Highlight: Western fiction

 

Before we get even more of a fix on any Western fiction coming to the Library this year, let's highlight some of last year's arrivals that you may not have read yet!

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William W. Johnstone had been writing fiction, particularly Western fiction, from 1979. This totalled to over two hundred books (though not two hundred Westerns). After his death; the name continued with his nephew J. A Johnstone so that the Westerns he was well known for could continue coming. 

The Jensen boys are back! They find themselves inside the meanest, dirtiest prison in the Arizona territory with no chance of surviving unless they bust out of their hellhole.

Once upon a time in the Old West, Buck Trammel was a Pinkerton agent with a promising future. But after a tragic incident in a case gone wrong, he struck out for the wide-open spaces of Wichita, Kansas. But soon enough, his gun skills are put to the test. The Bowman gang show up, turning a friendly card game with a Wyoming cattleman into a killer-takes-all shooting match. Buck saves the cattleman's life, but at the cost of Bowman's two sons. That's when Deputy Wyatt Earp arrives. He warns Buck that he'd better get out of town, pronto, and take the cattle baron with him. The rest is history--if he lives long enough to tell it.

E. Jefferson Clay is a pseudonym for the Australian author, comic book writer and illustrator Paul Wheelahan. So not only should I be highlighting the fact he was an Aussie, but also his talent at Western fiction. Again, his novels ranged in the hundreds as well; but be aware that because he has passed these books are reprints ... still as good as they were the first time round!

They are an odd pair: a one-time Union captain and the former Confederate sergeant. They'd fought each other during the Battle of Pea Ridge and then ended up fighting shoulder to shoulder when a common enemy showed his face and stole two hundred thousand dollars' worth of Confederate gold. Hank Brazos and Duke Benedict never forgot that day, or each other. And when their trails cross again after the War, they team up to reclaim the gold for themselves and get revenge for that day back in 1862.

There was trouble in Fortitude Valley. Someone had set up a lumber camp smack in the middle of cattle country run by paroled convicts! Hank Brazos and Duke Benedict are back and hired to keep the peace between the lumber camp and the Cattleman's Association; however, they have instead landed themselves right in the middle of an all-out war, in which neither side intends to go down without a fight...