Ridgway Public Library

When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for America as a mail-order bride, she brings along some extra baggage: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. When she arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she promptly marries Peter Andersen and dreams of starting life over in this rugged land. Peter is kind and patient with Catharine and accommodating to her sisters. His mother, however, is not. When she begins a campaign to sabotage...

A collection of stories set in Wyoming. They range from The Mud Below, on an itinerant rodeo cowboy, to People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water, which is on a family feud

In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harrassed by ruffians.

Con Vallian, a rugged frontiersman and skilled gunslinger, befriends a family of Eastern settlers. Hunted down by a gang of ruthless outlaws, Vallian comes to the defense of the family and together they face their would-be-killers in the most deadly showdown since the O.K. Corral.

"Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other...But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor...a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse...Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between [their children], bonds are once again tested,...

In the first year of Wyoming's statehood, fresh battle lines are drawn pitting cattle barons against the newly arrived homesteaders. The three Hammett brothers are divided on the issue and must work out their differences in the midst of war.