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Mail Order Husband: To the Ranch and Meeting Virginia & Her Hidden Sister is about a lonely dockworker who travels west to meet a woman living on a rundown ranch, hoping to find love and companionship with a Christian woman. After a very brief amount of time, he finds himself in love. There is only one obstacle; he has never met her sister who lives in a bedroom upstairs. As he declares his love, events unfold that provide an emotional ending to the tale.

Mail Order Husband: Going to Meet Rebecca, Worth More than Rubies is a wonderful story about a man who heads for Colorado and a family he intends to get to know if they will have him, as he is answered a mail order groom wanted ad. He is a widower and she is a widow and their story after that is an emotional and satisfying one about family, faith, and the love for God.

Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and the Family Quilt Go West for Love is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail order bride fights her feelings, knowing that she is to be married as soon as she gets to the west coast, but it is very hard when the handsome stranger seems to be interested in her, as well.

Mail Order Bride: Emily Seeks out the Traveling Preacher for Love is the emotional story of a Southern woman, right before the Civil War, who is determined to find a childhood sweetheart in a traveling preacher. When he told her that his life was being an evangelist and that traveling across the country wasn't exactly a good life for a Southern lady, she told him that she wanted to join him in his ministry, as she had attended school and learned all about preaching.

Mail Order Bride: Tainted on Her Way to the Colorado Cowboy tells the story of a young woman's journey to Colorado in 1865. She intended on meeting the love of her life after answering an ad in a mail order bride catalogue, but encountered a trying ordeal along the way. Sarah will need to cling to the Lord more than ever as she continues her path toward her Colorado cowboy and the Lord's plan of matrimony.

Mail Order Bride: Emma's Temptation: A Western Historical Christian Romance Story tells the story of Emma taking a leap of faith by responding to a mail-order bride advertisement. Her original motive: financial security to assist her struggling younger siblings. While meeting her cowboy suitor, she begins to genuinely fall in love with the Christian man. She soon meets a rival ranch owner of her cowboy who presents an offer to make her wealthy. The only problem; it involves betraying the trust of her soon-to-be husband.

Mail Order Bride: The Pastors Bible Brings True Love and Marriage is a romantic western love story about a well-established pastor who seeks companionship and love from a good woman, who he hopes will love him back and he can make his wife. What arrived on the coach, sent by his aunt, is far different from that. She is stuck-up, an orphan, looks after her 10-year-old brother, and wants to take the pastor for every dollar she can.

Mail Order Bride: Sent by God to the California Cowboy is about a young woman in New York City who has fallen onto hard times after being released from the orphanage she had been in for a majority of her life. Two kind women take her into a halfway house, but there is reason for her to leave New York immediately. The only way the women feel they can keep her safe is to ship her off to California where their nephew, they tell her, needs a good housekeeper and cook for his ranch.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

Mail Order Bride: Jasmine's Lonely Cowboy is an emotional story about a lonely man with children who sends away for a mail order bride, and in return, gets so much more than he expected.

The autobiographical essays in Edge offer insight into the passions of acclaimed author Jeff Mann. These memories, insightful as they are endearing, range from his boyhood obsession with the gothic allure of Dark Shadows to the doubt and pain of being a Southerner, and so at the edge of the gay community, and the appeal of leather bars and bear culture. Mann also visits gay meccas in these essays - the resorts of Key West, Provincetown, and Rehoboth Beach.

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured. His adversaries in this drama are the executives of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad who disputed the rates and branches of the Iowa Pool of railroads with him. There are also reconcilements in this play, first with Carlos Greeley of the Kansas Pacific bondholders and the other with Henry Villard.

The war continues, and the undead ravage the land. Jirom, Horace, and Emanon begin to hope they might free the empire. But can they manage to do so before the dark king conquers the world? 

Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in "Corrido for Billy". "Lady Flo" is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. "Moving On" depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And "Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?" is the winner of the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction. 

Two young men in the gold fields of California spend a last evening together as one of them, very sick, confronts his own imminent death. The tenderness between them may seem idealized, but you understand by listening to this story how premature death from accident and disease haunted the lives of far more westerners than death by violence.

Bill Ash, an escaped convict returns to find his father murdered.

A quick-draw tale from the wild west. T. T. Flynn has long been popular with listeners as a master of the Western story.

Haseloff's characters embody the fundamental values - honor, duty, courage, and family - that prevailed on the American frontier and were instilled in the young Haseloff by her own "heroes", her mother and her grandmother. Her stories, in a sense, dramatize how these values endure when challenged by the adversities and cruelties of frontier existence.  

When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye. He isn't just Harry anymore, he's the Shifter, a gunfighter who brings trouble with him wherever he goes. And as hard as Harry tries, he finds that a reputation is a lot harder to put down than a gun.

Brother Shotgun is about an old buffalo hunter whose return to the plains after the Civil War keeps being delayed by the needs of a young woman who has taken in a number of orphans.