Gary McCarthy

Explosion at Donner Pass: Derby Man Series, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene

The thundering engines of the Central Pacific are stalled in the quest to conquer the mighty Sierras. Only a mountain of a man, Darby Buckingham, could pound the railroad through the granite walls of trouble. Atop sheer rock cliffs just a death plunge away from the surging river a thousand feet below, braving punishing cold, Darby must lay down track, foot by hard-blasted foot, with a construction crew that is threatening to tear itself apart with vicious fighting.

River Thunder

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Kevin Foley

On the vast and indescribably beautiful South Rim of the Grand Canyon a young Hualapai boy faces a bleak future in 1902. River Thunder's mother has just passed into the Spirit World and River Thunder will carry his flute, courage and trusting innocence to the Hackberry Day School still standing today on old Route 66 while never once imagining how his fate will one day soar like an eagle over the magnificent Grand Canyon.

Wind River

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Laurie Klein

In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between outlaw and citizen was thinly drawn, two women struggled, fought, and won. Rebecca, the elder, beautiful and defiant, found herself in the majestic mountains of Utah, forced to marry a brutal polygamist. All she wanted was to become a physician - and a free woman. Katie, younger, innocent, passionate, risked her life so her sister might have a chance for freedom. She risked all to establish a sprawling sheep ranch and prove that a woman could do it all - on her own.

Mesa Verde

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene

Two Colorado cowboys searching for strayed cattle during a harsh snow storm discover the remains of an ancient city built into the side of a huge cliff. It is the ruined city of the Anasazi Indians, a civilization lost for over a thousand years. This is the story of how Mesa Verde, the cliff city, came to be. It is A.D. 400 at the Animus river Valley in what is now Northwestern New Mexico, and Echata, the leader of the Raven Clan, was concerned for his people.

The American River: Rivers West

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Michael Taylor
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire. At his side was Morgan Beck, out to stake his own claim at the confluence of two powerful rivers, the Sacramento and the American.

The Derby Man: The Derby Man, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Darby Buckingham was an unlikely candidate for frontier life. From his round-toed shoes to his derby hat, he was a man of culture, a creature of comfort, who liked his gourmet restaurants and expensive cigars. The short, stocky New Yorker made a fortune writing dime novels about the old west.

The Pony Express War: The Derby Man Series, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Look sharp, hit hard - that's the Derby Man's style. He's a fast-moving mountain of muscle who throws himself into the thick of the West's greatest adventures - like the Pony Express, a grueling 2,000 mile race through hell. The pace and terrain are deadly enough but vengeful Paiute warriors and murdering saboteurs led by a sadistic giant threaten to turn the route into a trail of blood. Then one man with the guts to save the Pony Express stepped forward - the Derby Man.

Showdown at Snakegrass Junction: The Derby Man, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The hat fit him, the tin star didn't. But when his pal, Sheriff Zeb Cather, was taken out of action, Darby Buckingham started playing lawman to the town of Running Springs, Wyoming. And the town sure needed him now, the gun-slick honchos of neighboring Snakegrass Junction were determined to blast Running Springs out of existence. Darby was a man of fierce loyalties and fiercer courage.

Silver Shot: The Derby Man, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A man could mine fabulous wealth on the Comstock, but Darby Buckingham strikes only a mother lode of trouble. With his sledgehammer fists and sharply honed wits, Darby sets out to expose a spellbinding stock manipulator. Rigging a boxing match that becomes a nightmare of punishment, sabotaging a mine shaft into a pit of death - Darby's rattle-snake of an opponent baits him ruthlessly.

Grand Canyon

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene

Here is the bold adventure story of William Dunn, an educated man yet an accomplished mountain man. His life becomes forever entwined with the wild, unforgettable, Grand Canyon. He hires on as a guide for the John Wesley Powell historic expedition into the Grand Canyon, but then leaves the expedition to guide two men back to civilization.

Mando

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Maynard Villers
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Mando Killion's world was shattered by Santa Anna's brutal invasion of Texas. Scion of a wealthy ranching dynasty, he saw his father die at the Alamo, his mother and brothers murdered, and his beautiful sister taken hostage by a debauched Mexican General. Mando came of age during the most violent days of Texas history, as a hearty band of patriots led by Sam Houston fought a bloody revolution for freedom from tyranny.

Mustang Fever: The Derby Man Series, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Darby Buckingham, the portly New York writer, had an appetite for local color to add punch to his newest dime novel. But when Hench Hightower rode into town with his half-dead herd of mustangs, Darby had no stomach for what he saw. It was time to end a vicious cattle baron's control of the Nevada range...time to end the murder of the mustangs. Darby looked like a dude, but he'd fight like a demon. Caught up in a stampeding adventure, Buckingham swore he'd live to tell the tale.

Colter's Hell

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene

For young Quinn Wallace, reaching the land called Yellowstone was a quest he would rather die for than abandon. For the courageous woman who fell in love with him, it was a reason to surrender everything she once held dear. Pursued by her vengeful husband, the lovers fought their way into the mythical land, and then fought to stay.

Best of the West Expanded Edition, Vol. 1: Classic Stories from the American Frontier

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Zane Grey, Will Henry, Elmer Kelton, and others
• Narrated By Roseanne Cash, Crystal Gayle

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger, between heroes and villains. The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers. Here's the most varied collection of short stories, by 17 highly acclaimed Western writers.

Best of the West Expanded Edition, Vol. 2: Classic Stories from the American Frontier

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Zane Grey, Elmer Kelton, Matt Braun, and others
• Narrated By Roseanne Cash, Gary Morris, Ed Asner, and others

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger, between heroes and villains. The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers. Here is the most varied collection of short stories by 17 highly acclaimed Western writers.

Sodbuster

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s. Zach and Carrie Bennett, teenaged children of that wretched class, are determined to escape the scorn. They resolve to trek to Texas on foot. They are babes on the prairie, ignorant of the geography and hostility.

Blue Bullet: The Horsemen, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Maynard Villers
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ruff Ballou and his sister Dixie journeyed west with trouble at their heels. But luck is on their side in Rum River, New Mexico, where they race one of their champion thoroughbreds to victory. A rich man’s greed pits their good fortune against Ruff's life and they must take up a money-making challenge to capture Blue Bullet, the legendary stallion that no man has yet tamed. But their worst enemy is time. A bounty has been placed on Blue Bullet, dead or alive, and savage killers are out to collect that reward.

The Ambushers: The Horsemen, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Maynard Villers

On their way to Colorado, Ruff and Dixie Ballou drive their horses through New Mexico. Their intention to quietly drive the horses on through goes well until they find themselves inadvertently involved in a shootout with four outlaws who robbed the banks of a small town in New Mexico. An edgy sheriff and angry townspeople get the Ballou’s involved in a situation they would be more happy to do without. Even more so when they are arrested by the sheriff as robbery suspects.

The Gila River: Rivers West Series, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Gary McCarthy
• Narrated By Gene Engene
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert. Along its banks, fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards, and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land. There is Miguel Santana, a young Spaniard abandoned by his comrades; his Pima son Vitorio; Jacova, a woman whose indomitable spirit tamed a mighty Apache warrior; and the "man of three bloods".

The river belongs to all, and to none. On the banks of the Gila, their lives all come together, in love and in war.