Sunday's Colt : And Other Stories of the Old West

Step back into the exciting and humorous American West with several selected short stories and the novella, Sunday's Colt from award winning Old West fiction and outdoor writer Randy D. Smith. Read fictional accounts of the death of the notorious man burner of the plains, Print Olive, and the first documented journey of the Santa Fe Trade in 1823. These stories are based upon actual period journals of the events and retold in exciting modern language to provide the reader unique insight into years of historical research. Join Ty Lee Driscoll and Red River Sam Bonnet in hilarious and touching short stories from a popular series featured in Read the West .Com. - some never before published. Finally, enjoy the touching story of a young man's early life in turn of the 20th Century Kansas as it centers on an orphan colt. Based upon fictionalized accounts of the author's family history of Kansas settlement and the challenges they faced, Sunday's Colt is the perfect story to warm your heart, make you laugh out loud, and perhaps shed a tear or two. These aren't your typical shoot-em-ups but stories meant for all ages to inform and entertain. BOSON BOOKS offers several westerns and nonfiction works by Randy Smith. For an author bio, photo, reviews, and a reading sample visit bosonbooks.com. Regularly cited in lists of the world's best horror novels, Dagon tells the story of Peter Leland whose ancestral secrets emerge to plunge him into a world of terror and degradation. Employing the Mythos developed by America's great fantasist, H. P. Lovecraft, this novel transforms traditional Gothic elements into an intense, scarifying, modern work.

An international bestseller, Dagon was awarded the Best Foreign Book prize by the French Academy and has ignited spirited debate about its revolutionary approach to its materials. Readers have been known to keep their house lights burning all night while reading this story.

"I am honestly convinced that Fred Chappell is one of the finest writers of this time, one of the rare and precious few who are truly 'major.'" - George Garrett, author of Death Of The Fox and The Succession.

Author of thirty volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, Fred Chappell has twice won World Fantasy Awards, has appeared in over fifty anthologies, and has gathered some dozen or so literary prizes including Poet Laureate of the state of North Carolina. Retired after forty years of university teaching, he lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and worships cats.

A rich and varied collection of stories about seekers of truth, who find it manifests itself in wonderful, humorous, and terrible forms. "One of the South's and indeed the country's finest writers . . . a novelist and poet of great range and talent."--Los Angeles Times.