Short Westerns

Marshal Josiah Hawke and deputy Tom Carmody cross paths with a little girl wandering on horseback - her mind blasted hollow by the horrors from which she’d escaped. She can’t communicate, so the men trail follow her backtrail to a mysterious mountain town where a death cult has committed an act of horrific vengeance. Hawke and Carmody find themselves trapped in a bizarre cult community where they have many enemies and few options. Carmody reaches deep inside himself to bring an astonishing close to a deadly and surreal confrontation.

When a terminally ill gunfighter can't bring himself to take his own life, he tries to goad Josiah Hawke into killing him. Hawke does not want to be part of a mercy killing but does find it justifiable to send him on a virtual suicide mission instead.

Marshal Josiah Hawke’s past comes back to haunt him when he unexpectedly meets a beautiful performer in a traveling show - a woman who was once a spy and had tried to kill him. With her is a man Hawke suspects was the infamous commandant of a Confederate prison camp who escaped from Hawke during the closing days of the Civil War.

Retired sheriff Owen Parson finds himself trudging through the dull life of a cattle ranger with his brother, Henry. Life out on Oak Creek might not be as exciting as Owen is used to, but there are always surprises just around the bend. When a rustling cattle thief crosses Owen and Henry’s path, they find that outside eyes are very much interested in what’s going on at little ol’ Oak Creek.

Annie Acorn Audio is pleased to present The Horses of Paiute Canyon written by D.A. Grady and narrated by Lee Foreman. It's late spring and the last of the early blooming desert plants in Nevada are at their best. Battered and bruised, Jim Crenshaw rides away from his past and onto the Diamond G ranch, where he seeks employment - not as the foreman he is, but as a simple cowboy. Not much later, he finds himself on a two-week trip, riding fence line with only his animals, unaware and unprepared for what awaits him.

With a childhood of bitter regret, Clarissa Carter didn't stand much chance in the world. Looking back on her life, she sees her only way forward as being independent and finding a life away from her hometown. Finding solace in an imaginary friend as a child, Clarissa found that she could escape the difficulties of her reality by believing in a friend that accepted her without question. This friend was able to listen to her, while other children may have judged her.

In the rowdy times of the Old West, a lawman’s partner could be the most important thing keeping him alive when all else is lost…. What about when that partner is a horse? This is the story of how Matthew Slade, the Pinkerton detective agency’s best man-tracker and gunslinger, befriended his most loyal companion.

This set contains two of Andy Adams' enjoyable tales of life on the cattle trail of the American West. Adams was one of the most authentic of the classic western writers, bringing firsthand experience to his depictions of cowhands, rogues, and other remarkable characters on the frontier. Volume two includes two tales that highlight Adams unique and subtle brand of humor.

Andy Adams is one of the few writers of the American West who had knowledge based on experience that enabled him to record cowboy life authentically. In the early 1880s, at the age of 20, Adams traveled to Texas and remained there for 10 years, eight of which he spent trail driving, becoming a foreman before he left the trail in 1890. Because he knew the real West, he was able to write with remarkable legitimacy - a quality he maintained without compromise, making him an honest interpreter of Western culture.

The long-awaited sequel to Bonnie’s Got a Secret is here, and after hours of intense passion, Bonnie’s discovered she isn’t the only one with a secret. Odessa’s brought trouble to her door, but Bonnie will do anything to protect her Creole beauty, who’s more than willing to get on her hands and knees to thank her savior.