Western Mexico

This is about the missing women in New Mexico. Due to professions of these women there is some sexual graphic content. So readers Beware. Also there is a lot of violent content due to the nature of the story. The book is fiction based on the authors investigation into the story. He did not want to put down the victims. His main goal was to give investigators some insight to the crime. His main goal is that the crime gets solved and the victims and their families get some much needed justice. Please don't read if sexual and graphic violence upsets you.

A family curse. A frontier reckoning. And a darkness that remembers every sin. RC Sandoval didn’t return to Clayton, New Mexico, looking for redemption. After the divorce and the war, he wanted quiet. But when his estranged father dies, RC inherits the remote high‑desert ranch he grew up on—and the secrets buried beneath it. Something is wrong on the land. Cattle won’t settle. Tracks appear where nothing should walk. Shadows move with intent. And when bodies begin turning up—torn apart in ways no predator could manage—RC realizes the past he tried to escape has teeth. Something ...

RC Sandoval has faced monsters, killers, and the ghosts of his own past — but nothing in his life prepared him for what waits in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When a legendary lost treasure resurfaces, RC is pulled into a deadly hunt that cuts through abandoned mining camps, cartel‑scarred borderlands, and the haunted high country where the land itself feels alive… and hungry. What starts as a search for answers becomes a fight for survival against a creature born of frontier violence, starvation, and the unforgiving mountains. As bodies fall and old wounds reopen, RC must rely on ...

A little after midnight, a barefoot young man crossed a dark bedroom in Fort Sumner and asked, in Spanish, ¿Quién es? — who is it? Pat Garrett fired twice. The boy on the floor was about twenty-one. Within a year the legend had already swallowed him whole. The story you think you know is mostly invention. The presses of the East turned Henry McCarty into a grinning monster who had murdered a man for every year he lived. The real young man was harder, sadder, and far more interesting than the poster the dime novels printed. This book separates the documented record from the myth. A New ...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond. "Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling...

What if the whispers you hear on the wind are real? In the shadows of modern Mexico, ancient legends are not dead. They wait on lonely highways, they cry from the riverbanks, and they watch with unblinking eyes from a haunted island. This is a land where a deal with a handsome stranger in black can cost you your soul, where the starched uniform of a ghostly nurse still rustles in hospital hallways, and where the thing that hunts your livestock is not from this world. Urban Legends from Mexico is a curated collection of thirteen of the country's most terrifying folk tales, masterfully retold...

A Minneapolis Reporter follows the boyhood dream to see Where Goes The River. On Memorial Day, 1925, he embarked from the headwaters of the Mississippi River-Lake Itasca, and spent the next 105 days on the river, becoming the first person to have made the complete 2500-mile journey by canoe. Averaging nearly 30 miles per day Tousley and his three separate companions, endured the elements and enjoyed the mighty grandeur of the river in the only way that one can truly experience it. . . by canoe. A 17-foot wood and canvas beauty named Charles H. Curly of St. Paul their canoe bore the brunt of...

The first prequel in Larry McMurtry’s beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)...

Johnny Black rides again! A brand-new Johnny Black adventure! Number seven in the Texas based saga that began with Fate Rides A Tall Horse, set in 1869. It's 1877 and Johnny Black is blessed with a growing family, and an expanding ranch and farming operation, west of San Antonio, Texas. He’s happy, and after being kidnapped and almost killed in New Orleans, has vowed to never leave home again. But when his in-laws are kidnapped and held for ransom deep in Mexico, he is determined to rescue them, even though it means putting his own life in danger. Realizing he will need help, he hires '...

A hair-raising biography of the hunter, scout, and adventurer, Kit Carson. Perfect for readers of Hampton Sides, Stephen Brennan and H. W. Brands. At seventeen Christopher “Kit” Carson left Kentucky and headed west. By the end of his life he had become a living legend, with dime novels exclaiming his accomplishments across the breadth of the country. But what was the truth behind these renowned stories and who was the real Kit Carson? Noel Gerson’s fascinating biography uncovers the reality this extraordinary man, often proving more astounding than any of the novels. Kit Carson: Folk ...

BONDED BY BLOOD, BIRACIAL BY BIRTH AND HEROINES BY CHOICE…THE WILDES OF THE WEST ! It’s Mexican mayhem as sinister sex traffickers, banditos and a murderous, masked mad man are only the beginning when beauties, bad hombres and plenty of bullets mix it up in the part one of the Danger Down Mexico Way trilogy. Settling into her new life in 1913 Arizona, Allie Mastluehr is plunged deeper into the 1870’s escapades of the Wilde sisters and their forays south of the border fraught with danger, intrigue and a healthy dose of sexual adventuring. Enthralled by Catalina and Cassandra’s battle...

In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position with a doctor in the New Mexico Territory. She knows the journey from New York to Santa Fe will not be easy, but she relishes the adventure. However, nothing could have prepared her for the wilderness she encounters. Its vastness and power are awe-inspiring, stunning in both beauty and brutality. To endure, she must learn to rely on her fellow travelers—and one enigmatic man in particular. As the small, tight-knit group tackles challenge after challenge, she feels her heart opening to this rugged land.

Most readers have been taught that philosophy began in Greece—and that everything else is myth, religion, or folklore. This book quietly overturns that assumption. An Introduction to Aztec Philosophy reveals a sophisticated tradition of thought developed by the Nahua people of ancient Mexico—one that grappled seriously with truth, ethics, uncertainty, beauty, and the sacred long before European contact. This is not a book about gods and legends alone. It is a book about how human beings learned to live wisely in a world they knew was fragile, unpredictable, and in constant motion. ...

Sold to settle a debt… she never chose this life. When Willa Portman is taken to a saloon as payment for a debt she didn’t create, fear becomes her constant companion. Alone and desperate on the Texas frontier, her future seems sealed—until one man steps in and changes everything. Justin O'Connor is a rugged cowboy determined to build a life in the growing settlement of Everheart Ridge. He never intended to interfere, but when he sees a frightened young woman being forced into a life she doesn’t deserve, he can’t walk away. In a land where survival is never guaranteed, doing the ...

Eleventh in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as ...

Greatest Mystery of the Southwest USA Perhaps the most fascinating chapter in Southwest history is the tale of the mysterious, “vanished” Anasazi Indians. Their tremendous achievements can be found in many places, including the spectacular cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park. But the crest of the Anasazi wave was in Chaco Canyon, a shallow, windswept wash in northwest New Mexico. Here, 1,000 years ago, strange and unexplained events unfolded, events which continue to intrigue scientists and visitors today. In this book, you'll delve into the mystery: Why choose inhospitable ...

A Sweeping History of the Great State of New Mexico For centuries, New Mexico has been a place where cultures collide, adapt, and endure. From the ancient cliff dwellings of Chaco Canyon to the secret laboratories of Los Alamos, from the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 to the meth epidemic of the twenty-first century, this sweeping history reveals a state unlike any other in America. Here, nineteen pueblo communities maintain languages and ceremonies that predate European contact. Spanish colonial settlements still dot the landscape, their residents descended from conquistadors and settlers who ...

Land is only yours if you can keep it. Having wrested control of the Apacheria from the mighty Cochise and his many allies, a different fight begins to unfold south of the Gadsden Line. No longer on the offensive, Arizonans must now prove themselves capable of protecting their settlements, defending their forts, and maintaining their shipping routes if the Old Pueblo is to survive as anything more than a ghost town. With the Civil War now a figment of the past and the mighty Cochise all but whipped, the focus of the territorial government has shifted swiftly to the unrealized dream of ...

This bundle includes Basil of Baker Street, Basil and the Cave of Cats, Basil in Mexico, and Basil in the Wild West.

“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street Journal An eye-opening account of where our water...