Steve Gabany: 240 books

Hankering for a transporting read that will take you back to a simpler time? Settle in with Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories from renowned Kentucky author John Fox Jr. Whether you're a homesick Southerner who desperately needs a dose of way-back-when nostalgia or a true-blue Yankee who's...

Originally published in 1886, this is the second cowboy autobiography ever published - a story of the romance and adventures of a life on the plains with the varied experiences as cowboy, stock-owner, and rancher. C. C. Post lived through the Wild West's golden years, and writes with a clear sense...

Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855—October 18, 1928), was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant...

William Bonney, or Billy the Kid as he was commonly known, was a cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equaled in the annals of criminal history. When a bullet pierced his heart, he was less than twenty-two years of age, and had killed over twenty-one men, including American Indians. This...

Bowie left home in South Carolina when he was about 23, searching fruitlessly for the famous Spanish silver mine in Texas for some time. He married, but in short order, the fight for Texas independence from Mexico began. He sent his wife, the daughter of the Vice-Governor of Texas, along with her...

From the Preface: To travel over the ground where these cattle once grazed in countless numbers and see the domestic kind now driven to the pastures by little children; to see the broad prairies, where formerly a ride of a thousand miles would not reveal a furrow or fence, now checkered over with...

This is the first book Lewis wrote about cowboy life in the Wild West cattle camp of Wolfville, Arizona in the late 1800s. The stories are hilarious, told in the "cowboy dialect" we have to come to expect in late-19th century western novels. This edition of the book contains all 19...

This is the second of a series of books Lewis wrote about cowboy life in the Wild West cattle town of Wolfville, Arizona in the late 1800s. Each one is a collection of sketches set in a fictional frontier settlement in the Arizona desert. Ominously called Wolfville, it was no doubt meant to emulate...

This is the third of Mr. Lewis's delightful series of works on Wolfville life. This volume deals with the same characters that appeared in his two preceding books, and the scene is laid in the same locality, Wolfville that Lewis almost certainly emulated the real town of Tombstone. In...

In this 1913 fifth and final collection of Wolfville stories -- Faro Nell and Her Friends -- Alfred Henry Lewis chronicles another cycle of Wolfville happenings with all the old characters -- that have not yet been "shot up" -- appearing in their old roles of Doc Peets, Old Monte, etc. As...

Off to Klondyke or A Cowboy's Rush to the Gold Fields is by Gordon Stables, who knows exactly kind of adventures that the boys best like to about and that give them benefit and not harm. It relates the experiences of some English men and women, girls and boys, who have a hard time in getting to the...

This is a story about a poor Irish youth who starts working at a railroad and, through hard work and capabilities, ends up as its President. It is chock-full of action and adventure, including hold-ups, caught in the snow, and an Indian attack on one of the depots. This edition of the book...

Behind the Veil is a captivating book of mystical, romantic short stories.  Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant, Joseph Wheeler and Amina Cooke Taylor both of Irish descent. She wrote using the pen name Rolt Wheeler, as did her brother, the author...

This is one of the most heart-warming, short Christmas stories you'll come across in a long, long time. It's about a rich little girl, Angel, who walks away from her governess and gets lost going home. She finds herself in a "magic" garden, unexpectedly overhearing the trials and tribulations...