New Large Print Westerns

Winter Counts is a groundbreaking thriller from David Heska Wanbli Weiden about "a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost." (from Amazon.com)

The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series by Craig Johnson is called Next to Last Stand. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist." (from Amazon.com)

The latest Aaron Mackey western by Terrence McCauley is called The Dark Sunrise. U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and his steadfast deputy Billy Sunday are more than ready to see crime boss James Grant and his murderous cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they have wrought upon the citizens of Dover Station, Montana. With Montana’s statehood fast approaching, cruel and murderous men like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of power. Unfortunately, the bigwigs in Helena follow their own set of laws and allow Grant to go free. They also give peacekeeping authority to Colonel Nathan Rigg, Mackey’s former commanding officer during the war. Rigg is just as sadistic and bloodthirsty as Grant, but it seems that Helena’s leaders prefer to keep killers like these under their thumbs, but Mackey and Billy know there is no controlling these monsters and they may just have to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioners. 

The latest Slash and Pecos Western by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone is A Good Day for a Massacre. For Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “the Pecos River Kid” Baker, life on the straight and narrow is not always easy, but they are determined to make an honest go of it. Their sometime employer, U.S. Marshal Bledsoe, asks them to pick up a shipment of gold from a mining town in the Sawatch Range. A ruthless gang has other ideas for that gold, however, and they ambush Slash and Pecos. Not ones to back down from a fight, the two reprobates go after the bandits and they have a little extra help. A lady Pinkerton named Hatty Friendly—though she’s anything but—is also determined to recover the gold, even if that means teaming up with these two ornery old coots. 

In Luck and a Horse: A Western Duo by Max Brand, both stories center on cowardice. The titular character in “Traynor” is thought by everyone to be weak because he let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage he is driving is robbed and his best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed, Traynor chases the thief and recovers the man’s dropped Stetson, which was sold to Dr. Channing less than a month earlier. Traynor confronts Channing and the man takes off, but Traynor gives chase even with his physical weakness threatening to overwhelm him. In “Luck and a Horse,” Tommy Grant works on the farm of tyrant and master manipulator Sylvester Train—who hasn’t paid Tommy in nineteen months. Tommy balks when Train orders him to use his horse, Brownie, to plow. Instead, Tommy is sent to Fruit Dale with two wagons of grain and a shopping list. Tommy finds himself in a back room of the saloon playing cards with jailbird Bert Ellis who is in the sites of gunslinger Lefty Lew Hilton. When Ellis is shot in the middle of the poker game, Tommy finds himself on the run from a hundred posse men who have mistaken him as the killer.