Patrick Dearen

• Nov-1980
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• Nov-1995
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A cowboy throwback living in the modern world of the twentieth century, Charlie Lyles steals a horse and, pursued by the police, journeys deep into the untamed wilderness on a desperate search for the vanished American frontier....

• Dec-1997
• / Historical
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An illegal Mexican searches desperately to provide more for his family than poverty and hopelessness in a dying land, but to follow his dream, he must risk his life....

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, t...

• Mar-2001
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BY THE WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover...

• May-2001
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It's 1867 and eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin are headed across Texas on a wagon train. But the trail is full of danger. A Comanche war party is on the prowl, looking for horses and scalps. Among the Indians is eleven year old Hunting Be...

• Oct-2004
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Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families’ farms in Central Texas in 1934. It’s the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animal...

• Jun-2006
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BY THE WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the whe...

• Sep-2012
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Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed her. Now, he is dead-set on returning to her unmarked grave above the river to make one final atoneme...

• Dec-2012
• / Space Opera
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A deep-space archaeological dig shrouded in mystery. Clues to the location of a legendary power in the reaches of the galaxy. A man and a woman, each of them holding half the answers, both of them defying a totalitarian government....

• Dec-2013
• / Space Opera
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BY THE WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD OF WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICAwatch Starflight series video: youtu.be/9y7auWdx_lo In book 2 of the Starflight series, a wizened old man has returned from deep spa...

• Sep-2014
• / Historical
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Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon him -- the likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds a...

• Nov-2016
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Clay Andrews is like a dead man, adrift in an uncaring dark. But he's also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers. Back in Central Texas, Clay's sister has died, and only on this river might he learn why. The perso...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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       *** 2020 Winner, Elmer Kelton Award of Academy of Western Artists ***Eight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing those very hostiles in 1...

• Mar-2021
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2022 Elmer Kelton Award WinnerSpur Award-Winning AuthorPatrick DearenFast-paced, gripping, and exciting . . .An unusual but interesting concept for a western story.-Historical Novel Society.In 1870, Jake Graves faced a choice: allow Comanches to carr...

• Apr-2022
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2023 FINALIST, PEACEMAKER AWARD OF WESTERN FICTIONEERS2023 FINALIST, WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARDIt's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon...

• Feb-2023
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For nineteen years, Wash Baker has been haunted by the memory of a cattle drive and firing into the night at what he thought was a grizzly, only to kill his young son and narrowly miss a second boy, Trey. Now, in 1899, confirmed tracks of grizzly-a s...

• Mar-2023
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Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. His uncle is driving a cattle herd across Texas, and Fish is going with him as far as Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River. Little does Fi...

• Oct-2024
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In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in...