Pirates Vs. Cowboys by Aaron Reynolds and David Barneda

Pirates Vs. Cowboys by Aaron Reynolds and David Barneda, 34 pages

Pirates Vs. Cowboys was a really cute book about pirates and cowboys.  It is really more so about the language each of these groups is distinctively known for.  Simply stated pirates speak like pirates and cowboys speak like cowboys.  Who will translate for them?  Of course the obvious choice to translate is Pegleg Highnoon!

Learning To Ride by Erin Knightley

Learning to Ride by Erin Knightley, 128 pages

Learning To Ride is another one of James Patterson's Bookshots Flames (in other words, a very short romance novel).  Although, these Bookshots are engaging reads, they almost read too short.  It only takes about an hour to read one of these Bookshots.

In Learning To Ride, Madeline Harper finds herself temporarily in Texas while managing a corporate takeover.  But things get complicated when Madeline meets local rodeo star Tanner Callen.  Can Madeline tame the bachelor enough to settle down or will she return to New York with a broken heart?

Christmas in Cowboy Country Janet dailey

Christmas in Cowboy Country Janet dailey  277p

Ski instructor Annie Bennett doesn't have time to miss the twinkling lights and holiday parties in Aspen and Vail. With her older brothers gone and winter just around the corner, her parents need help with their sprawling Colorado ranch. The most wonderful time of the year isn't always easy for a lot of the folks in their town, but Annie does her best--until the tall, dark, and rugged surveyor on their neighbor's land becomes a potent distraction. . .Wyoming born and bred, Marshall Stone is a practical man. But there's something about Annie that's as wild and sweet as the mountain wind. He doesn't want to tame her. Just love her. Annie Bennett is all he wants for Christmas. And for always. But she's too wary to believe he means it. Until he takes her in his arms and explains without saying a single word

Trails Plowed Under: -Charles M. Russell, 1926, 210 pages

Hollywood western movies have been a staple for over 100 years now. We are so inured by the silver screen version, that it is hard to separate reality from a movie director’s version of the old west.

Here are 43 short stories (many told and heard around a campfire) that are, mostly, humorous. Stories from someone who lived in Montana when Indians, buffalo, and cattle still roamed freely. A time when the plow was just beginning to turn under the old trails.

This may be one of my favorite books.

Robert B. Parkers Ironhorse by Robert Knott

Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse  Robert Knott  pgs. 374

"For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone.  Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories.  Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with their bodyguards and $500,000 in tow, their journey suddenly becomes a lot more complicated." From Amazon.com

 This is another great Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch story! Robert Knott has got the dialogue of these two cowboys down pat. Great story, awesome shoot-'em-up scenes, mean bad guys, kidnapping beautiful women for ransom, all the things that you need in a wonderful  western story.