Glendon Swarthout

A "homesman" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs.

The teenage misfits of the Box Canyon Boys Camp are challenged by Cotton to join efforts to save a herd of buffalo and save themselves in the process.

Fifteen-year-old Whichaway, son of a stone-faced Arizona rancher, legs broken in an accident atop a windmill, struggles to survive after cattle rustlers have left him to die.

"Swarthout easily weaves the facts about Earp's and Masterson's actual careers into his fiction, and his engaging yarn spins along at the brisk pace of a well-tuned Model T. The slang reads right, the laughs are real, and the pay-off is deserved. The Old Colts is a knee-slapper, a jaw-dropper and a comic delight."

It was an infamous day when under a scorching Mexican sun, the U.S. Cavalry went into action mounted not on fine sleek horseflesh but on Model T Fords. This is the story of events leading up to that memorable day.

A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other.

A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.

"Set after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, this western features Randolph Scott undertaking a dangerous journey into Native American territory to retrieve the body of General Custer. The President has ordered that the men be buried, and Scott plays Captain Tom Benson, a man who missed the great battle, and now means to make amends by leading the expedition to find them."--Container insert.

In The sons of Katie Elder, John Wayne stars as a gunfighter trying to regain the family ranch, and in The shootist, he's an old gunfighter dying of cancer but ready to fight one last valiant battle.

About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne) "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty". In his remaining two months, Books settles scores with old enemies, including gambler Pulford (Hugh O'Brian) and Marshall Thibido (Harry Morgan) and reaches out to new friends (including feisty...