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John D Nesbitt
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From the award-winning author of Castle Butte comes a young adult western adventure of courage, friendship, and justice.
Join Tommy Reeves and Red Armstrong, two daring ranch hands, as they…
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In the vast expanse of Wyoming's rugged terrain, one man's aspirations for his future collide with an unexpected twist of fate.
Rising from a humble ranch hand to a promising…
Betrayal lurks in every shadow...
When cattle start disappearing under suspicious circumstances at the Crown Butte ranch in Wyoming, top hand Elwood Lawrence suspects an inside job. But before he…
Justice is waiting to be unearthed...
Jim Fontaine's tranquility shatters when saloon girl Emma Winterborne is found dead on his land in Redwillow. Determined to uncover the truth, he navigates…
From the award-winning author John D. Nesbitt comes a thrilling young adult western adventure through the rugged terrain of Castle Butte.
Alden Clare is a seventeen-year-old burdened with responsibility. In…
In a town where indifference and disbelief cloud the pursuit of justice, one cowboy vows to right their wrongs.
Taking up work at the Little Six Ranch in Winsome, Wyoming…
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These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls…
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Jackson Lowry, John D Nesbitt, Preston Lewis
Elwood Lawrence–top hand at the Crown Butte ranch–tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops…
A Spur Award-Winning Author A stranger named Dunbar comes to Cantera and shows interest in the Frenchman’s Quarry and the death of the owner’s son twenty years earlier. Dunbar also…
A Booklist Best Mystery 2016 Tommy Reeves and his pal Red Armstrong make friends with the Mexican people who live near the ranch where Tommy and Red work. The boys…
Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton’s ranch, not suspecting that he will become embroiled in a conflict involving a beautiful woman…
In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family’s foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother’s family, and helping the…
Trouble's brewing.Big trouble. A couple of the big ranchers in the area have been pushing around the smaller ones, bullying them, and a few of the smaller ranchers aren't going…
Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures he might as well accept. The…
Lane Weller is a man who is looking for something bigger than himself to believe in. He finds it with Cora McGavin, a woman who is also looking for something…
Out looking for stray horses in the wilds of Wyoming, Braden doesn’t expect trouble–but trouble finds him. When he hears about a powerful rancher doing something pretty low and getting…
Nesbitt, who has delivered more than 18 historic Western novels, now turns his hand to a contemporary Western story that sets intriguing characters against a background of the wildlife and…
This collection contains seven works of fiction ranging in length from short story to novella. The stories take place in rural California from 1964 to 1970, and they continue the…
This is a book of hard-crafted fiction set in the contemporary West, stories about life and love, loss and death, with a few laughs along the way. In selections such…
TWO NOVELLAS
Dead for the Last Time
In Dead for the Last Time, Larry Sterne is a free-spirited young fellow who comes back to his home town after his first…
When Jimmy Clevis sees a pretty woman hurrying down the dusty street of a Wyoming town, he senses she’s in some kind of trouble. But helping Helen is no simple…
A Jimmy Clevis Novel
Jimmy Clevis is out of work and needs some money. So when an old man named Tull asks him to do a quick job for him…
A search for a missing man leads Jimmy Clevis to the town of Raven Springs-and a mysterious inn that was the last stop for too many missing people.
Travis Quinn doesn’t have much luck picking friends. First, a friend gets him fired from a ranch. Then he heads down the Powder River, meeting another -friend- who puts in…
Pete Garnett hadn’t planned on shooting anybody. But when he spotted the two hardcases threatening a helpless girl, he didn’t have much choice … and they fired first. He was…
Owen Felver was on his way from the Wolf River country to the Laramie Range, hoping to earn summer wages, when he stopped off in Cameron, Wyoming. As a fellow…
On their way to recover vital medication, the Alpha Triad warriors must battle through warring factions of a long-dead city populated by deformed creatures that hunger for human flesh.
Vance Coolidge didn’t know what he was getting into when he agreed to help two men track down the man who killed their brother.
Monte Casteel hadn’t planned on staying long when he rode into the small Wyoming town of Eagle Spring. He was just a ranch hand with no work between seasons. But…
Antelope Sky: Stories of the Modern West
Here is a world of sky and sage, dust and rain, horses and saddles, pickups and gun racks-where the wild roses bloom in…
Stories of a Golden West
Somewhere between John Steinbeck and Merle Haggard, these short stories are about people who work in the fields, sleep in cars and bunkhouses, and sort…
If you have grown weary of SEX and VIOLENCE– If you feel you have overdosed with accounts of TAWDRY LUST, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, and BRUTAL MURDERS– Try a refreshing change. Sip…
Out on a ranch in the foothills, Jim Lander is trying to get his life in order. He’s trying to put his divorce behind him so he can develop a…
A novel of the contemporary American West, Keep the Wind in Your Face takes place in the big outdoors. It features men and women, horses and big-game hunting, and a…
Blue Is Not the Word Rick Lemoore is drinking beer when he recognizes a backhoe operator named Tragg Tustin, who was said to have left town years earlier with Lynette…
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Winsome on the plains of Wyoming in the 1890’s. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to…
Men and women, guns and horses, tough situations and no easy solutions-these are the features of a dozen new stories by one of the most acclaimed writers of Western fiction…
