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Patrick Dearen
In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift, Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a…
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Spur Award-Winning Author
WINNER OF THE ELMER KELTON AWARD For nineteen years, Wash Baker has been haunted by firing into the night at what he thought was a grizzly, only…
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First published in 1988, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier was acclaimed by reviewers as superb , significant , and utterly delightful . In this revised edition, Patrick Dearen draws…
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Presents a collection of stories that spring from the bedrock shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is Texas heritage.
In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas…
A Spur Award finalist, When Cowboys Die has been acclaimed as ‘spellbinding’ and ‘an instant classic.’ This new volume, the first print edition in twenty-five years, includes a preface and…
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Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed her. Now, he…
Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and…
Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon him-the likes of which he…
2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no…
This chase novel, set in 1886 along the driest stretch of any trail in the West, takes the reader deep inside four troubled characters on a collision course for Horsehead…
For two men–one white, one black–the great cattle drift of 1884-1885 in Texas will be a search for redemption –
Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick Dearen
* ELMER KELTON AWARD FOR FICTION, ACADEMY OF WESTERN ARTISTS
* WILL ROGERS BRONZE MEDALLION AWARD FOR WESTERN FICTION
* FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD FOR BEST…
Spur Award-winning author. Author of Dead Man’s Boot, Winner of the 2017 Elmer Kelton Award for Fiction and the Will Rogers Brnze Medallion Award for Western Fiction –Cover.
By the winner of the Spur Award of Western Writers of America
It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no…
In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as the cowboy’s paradise. And the cowboys who worked in and around the river…
Author Patrick Dearen brings the reckless and risky adventures of real cowboys to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in the West before 1932 as…
Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. His uncle is driving a cattle herd across Texas, and…
The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin…
2022 Elmer Kelton Award Winner
Fast-paced, gripping, and exciting … An unusual but interesting concept for a western story. -Historical Novel Society.
In 1870, Jake…
A story that could have come out of today's headlines, this revised edition of the acclaimed novel explores a Mexican national's desperate attempt to provide for his…
A deep-space archaeological dig shrouded in mystery . . . Clues to the location of a legendary power in the reaches of the galaxy…
BY THE WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and…
This provocative novel, by a finalist for the Spur Award of Western Writers of America, may well challenge your perspective on life.
Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families’ farms in Central Texas in 1934. It’s the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and…
This first book-length study of the entire Pecos traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Patrick Dearen, who has…
It's 1867 and eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin are headed across Texas on a wagon train. But the trail is full of danger. A Comanche war party is on…
For nineteen years, Wash Baker has been haunted by firing into the night at what he thought was a grizzly, only to kill his young son and narrowly miss a…
Owned/controlled more than 1 million acres in West Texas
Patrick Dearen,Alan McCuller
The legend of lost Spanish treasure hidden somewhere in the Chisos mountains lures the two boys, who are determined to find it. Along the way they find more than they…
