O'Ronin Rye Collection

Two young women arrive on a remote ranch and the cowboys are competing for their attention, “some with a foolish grin, some downcast and reserved, some swaggering in the natural pride of the lady’s man.” Hidden Water explores how American cowboys talked, thought, and behaved during the turn of the last century.

O'Ronin Rye always brings you the very latest in yesterday’s Westerns. William MacVeigh, a jilted Mountie, nurses a broken heart while maintaining law and order in the frozen north. While his Mountie cabin-mate is pining for his woman and quite literally dying of loneliness. For many long, dark months, they have had only each other for company, and one of them may not make it until the thaw.

Texas John Alden is the story of Breckinridge Elkins and the various and sundry troubles that he innocently (but violently) fell into in his pursuit of the beautiful Betty Wilkinson. A classic of Western vernacular and spinning of tall tales. With Annotations by Barbara Flanagan

O'Ronin Rye always brings you the very latest in yesterday’s Westerns. A jilted husband with nothing left to lose; a wandering priest with a secret; a missing wife searching for her child; a beautiful young girl fighting for her virtue; two brutal mountain men determined to destroy everything good and pure to satisfy their greed; fur traders just trying to make a living.

The story of "The Vigilante Commission," wealthy landowners who set themselves up as official vigilantes to bring rough justice to the lawless West during the gold rush. But The Commission in San Francisco quickly becomes corrupt, as such organizations inevitably do, and the members descend into savagery every bit as destructive as the outlaws they are meant to control.

A ripping, wild-west melodrama of lust, greed, gold, railroads, madmen, dynamite, prostitution-and the love of a good woman with a complicated past for a man convinced that all women are bad. Joanne is a beautiful woman who travels alone by rail on a mysterious, desperate mission. Together they risk their own lives to find true love, gold, and the truth about her past.

These three classic novels of the Far North are enchanting adventure COMPLETELY ANNOTATED FOR TODAY'S READERS James Oliver Curwood delivers Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail, The Courage of Marge O'Doone, and The Hunted Woman.

O'Ronin Rye always brings you the very latest in yesterday’s Westerns. San Francisco 1900s, richly described, pulsating with color. Change is coming. Triggering a cataclysmic chain of events, masked bandits rob the Wells Fargo stage and hide the gold. An unlikely trio bands together to protect two wealthy young women: an aged Chinese servant, an intrepid young newsman, and a young lawyer.

The California Trail one year before the Gold Rush-a dramatic and dangerous land where a good mule can be your best friend and each traveler’s refinements and pretensions will be stripped away by the tests of the trail. Fortunes will be made and lost, hearts won and discarded. Who will survive the journey and win the heart of the young woman? The trail will not be a safe or quiet one.

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, the richest gold and silver strike in the history of North America. Into the maelstrom created by its discovery will be drawn an innocent young girl who catches the eye of a scoundrel, a generous old man who tries to save everyone, and the wealthiest man in Nevada with the portentous name of Black Dan and his willful beauty of a daughter.

If you enjoy a Wild West story with cattle rustlers, bank robbers, shootouts, hangings, lawmen, mystery, and romance, Mavericks is the book for you. The noble Arizona Rangers roamed the territory rooting out evildoers in a lawless land. Meanwhile, in the absence of a stable law enforcement presence, ranchers vowed to evict the upstart homesteaders, sheepherders, and cattle rustlers—by any means.