Books like Billy and the kid by Kristine Rolofson

A cowboy's unexpected romance with a beautiful scam artist's daughter.

Jake Taggert, an isolated cowboy, must confront his past and face the one woman who dares to intrude.

A Texas rancher discovers he is a secret father and vows to win back a single mother who has just embraced her independence, sparking a heartfelt romance for a future family.

On a cattle drive in the desert on the night before Cowboy Ned's birthday, his horse Andy goes in search of a birthday cake, which he thinks will make Ned's birthday complete.

Slade Sutton, a rugged ex‑rodeo star, becomes an unexpected father when a baby appears in his life, sparking a romance with flirtatious Val Harding and a journey into fatherhood.

Determined to save her beloved bar, the Honky Tonk, owner Larissa Morley matches wits with Hank Wells, who is determined to close down her establishment for good.

A history of the life, adventures, and death of William H. Bonney, better known as Billy, the Kid, written by Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man responsible for killing the outlaw in 1881.

History has treated Billy the Kid like a homicidal psychopath, a brazen madman responsible for as many as 21 murders. Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore and outright lies, Billy the Kid has been portrayed for over 125 years as one of the most savage killers in American folklore. Yet for others, particularly the Hispanic people of the Southwest, the Kid was an avenging angel and a sagebrush Robin Hood. For them and many others, the Kid embodied youth, nobility, humanity, romance, and tragedy. He was the symbolic transition between the old and the new, with a blazing sixgun in hand. Now along comes Michael Wallis's sympathetic yet completely authoritative biography, which challenges and debunks many of the myths that have hounded this young man since his death at the age of 21 in New Mexico Territory. By scrupulously retelling Billy the Kid's brief but compelling story in an effort to set the record straight,Wallis -- renowned for his social histories of the West -- has created a new portrait of this outlaw. Countless books have been published about the Lincoln County War, including Billy the Kid's role in that conflict and the aftermath, but few authors have analyzed the Kid's crimes in the larger context of the political and social corruption that had become a way of life in New Mexico Territory. Wallis describes how the outlaw legend was deliberately manufactured and manipulated -- in fact, really the kid only became known by that name in the last year of his life. Furthermore, we learn how the few killings in which the Kid was actually implicated were used to divert attention from much larger societal corruption and crimes committed by a brotherhood of cunning politicians and power brokers. Wallis's Billy the Kid is more than a riveting story; the book is an extraordinary evocation of the reality of the Old West. With fascinating details of 19th century life, Wallis presents the brief, unhappy ballad of a rootless young man, most likely born to an immigrant Irish woman in New York just before the Civil War. Wallis then uses the story of Billy the Kid to explain the history of the violent settlement of the West and the development of frontier life between 1865 and 1881. We learn of the rise of the gun culture, the dangerous criminal world of New Mexico's Lincoln County, and everyday life at remote frontier outposts. We also meet many of the legendary heroes and antiheroes who, like the Kid, have been mythologized over time. - Jacket flap.

Ron Hansen’s new novel, The Kid, traces the life of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid—from his humble New York roots to his rise as a legend of the Old West—offering a fresh, researched look at the man behind the myth.

A Montana rancher, Colton Brenner, balances single fatherhood with a tough love for his teenage twins, while Anna Kathryn McFarland, a devoted advocate for missing children, stumbles into a heartfelt love and a life‑changing secret.

Wyoming winter rancher J.C. Calhoun finds his life devastated when he discovers his fiancée was unfaithful. He is forced to confront the lies that destroyed his life and the woman he loves, the ruthless criminal who was tracking them, and the unexpected truths that bind them together.

Épique western de Larry McMurtry retraçant la jeunesse de Billy the Kid, alliant violence et tendresse dans un récit qui galope.