As a former Texas Ranger, Charles "Catfish Charlie" Tuttle spent the better part of his life catching outlaws. Happily retired in Wolfwater, Texas, he's content just catching fish-namely Bubba, the wily old catfish who lives in the pond near Charlie's shack and keeps slipping off Charlie's hook. He also likes hanging out with his trusty tomcat, Hooligan Hank, and tossing back bottles of mustang berry wine. Sure, his glory days are behind him. There's...

"On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in their communities. Learn all about the disastrous weather...

One of the most important contemporary works of political theater, The Kentucky Cycle was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for its astute and dramatically epic investigation of the brutal birth of America. Set in the Appalachian Mountains and spanning seven generations-from 1775 to 1975-this saga of rural Kentucky digs beneath our American mythology to confront the truth of our national history. It is the story of three families whose lives are irrevocably...

They waited to make their move.Waited until those guarding the ranch were away.Cattle rustlers, waiting until the time was right to attack the Lazy M Ranch, the McAllister ranch.Some will suffer.Others will die.When the McAllister brothers return, they find their home, and their family, in shambles, and their herd missing.But the rustlers are in for more than they bargained for.

After one of her clients dies under embarrassing circumstances, frontier saloon girl Leticia Murphy fled the town of Lizard Flats with handyman and erstwhile drunk Eulis Potter in tow. Eager to forget her colorful past, Letty is determined to turn over a new leaf, and Eulis is happy to follow her. Impersonating a preacher and his wife, the pair travel from the Kansas territories to Colorado-marrying couples, baptizing babies, and performing burials...

Half-native twin Chase Wolf has returned to the town of Paradise to take revenge on the rancher who enslaved his grandmother and sent his kin to a reservation. But when Claire Parker, the rancher's beautiful daughter, gets in his way, he ends up taking her hostage instead...Amazon.

"Texas good old boys Doolin and Tubbs take on a pair of copy-cat outlaws--and prove they're not getting older, they're getting deadlier--in their latest, greatest adventure from the bestselling Johnstones... Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but--thanks to the success of their new business venture, the D&T Cattle Company--they're...

"Powerful. . . impressive. . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier." -Dallas Morning News With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place-and a cast of memorable characters-in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the zeal of America's "Manifest Destiny." The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home...

When logger Decker Galloway sets his sights--and axes and saws--on a lakeshore village inhabited by Norwegian settlers, Preacher and his friend, the warrior Tall Dog, remind the Norwegians of their Viking ancestry and declare war on Galloways' gang of bloodthirsty gunslingers.

She left home for a husband. But she fell in love with Africa... With a fiance waiting in Africa, and a one-way ticket in hand, artist Livy Johnston boards a steamer ship at the port of London. A tantalising future awaits, and Livy is exuberant with a lust for life. So much so, that when she catches the eye of a fellow passenger, she embarks on a shipboard romance. Surely one last fling wouldn't hurt... Arriving in Rhodesia, Livy quickly makes new...