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For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Thorndike Press/Gale, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in western fiction. Travel back in time with these fourteen new stories that explore the individual courage and strength the tumultuous American frontier required. These stories are written by award-winning authors and the most exciting new voices in historical fiction. Fortitude and...

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Wild west hijinks continue in the eighth installment of the hysterical and historical adventures of an unlikely hero.H.H. Lomax once again finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when, wrongfully accused of robbing a bank, he's arrested and jailed in a town vying for a stop on the approaching Texas & Pacific Railroad.When local officials can't afford to pay for a trial, a harebrained scheme is concocted to get rid of Lomax without s...

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Fleeing his ruined fortunes, Blake Corley agrees to drive the Durango stagecoach out of town, carrying a cargo of two dead railroad workers killed in a holdup, a prostitute gone straight, and a black laborer"--

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FAME AND FORTUNE IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS... BUT POOR DECISIONS AND A TOUCH OF BAD LUCK ALWAYS STAND IN THE WAY.Accused of cheating at cards on a Southern Pacific passenger train in far West Texas, H.H. Lomax is kicked off the train and finds himself at the mercy of the unpredictable justice of Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself "Law West of the Pecos." After being fined of all his money, married, and divorced by the judge in a ma...

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Blanca's white fur marks her as different. In a sea of dark brown hides, she always stands out, and other young buffalo treat her cruelly because of it. Even her one trusted friend, Battus, disappears from her life. Blanca just wants to be normal-to love and be loved. But as settlers take over Texas and slaughter whole herds of buffalo, her destiny begins to unfold. The Comanche Indians revere Blanca as a magical creature. The fate of all buff...

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WEALTH AND FAME IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS…HIS OWN BAD LUCK IS WHAT STANDS IN HIS WAY.Swindled out of a mining fortune in Colorado and blamed for an ensuing murder, H.H. Lomax must finally face up to his past two decades in Skagway, Alaska. Along the way, he encounters legendary madam Mattie Silks, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, novelist Jack London, and a talking dog.To survive his previous missteps and avoid a prison sentence for th...

As new empty-nesters Harriet and Preston next looked forward to becoming grandparents. Their journey to assuming the names of Mema and P-Pa, however, took a tragic and unexpected turn.The Gulag P-Pa Diaries tells a bittersweet story of anticipation, loss and sorrow counterbalanced with hope, faith and a butterfly on the path to grandparenthood.Told with poignancy and humor, the narrative triumphs over tragedy by chronicling The Grands' misadve...