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Matthew P Mayo
Gathered for the first time, this robust collection of eighteen frontier tales, Half a Pig (and Other Stories of the West), from Spur and Wrangler Award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo…
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Dusty Richards, Matthew P Mayo
Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the…
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Dilly is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch…
Originally published: Cherry Weiner Literary Agency, 2016.
Matthew P. Mayo
Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good … but big Rafe Barr stews…
2018 SPUR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST WESTERN YOUNG ADULT FICTION
2018 WESTERN HERITAGE WRANGLER AWARD WINNER FOR OUTSTANDING WESTERN NOVEL
2018 PEACEMAKER AWARD WINNER FOR BEST WESTERN YOUNG ADULT FICTION
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1875-1885 high-country train wreck. Mountain man Maple Jack and Roamer trail the killers in a blizzard –
A high-country train trek turns into a blizzard-bound trainwreck-from-hell for Roamer as a gang of gunmen run roughshod on the rails. They blow the safe, abscond with a mysterious young…
"One man's quest to lose himself in the West." Roamer's long-planned winter snowshoe trek to the high, lonesome peaks of the Bitterroots takes a hard turn when the big loner…
Saddle up and enjoy these 14 new tales of hot lead, cold hearts, and more leather-slapping action, adventure, and edge-of-the-seat danger than you could ever hope to find on either…
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Wrangler Award Winning Author
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Cookie McGee finds his trail pard, Rafe Barr, head of THE OUTFIT, near death…
GREAT FOR FANS OF GARY PAULSEN’S SURVIVAL STORIES AND READERS WHO ENJOYED THE REVENANT BY MICHAEL PUNKEIn autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her…
DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch…
This lively and entertaining book tells the stories of con artists, gamblers, swindlers, and other nefarious characters who stampeded west in the quest to make money off the men and…
Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, offers 50 tales of hard-bitten sourdoughs, petty bandits, outright outlaws, guilt-free gunmen, and…
The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary-if misunderstood-thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured…
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty…
Myths and Mysteries of New Hampshire reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Granite State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and…
From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, mysteries, and ghosts that are sire to send a chill down any spine. Haunted…
Takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region’s history and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
Matthew P. Mayo,Jennifer Smith-Mayo
The state of New Hampshire is illustrated through gorgeous photographs and evocative essays, showcasing 50 iconic places, events, inventions, foods, and objects from the Granite State.
INVIGORATING PASSAGES is the seventh volume in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, compiling the best fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and interviews from the travel-themed literary magazine Lowestoft Chronicle.
Matthew P. Mayo,Ralph Compton
A struggling rancher from Texas learns that his herd of cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they’re driven to Montana.
Brian Middleton left his father’s ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he’s returned to claim the land his late father left him–and learns the hard way…
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
A rancher fights to save the woman he loves in this Ralph Compton western…
Rancher Ty Farraday’s hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers…
Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks. While Grady Haskell sees something of himself…
Michael Zimmer,Johnny D Boggs,Larry D Sweazy,Matthew P Mayo
Johnny D Boggs,John D Nesbitt,Larry D Sweazy,Matthew P Mayo
The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features fourteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism…
Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. We invite you to journey westward with us in this collection of twenty true–and seldom-told–tales of the American West…
