Dude ranches were the West's first destination vacation. In the early 20th century, they lured East Coast elites and their families out to the unspoiled wilderness and ranching country of the Rocky Mountains. In order to get to the dude ranches, tourists, who were often looking for an escape from their city lives, had to travel long journeys via trains, stages, wagons, and horseback. Wyoming was home to two dude ranch firsts. Howard, Willis, and Alden...

Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.

Left with little back in Kansas, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half-brother he never knew existed. But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half-brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to...

"Falcon Hunt awakens without a past-or at least he doesn't recall one. When he makes a new start by claiming an inheritance, it cuts out a frontierswoman Cheyenne from her ranch. Soon it's clear someone is gunning for him and his brothers, and as his affection for Cheyenne grows, he must piece together his past if they're to have any chance at a future"-- Falcon Hunt traveled west, compelled to start a new life by a surprise telegram that promised...

Francesca di Paoli arrives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1925, during a time of turmoil. The peace is shattered by a massive landslide and flooding, and some local residents are up in arms against new proposals for land use and progressive ideas about racial and ethnic equality. Francesca finds work as a cook at the Sutton family's dude ranch, where the two sons, William and Bryce, vie for her love. But the earth has not finished trembling, nor

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