Download or read book Black Hat Butte written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Not a Rustler written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a lot of rustling going on in the area, tensions are high and rumors are flying. Word is going around that some of the larger ranchers have hired a gunman named Wolf Carlton to stop the rustling and protect their cattle. And now a couple of the small ranchers have been found shot to death. Unfortunately for Spencer Prescott, some of the rumors are about him. Some people think that Spencer, not Wolf, is the one killing the competition. Even worse, some folks think Spencer is behind the rustling—and that means trigger-happy Wolf will be looking to put a bullet in his back.

Download or read book Coyote Trail written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travis Quinn doesn't have much luck picking friends. First, a friend gets him fired from a ranch. Then he heads down the Powder River, meeting another "friend" who puts in a good word and gets him hired at the Lockhart Ranch. And, if the rumors are true, this friend might just get Travis killed.

Download or read book Trouble at the Redstone written by JOHN D. NESBITT and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN D. NESBITT FOUR - TIME WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD When Will Dryden is let out of jail, a woman named Mrs. Welles tells him her husband, Al Vetch, is missing and she needs someone to try to find him. Dryden hears there might be a job at a ranch called the Redstone, where a young cowhand was found dead. Dryden meets Ingram, the foreman; Max Aden, a troublemaker; Donovan, the owner; Blanche, who runs the kitchen; and Pearl, an Indian girl who works in the kitchen. Donovan seems to have a proprietary interest in Pearl. Dryden will find out that Donovan has a scheme to grab up land for the oil beneath and that Donovan hired Al Vetch to snuff the young cowhand for getting too close to Pearl and for trying to know too much. Mrs. Welles sends for Dryden. She says she thinks her husband came here to be with Blanche and to do some kind of dirty work. Dryden has a fling with Mrs. Welles. Dryden sees Blanche taking food and water to a hideout in a stone building near the house. He deduces that Al Vetch is inside. Dryden shoots Vetch, Ingram, and Aden. Then he shoots Donovan, who is holding Pearl hostage. Dryden tells Pearl that if she would like to get out of this place, she can go with him. They ride away together.

Download or read book Shadows on the Plain written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of hard-crafted fiction set in the contemporary West, stories about life and love, loss and death, with a few laughs along the way. In selections such as “Cowboy Heart,” “Ice on the Doorstep,” “Chokecherries Are Free,” “Drunk on Christmas Day,” and “Dusk on the Rangeland,” the book captures the spirit of people who tough it out in a world both modern in its problems and timeless in its landscape. This collection has all the fine features that have won praise for John D. Nesbitt’s earlier novels and short stories.

Download or read book Field Work written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book North of Cheyenne written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Casteel hadn’t planned on staying long when he rode into the small Wyoming town of Eagle Spring. He was just a ranch hand with no work between seasons. But even before he got into town, someone warned him it might be better for his health if he kept on riding, and Monte hated to be told what to do. It got even tougher to leave when he saw Dora in the street. She was the girl he’d pined after for so long, though she never seemed to care much for him. They may not have been the best reasons to stay around, but they were good enough for Monte. He didn’t know—yet—that he had one great reason to ride out of town fast—a range war was brewing, hired guns were coming in, and before long Monte would find himself caught right in the middle.

Download or read book Man from Wolf River written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Felver was on his way from the Wolf River country to the Laramie Range, hoping to earn summer wages, when he stopped off in Cameron, Wyoming. As a fellow who enjoyed his pleasures, he had a beer in the saloon, but then he got sidetracked sticking up for a girl. Her name turned out to be Jenny Quoin, and one of the bigwigs in town didn’t want to leave her alone. Felver didn’t like to be told to move along, and he and Jenny developed a mutual interest, so he pitched camp near town and took a look into things. Soon enough, he had thugs trying to rough him up. So he looked closer. As he did, he discovered a web of theft, invasion of privacy, blackmail, and eventually murder.

Download or read book Poacher s Moon written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Is Not the Word Buckskin Trail written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Is Not the Word Rick Lemoore is drinking beer when he recognizes a backhoe operator named Tragg Tustin, who was said to have left town years earlier with Lynette Cole, a girl both of them had been dating. Seeing Tustin in town again, with a different woman, makes Rick wonder what ever happened to Lynette. Rick’s curiosity picks up when he sees Tustin out driving the unpaved roads in the grasslands where Rick goes antelope hunting. Rick follows him for a while and watches from a distance. The next time Rick is out hunting, he is sure that Tustin is following him. Rick has a hunting rifle in the gun rack, but he is glad he has his pistol when something prompts him to take a look inside an old implement shed in the lonely ranch country. Buckskin Trail Tag Benson is looking for a lost packhorse when he finds the body of a man in the grassland. His trail leads him to the dead man’s widow, who is very reserved and says she doesn’t need any help. When his trail takes him to a neighboring ranch, he meets a hardcase who tells him to watch where he is going. Benson’s search for the lost horse leads him next to an eccentric sheep queen and from there to a box canyon in a maze of buttes. He crosses paths again with the deadly ranch hand and then has to settle things at the ranch itself before he meets with the dead man’s widow one more time.

Download or read book Blue Horse Mesa written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rancho Alegre written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jimmy Clevis Novel Jimmy Clevis is out of work and needs some money. So when an old man named Tull asks him to do a quick job for him, Clevis agrees. All Clevis has to do is head south to Paloma Springs to find Tull’s son. Sounds like easy money, right? Wrong. Clevis isn’t just riding into Paloma Springs—-he’s riding straight into a tangled net of lies, stealing, blackmail, hidden identities . . . and murder.

Download or read book A Good Man to Have in Camp written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out on a ranch in the foothills, Jim Lander is trying to get his life in order. He's trying to put his divorce behind him so he can develop a relationship with Dusty, a nice young woman who lives in town. Things get complicated, though, when he doesn't resist temptations at the Trail's End, his favorite honky-tonk bar. To sort things out, he goes to the mountains. But even then, it takes the right combination to get things into balance. Nothing comes easy, but it is possible to find a good camp, up and away from it all, where the best light comes from the moon and the campfire. This is John D. Nesbitt's second novel about life in the contemporary West. As in his other work, Nesbitt gives a realistic treatment to his materials. His characters are less than perfect, having been through divorce or similar mistakes and giving a hesitant try at romance. They live in a setting that Nesbitt writes about the best-small-town life, farm and ranch country, and the big outdoors where everyone has the right to look for a good camp. This is a lean, trim novel with a graceful prose style that will remind us of why we like to read.

Download or read book Keep the Wind in Your Face written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of the contemporary American West, Keep the Wind in Your Face takes place in the big outdoors. It features men and women, horses and big-game hunting, and a strong sense of landscape as a presence in the action. It portrays adventure that is realistic to the modern West, with a healthy absence of television melodrama. This novel has a spare but eloquent prose style that matches its subject.

Download or read book Two Novellas written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gather My Horses written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble's brewing. Big trouble. A couple of the big ranchers in the area have been pushing around the smaller ones, bullying them, and a few of the smaller ranchers aren't going to take it anymore. Tom Fielding runs a string of packhorses and works for the big outfits, but that doesn't mean he's ready to stand by and do nothing. Lots of folks have warned him not to take sides, not to make powerful enemies. But Tom knows when something is just plain wrong, you have to stand up against it ... even if that means putting yourself in the middle of an all-out war. “Spur-winner Nesbitt doesn’t write traditional novels or routine shoot-em-ups. Gather My Horses is an emotional story, full of believable people with rich detail and a sense of purpose. Nesbitt breathes life, rich in characterization, to this beautifully written novel.” —Roundup Magazine

Download or read book Adventures of the Ramrod Rider written by John D. Nesbitt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have grown weary of SEX and VIOLENCE—If you feel you have overdosed with accounts of TAWDRY LUST, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, and BRUTAL MURDERS—Try a refreshing change. Sip from the cup of comedy, parody, and satire, laced now and then with poetry and song, topped with a dollop of pristine ROMANCE. Yes, gentle reader, you may fortify yourself against the VILE DEGRADATION and CRUEL INJUSTICES of the modern age by sampling from the medicinal tonic of the ADVENTURES OF THE RAMROD RIDER!