Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...

Rock Bannon had tried to warn the Eastern-bred settlers against following a fast-talker named Morton Harper. When they realized their mistake and had no one else to turn to, Rock showed them what a real man was made of, and, with a smoking rifle, fought to put down Harper's outlaw crew.

When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone. With over 7 million Oke books sold, this book is another memorable story in the Oke tradition.

Lured by a beautiful woman into an Apache mountain stronghold, four men enter a contest that few would dare to enter and fewer could hope to win.

Milo Talon, narrator, knows Rossiter, blind seven years, was hand his ma Em née Sackett caught stealing cattle. Now Rossiter loses stock as do Balch, Saddler, and Major Timberley. Neighbors suspect each other. Pretty daughters Barby Ann Rossiter and Ann Timberley, and Baker half-sister Lisa cause trouble at box-lunch dance. Who is shooting to kill Milo, and why?

Bill Canavan was a young man who knew what he wanted--a ranch in good stock country. He intended to settle for nothing less. The big ranchers, former rustlers turned respectable, were now in a shooting war with one another. In the middle of the fracas was a small spread and one elusive lady--and where Canavan decided to stake his claim

Jim Colburn and his gang convince Gaylord Riley, a young fast gun, to go straight and start his own ranch.

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...

No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. Sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who's stop at nothing to cheat her out of her inheritance....

In Mojave Crossing, Louis LAmour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any timeeven more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage...