1. Fair Blows the Wind
Set in the late Elizabethan Atlantic world of the sixteenth century, Fair Blows the Wind is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and…
2. Rivers West
Set in the early nineteenth-century Mississippi and Missouri frontier, Shipbuilder Jean Talon travels west into a world of river commerce, fur trade, settlement and political intrigue, carrying skills and ambitions shaped by the Atlantic world. Against the historical background of Early Missouri Frontier and Fur Trade,…
3. The Ferguson Rifle
Set in the Rocky Mountain fur-trade frontier of the early nineteenth century, The Ferguson Rifle is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's The historical background is Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. L’Amour uses…
4. Over on the Dry Side
Doby Kernohan and his father travel west looking for a place to begin again and find an abandoned cabin that appears suitable until they discover a dead man in the yard. With few alternatives, they stay, but the killing proves to be part of an older…
5. The Man from the Broken Hills
Set in the late nineteenth-century cattle and range-war West, The Man from the Broken Hills is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only…
6. Milo Talon
Milo Talon accepts a job to find a woman who has disappeared into the West, but the search quickly becomes more dangerous than a routine inquiry. People connected with her have died, hired gunmen are following the same trail and the stories Milo hears do not…
7. Borden Chantry
Borden Chantry is a rancher who has reluctantly taken on the duties of town marshal. When a man is found murdered, he refuses to accept the easy explanations offered by frightened townspeople and begins reconstructing the victim’s movements, enemies and business dealings. The investigation turns a…
8. North to the Rails
Tom Chantry joins cattleman French Williams on a drive north toward Dodge during the great cattle-drive era. Chantry is reluctant to carry a gun and would prefer to rely on judgment rather than violence, but storms, treachery and attacks along the trail repeatedly force the outfit…