Deschutes Public Library

A powerful tale of two men's undying friendship, a murder, and a fight for justice.

Daniel is a Metal Shirt, a tribal police officer. When an Indian accidentally kills his own daughter after he's had too much whiskey, Daniel is instructed to find out who's behind the running of the illegal liquor.

Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. It was 1868, and the army was concerned about an uprising among the young braves. Comstock was so confident that the trio arrived unescorted. The chief would tell them nothing, but granted them safe conduct out of the camp - until the sentinels were replaced by a band of hostile braves who attacked them, killing Comstock.

Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to the dangerous Arizona territories, where he joins his captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the Apache.

A western mystery with humor, this title has it all from a flirtatious preacher’s sister to rodeo poisonings.

Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas, in order to stop a gang of ruthless bandits who have been terrorizing the Texas panhandle.

An epic western shown through the lens of photographer Ned Giles, who ends up south of the border trying to break an Apache girl out of prison.

Fictionalizes the early years of Roy Bean, who later became famous as a judge, saloon keeper, and flamboyant fella.

Anna Ivey's journey west with Asa Mercer's girls is an escape from the griefs of her past. She's not supposed to be a bride, though, just a cook for the girls. But when they land, she's handed to Joe Denton and the two find themselves in a knotty situation. She refuses to wed him and he's about to lose his land. With only a few months left, can Joe convince this provoking--but beguiling--easterner to be his bride?

Gustav and Otto Amlingmeyer travel to Chicago to take part in a "mystery cracking competition" at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Soon after the first round, a dead body turns up face down in a large cheese and the brothers chase around "the White City" for the elusive murderer.

"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as an express rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he caught up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night, when Roswell was in his blankets, the Pickards jumped him and set out to club him to death. They stole his money, his horses and outfit, and left his body behind. Only Roswell wasn't dead. And now he has a score to settle" -- Cover verso.

Florence Marble, owner of the Half Diamond ranch, hires Bob Bannister, who appears to be a gambler, for a job she doesn't want to specify. When Bannister receives threats on his life, he doubts the honesty of Cromer's water irrigation project, a project heavily invested in by Florence Marble. Meanwhile, Sheriff Campbell begins to have suspicions about Bannister's real identity.

Twelve years ago, newspaperman John Bryce saved an innocent man from the hangman's noose. That man was Matt Jensen. In gratitude, Matt gave Bryce four gold nuggets and told him, "If there's ever anything I can do, just let me know." Now that day has come.

If the Bartonville posse chasing Clemet Morgan had been real sheriffs, and if Morgan had broken the law, the story might have been different. But the badge-wearing thugs who were hot on his trail were the hired guns of land baron Jason Barton. In a fair fight witnessed by many townspeople, Morgan killed Barton's son, Chad. Barton's brand of justice would be quick and final if the posse overtook Morgan. Private investigator Morgan, hired by Red Mountain rancher Seth Ruddell to solve the mystery of Ruddell's sheep gone missing, uncovers a web of murder, thievery, kidnapping, and deception -- propagated by Barton -- that brings fear and mistrust to the residents of the small community. In the process of untangling the web, Morgan discovers the power generated by simple folk banding together to defeat a tyrant and reclaim their town.

Five ruthless outlaws escape Yuma Prison but are soon captured, and Paul must transport them back to Arizona in an iron wagon. During the hazardous journey, Paul encounters Lisa Martin, whose parents were murdered by renegade Indians. The lovely young woman desperately needs his help and Paul is just the deputy to deliver Lisa to her destination. Could she be the answer to his prayers for a wife?

The fictional memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok.

Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa.

When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch.

Two of Patten's short novels are published here for the first time in book form. They share a theme of revenge but otherwise they are worlds apart.

With her papa's pistol tied to her saddlehorn and a supersized ration of audacity, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge her father's murder.

Welcome to a West like you've never seen before. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again in this steampunk western tale.

Sixteen-year-old Chace Shannon, leaving his twin sister behind, embarks on a mission of deadly vengeance against the brutal Harkey clan who murdered his father, and beat and abused his older sister.

After the burned body of a mixed-blood boy, Johnnie Sanders, is discovered in 1878 Dodge City, Kansas, part-time policeman Wyatt Earp enlists the help of his professional-gambler friend Doc Holliday.

At the end of the Civil War, three unlikely companions flee a detachment of Union troops led by the less-famous Custer brother.

The inhabitants of Ishawooa, Wyoming have enough to contend with on a daily basis, from runaway children to Lou Gehrig's disease, even before a teenager is found dead in a meth lab and motorcycle rallies and rodeos fill the tiny local jail.

Romeo and Juliet set in 1890s Idaho with range wars and bitter feuds.

When a dour fifteen-year-old Shoshone is prompted by a total eclipse to rename himself after a dreaded totemic bird and stirring discontent on the Wind River Reservation, schoolteacher Dirk, the son of Barnaby Skye, struggles to mediate a dangerous uprising.

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson has been pretty much on his own as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest. When tragic events leave him homeless weeks after their move to Portland, Oregon, Charley seeks refuge in the tack room of a run-down horse track. Charley's only conforts are his friendship with a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete and a photograph of his only known relative.

Ethan, eldest son of the Wilder clan, returns home after to find his family near the point of self-destruction. Mystery and western combo.