Frank Bonham Boeken

This collection of seven stories showcases Bonham's diverse style, memorable characters, well-researched historical detail, and riveting action sequences.

This collection features five compelling western tales centered on men who exhibit unwavering courage and resilience. Each story explores themes of honor, conflict, and the struggle for justice in a rugged landscape, highlighting the characters' determination to defend their beliefs and protect their way of life. The narratives capture the essence of the western genre, showcasing the trials and triumphs of individuals who confront adversity head-on.

The collection features Grif Holbrook, a seasoned troubleshooter and shotgun guard for the Butterfield line, navigating the challenges of stagecoach life. Each short novel showcases his blend of toughness and kindness, set against a backdrop of action-packed adventures. With vivid characters and the excitement of blazing six-guns, these tales capture the spirit of the Wild West through Grif's experiences on the trail.

Trago was a man of the West. His Stetson was pushed back on his head, and his big shoulders sloped. A gun hung on his hip. Tom Trago was rough and earthy - a product of the wild free land. Trago was also the last of a breed. The open country, which made men like Trago, was disappearing, parceled up by land-grabbing homesteaders. Trago and his cowmen couldn't live with fences. They needed space and plenty of it. In September of 1893, Trago is remembering when his nearest neighbors were the Ponca Indians; when he could ride all day and not cross a fence; when Oklahoma was as wild as the hot prairie wind. In twenty-four hours there would be a land rush the likes of which no one had ever seen. The last of the open range would be settled and fenced, unless Trago and a renegade congressman could turn back history with their guns.

""Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" first appeared under the title "Sergeant Finney's Dirty-Shirt Army" in Dime Western (6/46)"--Title page verso.

When Rufus Henry gets out of work camp for Grand Theft Auto, he has only one place to go--back to Durango Street. Almost right away, he gets on the wrong side of the Gassers, has to join the rival Moors, and starts running for his life. Years ahead of its time, Durango Street, like The Outsiders, shows that gang violence is, sadly, nothing new--and nothing glamorous. "A starkly realistic, convincing, well-written teen novel." School Library Journal

Jim Harlan had to rawhide a railroad across some of the wildest country of New Mexico, but the cattlemen of the Magdalena Basin had an even tougher job. They had to try to stop him! What Harlan knew about railroading was slung from his belt, but it was more than enough.

With his riveting, action-packed stories, Frank Bonham has long been known as one of the premier writers of the West. This volume brings together some of his most memorable works and intriguing characters, including: two riverboat partners whose sympathies lie with opposing sides during the War Between the States, a former army captain on the trail of the embezzler who framed him, a rancher who risks his life by refusing to "harvest" wild mustangs for their hides, and a mapmaker pressed into service by a gang of outlaws to help them find a lost army payroll. In each story, Bonham draws you back in time to experience the way of the West as it really was.

"Rodeo Killer" is the tale of smoldering and violent conflicts among New Mexico cattle ranchers, cattle buyers, and breeders of horses for the rodeo circuit. "Mission Creek", in the Red river region of Texas, is the background for this fiery tale of Ruel Starrett, who has struggled all his life to gain a foothold in ranching.

Outcasts of Rebel Creek collects four of the best stories from one of the finest writers of the genre. Frank Bonham captures all the action and adventure of the most colorful characters to ever ride the West. In this volume, you'll meet a gambler trying to clear his family name, a resourceful rancher who has to fight both a terrible drought and an unscrupulous cattle buyer, rough-and-tumble outlaws trying to survive the harsh High Sierras, and a young Texan who undertakes a gritty drive to Mexico during the Civil War. Bonham's writing is so vivid you can almost hear the creak of harness leather, smell the powder smoke, and feel the trail dust.