Matthew P. Mayo Boeken

"DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He also finds himself smack in the middle of the infamous and all-too-real Sheep Wars, in which dozens of sheepherders are murdered and few of the attacking cattlemen are ever held accountable"--

Western Writers of America 2022 Spur Award FinalistA rancher discovers just how many times a man's luck can hold out in this thrilling novel in the bestselling Trail Drive SeriesAfter struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana.He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers, sickness, long, broiling days and frigid nights.Halfway to Montana, range pirates and a rogue Apache war party close in. Mitch and the boys fight, grim and helpless, watching as their herd is driven westward in a cloud of dust and cackling laughter.Cut down to two bloodied men, Mitch collapses, far too late, and admits the old man has won the bet. But salvation in the form of a Basque sheepherder revives Mitch and his pal, Drover Joe, and Mitch realizes he isn't done. Not by a long shot. And now he has nothing to lose.

A solitary man's winter trek in the Bitterroots transforms into a perilous rescue mission when he discovers his mentor, Maple Jack, in a state of distress over the abduction of Winter Woman, a skilled healer. As he navigates treacherous terrain and faces ravenous wolves, Roamer confronts the terrifying Alooknok demons. The journey plunges him into a dark, ominous realm where survival hinges on a brutal confrontation among friends and foes, leaving lasting scars on the few who endure.

Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears! The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, from Custer's final moments to John Wesley Powell's treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region's history and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.

"Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the East comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his "aunt" is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty Gunnar Tibbs, believes in his innocence and sets about mentoring the tenderfoot. Fletcher is a quick study with the revolver, and the unlikely pair set out to clear Fletcher's name and track down the real killer. What they don't know is that someone is stalking them in Skin Varney, the notorious, unsavory brute his father double-crossed years before. Fletcher Ralston has to learn the ways of the West, and fast. Or he'll die with his spats on"--

On his way to visit his old mentor, Maple Jack, Roamer makes a brief supply stop in the raw, flyblown town of Forsaken, Wyoming. There he encounters a man from his past, who possesses the deed to a valuable ranch. The type of property people kill for. Roamer begrudgingly agrees to escort the young man and a shifty gold digger of a woman deep into the Bitterroot Mountains in search of the mysterious ranch. Fearing Roamer has met with disaster, Maple Jack tracks him into the mountains and joins in the quest. But as they make their way to the ranch, they realize nothing is as it seems, as lies layer on lies and bloodshed becomes all too common. If they can't stop the killing, Roamer and Maple Jack realize they will die in the cold little ranch valley...well north of Forsaken.