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  • When the Sky Rained Dust

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living and Writing in West Texas

    by Elmer Kelton, Felton Cochran ...
    Series series TCU Press Texas Writer's Series
    Legendary Western author Elmer Kelton stands before you on the page, speaking directly in his warm, witty voice. Living and Writing in West Texas preserves two speeches he gave in the 1980s – one to the Friends of the Library Symposium at Texas Tech University (1985) and one to the Texas Folklore Society in Lubbock (1988). In each, Kelton blends storytelling and sage advice. He reflects on life in ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Apache Lament 

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Spur Award-Winning Author2019 Elmer Kelton Award WinnerEight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing those very hostiles in 1881. He lives only for vengeance, and the fresh Mescalero trail in the snow is leading straight into the bitterly cold Sierra Diablo of Texas.In the Mescalero band is Nejeunee ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Halloween on the Butterfield Trail

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    It’s Halloween in 1860, wolves are howling, and bats are flying across the face of the moon. Eleven-year-old Bird and his twin brother are on a Butterfield stage headed across the Red River into Texas. Even though their father is the driver, the next several miles will be scary. Night has fallen, and the dark woods may be full of spooks, ghost bells, glowing tombstones, headless horsemen, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Big Dry

    A Novel

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t commit. His white friend Will Brite, with whom he rode in the Big Drift ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Hidden Treasure of the Chisos

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it.Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On the Pecos Trail

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. His uncle is driving a cattle herd across Texas, and Fish is going with him as far as Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. Little does Fish know that he is saddling up for the wildest rides of his life.With his cousin Gid, Fish is about to face mean broncs, angry longhorns, and a dozen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Comanche Peace Pipe

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    It's 1867 and eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin are headed across Texas on a wagon train. But the trail is full of danger. A Comanche war party is on the prowl, looking for horses and scalps. Among the Indians is eleven year old Hunting Bear, who is riding his first war trail. Before the journey is over, he must prove himself worthy to be a warrior.Fish has been taught to hate Comanches ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When Cowboys Die

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    A man either chases his dreams, or he dies. Present-day ranch hand Charlie Lyles longs for an era before mechanization, when a cowboy's greatest ally was his horse. He remembers stories of cattle drives and stampedes and shallow graves in lonesome country. Society has pushed Charlie toward a conformity that he hates, but he is about to change the rules. At a remote line shack in West Texas, he ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Dead Man's Boot

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Spur Award-Winning Author* ELMER KELTON AWARD FOR FICTION, ACADEMY OF WESTERN ARTISTS* WILL ROGERS BRONZE MEDALLION AWARD FOR WESTERN FICTION* FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL, WESTERN FICTIONEERSClay Andrews is like a dead man, adrift in an uncaring dark. But he's also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers.Back in Central Texas, Clay's sister has died, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos

    Lone Star Heroes--Book 3

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it.Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Starflight to Eternity

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick DearenSTARFLIGHT TO ETERNITY (a.k.a. Starflight to Faroul)“I held the secret of creation in my hands, but I lost it and can never have it again!”Starflight to Eternity, a wizened old man named Kasterfayette has returned from deep space, bearing a strange tale of the planet Faroul. This legendary world is said to be a place where time began and ends, and where a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD