Bøger af Stephen Bly

The war lost, family scattered or dead, hope hard to find, fugitive Confederate veteran Sandy Thompson flees West. Two other drifters, a shady peddler and an orphaned Indian girl, join him to somehow find a home, while fighting a horde of enemies.In 1870 a fugitive from Yankee justice, Confederate veteran Sandy Thompson looks for peace and solitude in the expanses of the untamed West. His quest is complicated by his reluctant business partnership with a low-down peddler named Montana Mudd and an orphaned Indian girl entrusted to his care. Somehow, together, the three drifters must find a home in a land where thieves, vengeful enemies, and forces of nature constantly threaten. And the trio must finally come to grips with the sinister Yankee officer determined to see Sandy dead. This was Christy Award western winner Stephen Bly's first novel published.

When the Lewis and Clark Squad discover a trunk full of old rifles--and one with a mysterious code written inside--they're off on their next adventure. What does the code mean? And who could have put it there? The Squad wants to know. Between basketball practices and games they follow up on all the clues. And those clues take them back more than fifty years to a robbery, an explosion, and the deeds of a mysterious stranger. There seems to be a link. But the kids aren't sure what it is. Then, a breakthrough. A girl with family connections to the rifle comes to town. If the Lewis and Clark Squad can catch up with her, they might be able to crack the code and sold this mystery. But then again, maybe the answer lies somewhere else....

Only Stuart Brannon can overthrow the tyrannical mayor of an isolated western town. But will he be too late? Stuart Brannon rides again--this time into the booming mining supply town of Paradise Meadow, and into conflict with Dixon Rutherford, its self-appointed mayor. Rutherford has tyrannized the entire town--jailing Brannon's friend Peter Mulroney for a murder he did not commit, running down and killing Mulroney's wife for standing up to him, and now trying to drive Cherokee schoolteacher Rose Creek out of town. But finding courage to stand up to a corrupt politician is only a first step. Now the town faces another kind of struggle. Can a violent, lawless collection of citizens avoid mob rule and choose to govern themselves in an orderly way? Written in the tradition of Zane Grey, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, Last Hanging at Paradise Meadow recreates the tumultuous old West where good battles evil.

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Award-winning author Stephen Bly weaves the tale of a pair of contemporary cowboys on a quest across the West. As a boy in Wyoming, Hap Bowmanfell in love with a girl namedJuanita. Ever since, he's experiencednothing but failure and misfortune.Laramie Majors--quiet,reserved, and patient to a fault--hasn't left Hap's side since theybecame rodeo partners right out ofcollege. Now, after spending mostof his adult life looking for Juanita,Hap wants to do one last bigsearch that will take them all overthe Southwest before he admits defeat.Together these two cowpokesfind themselves reluctant heroes ina series of misadventures as theytravel the West, all the while thinkingthat Hap's--or Laramie's--true love may be in thenext town.