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Jennifer Ryan: Why I Write Cowboy Romances

November 15, 2019
I fell in love with the ranch when I was just a girl. My friend lived out in the country where you couldn’t see your neighbor’s house and the land stretched out for what seemed like miles. I loved visiting her and running wild across her property. Most of all, I loved the horses. When...

Books We Love: Mollyfar

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January 11, 2019
Mollyfar by Bonnie Hobbs is hard to put down.  Readers will find themselves turning pages as fast as they can to see what happens next.  In rural Texas, 1886, young Wade Devlin’s bullying father pushes him down a back alley for his first visit to a “soiled dove.”  He encounters innocent Molly Faro, desperate and...

Books We Love: Lady Long Rider

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January 2, 2019
In 2005, 50-year old Bernice Ende wanted to find out what kind of horsewoman she was, so she set out on a 5,000-mile ride.  Atop an 8-year old thoroughbred mare named Honor, Ende traveled from her home in Trego, Montana, to New Mexico.  Adorned in a broad-brimmed cowgirl hat and accompanied by her dog Claire,...

Books We Love: Junior Bonner

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October 24, 2018
On August 2, 1972, a movie starring Steve “the King of Cool” McQueen entitled Junior Bonner premiered.  Directed by Academy Award nominee Sam Peckinpah, the film was about a veteran rodeo cowboy who stayed too long in the saddle, but still clung to the determination to succeed in the sport.  The screenplay was written by...

Books We Love: Rough Animals

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October 17, 2018
Rae DelBianco’s debut novel Rough Animals:  An American Western Thriller is equal parts charming, strange, unpredictable, and genuinely horrifying.  Wyatt Smith and his twin sister Lucy are the central figures in the gripping tale.  They live alone on a ranch in Utah where they tend to the cattle that serves as their income.  While out...

Books We Love:The Principles Of Posse Management: Lessons from the Wild West for Today’s Leaders

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September 26, 2018
The Principles of Posse Management: Lessons from the Wild West for Today’s Leaders is a collection of tales that reveal what Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, and other legends of the Old West knew about leadership.  That’s a clever twist on the classic shoot-em-up, black-hats-vs-white-hats story. In nearly every Western film prior to 1950, you’ll...

Books We Love: Girl With A Gun

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August 8, 2018
What’s better than a good, old-fashioned murder mystery?  A famous cowgirl helping to solve a good, old-fashioned murder mystery.  That’s the premise of author Kari Bovee’s book Girl With A Gun.  When sharpshooter extraordinaire Annie Oakley’s Indian assistant is poisoned, she decides to investigate and find the culprit who took the life of the beloved...

Books We Love: Romance For The Summer

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May 25, 2018
Enjoy these romance novels that are perfect to read by the beach this summer. Texas Fierce by Janet Dailey (Kensington) He came home to sell his family’s failing ranch, but once twenty-year-old Bull Tyler sets foot on the Rimrock, he’s determined to tame the rugged land and make it his own. Then Bull sets eyes on...

Books We Love: The Golden Elixir Of The West

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May 18, 2018
If your thirst for knowledge equals you thirst for spirits, then the book by authors Sherry Monahan and Jane Perkins entitled The Golden Elixir of the West:  Whiskey and the Shaping of America is the perfect read.  The golden elixirs that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls...
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