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  • When the Sky Rained Dust

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Halloween on the Butterfield Trail

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    It’s Halloween in 1860, wolves are howling, and bats are flying across the face of the moon. Eleven-year-old Bird and his twin brother are on a Butterfield stage headed across the Red River into Texas. Even though their father is the driver, the next several miles will be scary. Night has fallen, and the dark woods may be full of spooks, ghost bells, glowing tombstones, headless horsemen, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Bitter Waters

    The Struggles of the Pecos River

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • On the Pecos Trail

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. His uncle is driving a cattle herd across Texas, and Fish is going with him as far as Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. Little does Fish know that he is saddling up for the wildest rides of his life.With his cousin Gid, Fish is about to face mean broncs, angry longhorns, and a dozen ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Hidden Treasure of the Chisos

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it.Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Comanche Peace Pipe

    The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    It's 1867 and eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin are headed across Texas on a wagon train. But the trail is full of danger. A Comanche war party is on the prowl, looking for horses and scalps. Among the Indians is eleven year old Hunting Bear, who is riding his first war trail. Before the journey is over, he must prove himself worthy to be a warrior.Fish has been taught to hate Comanches ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • When Cowboys Die

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    A man either chases his dreams, or he dies. Present-day ranch hand Charlie Lyles longs for an era before mechanization, when a cowboy's greatest ally was his horse. He remembers stories of cattle drives and stampedes and shallow graves in lonesome country. Society has pushed Charlie toward a conformity that he hates, but he is about to change the rules. At a remote line shack in West Texas, he ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Big Dry

    A Novel

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t commit. His white friend Will Brite, with whom he rode in the Big Drift ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Saddling Up Anyway

    The Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Every time a cowhand dug his boot into the stirrup, he knew that this ride could carry him to trail's end. In real stories told by genuine cowboys, this book captures the everyday perils of the "flinty hoofs and devil horns of an outlaw steer, the crush of a half-ton of fury in the guise of a saddle horse, the snap of a rope pulled taut enough to sever digits. Threats took many forms, all of them ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos

    Lone Star Heroes--Book 3

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it.Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dead Man's Boot

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    Spur Award-Winning Author* ELMER KELTON AWARD FOR FICTION, ACADEMY OF WESTERN ARTISTS* WILL ROGERS BRONZE MEDALLION AWARD FOR WESTERN FICTION* FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL, WESTERN FICTIONEERSClay Andrews is like a dead man, adrift in an uncaring dark. But he's also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers.Back in Central Texas, Clay's sister has died, ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • The End of Nowhere 

    by Patrick Dearen ...
    2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARDIt's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD