The vast, semi-arid grasslands of the southern Great Plains could be dominated by hunters and warriors on horseback. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Comanches, often referred to as “lords of the Plains,” were the single most powerful military force in the region, to the frustration of both the Mexican and U.S. governments. In this engrossing chronicle, award-winning journalist Gwynne traces the rise of the Comanche people from...

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...

Utah Blaine was a fighting man fast with a gun. He had to face the greedy ranchers of Red Creek who were willing to destroy anyone to get at his friend's rich land.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
"It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly

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A nineteen-year-old cattle driver, who has his eye on a girl with a very protective father, is murdered.

In his own modest way, Hank the Cowdog recounts how he barely escaped crazy Slim and his tail-eating vacuum sweeper and single-handedly saved the ranch from a huge catastrophe.

Milo Talon hunts a man who has betrayed a trust with his kin, the Sacketts and the Talons.