?Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color.” ?BooklistYoung Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Prat
Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color.”BooklistBoggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past.” Publishers WeeklyAgainst t
Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color.”BooklistBoggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past.”Publishers WeeklyAfter visi
When her beloved 18th-century South Carolina community is overrun by violence, 16-year-old Emily Stewart struggles with mixed feelings after her tavern-keeper father and his friends form an illegal vi
Boggs, an author of westerns, evaluates perceptions of the outlaw in this volume, beginning with a brief life of Billy, who himself had a brief life (1859-1881). Boggs then examines Billy's contributi
On September 7, 1876, the James-Younger gang attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, with disastrous consequences. In a unique, compelling approach, author Johnny D. Boggs s
From a Spur Award-winning author comes a thrilling tale of faked deaths, runaway slaves, and revenge amid the Civil War.The only way to escape the purgatory that is the Florence Stockade is to die, so
His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was the Comanche name given him by his father. But the Pale Eyes gave him a new name, Daniel Killstraight, and that was the name by which he was
After a priest is lynched, gunfighter Britton Wade is the only one left who can guarantee justice!In Santa Fe, Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for the lynching of a priest. Stil
FIGHT OR DIEFor Sergeant Gil Metairie and other Confederate prisoners during the War Between the States, life in captivity was more dangerous than fighting in the front lines. Every day brought more c
In this Spur Award-winning novel, acclaimed author Johnny D. Boggs deftly combines three American icons: the Old West, the Civil War and baseball. Win MacNaughton had always lived for the game--until
Back in his prime, Lin Garrett was a legend as a lawman. The story of how he captured outlaw Ollie Sinclair was a favorite in Arizona Territory. But Lin hung up his badge long ago and now spends his
Caleb Hart was looking forward to a grand adventure on his uncle's ranch, 1200 miles from home and well beyond the eyes of his watchful parents. He knew nothing about the life of a cowboy, but reckone
This illustrated filmography analyzes the plots and players of the more than forty motion pictures about the legendary Missouri outlaw Jesse James (1847-1882), from the silent era to the 21st century.
The life of a cowboy in the late nineteenth century was far from romantic and glorious. Cowboys made about a dollar a day and worked from sunup to sundown in the broiling sun and biting cold. But that
"Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West." --The ShootistRed River is one of the greatest westerns ever told, a novel that that became the classic John Wa
"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache h
THE STUFF OF LEGENDSYoung Coady Mcllvain spends his days reading about the heroic exploits of the legendary heroes of the West, especially the glorious Buffalo Bill Cody. The harsh reality of frontier
A HARD TRAIL AHEADSixteen-year-old orphan Tyrell Breen means to become a cowboy, just like the ones he's read about in the half-dime novels, so he sets out for San Antonio, where his Uncle Cliff has a
Dime novels had given Ben Cameron a legendary reputation as The Scottish Gun. A Texas Ranger lauded by Buffalo Bill Cody, a Pinkerton agent, a hired assassin—Cameron had supposedly done it all. But re
William Clarke Quantrill was a hated name during the War Between the States by the Federals of the Union Army as well as by many non-combatants. Even the high command of the Confederacy distrusted him
Bobby Randow is a professional gambler suffering from a rare form of amnesia. He boards the Mittie Stephens not knowing who he is or what he is doing there. Apolline Rainer, a former brothel owner, ho
Their names had become legendary: Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Texas Jack Omohundro. None of them had any stage experience, but that didn't stop Cody from forming the Buffalo Bill Combination.
Micah Bishop is busted out of jail by a gun-toting nun who wants him to travel with her into the most lawless part of New Mexico Territory, in order to give some of her fellow nuns a proper burial--an
Helping Whip Watson hand-deliver two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, Micah Bishop soon discovers that Whip has some killer competition in the form of a woman named Candy who is determi
