help bring in the one outlaw his mentor never could catch. But is the old man's last request his dying wish or a death wish for Adams? Cheyenne #8: War Party Author: Cole, Judd ISBN: 0-8439-3546-4 Pages: 174 Format: Paperback Publisher: Leisure Books Published: December 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Touch the Sky, a native American raised among frontier settlers, returns to his tribe, determined to lead them to their greatest victory against rival tribes. Original. Gunn #27: Two for the Money Author: Sherman, J. ISBN: 0-8217-1978-5 Pages: 204 Format: Paperback Publisher: Zebra Published: January 1, 1987 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Wild Bill: Black Hills Hellhole Author: Cole, Judd ISBN: 0-8439-4770-5 Pages: 168 Format: Paperback Publisher: Leisure Books Published: September 2000 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Description: The Pinkerton Agency sends Wild Bill Hickok to Deadwood, South Dakota, to investigate reports of theft at a particularly dangerous mine. The mine is guarded by vicious Regulators, who have already killed three Pinkerton men. Bill is determined not to be the fourth. The Gunsmith #35: The Bounty Women Author: Roberts, J. R. ISBN: 0-441-30914-3 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Ace Books Published: December 1984 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Longarm #322: Longarm and the Missing Mistress Author: Evans, Tabor ISBN: 0-515-14011-2 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Jove Published: August 30, 2005 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Book Description: Heavenly songbird Miss Claire needs U.S. Marshal Custis Long to keep her alive but leaves him singing the blues when she stages her own murder--and disappears. The Gunsmith #127: Ghost Town Author: Roberts, J.R. ISBN: 0-515-10882-0 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Jove Published: July 1, 1992 Condition: Price: USD $1.29  Book Description: Chasing the trial of a suspicious unsigned letter, The Gunsmith winds up in a dusty eyesore known as Patience, Oklahoma. This faceless enemy from the Gunsmith's past wants Clint scared stiff first and stone dead second. About the Author: J. R. Roberts, aka Bob Randisi is the author of the entire The Gunsmith series. He has written over 70 paperback Westerns as well as many mystery and horror titles. BUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKS Buy4LessBooks Free Classified Ads