Cook: 1663 books

By the mid–1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public’s confidence in the sport and its very existence as a professional enterprise. Recognizing this, Chicago owner William A. Hulbert and seven of his colleagues formed the National League, dedicating it to such high-minded ideals as preventing...

This story is a fast moving western. A New York family named Hansom moves west by wagon train. The wagon master turns out to be a gunfighter who falls in love with Carla Hansom. They have many adventures along the way including an encounter with an outlaw sheriff known as Big Steve Long. This is the...

A novelette about a family who travels with a wagon train to Colorado in search of gold. They follow the South Platte to Thompson Creek where they make their new home. The daughter falls in love with the wagon master who turns out to have a reputation as a gunfighter. They eventually strike it rich...

In this novelette, a sequel to "Bart of the Badlands", Buck and Bart form a posse to track down a wild gang who killed most of the Riley family. The youngest posse man, James Riley, at age 16 shoots one of the gang members in Denver. The outlaw gang is then tracked to Salt Lake where they met their end.

A spoof about a planned attach on the US by Iran using a high energy electro-magnetic pulse generated by a high level nuclear explosion. A high tech pot smoking nerd saves the President and many high ranking officials of the government.

In Part 1 “Six Wagons to Laramie, a Western” a New York family named Hansom moves west by wagon train. The wagon master turns out to be a gunfighter who falls in love with Carla Hansom. “Bart of the Dakota Badlands”, Part 2 is a sequel to “Six Wagons to Laramie” although it may be read...

A teen age boy (Billy) with abusive parents runs away from his tenement home in Brooklyn and hides out in a tent near the Appellation trail in Massachusetts, meets up with a tramp (Bud) and has an adventuresome summer camping out with his new friend. A detective is hired to search for him. Billy Boy's...

This Novelette is a sequel to “The Hero”. It can also be read as a standalone story. The genre could best be described as Fantasy. It takes place mainly at the Winchester Laboratory Incorporated and returns to Yellowstone Park. The main character is the very mysterious “Pedro Gonzales”. Pedro...

In this work of fiction a young man returns from World War I after being poison gassed in a trench in France. He falls in love with a nurse and moves to Arizona where he can breathe and get better on a sheep ranch.

This Novelette I will classify as Science Fiction with subcategories within the following genres; Philosophy, Adventure, Space Exploration, Ecology, Supernatural fiction or Fantasy. The Story takes place about 20 years in the future and continues for another 25 to 30 years beyond that. A world on...

A short fictional western containing romance and adventure. The story is about prospecting and mining for gold in California's Mojave Desert. A family inherits the mine and searches for a mysteriously lost treasure.

In this novelette, the forth in a continuing saga which includes "Six Wagons to Laramie", "Badlands Bart", and "Lawmen of Laramie" James Riley is sought by a bounty hunter and has adventures in Fort Laramie, Montana and The Black Hills of Dakota. He falls in love with Winona, a Lakota Sioux Native American before returning with her to Laramie.

Book 1 is a story of a computer nerd who gets involved with dangerous gangsters and comes into a large sum of money. In Book 2 A young man returns from World War I after being gassed in a trench in France. He moves to Arizona where he can breathe and gets better. In Book 3 a family travels to Colorado...

This book contains four short western stories. The first is a mystery involving lost gold and takes place in the Mojave Desert of California. Second is about a singing cowboy on the run from a bounty hunter. Third is an adventure about a prospector who becomes a step father to a young lady who grows...