Frank Carlson Library

Easterner Jack Hare comes west to improve his health, but is mistaken for a cattleman's spy by outlaws. He is saved from certain death by Mormon rancher August Naab and taken into Naab's family. Hare thrives working hard outdoors and herding sheep. He falls in love with half-Navajo herder Mescal, but she is pledged to be second wife to Naab's son Snap, who is an ill-tempered drunk. How Hare solves this conflict and helps save Naab's cattle and ranch...

Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there at the dawn of the century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes, and windstorms provide authentic color. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that prepare Ralph to take his father's place. The first volume of Moody's little Britches series, this time-tested favorite...

"When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems--and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into...

Robbers' Roost is the perfect hideout - a box canyon in no-man's land. But the Heeseman mob trails the Hays gang to The Roost and pins them under a murderous crossfire. Only one man and a kidnapped woman, the sister of a rich English rancher, survive, as well as a fortune of hard cash.

A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.

"Rancher and military veteran J.P. McCall loves simple pleasures. The satisfaction of working his family's land. The freedom to come and go as he pleases. But ever since his two closest friends have married and started families of their own, J.P. realizes what he's been missing. He's known plenty of women, but now he craves finding The One. And then Sara Worth comes crashing back into his life. She's his buddy's sister, the woman who was always out...

""Addictive. Highly recommended!"-Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas. Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary. 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted...

Pablo Guerrero was the most feared outlaw bandito on the Arizona border. So, when penniless cowman Pat Roper found himself gifted with Pablo's huge Two Block range after saving the bandit's life, he couldn't figure whether this was lucky or unlucky. The adjoining ranch belonged to Wig Murphy and as he and Pablo were enemies, Pat could be in for trouble.