Lone Cone Library

Considered one of Leonard's best westerns, this classic tale of honor and justice is available once again. Civil War veteran Paul Cable finds things have changed in Arizona since he left and joined the Confederacy. Two brothers--Union men--have claimed his spread, leaving Cable and his family no place to settle in peace. It seems the war's not over yet for Cable--but no one's going to take away his land and his future.

"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...

"Isaac Liddle is keen to marry Emmie, and she knows she shouldn���t hide her pregnancy from him any longer. But before she can tell him her secret, a widower friend asks the impossible of Emmie: Will she honor her promise to his dead wife by marrying him to care for the orphaned baby?"--back cover.

In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.

"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...

Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain. For a few dollars: Two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader. The good, the bad and the ugly: The "Man With No Name" teams with two...

Set during the American Civil War, this "spaghetti western" tells a tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. The inimitable "Man With No Name" teams with two ruthless gunslingers to pursue a fortune in stolen Confederate gold, but they soon discover their greatest challenge is to stay alive.