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Eugene C. Vories

© 2007, 319 pages ISBN 978-0-971-3983-6-8
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In this third book in the MONTE trilogy, crusty, independent Monte is being overrun by a flood of newcomers into his area of southern Colorado. Land developers want him to parcel his cattle lands into housing developments. But Monte is determined keep his land in the traditions of the old-time range cowmen. Joined by family and friends, Monte has to stand up to this threat to his way of life.

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© 2006, 285 pages ISBN 0-971-3983-5-6
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The Great War is over, but prohibition is still in force and the flapper generation has brought new ways from the East. It is a time of change in the West, with new ideas and industries. Cowman/sheepman Alan Stuart must adjust to these changes, and also face his own demons about the woman he loves.

It has been six long years since Alan Stuart watched the woman and her brothers ride away from the Colorado River after their fight with the cattlemen over his bringing sheep to Piñon Mesa. He still recalls watching her buckskin horse shine yellow-gold in the sunlight of the setting sun as she rode over the farthest ridge. They have not seen or spoken since that day, until they meet again at a cattlemen's dinner. It is only a momentary meeting. They speak a word or two, then he watches her leave again, only this time walking away. Later, they are thrown together on a cattle drive and fate takes a hand in a way neither of them want or expect, but the results allow them to be together for the rest of their lives.

© 2005, 368 pages, ISBN 0971398348
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Button is appointed a full time deputy. He quickly finds he is not only involved in the cattlemen's war, bur also has to take on outside agitators trying to organize the local miners. The entire area is a powder keg just waiting to explode.

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© 2004, 317 pages ISBN 0-971-3983-3-X
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Based on actual history of southwest Colorado, Piñon Mesa relates a heroic tale. For most of the latter 19th century, the pioneer cattlemen held a ban on sheep ranchers in Piñon Mesa, holding off herders with brute force. After being part of a cattleman family, Alan Stuart suddenly finds himself on the opposite side in his one man fight to make his own place in a life and country he loves.

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© 2003, 398 pages
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A sequel to Mr. Grant's Cowboy, the saga of Button Benton continues. Now eighteen, Button makes a terrible mistake with a Mexican girl. A few days after their marriage, Grants send him to the Picketwire Roundup where the older riders deeply resent having a youth assigned to their wagon. Button learns a lot more about handling cattle and living with men who resent him. When he returns home, he finds the feelings of the community running against him because of his marriage. He is almost lynched by a mob before his friends realize they have been wrong and come to his rescue.

© 2000, 123 pages
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Modern-day story of a semi-retired older Colorado cowman. Monte, a widower, meets a young widow with two small children when she buys a ranch next to his. Monte is very independent, opinionated, and holds firm convictions. He takes on the problems of modern ranching, government bureaucrats, dogs, rodents, bankers and hunters. Even city folks will relate to his problems, and the way he handles them, directly, humorously, and winning all the way.

© 2001, 212 pages
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Monte is now married to Lee, the widow with two children. He is still as full of firm convictions as ever. Monte handles everything thrown at him in his usual independent, humorous, cowman style until Mr. Norton, a wealthy Texas oilman, goes too far by threatening to make trouble for Lee and her adopted son. From then on, it is no holds barred, and as Monte says, "Damn the big apes!" Monte gets the best of Norton in a way the man does not even know how it happened.

© 2002, 270 pages
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In the 1880s, fourteen year old Button Benton gets a chance to fulfill his dream of becoming a cowboy by going to work on Mr. Grant's ranch. He has long dreamed of becoming a top hand like Mr. Grant's son, Tom. When Tom is hurt in a horse accident, the boy finds himself trying to take over the duties of a regular rider. Button learns a lot about ranching and people. He rides with a posse after cattle rustlers, and solves the murder of his friend in an exciting climax.