Short Westerns

“Pump 'em full of lead!” he said through his teeth. A cruel New York sneak thief breaks out of prison with an honest cowboy. Together they'll learn about robbing payrolls, mountain women, and a fast-shooting sheriff. But will they survive?

Red Harrigan and Black MacTee have a friendship that is legendary throughout the West - that is until they both fall in love with the same woman.

For years, Dan and Kylie Franklin have searched for someone who can fill in all the missing blanks in their situation. When fate brings Clint Gorman into their lives, the instant attraction runs hot and deep. After a night of intense, sweaty sex, there's no doubt he's the one for them. But when Clint's past comes to light, they're forced to decide whether or not the connection they felt is enough to keep the three of them together.

Barbara "Barb" Sessions is a wrangler and sometimes babysitter at the local dude ranch, Saddle Up. She meets lots of "weekend dudes" - older men, couples in love, and families with children, but never any men her age, except for losers. Could it be because she's always in jeans and cowboy boots? She can't even remember the last time she wore a dress and heels. On top of that, one of the wranglers fancies himself in love with her. Will she ever meet Mr. Right?

When Callie jumped on a plane to Montana and the ranch of her cousin, she couldn't remember ever having done such a reckless deed before, but looking up into the sexy eyes of Joel Masters, she didn't regret a single thing. Callie knew this vacation would be short-lived, she had an established career in music to return to, but she wasn't sure if that life appealed to her any more. After only a few short days in the vast plains of Montana, living amongst people whose values were based on actions and not appearance.

Wildorado is a collection of prose, poetry, and short stories influenced by the rugged individuals who pioneered the West, and still do to this day. From 1885 to today, Wildorado connects the past with the present in a unique and thought provoking way.

Nedra despised rancher Bill McVeigh so furiously and unalterably - that she decided to be that arrogant cattle king's very last romance. When she gave rancher Bill a double dose of love-'em-and-leave-'em - she never figured she'd get stuck on the lovin'!

Saving Lonely Crippled Thomas: Thomas lives virtually alone in his house in Pennsylvania, with only his cousin to look after him. His legs were damaged in a railway accident and the only way he can get around his house is by crawling, or by means of an awkward chaise lounge prototype wheelchair that his cousin pushes. He loses his faith and reads only controversial books.

Stories of Colonel Hooper, a surprisingly honest horsetrader in the Old West, and an unlikely fast horse named "Grandma." Find out what makes Grandma run... and read all 7 stories. These are entertaining, heart-warming tales in the authentic voice of the Old West. Anyone of any age who enjoys a good yarn, will enjoy reading these horse tales, or having them read to them.

Perry Cozzen has compiled a collection of 12 short stories for his book, Further West. His west Texas drawl spills over into his writing and transports you to a place in time, further west, so "flat you can see the back of your head standing on a tuna can," as Perry would say. The short stories in this audiobook are fiction, well, maybe half-truth, and are based on a way of life where the people made the most out of what they had and of what they could dream of having.

Penniless, homeless, and virtually lifeless, the vagrant “Doughface” Jack is about to discover that where medical marvels meet the mysteries of the human mind, amazing things happen. The Tramp acquires a capability beyond his imagination and without equal on Earth. Riding the rails, Jack runs afoul of a local sheriff and ends up with a crushed skull. He’s as good as dead until a savvy country doctor performs a bit of medical magic.

Recently released from the orphan’s home and with nowhere to go, Olivia Lester accepts a last-minute proposition to travel west as a mail order bride. Judd Brockman has made it clear that he only needs a wife as a partner on the farm - not in love - and Olivia accepts his wishes. Judd is a kind man, so when Olivia find herself falling in love with him, she chooses silence over breaking her agreement. But when a woman from Judd’s past returns with a scandalous accusation, Olivia begins to wonder if maybe her life with Judd is not what she thought.

A Broadway dancer wrecks her knee and decides to head home for a little R&R, but the roadtrip home takes an unusual turn when she finds herself in Grand Prairie, Texas, short on funds and in the middle of a murder investigation.

Mac Henderson started out no more of a ranch owner than he did a Navy SEAL. Adrift on the post-college tide of the ’70s, with no direction planned, he headed west to surf. But fate had other plans for him - beneath Montana’s Big Sky. A broken starter motor during Cheyenne Frontier Days led him to witness Ama’s traditional dance for her tribe. Since that moment, for 20 years, she has believed in his dream, inspired him, and given him a son (Mark Henderson). It was only when Mac retired that she found her own dream. Her reward? Finding Henderson’s Ranch.

Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American writer and poet, most famous for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. The Idyll of Red Gulch portrays an incident in a town in California involving the town drunk, a prostitute, and the schoolmistress.

"A Convert of the Mission" is about a California minister in need of rehabilitation to regain the health of his body and spirit. He follows the orders of his doctor to go somewhere and change his habits and way of life. And he succeeds in his quest, but in a way that displeases his former brothers in the faith.

In its heyday, the southwestern town of Ambition was bustling with enterprise. For the first 50 years the town prospered and expanded in an ever widening circle, away from the freshwater well the town’s founder dug. The well gave life while the people searched out their fortunes, and fortune gave them a reason to call Ambition home. Prosperity eventually fell prey to complacency, and Ambition withered away. It was an incremental decline, unintentional and unavoidable once set into motion.

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good. Others had been hung from nearby sycamore trees. Who was good? Who was bad? Who was innocent? Questions to ponder as you listen to this classic short story narrated by Glenn Hascall.

Peter, a disgraced meteorologist and chronic wanderer, has traveled the country for years in his Winnebago, in search of the only thing that gives his life meaning. He's just arrived in the middle of nowhere-Hokie, Kansas-for the same purpose, but when he meets a waitress named Melanie, another sufferer, he's faced not only with his first real human contact in years, but perhaps someone who can save him.

It was 1862, and what a year it was. A man by the name of Jesse Wells was about to become a legend, but not the kind of legend to be proud of. Jesse had a mean temper, and when the Saloon doors swung open things got quiet, and people scattered. Jesse would enter the Saloon, spit a wad of tobacco juice on the floor, and shoot his six-shooter in the air and say, "Where's my whiskey?"