Western Fiction

BLACKFEET INDIAN STORIES
by
George Bird Grinnell PDF Format

The Wolf Man * KUT-O-YIS', The Blood Boy * The First Medicine Lodge * The Dog and the Root Digger * The Camp of the Ghosts * The Buffalo Stone * How the Thunder Pipe Came * Cold Maker's Medicine * The All Comrades Societies * The Bulls Society * Two Fast Runners * The Buffalo-Painted Lodges * MIKA'PI--Red Old Man * Red Robe's Dream * The Blackfeet Creation * Old Man Stories * and much more....

THE DEERSLAYER
by
James Fenimore Cooper
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Water was brought and administered to the sufferer; the first he had tasted in hours of physical anquish. It had the double effect of clearing his throat and of momentarily reviving his sinking system. His eyes opened with that anxious, distended gaze which is apt to accompany the passage of a soul surprised by death, and he seemed disposed to speak....

THE PIONEERS
by
James Fenimore Cooper

...At the same instant that she heard this unexpected report, the buck sprang from the snow to a great height in the air, and directly a second discharge, similar in sound to the first, followed, when the animal came to the earth, failing head long and rolling over on the crust with its own velocity. A loud shout was given by the unseen marksman, and a couple of men instantly appeared from behind the trunks of two of the pines....

THE LAST TRAIL
by
Zane Grey
201 Pages ~ PDF Format

Colonel Zane silently greeted his brother with an iron grip of the hand which was more expressive than words. No unusual sight was it to see the borderman wet, ragged, bloody, worn with long marches, hollow-eyed and gloomy; yet he had never before presented such an appearance at Fort Henry. Betty ran forward, and, though she clasped his arm, shrank back. There was that in the borderman's presence to cause fear......

RAINBOW TRAIL
by
Zane Grey
252 pages ~ PDF Format

....It was a long, toilsome climb up that yielding, dragging ascent, and he had already been lame and tired. By the time he had put his horse away twilight was everywhere except in the west. The Indian girl left her pony in the corral and came like a shadow toward the house....

ALCATRAZ
by Max Brand
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OVER PARADISE RIDGE
A Romance
by
Marie Thompson Daviese
95 pages ~ PDF Format

Nobody knows what starts the sap along the twigs of a very young tender, and green woman's nature. In my case it was Samuel Foster Crittenden....I do hope Sam will not have to suffer consequences, but I can't help it if he does. What's born in us is not our fault.....

More Max Brand

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The Seventh Man ....

Gunman's Reckoning  

Black Jack.......

AN APACHE PRINCESS
A Tale of the Indian Frontier
by
General Charles King
184 Pages ~ PDF Format

....Not a hostile shot had been fired in the surrounding mountains for at least six months, so nobody felt the least alarm, and many only lanquid interest, when the white-coated officers reported the results of sunset roll-call and inspection, and, saluting Major Plume, the captain of "C" Troop announced in tones he meant should be heard along the row: "Mr. Blakely, sir, is absent!"

Riders of the Purple Sage
by
Zane Grey
in PDF Format

Venters dreaded the night's vigil. At night his mind was active, and this time he had to watch and think and feel beside a dying girl whom he had all but murdered. A thousand excuses he invented for himself, yet not one made any difference in his act or his self-reproach.

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER
by
Zane Grey
260 Pages ~ PDF Format

Columbine also knew each call and to which cowboy it belonged. They sang and yelled and swore, but it was all music to her. Here and there along the slope, where the aspen groves clustered, a horse would flash across an open space; the dust would fly, and a cowboy would peal out a lusty yell that rang along the slope and echoed under the bluff and lingered long after the daring rider has vanished in the steep thickets....

TO THE LAST MAN
by
Zane Grey
Text Document

Sprague took a black pipe out of his vest pocket and began rimming the bowl with his fingers. The glance he bent on Ellen was thoughtful and
earnest, and so kind that she feared it was pity. Ellen suddenly burned for news from the village.

TALES OF LONELY TRAILS
by
Zane Grey
290 Pages ~ PDF Format

It was a wild place we were approaching. I saw pinon patches under the circled walls. I ceased to feel the dry wind in my face. We were already in the lee of a wall. I saw the rock squirrels scampering to their holes. Then the Indians disappeared between two rounded corners of the cliff......

THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN
by
Zane Grey
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The Mormons were up and doing with the dawn. They were stalwart men, rather silent, and
all workers. It was interesting to see them pack for the day's journey. They traveled with wagons and mules, in the most primitive way, which Jones assured me was exactly as their fathers had crossed the plains fifty years before, on the trail
to Utah.

THE DAUGHTER OF THE SIOUX
A Tale of the Indian Frontier
by
General Charles King
167 Pages ~ PDF Format

The major commanding looked up from the morning report and surveyed the post adjutant with something of perturbation, if not annoyance, in his firm, gray eyes. For the fourth time that week had Lieutenant Field requested permission to be absent for several hours. The major knew just why the junior wished to go and where. The major knew just why he wished him not to go......

THE VIRGINIAN,
HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS
by
Owen Wister
Text Document

All interest settled now upon the Virginian. He was coming with his man and his gunny sack, and the gunny sack hung from his shoulder heavily, as a full sack should. He took no notice of the gathering, but sat down and partly emptied the sack. "There," said he, very businesslike, to his assistant, "that's all we'll want. I think you'll find a ready market for the balance."