Fort Smith - Edge of the Indian Territories A last stop for Outlaws, Desperados and Bandits who made the lawless city a land of terror. A young Judge Isaac Parker is assigned to the Western District by President Ulysses Grant with a mission. Clean it up to make way for the St. Louis – San Francisco railroad. The train is coming, civilization on its heels and its Parker’s job to prepare the border whether it’s ready or not. Against the corrupt Garrison leader. The Saloon Owner. The gangs of bad men that use the tiny town as a base of operations to loot, pillage and plunder. Parker’s got help. A crusty Marshal. A freed slave turned tracker in the territories and a wide-eyed idealist turned deputy who only wants a safe place to raise his family. It won’t be easy. Work on the frontier never is. Judge Parker’s got a fight on his hands and if he has to hang every last bad man in the land to make America safe, he will. Unless they get him first. Download this gripping tale of the old west that will shoot your socks off. Fall in love with the Marshal, root for Rufus and learn why they called Judge Parker the Swinging Judge. AUTHOR’S NOTE: I grew up on Westerns. My grandfather didn’t enjoy them, he was more of a NASCAR fan, but my grandmother did. She was industrious, as a lot of southern women who grew up in the depression era were. I remember a Sunday afternoon matinee on one of the three networks they got on their television that showed a Western each week. After church, she would take my brother and I to Big Chef for burgers and fries, and then back to her house for homemade chocolate pie or some other treat. Then we’d sit on the couch to watch a movie at 2:00. Even as she watched, she was busy knitting an afghan or sewing a quilt, or shelling peas from her garden. In the fall and winter, we would spend an hour gathering pecans from their six pecan trees, and she would shell them while we watched the westerns. Her favorite was Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and when it came on, she would roast the pecans with sugar and butter so we had special treats to snack on during the movie.

This carefully edited collection of adventure novels & western classics has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Owen Wister is an American writer and "father" of western fiction. When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the novel The Virginian, set in the Wild West. It describes the life of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. It is also widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel. Table of Contents: Lin McLean The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Red Man and White Red Man and White Little Big Horn Medicine Specimen Jones The Serenade At Siskiyuo The General's Bluff Salvation Gap The Second Missouri Compromise La Tinaja Bonita A Pilgrim on the Gila The Jimmyjohn Boss A Kinsman of Red Cloud Sharon's Choice Napoleon Shave-Tail Twenty Minutes for Refreshments The Promised Land Hank's Woman Padre Ignacio: or, the Song of Temptation

This carefully crafted ebook: “WESTERN CLASSICS Boxed Set - 12 Novels in One Volume” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: The Two-Gun Man The Coming of the Law The Trail to Yesterday The Boss of the Lazy Y The Range Boss “Firebrand” Trevison The Ranchman The Trail Horde “Beau” Rand “Drag” Harlan Square Deal Sanderson West! Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) was a prolific American author of western novels. He wrote his westerns from the experience of living on his uncle's ranch in New Mexico. Seltzer's best works include The Two-Gun Man, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Drag Harlan and West. Many of his novels were turned into Hollywood movies.

Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.

"Beau" Rand – Amos Seddon has been angry at Beaudry Rand for a long time, and he has passed that hatred on his daughter Eleanor, but when she meets the fellow of the certain name, he turns out to be quite the opposite of what she has been told. "Drag" Harlan is a tough vigilante cowboy with a bad reputation. While riding through the desert, among the rocks he finds a dying man named Morgan who tells him the story of hidden gold on his ranch, because of which he was shot by a gang of outlaws. Morgan makes Harlan promise to protect his daughter Square Deal Sanderson is an old time cowboy, a man of honor and a rough son of the West. Incidentally he stumbles upon two villains robbing and murdering a young cowboy. From the letters he carried, Sanderson learns that murdered man's sister is left alone at the distant Double A ranch and he steers his horse that way. Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) was a prolific American author of western novels. He wrote his westerns from the experience of living on his uncle's ranch in New Mexico. Seltzer's best works include The Two-Gun Man, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Drag Harlan and West. Many of his novels were turned into Hollywood movies.

First published in 1872, Wild Life in the Far West chronicles the life of James Hobbs. In the early 19th century as a teenager, Hobbs joined a fur trading expedition and was captured by the Comanches. He became known as Comanche Jim, and spent 15 years with the Comanches and 7 years in the West and South with Kit Carson.

Clarence Mulford's 'Riding in the Wild West' is a collection of 10 classic Western adventures that immerses readers into the rugged and untamed landscapes of the Old West. Mulford's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions, realistic dialogue, and fast-paced action scenes that captivate the reader from start to finish. Each story is a thrilling journey filled with cowboys, outlaws, and dusty trails, offering a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of life on the frontier. Mulford's storytelling prowess shines through in these timeless tales of courage, loyalty, and justice, making this compilation a must-read for fans of the Western genre. The book's literary context reflects the enduring popularity of Western fiction and its ability to transport readers to a bygone era of adventure and excitement. Clarence Mulford, known for creating the iconic character Hopalong Cassidy, draws upon his own experiences in the West to craft authentic and engaging narratives that resonate with readers of all ages. With its blend of action, suspense, and old-fashioned values, 'Riding in the Wild West' is a testament to Mulford's skill as a master storyteller and a fitting tribute to the legacy of Western literature.