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This 1914 novel of frontier romance by "the greatest Western writer of all time" was the basis for the classic film starring Victor Jory (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country).
Feeling constrained by her high-society life back east, Madeline Hammond decides to join her brother Alfred at his cattle ranch in El Cajon, New Mexico. But she gets a rude introduction to frontier living when she encounters a drunken cowboy named Gene Stewart. Though...
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Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films. He rivaled Edgar Wallace and Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors...
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The son of a German Farmer in Washington state during WWI, decides to join the Army to fight the Germans and "kill" the German part of his heritage. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer, and then has to protect her and himself from a worldwide labor organisation that is wreaking havoc all over the country to cause problems with the war effort....
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The Third Western Megapack collects 21 more great tales of the Old West, with cowboys and conmen, outlaws and gunslingers, as well as lawmen and saloon gals! Included are:
ADVERTISED IN ADVANCE, by Johnston McCulley
THERE AIN'T NO MEN IN HEAVEN, by Gary Lovisi
MUSTANG BREED, by Alan LeMay
DESERT VENUS, by Lonni Lees
BAD BLOOD AT DRY ROCK, by Arlette Lees
LADY SHERIFF SEES RED! by Barbara L. Bonham
THE SECRET CACHE, by E. C. Brill
BOOTHILL...
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From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty...
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The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War. Designed by the firm of Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, or Hanomag, production ran to over 15,000 vehicles and it was eventually built as twenty-three separate variants serving as not only a personnel carrier, but also a command vehicle, mobile rocket launcher, armored ambulance and bridge-layer.
In his first book in the LandCraft...
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Jonah Hex is the baddest bounty hunter in the Old West...but Hex isn't in the Old West anymore. Now he's found himself transported to modern-day Gotham City, and this brave new world and the tough old gunslinger do not agree with each other. Mistaken for a lunatic and locked up in Arkham Asylum, Hex will do anything to escape, including kidnapping Dr. Arkham, stealing a car and hitting the open road. Soon, Hex's odyssey finds him crossing paths with...
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The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.
These two...
14) Whiskey Creek
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Wedding bells are in the future for Darby Buckingham, the West's hardest hitting, toughest fighting, fastest thinking, hero. But when his fiancée, Dolly Beavers, fails to show for their announced wedding, he realizes something is wrong and strikes out for Reno convinced she must be a victim of foul play.
17) Stairs of sand
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First published in 1928, now public domain. The beautiful, young, and headstrong Ruth Virey gets herself in trouble with her fiery temper and impulsive ways. Willing to risk anything to escape her life at a "barren desert water-hole," she finds herself having jumped from the frying pan into the fire until Adam Wansfell, her husband's brother and murderer, shows up and professes his love for her. Excitement rises to a smashing climax when, in their...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing, exploration,...
19) To the last man
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Based on a true story of Northern Arizona's notorious Hashknife gang, Zane Grey's classic 1921 western novel tells the tale of Jean Isbel, a woodsman hailing from Oregon. Caught in a bitter feud between the Isbels and the cattle-rustling Jorths, Jean is dragged into a generations-long clash between the two families, both of whom have sworn to fight until no man on the other side is left standing. Amidst it all, Jean finds himself hopelessly in love...
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In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all-time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest triggerman in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his...
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