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Through sheer determination, the diamond V ranch has flourished in the hands of Dianne and Cole Selby. But when a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family.

"The pioneers who took up homesteads on the raw sagebrush land of the great Columbia Basin were men and women of real fortitude and courage. Their struggles to make homes and raise crops, with the great scarcity of water which then existed, is an epic to match that of other earlier Western pioneers." "The author was a child of ten when the Joseph W. Tice family moved to a homestead north of the present town of Othello, Washington. Other homestead...

In 1889, the Unassigned Lands were becoming the Oklahoma Territory, igniting a violent homesteading land rush. Among the pioneers was a veteran of Dodge City, a lawman by trade but a dreamer at heart. Now Tilghman is about to begin the relentless journey that will make his name a true legend in the West--in an epic contest with outlaw Bill Doolin.

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer - who "The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson - will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks...

Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, "Every Fixed Star" brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest.