For Want of a Winter Home

For Want of a Winter Home

Robert O' Hanlin

Robert O' Hanlin

Trey and Mort were cowmen and like all cowboys they worked from dawn til dusk. It was hard work but what they really wanted was what all cowboys wanted...a winter home. It did not always happen that way and when the Texas Rangers looked like the answer they went for it. Hunting men who deserved to be caught was acceptable to them, but killing women and children was not.Trey Belanger's father had come from New Orleans and it lured them to a city where they were out of their element, but it led him to some relatives he did not know he had. It also led him to an appointment with death at the hands of a killer. Dueling was something he knew nothing about but he quickly learned from a kindly old black man.The city was not for these two, they lived for the range and the cattle that peppered it. The wide open spaces and the trail drives were in their blood, but it was always the same when winter came and hands were laid off. Where to find a winter home.The other side...
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Westward the Brothers

Westward the Brothers

Robert O' Hanlin

Robert O' Hanlin

Stories of the free and fertile lands in Oregon were drawing immigrants and settlers alike. The trail had been traveled by thousands before them and although there were troubles brewing with the Sioux it didn't deter the O'Brian family. An experienced wagon master and guide should have been able to get them through, but experience was not enough to save the Cumberland wagon train and most of the O'Brian family.Ryan O'Brian was badly wounded but the help of a young Indian girl saved his life, and it became a life dedicated to her and their son, a life that became more important to him that anything that Oregon had to offer.Travelling through the Sioux country was dangerous for any white man and for a man living under their noses it could be deadly...but it wasn't the Sioux that drove him out of the country he had come to love.His return back to white society was tentative, he would have to answer a lot of questions he was not prepared to answer, but he found...
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Ride a Hard Road

Ride a Hard Road

Robert O' Hanlin

Robert O' Hanlin

The Innocent Killer - Clay Harris was determined to find his mother's killer but it was a search that could put him on a trail that led back to prison. It was the friendship of a determined old sheriff and the love of a beautiful young girl the settled him down enough to keep him on the straight and narrow. Ten years was a long time for an innocent man to spend in prison but he relished every day of knowing that his mother was free.Four for Justice – The outlaws known as the Ghost Bandits were brutal killers and it was an assignment given to US Marshal Brett Conway. He had sworn he would never return to the Arizona Territory but here he was riding back to the memories that he had finally managed to put in the background. He was dogged in a pursuit that led him not only to danger but also something he never dreamed he would have again...the love of a woman.The Hero of Boulder - The small mining town of Boulder saw the high times and the low times when the gold...
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Bucking the Odds

Bucking the Odds

Robert O' Hanlin

Robert O' Hanlin

Will Bronson wanted a ranch, and he found the perfect location, but the odds were against him. Keeping Texas longhorns alive through the brutal winter in the badlands of the Dakota Territory was a hard enough task, so he didn't need a feud with the Deckers.When he left for the west he promised his younger brother Barney he would send for him when he was able. Things were going good for him now, and the money was finally coming in, so that time finally came. Barney was not much a rancher but he was experienced at running a store, so opening the store proved profitable for both of them.Then he met a woman, and he knew he wanted her in his life, but he would not do anything to come between her and his brother. He tried to stay away from her as much as possible, afraid that his feelings would show and complicate things, but it was not an easy thing to do. Her son Rusty followed him everywhere and he was teaching him about being a ranch hand and generally the ways of the west, but each...
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