<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for west (u.s.) fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for west (u.s.) fiction]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/cals/rss/search?query=west%20%28u.s.%29%20fiction&amp;searchType=subject&amp;f_FICTION_TYPE=FICTION&amp;f_FORMAT=BK%7CLPRINT&amp;f_NEWLY_ACQUIRED=PAST_180_DAYS&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=Westerns&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:30:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clay Carson thought his outlaw days were behind him. Years ago, he rode with the fearsome Dirty Creek Gang and robbed half the banks in Texas. But then a fatally bungled heist in Fort Worth brought it all crashing down. The gang broke up, went their separate ways, and that was the end of that. But today, the past came calling for Carson in the form of a telegram. It's from Lemuel Jones, his old gang leader, who asks him to do something reckless, stupid, and downright crazy: round up the old gang for one last ride. Jones says he hid away the gang's biggest payday from their boldest bank job, and he just needs Carson and the gang to help him get it. Carson assumed his old boss gambled it away, and he has doubts about his old gang members, too. All but one of them has gone straight, with respectable jobs like store clerk, ranch hand, and even banker. The only outlaw left has been captured and sentenced to hang, which means the crew would have to bust him out of jail and ride off with a posse on their tail. It's crazy, all right. But the Dirty Creek Gang is just crazy enough to give it a shot, even it's their last.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2168984</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2168984</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2168984100</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780786052240/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asa North was a wolfer, the best there was. Fearless, cunning, and as relentless as the predators he stalked. When a bounty is placed on Black Jack, a massive black wolf terrorizing the Idaho Territory, Asa takes the job. The animal has left a trail of slaughtered cattle and broken ranchers in its wake, and Asa vows to end it. But in the remote Caribou Mountains, Asa isn't the only one tracking prey. Others are out there, desperate men with blood in their eyes. And they're not just after the wolf—they're after Asa.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2167922</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2167922</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Estleman, Loren D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2167922100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420526806/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Natural]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of competition in the rodeo arena, from the man behind the microphone to the cowboys and cowgirls who ride, rope, and climb on the bucking stock. Famed rodeo announcer Brad Turner races his horse Golden Boy into the arena and welcomes the crowd to a pro rodeo performance even as he crosses the country struggling with life, love, and business on the rodeo circuit. Meanwhile, Zola Johns, the rebellious, barrel racing beauty, has her eye on the prize of winning a national championship, in addition to Shoat Krammer, the young rough-and-tumble rookie who's the real natural coming up the hard way.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2167919</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2167919</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richards, Dusty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2167919100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420532081/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zekial]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Zekial Broome stops a sadistic slave chaser, Grissum McCord, from whipping his captive, he and the girl have no choice but to flee west into the untamed lands of the wild frontier. If they can make it to the Green River country, no one will ever find them. What they don't count on is McCord. With a five-hundred-dollar bounty at stake and revenge in his heart, he'll follow them to hell and back, for as long as it takes. He's murdered before, but the revenge he plans for the buckskin-clad Broome would make a strong man quail. Zekial and Tilly are forced to keep running, always looking over their shoulders, until they have no choice but to find a place to make their stand. No matter what happens, they'll both be changed forever, but will they find the peace they seek to get on with their lives?]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164959</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164959</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richards, Dusty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164959100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420530483/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stranglers]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Montana Territory, justice comes in two forms: the slow hammer of the judge's gavel or the swift crack of a gunshot. Page Murdock has mastered both, but he's about to face an enemy as ruthless as they are shadowy. The Stranglers don't bother with trials or prisoners. They dispense their law from the end of a rope, and they have a particular taste for the necks of men who wear badges. As Murdock tracks the gang across the wild frontier, the Stranglers close in, determined to make him their next victim. With each brutal killing, the noose tightens, forcing Murdock into a deadly showdown where survival means outgunning his enemies and outrunning their ropes. Will Montana's most fearless lawman deliver justice, or will the Stranglers take his final breath?]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164953</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164953</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Estleman, Loren D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164953100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420526837/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long Ride to Buffalo]]></title><description><![CDATA[When rancher Clay Donovan busted out of territorial prison, he had only one thing on his mind: finding Brody Pike, the cutthroat who framed him and sent his brother to an early grave. Donovan never expected to end up riding shotgun for a $100,000 payroll on a two-hundred-mile trek to Buffalo, Wyoming. Or to be guarding it and his fellow travelers from the very man he hunted. Now, with a sick boy's life hanging in the balance, Clay must join forces with a gifted gambler, a crusty old lawman, a badgering bank clerk, and a girl from his past, all with the hope of eluding Pike's savage wolf pack. If he fails, he won't be going back to prison; he'll be going to meet his maker. They all will.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164563</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164563</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vaughan, Robert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164563100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420527704/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution Trail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian Territory, 1879. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves finds himself sent into the Indian Territory to deal with a group of escaped prison inmates. Among them is the ex-Confederate Army colonel Beauregard Trotter. Seeking to recruit an Indian army to wage war against the Union, Trotter reunites with an Indian warrior known as Eahanatubbee, "He who kills." Reeves and his partner, Walks-as-Bear, find themselves following a trail of death and destruction as they venture into the badlands to stop the renegades before all hell breaks loose and unleashes a cataclysmic and costly new conflict.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164567</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164567</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Black, Michael A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164567100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves Western</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420529951/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hunt for Big Cat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wyatt Langston, a burly stage driver with dreams of a better life, never expected his route through the lawless mining camps north of San Francisco to become a fight for survival. With bandits and bushwhackers lurking in every shadow, danger is part of the job. But it's the mysterious Ku Xuan, a half-Chinese beauty with secrets of her own, who's upending Wyatt's world. On a quest to find her American father, known only as "Big Cat," Ku Xuan hides a deadly truth--she's a Shan Tal priestess, trained in the ancient martial arts of the Orient. Her journey is shadowed by assassins and those who would see her silenced forever. As love blossoms between Wyatt and Ku, a deadly crossfire awaits them in the form of a ruthless killer seeking revenge on Wyatt, a master assassin from Ku's past hunting her with lethal precision, and a sea captain long thought dead returning to face his own demons--ready to die for them. In a land where greed and violence rule, Wyatt must fight not only for his life but for the woman who holds his heart as the line between survival and desire blurs in a storm of bullets and betrayal.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164948</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164948</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vaughan, Robert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164948100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420530247/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Good as Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strike of the Mountain Man — Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron is circling the Humbolt ranch like a ravenous vulture. Poor unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Smoke is not the pitying kind, but any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too. Kill-crazy hired gunmen are threatening the whole valley, and good men are dying. Puddle may not be much, but he's all Smoke has as a take-no-prisoners mountain man and a timid tinhorn make for an army of two in one hell of a fight.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170579</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170579</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2170579100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Smoke Jensen and the Taming of the West</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420531916/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comancheria]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas Ranger Buck Dallas was meant to die. Cursed by the Comanche witch doctor, Twisted Root, he falls with the sun and claws out of the dirt at dawn-half man, half memory, bound to a promise he can't forget. With fellow Ranger Lane Newsome at his side, Buck rides a haunted trail across a hollow frontier-one stripped of mercy, scarred by blood, and hunted by things older than men. Their mission: find a missing girl named River and deliver a pregnant woman to a hidden spring that may be salvation... or something far worse. As the riders press deeper into Comancheria, they're joined by mystics, mercenaries, and broken souls-each with something to lose, and none guaranteed to survive. Between the bullets and the curses, between the land and the dead, redemption may be the only thing worth dying for.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170580</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170580</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wortham, Reavis Z.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2170580100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420533927/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadow of A Crow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wes Hawthorne, about to turn thirty, decides he does not want to work at the Redhorse Ranch anymore after he has a moral awakening. After he participates in a rustling attempt in which another rider is killed, he decides he is done with the justifications of petty crime such as brand changing and rustling. He wants to get out of the shadow of his former life. He meets Pearl Vincent, who has had a bad marriage and a bad relationship, is working in a laundry, and would like to make a better life for herself. They run into opposition when Hawthorne's former associates want to keep him quiet. One of them, the worst one, is also nursing a grudge because he is no longer Pearl's boyfriend.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170583</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2170583</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nesbitt, John D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2170583100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420532647/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead Broke, Colorado]]></title><description><![CDATA[The town got its unusual name when a pair of brokedown prospectors accidentally dropped a stick of dynamite in the Rockies and unwittingly unearthed a massive vein of silver. One of the two men dropped dead from excitement; the other one named the place "Dead Broke" in honor of his dead broke companion and declared himself mayor of a brand-new mining town. Mayor Allane Auchinleck, better known as Nugget, put Dead Broke on the map, but when the silver market takes an unexpected nosedive, the bustling boomtown goes bust, and all hell breaks loose. Almost overnight, Dead Broke turns into a lawless hotbed of angry out-of-work miners and out-for-blood merchants. In desperation, May or Nugget considers a few hairbrained schemes like bringing in mail-order brides, building ice castles to attract tourists, even planting other minerals in the mines to fool investors. But Dead Broke needs law and order, so Nugget sends for top gun Mick MacMicking. Of course, a notorious gambler named Connor Boyle has other plans, and with his band of hired guns, he plans to blow Dead Broke off the map to get what he wants. For this town to survive, Nugget, Mick, a drunken lawman, and a woman gambler will have to put the dead back in Dead Broke and some cool-hand killers in the ground.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2164554</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2164554100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420527322/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Master Executioner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar Stone is a craftsman unlike any other: his art lies in the gallows, where he ensures death is swift and precise. But as the bodies mount, so do the questions about justice, humanity, and the price of a life spent wielding death. When a shadow from his past resurfaces, Stone is forced to confront the truth about himself, along with the cost of a life spent in the service of death.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163272</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163272</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Estleman, Loren D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163272100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420526820/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shifting Sand]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the heart of the Nevada desert, Sheriff Conor Armenta is thrust into a chilling mystery that begins with a grisly discovery: the fragmented remains of a young Moapa Indian found along a lonely stretch of railroad track. As Conor delves deeper, each revelation adds a layer of intrigue and blurs the lines between obsession, hatred, addiction, and love. And as the case builds toward a showdown challenging the very meaning of justice, Conor must navigate the blurred boundaries of guilt and innocence, grappling with the elusive truth of whether justice can ever truly be served.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163282</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163282</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Glass, Jefferson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163282100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Conor Armenta Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420529708/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Powder River]]></title><description><![CDATA[The northern Cheyenne call Powder River country their sacred home. Now held captive far to the South in so-called Indian Territory, the remnants of this once-mighty nation are growing weak. To survive, the Cheyenne must battle their way to their ancestral home, fending off the pursuit of well-armed soldiers. Among this outnumbered band are Adam Smith Maclean, born both white and Cheyenne, and his beautiful wife Elaine, a strong-willed New Englander determined to stand by Adam and his desperate, daring people on their trek through the hostile heart of the West and toward the welcoming banks of their beloved Powder River.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163277</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2163277</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blevins, Winfred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163277100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420527193/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Hero]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smith is just a barroom piano player in Casper, Wyoming, with a secret the kind of secret that gets men killed. When Eliza Whitlock arrives in town, she quickly falls in love with Smith. But an ambitious man working for her father, a stagecoach tycoon, has other plans for Eliza and for Casper. His scheme is simple: destroy the local stage line, take control of the town, and force Eliza into a marriage. As bullets fly and the townsmen take sides in the fight for the lucrative stage route in and out of Casper, Smith digs his heels in to help the town. 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That's when Smoke grabs his guns and the shooting starts.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161779</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161779</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2161779100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420527377/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing A Lone Hand]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of six Western fiction stories by veteran of the genre John D. Nesbitt. A stranger comes to a tent city looking for a kidnapped girl. A cowhand helps a widow find her late husband's killer. A young man confronts trouble when his father brings a stepmother and stepbrother to the ranch. A detective looks for girls who may have been kidnapped. 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Born and raised in the small community, Conor finds himself responsible for policing eight thousand square miles of unforgiving desert. By day, the town appears as a speck of green amidst endless sands, its railroad tracks a lifeline to the outside world. By night, it transforms into an oasis of lights, its legality a tenuous balance between sanctioned vices and forbidden temptations. With prohibition at its peak and the Great Depression tightening its grip, the arrival of thousands of laborers for the ambitious Hoover Dam project brings new challenges. Unemployment soars, crime flourishes, and Conor must navigate a landscape where moonshiners, bootleggers, and opportunistic racketeers thrive alongside honest folk seeking a better life. Battling to maintain order, he uncovers a web of corruption stretching from the desert's edge to the heart of nearby Block 16, a notorious district teeming with its own brand of prosperity and danger. And as the first light of dawn approaches, Conor stands at a crossroads where the choices he makes will define not just his future, but the fate of all who call this unforgiving land home.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161636</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161636</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Glass, Jefferson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2161636100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Conor Armenta Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420528497/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gun Man Jackson Swagger]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the frying pan of a drought-scorched 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region's only prosperous spread, the Callahan ranch, seeking work. 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Soon enough, it's the season of the six-gun and its fastest shootist.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2162179</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2162179</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hunter, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2162179100</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Western</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668030394/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack Slade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack Slade is one of the few stationmasters on the Overland Stagecoach Company who has a code of honor and some skills with a wagon and a Colt. That's why he's chosen by company boss Benjamin Ficklin to clean out corruption on the line just as the Pony Express begins running. But Slade also has a soft spot for hard liquor. That's why he rides into Julesburg unarmed and why he's filled with six bullets and some buckshot in broad daylight by Jules Beni, the corrupt old station master. 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Not that such daring was entirely unexpected considering how some of those involved included the likes of young Tom Gatestone, already a bit of an Orvop legend, and his friend Kalin March, new to the area, the two of them taking it upon themselves to rescue a couple of neglected horses from the Porch paddocks on Willow and Oak. Who knows what would have happened if they hadn't? For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did. No one expected the mountain to fall either, but it did. No one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif, to say nothing of Pillars Meadow. 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Smoke and his helpmates drift into town one by one with a plan to root out Venom's gang of prairie rats and put the big blast on each and every one.]]></description><link>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161633</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cals.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S100C2161633</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnstone, William W.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cals.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2161633100</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420527384/MC.GIF&amp;client=cenarkls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>