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Riders of the Purple Sage and the Rainbow Trail

Zane Grey - Forge, 2015.
Format: Print book

Riders of the Purple SageZane Grey's most enduring classic--the book that invented the myth of the American West. In the little village of Cottonwoods, Utah, Mormon rancher Jane Withersteen endures persecution, religious zealots, and cattle rustlers trying to prey on her land. Aided...
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Vengeance Road

Erin Bowman - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover

When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers,...
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The Gunslinger

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Print book

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba "An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) , The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic...
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Gunslinger Girl

LYNDSAY ELY - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson presents a bold new heroine--a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West. Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect...
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The Sisters Brothers: A Novel

Patrick deWitt - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous, wise, riveting work of, among other things, cowboy noir ... Honestly, I can't recall ever being this fond of a pair of psychopaths." - David Wroblewski, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle "A masterful, hilarious picaresque that...
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The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series LONGMIRECraig Johnson's The Highwayman and An Obvious Fact...
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Open Season

C. J. Box - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden - especially one like Joe who won't...
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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize - winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel...
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True Grit: A Novel

Charles Portis - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel that inspired two award-winning films! Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of Americas foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for two movies, the 1969...
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