Books in Western Wind Series series

Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest’s inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and his own conscience, he ages fast—all the faster in facing obstacles to love’s consummation with Milly. She, like Tom, is in constant danger from every side. Finally, they can be united in mind and body only if he agrees to her one condition.The Thundering Herd, originally published in 1925, is Zane Grey’s great lament for the passing of the buffalo. Grounded in the author’s sense of western history, it shows in no uncertain terms how white men were debased by the wanton destruction of the herds.

He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice or vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. Nevada was the quiet type who would rather work hard and plan for better days. Skilled with a horse and a rope, he could also shoot fast and straight. As he got closer to thinking he could get back to the woman he loved, a gang of rustlers threatened everything. Once again, he had to choose between risks, if his passions didn’t choose for him. First published in 1926 and 1927, Nevada, the suspenseful sequel to Forlorn River, continues to be one of Zane Grey’s most beloved novels. Never out of print, it is now available in an Authorized Edition with a new foreword by Zane Grey’s son, Loren Grey.

Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions grow, he realizes that he may be fighting on the wrong side of a land swindle. Disillusioned and outraged, Kedrick must take action against the very people who hired him?or be forced to witness the bloody massacre of innocent men and women.From the Paperback edition.

The Western Wind Series returns in this thrilling, revised second installment! John Henricksen has grown restless after years of settling down. But when gold is discovered along the Klondike River, he jumps at the opportunity to investigate, leaving his wife and son behind. Together, with partners Eric Winston, a book smart mining agent, and a cagey old prospector named Mathias Carlisle, they make their way to the gold fields in the Yukon, but they have to cross the treacherous Chilkoot Pass first. Once in Dawson City, they meet Sam Steele, a no-nonsense Mountie; Jack London, an aspiring writer seeking his fortune in the icy Klondike River; and Father William Judge, the Saint of Dawson with a well-earned reputation for charity. Together, they'll face the evil Branscombe Gang who've set up shop in Dawson City to fleece the unsuspecting miners of their earnings. The Henricksen party will soon discover there are no guarantees in life, especially when it comes to surviving this wild and untamed frontier...Michael D. Abbott writes western novels from his home in eastern Iowa. When he isn't writing, he's spending time promoting traditional classic country music with his wife, Claudia.

The Henricksen brothers are nearing their sixties. They've been witnesses to some of western history's biggest moments, survived encounters with evil mining moguls, and observed the brutality of life on the frontier. Now, with that frontier quickly vanishing around them, they've invested heavily in the ranching industry. After living a full decade in peace and relative obscurity, a vengeful remnant from their past has caught up to them.Anchoring a small but defiant force of ranchers and cattlemen, they take their final stand against a force ten times their number led by Thomas Branscombe, brother of the man they killed in self-defense years earlier. Branscombe is the most organized, intimidating, unstable threat Zephram and John Henricksen have ever faced. Now, with the future of their family hanging in the balance but tragedy fueling their resolve, the odds seem as impossible as they've ever been...The sweeping conclusion to Michael D. Abbott's acclaimed Western Wind Series, "Wyoming Wind" takes readers from the Mexican Revolution, to the Colorado mountain town of Glenwood Springs, and finally to Wyoming's soaring Teton Valley in a tale that's sure to please even the most discriminating western enthusiast.