Languishing in author Van Holt’s closet for over 30 years, these gritty western novels are now coming to light. WARNING: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western. Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.
A Few Dead Men
Van Holt
Genre: Westerns | Historical Fiction
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Wearing a badge and a Colt .45, Ben Cobbett had tamed some of the wildest towns in the West. When he stopped in the isolated desert town of Rockville to give himself and his tired horse a little rest, he wasn’t looking for another wild town to tame. But an old rancher wanted him to clean out a gang of vicious outlaws and rustlers who had ruined the old man’s daughter and run off most of his stock. What were a few dead men to a gunslinging town tamer like Ben Cobbett?
The bad ones weren’t afraid of Cobbett. They thought it would be fun to have him around, so they killed his horse to keep him from leaving. They soon learned that it was no fun at all to have Ben Cobbett around.
And it turned out to be more than a few dead men. When you got a man like Ben Cobbett started killing men who laughed at the law and everything that was right and decent, it was hard to get him stopped before he sent them all to hell where they belonged.
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Six-Gun Solution
Van Holt
Genre: Action & Adventure | Westerns
They called him a nester and after they killed his pa, he started calling himself Jim Nester. But what he needed was a six-gun solution. A tough, mysterious bounty hunter with a score of his own to settle helped him hunt the killers down. But Jim Nester knew that someday he would have to come back and fight the ruthless cattleman who had hired them–and the cattleman’s army of hired gunhands.
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The Man Called Bowdry
Van Holt
Genre: Westerns | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Not much is known for certain about the man called Bowdry. The bare facts are as follows. Sometime around 1880 he rode into Gray Buttes, Nevada–a long forgotten town–stayed for a time at the Pollard shack out in the hills and, after the old man was killed, made relentless war on the neighboring 3-Bar outfit which was run by the Wadley clan, known thieves and rustlers. Then he disappeared, to be seen no more, nor was he ever heard of again.
He was the only one who knew how so many men ended up dead in the boulder-strewn hills around the old Pollard shack, and he never told anyone, unless it was the wild and beautiful redheaded woman named Lucy Reardon.
There were those who doubted if his real name was Bowdry. Some even suspected that he was really old man Pollard’s long-lost son and that his name was Will Pollard, a mysterious gunfighter who roamed the early West. But before the stranger appeared it had never occurred to anyone that old man Pollard might have a son, and most would have laughed at the notion that he was related in any way to the legendary gunfighter who happened to have the same last name.
No one knew very much about the old man. No one even knew what his first name was. The people of Gray Buttes just called him old man Pollard or old Pollard, and smiled in a certain condescending way when they mentioned him.
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The Antrim Guns
Van Holt
Genre: History | Westerns
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There weren’t many guns like them in the Old West. The pair that belonged to Hank Antrim had been made in France. After he was killed and his guns disappeared with the killer, the difficult French name of the guns was seldom used and they became better known as the Antrim guns.
Mark Antrim spent years looking for his father’s guns and the man who had killed him. When he finally found out who the killer was, he wished he had never set out on the long bullet-riddled search for revenge.
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Shoot to Kill
Van Holt
Genre: Westerns | Romance
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Mark Reston had never set out to be a killer. But there were those who just wouldn’t have it any other way. And now there were five more men that he had to kill.
They should have left him alone or made sure he was dead the first time. He was tired of being used for a target.
He hadn’t decided what to do about the beautiful young woman who had been given a very difficult choice by the outlaws. If she didn’t kill Reston, the man who had saved her life, they would kill her.
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