Burr Cook: 26 books

This book contains a collection of 20 stories all of which are sold separately but are much less expensive in this form. It is Burr's complete works through April 2015. The contents herein are historical fictional adventure and romance stories 11 of which are westerns. The book begins with a Civil...

In this novelette an ex WWII POW, a B-17 gunner, returns home only to find that his wife has left him taking his child he has never seen. He finds it necessary to return to Germany in order to clear his conscience and cure a severe depression caused by an incident that occurred while at the POW camp...

This novelette is the sixth in the series known as “The Laramie Saga”. Rather than at Laramie, this story takes place mainly on the trail and at the Lakota Sioux Reservation in the Black Hills. Texas Long Horns are driven to the starving Lakota Sioux and the cavalry men at Fort Laramie attempt...

In this novelette a computer programmer, Roland Farber, enjoys having an espresso and discussing philosophy with his friends until a gangster shows up one day and stirs things up a little. Roland is a bit gullible and when he agrees to give the newcomer a ride. He finds a large sum of money but it...

This novelette is a fictional story about a man who is hiding out in Toronto as a participant in the witness protection program after testifying against the son of a high level gangster. Somehow he is found by the criminals and hides out on his own in the company of Yellowknife Native Americans. In...

The first story is a fictional novel in which a young man from an Upstate New York community, inherits a South Carolina plantation and becomes a slave owner which is the last thing he wants to be. Although he hasn't given it a lot of thought in the past, he gradually becomes strongly opposed to the...

This is an action packed spy novelette in which a secret experiment in Germany involving changing DNA in a human egg creates a super strong man who escapes from the laboratory and hides out in northern Canada. He meets a beautiful Native American girl by the name of Oriel who he wants to marry but...

This story is a sequel to “The Hanging of Big Steve Long” however it may be read as a standalone novelette. It does loosely follow the prior story and revolves around the same characters. In the first story the Hansom family leaves their New York home to follow a wagon train on the Oregon Trail....

This is a short romantic, action packed, western adventure novelette about a prospector who finds himself in charge of bringing up a girl child named Sandy. He raises her to be a typical cowgirl after he decides to abandon his search for a get rich quick scheme and takes a job on a cattle ranch. Together they have many adventures on the banks of the Snake River in Idaho.

“The Gold Mine Mystery, a Western Novelette, Second Edition” is a short fictional western containing both romance and adventure. The story herein is about a family prospecting and mining for gold in California's Mojave Desert after inheriting the mine. They launch an intensive search for a lost...

This Novelette is about a small group of men and boys who sailed from Plymouth England in the year of 1626 and landed near Cape Cod. They were boat builders and therefore constructed a somewhat seaworthy craft. They were all fleeing from perceived danger and had no plan to return again to England....

This is a book of seven western short stories. Book 1 “Hanging of Big Steve Long”, was published previously under the title “Six Wagons to Laramie”. A family travels with a wagon train headed for Oregon but gets diverted to Laramie. Book 2 is “Bart of the Dakota Badlands” wherein a young...

In book 1 a man in an alcoholic coma has a fantasy dream remembering adventures experienced by ancient ancestors caught up in the approaching ice age. He takes some of his modern knowledge with him into the past and becomes a slayer of mastodons. This is a fast moving adventure story with a little...

Book 1 is “The Cowgirl and the Prospector.” This is a short, action packed, western adventure story about a prospector who finds himself in charge of bringing up a girl child named Sandy. He raises her to be a typical cowgirl after he decides to abandon his search for a get rich quick scheme and...