Crime Old West

Great value! 5 Book Box Set ONLY 99c! Read FREE on Kindle Unlimited! 5 complete classic western stories full of action, adventure, romance, mystery and intrigue as 5 lawmen bring outlaws to justice. Revenge and retribution lead to truth and justice always prevailing. The collection includes: Ben’s Revenge Abe’s Justice Blake’s Retribution Seth's Vengeance Todd's Vendetta

In the romantic narrative of the Old West, two larger-than-life characters emerged as the perfect foils for each other - the rampant outlaw and the heroic peace officer. Without the villain, sheriffs would not have needed to uphold the law; and without the sheriff, villains would have had no law to break. Together, both personalities fought, lost, and triumphed amid shootouts, train robberies, and bank holdups against the backdrop of the lawless American frontier.

He was not Robin Hood. He was a Confederate guerrilla, a political terrorist, and a killer—and a newspaper editor turned him into a hero while he was still robbing trains. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James took off his gun belt, climbed onto a chair to straighten a picture, and Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head for reward money and a pardon. The dust was still settling when the legend swallowed the man whole. Within hours, the murder of the most wanted man in America became a national sensation, and Ford became “the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard.” But the legend of ...

American Outlaws: The Bandits, Rebels, and Renegades Who Became Legend They robbed banks, held up trains, and defied the law. Some were killers. Some were folk heroes. All became immortal. The American outlaw is more than a criminal—he's a symbol of rebellion in a nation born from revolution. From the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War to the desperate dust bowl years, these were the men and women who chose freedom over law, adventure over toil, and infamy over obscurity. They lived fast, died young (usually), and left behind stories that grew more fantastic with every retelling. In ...

One mounted man with a Colt and a badge, supposed to be worth a mob. That was the legend. The truth is older, stranger, and far bloodier. They are the most famous lawmen in American history — pulp heroes, radio idols, the men behind "one riot, one ranger." But the real Texas Rangers began in the 1820s not as police but as an irregular frontier militia: mounted men paid in land and plunder, with no uniforms, no manuals, and no oversight. For fifty years they were less a constabulary than the armed edge of conquest — raised under Stephen F. Austin to take and hold land from the Comanche ...

A fun, high-stakes true crime story story set in the Wild West. Perfect for fans of MONA LISA VANISHES! "Steve Sheinkin is more than an author―he’s a time traveler whose deep research and fabulous writing whisk readers on thrilling rides through history. Kids will be transfixed by this...

A gang of train-robbing brothers. A vigilante army with hemp ropes. And a second act of violence that shocked the nation. In Civil War–era Indiana, the infamous Reno brothers turned rebellion into an art form. From petty cons to the nation’s first moving train robbery, they built a criminal empire fueled by bounty-jumping scams, counterfeit money, and fear. But when the justice system failed, a group of masked vigilantes took matters into their own hands, executing ten members of the gang in three midnight lynchings that blurred the line between justice and murder, and creating an ...

On September 7, 1876, the most famous outlaw gang in America rode into the wrong town. Seven minutes later, it was destroyed. Jesse and Frank James. Cole, Jim, and Bob Younger. Three more hard men, all veterans of Confederate guerrilla warfare. For a decade they had robbed banks and trains across Missouri with near impunity—protected by sympathizers, romanticized by a partisan press, and hunted in vain even by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. They expected Northfield, Minnesota, to give them what the border always had: a fast, terrifying strike and a clean ride home. Minnesota was...

The Old West is a collection of five western themed stories set in the old west. Come along for an authentic trip through the west, the way it really was. Jimson Jones, Sarah Johnson, The Cowboy, The Farmers Wife, To Hang a Thief An excerpt from: Sarah Jones One starless night, the tranquility of Harmony Creek was irrevocably broken. The rhythmic chirping of crickets was replaced by the terrifying sounds of shattering glass and panicked screams. A nightmare descended upon the peaceful farm. The familiar comfort of home was replaced by a brutal violence, a darkness that would sear itself ...

It is a chill and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that proves a tangled maze of unrequited loves, unrevenged wrongs, and even undiscovered murders. Inspector Jury finds no...

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the New York Times–bestselling series. After hunting down murderer and bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch...

Set in 1879, SIX-GUN RETRIBUTION follows the cowboy adventures of Gunfighter Edward Landon as he sets off across the wild west searching for six outlaws he holds responsible for his mother's death. This contemporary action novel features a wide range of western characters, including lawmen, gunslingers, outlaws, Mexican bandits, Indian rebels, and bounty hunters. Andy Munro’s SIX-GUN RETRIBUTION includes realistic characters, historic wild west locations, fast-paced cowboy dialogue, action, mystery and suspense mixed with humour and romance. Synopsis The journey begins as Landon rides his...

The most famous female outlaw of the American West robbed no banks, led no gang, and was convicted of exactly one crime. The legend did the rest. On a muddy bottomland road in the Choctaw Nation, two days short of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley Starr was blasted from her horse by a shotgun fired from behind a fence. No one was ever convicted. Within weeks, the penny press resurrected her as "Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen" — a horseback Amazon in velvet and pistols who ruled a kingdom of thieves. Almost none of it was true. This is the documented woman behind the dime-...

They were the last great outlaw gang of the American West — and they didn't lose to a sheriff's posse. They lost to a corporation. Robert LeRoy Parker, a Mormon rancher's son who took the name Butch Cassidy, and Harry Longabaugh, the quiet, deadly marksman the world called the Sundance Kid, rode the last open trails of a vanishing frontier. From the legendary hideouts at Hole-in-the-Wall and Robbers Roost, they assembled the loose confederation of robbers history remembers as the Wild Bunch, and pulled off a string of bank and train holdups that grew bolder with every job. But the ...

At twelve minutes past midnight, a scream sounds behind the chained door of Room Twenty-One. When Frey Lynch and his companions enter, they find no victim—only fresh blood, an impossible footprint, and a hotel register claiming that a guest departed before he arrived. The locked-room mystery draws the investigators through hidden service shafts, desert ambushes, an abandoned mine, burning ranch country, and a network that has rewritten identities for years. To solve Matthew Rusk’s murder, they must expose the machinery of false witnesses and stolen names. To uncover the older crime ...

Sheriff Tom Burks has seen plenty of violence in the growing towns of the frontier, but when a beaten stranger is found behind a Pecos saloon, the trail leads him into a darkness older than the town itself. What begins as a brutal attack soon connects to an unsolved family massacre, hidden loyalties from the Underground Railroad, and a ruthless killer hiding behind a respectable name. Years later, another trail draws Tom into the Flint Hills, where outlaws, bounty hunters, and the infamous Bloody Benders leave death in their wake. As legends rise from real Kansas history, Tom must trust his...

Eight captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Wild West, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, Seth Bullock, Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley, Jesse James, and Geronimo. Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: What the Native Americans of the West were really like before colonization, how the Spanish were some of the first Europeans to explore the West, the seven years during which Texas was its own country, and much, much more!

He killed Billy the Kid. Twenty-seven years later, someone killed him the same way — a shot from behind, on a lonely road — and to this day no one knows who pulled the trigger. On the morning of February 29, 1908, Pat Garrett stepped down from a buggy on the road outside Las Cruces, New Mexico, and was shot in the back of the head. The most famous lawman in the Southwest died in the dirt with his trousers unbuttoned. His confessed killer was acquitted in minutes. The case was never truly solved. It was a shabby end for the man who, on a dark July night in 1881, had tracked William H. ...

This is a Western mystery about evidence, memory, inherited wrongdoing, and the limits of justice. Tom can no longer rely on speed or endurance alone. He must trust Sheriff Ben, Deputy Samuel Reed, Clara Bell, his brother Joe, and the steady judgment age has left him. The story stands on its own, while carrying forward people and events introduced in The Law Between Graves

Step into one of North America’s last outlaw strongholds of the 20th century in this nonfiction book about outlaws in the Old West. Station No. 1 on the Outlaw Trail takes you back in time to the Big Muddy Badlands—a rugged, lawless landscape once known as the Devil’s Playground. The maze of buttes, ravines, and hidden coulees straddled the Canada–U.S. border between Montana and Saskatchewan. This made the area a perfect refuge for horse thieves and cattle rustlers clinging to the dying days of the Wild West. As the frontier closed in, the Outlaw Trail that ran from Canada through ...