Richard S Wheeler
42) Cashbox
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
The boom-to-bust tale of a silver mining town in Montana in the 1880s. The protagonists are Cornelius Daley, a mining entrepreneur, and Sylvie Duvalier, a saloon keeper. The novel follows their fortunes to the bitter end as Cashbox becomes a ghost town. By the author of Badlands.
44) Restitiution
Author
Pub. Date
C2001
Description
Truman Jackson and his family are a pillar in the frontier town of Cottonwood, Utah. No one knows much about them -- that's because Truman and his wife Gracie have been hiding their own outlaw roots and criminal deeds for the past 17 years. Truman is ready to confess his sins, even if it turns his family, friends, and an entire town against him.
46) Flint's truth
Author
Series
Sam Flint series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Middle entry in a welcome Western trilogy begun with Flint's Gift (1997), to be followed by Flint's Honor, about frontier journalist Sam Flint, who in Gift was seduced into starting up The Payday Pioneer in Payday, Arizona. Flynn has now moved on to the rich gold fields of Oro Blanco, New Mexico, where he opens the--what else?Oro Blanco Nugget. But how can a weekly paper stay in business when uprooting corruption and injustice means going against...
47) Second lives
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
The 1880s gold rush in Colorado featuring half a dozen protagonists, among them a miner, a farm girl and a poet. A look at the way people handle success and failure, the trick being not to take either too seriously. By the author of Sierra.
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 17
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In thie sweeping novel of the early West. Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land.
51) No Name
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
There is something sinister about Throatlatch, Wyoming. When a young man with no name wanders there, in the 1880s, he finds himself in big trouble. From that moment, Throatlatch fascinates him. He doesn't know why. But he knows he is seeing pure evil, sometimes obscured by strange ideals. When the railroad arrives, Throatlatch vanishes and a Utopia called New Dawn springs to life, and No Name is not sure which is worse. But he sticks around to find...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Ulysses McQueen and Stephen Jarvis are both caught up in the California gold rush of 1849, but McQueen is haunted by guilt over the wife he left behind in Iowa, and Jarvis, an ex-soldier in love with Rita Concepcion Estrada, must deal with her family's hatred for the conquering Yanquis.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When Nathaniel Hapgood headed west from Massachusetts in 1873 to stake a homestead claim in the Arizona Territory, he wagered it would take backbreaking labor to carve out a living from a decent-sized spread of land--nothing his Yankee know-how couldn't handle. But his stern New England upbringing hadn't prepared Nathaniel for Don Ignacio Olivera, a proud and powerful Spaniard who flew the Mexican flag over the hacienda and had his own private army...